ENGL 4008/5008-020
WGST 4050/5050-020
AMST 4050-020
COMM 4050-020
New Media: Gender, Culture, Ideology

Syllabus (PDF)
Assignments
Access to Moodle (some readings)

***Hybrid course***
Online-only dates highlighted green

Week One

July 1st: Introduction to the class

July 2nd: New Media–A Democratizing Technology or a Technology of Democracy?

• Media
• Culture
• Rhetoric of Technology

July 3rd:Public Sphere and Cultural Values

• Locating American Values
• Our Public Sphere
• Celebrities, elites, hegemons
• Critical Analysis of Technology Essay

You should begin reading Malpas, Simon. The Postmodern. London: Routledge, 2005.

No Class--July 4th or 5th

Week Two

July 8th: Cultural Constructions/Social Institutions
Remeber, you should be reading Malpas’s The Postmodern

• Cultural Studies
• Marxist Theory (an introduction)

July 9th: The Medium is the Message

• Marshal McLuhan
• Federman, M. (2004) “What is the Meaning of the Medium is the Message?”

July 10th: Convegence Culture

• Jenkins Class Discussion Leading: Mark T.

July 11th: Introduction to Postmodernism

• Critical Analysis of Technology DUE

Week Three

July 15th: Media and War Coverage

• Baudrillard Class Discussion Leading: Dymilah

July 16th: Who shapes reality? Well, I see it on TV, so it must be…

July 17th: Capitalist Realism…and possibly ZOMBIES!!!

• Fisher Class Discussion Leading: Brian
• Base of American Culture
• Giddens’s Theory of Structuration

July 18th: Patriarchy, an introduction

• Steinem–Currency of Younger Women
• Le Guin–The default sex
• McRobbie–Feminism is not a monolithic concept

Week Four

July 22nd: The Beauty Myth

• Movie: Killing Us Softly 4
• Naomi Wolf

July 23rd: The Social Construction of Sexuality

• Heteronormativity
• Sex work Vs. Work

July 24th: Psychoanalysis, an introduction

• Mulvey Class Discussion Leading: Toreka
• Mulvey on the Male Gaze
• “Realism” in video games

July 25th: Compulsory Heterosexuality

• Adrinenne Rich on Social Constructions of Sexuality
• Messages to Boys and Girls…

Week Five

July 29th: Performativity and Gender Roles

• Critical Media Analysis DUE
• Butler Class Discussion Leading: Tiffini
• Gender Performance
• Music Videos to make us think about gender roles

July 30th: Culture of Violence

July 31st: Work on Final Project and Presentation

August 1st: TBA

Week Six

August 5th: Presentation Workshop                  

August 6th: Last Day of Summer Session 2 Classes

August 7th: Final Exam Day--Presentations
                 6:30-9:00pm***Slightly longer class