Understanding Remediation and Cross-Textual Analysis: In Class Project
Understanding Remediation and Cross-Textual Analysis: In Class Project
English 1A, San José State University
For this project, you will work in small groups to better understand, unpack, and appreciate how remediation and cross-textual analysis works throughout different genres and texts. You need your brains, a computer, and possibly headphones.
Your group may choose to ‘close read; one of the following text and/or remediation sets*. The sets are listed in the next blog post. Each set includes two or more different compositions.
• White Male Privilege
• Jung and the Unconscious
• Nostalgia Analyses
• Social Media Analyses
• Jung and the Unconscious
• Nostalgia Analyses
• Social Media Analyses
• Perspectives on Race
*No more than 2 groups can work on the same set. After you get into groups, take 5 minutes to choose what set interests you the most. Then, tell me your choice. Set self-assignments are first come first serve.
What to do with your Text Set:
1. Engage with each of the compositions. Read/watch/listen to them. You may absolutely look up related texts, do a google or Wikipedia search for instance, to supplement and contextualize your texts.
2. Do a close-reading of each text. What is the purpose? What is the genre? How is each composition working within/against the conventions of its genre to inform the audience of its purpose?
3. Form an opinion. It doesn’t have to be grand or complicated.
· Do you enjoy the text? Do you think it’s significant? Do you agree with it? Why or why not?
· Do you find it effectively persuasive, informative, and/or narrative? Why or why not?
· What interests you about this text?
· What ideas does it present?
· What connections, interpretations, analysis do you make or draw from it?
· What do you think might be missing? Such as its subject and scope, its handling of information, its ability or inability to work within conventions of that genre.
· You may also discuss your relationship to/familiarity with this genre and how that affects your reading of it.
4. Decide how the key terms we have discussed fit into the equation. What are the text’s devices, conventions, rhetorical situation, medium, mode, possible appropriative moves, design, exigency, context, target audience, constraints, and displayed creativity?
What’s due:
Assign a note-taker to type up notes. You’ll turn this in by the end of class. Please post them to our discussion board,
Then, next class, the whole class will view (part or all) one of the texts – each group chooses which composition the whole class sees. Then, each group will lead a short discussion of their thoughts. It needs to be clear me that every member contributed to this assignment.
Final note: Groups don’t have to be in total consensus on how they feel about their texts.
Social media analysis
ReplyDeleteNeoliberalism is creating loneliness. That’s what’s wreching society apart.
The purpose of this article appears to be to highlight and address a mental illness, particularly focusing on anxiety, stress, depression, and loneliness that are caused by social media platforms. The article uses data, studies, and surveys to prove there is a correlation between loneliness caused by social media platforms and mental illness. I enjoyed reading this text because I think it’s a real issue that is seen in my generation. I didn’t know it could lead to physical illnesses like heart disease, strokes, etc. I never thought it was that dangerous but I guess it could be. I can definitely see how socializing can cause isolation and harm one's self-image which could lead to self-doubts, stress, anxiety, lack of confidence. Sometimes it gets addicting and we end up spending so much time on apps instead of interacting with the natural world around us. It’s something that needs to be addressed to help people physically and most importantly mentally. The articles uses logos by including statistics and pathos when the author challenges to reassess social media connections and overall well-being.
Yeah, It Turns Out That Technology Doesn't Make Us Lonely
This article has a different opinion compared to the other article. The purpose of this article is to state that the internet doesn’t have a proven correlation with loneliness. The author is saying that blaming technology for social issues is misguided because everyone has different preferences and purposes while using technology/social media. This article was published in 2012 and uses data from 1970-2010s so I don’t know if the evidence and claims stand in today's world. I agree that technology and social media platforms have benefits and can definitely help interaction between people. I don’t think it makes us completely lonely and only has negative effects because social media platforms have many positive effects. I think the article emphasizes on viewing technology and social online platforms as a tool to help people fulfill their social needs. The tone seems more casual and sounds like it’s stating their opinion and letting the audience react.