NAVIGATING THE MEDIA SATURATED AND AI GENERATED WORLD
Key questions for class:
What is unique about today’s media landscape?
What are the challenges and opportunities do I notice as an individual and as part of the broader society?
We will discuss the different aspects of the current media ecosystem, explore the overarching effects of such rapid technological change, and explore how we as individuals process all the information available to us on a daily basis.
Bo Burnham Welcome to the Internet
Roxane Gay Tragedy Plays on Infinite Loop
OPPORTUNITY:
A Post-Inauguration Reassessment of U.S. Democracy: A Talk by Jamelle Bouie
February 20 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
The 2024 election results call into question the robustness and longevity of U.S. democracy and the rule of law. On the one hand, the present moment echoes U.S. history, namely the Reconstruction counterrevolution. On the other hand, the Trumpification of the GOP is incomparable in U.S. history. To help assess the perils and possibilities of the moment is the nation’s leading columnist, who has consistently provided clear-eyed, trenchant, and historically informed insights into U.S. politics.
Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for The New York Times. He covers U.S. history, politics, and constitutional history. Previously, Bouie was chief political correspondent for Slatemagazine. He has also contributed essays to volumes such as Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 and The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. In 2021, he received the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism and in 2024 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Presented by the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, the Daniel M. Lyons Chair in History, the Frederic Ewen Lecture on Academic Freedom and Civil Liberties, and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute.
SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW
https://www.wired.com/story/true-story-behind-kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-halftime-show/
Homework due February 24 by 11:59pm
Answer the key questions for one of the Super Bowl Ads from this list that we did not discuss in class. Write the questions and the answers in a document and either upload to your google folder or email them to me.
Media Literacy (TREM 2160) 