In the article, “An Introduction: Housework and Its Tools” by Ruth Schwartz Cowan, talks about industrialization and its effects. It also talks about how industrialization worked in households: “Households did not become industrialized in the same way that other workplaces did; there are striking differences between housework and other forms of industrialized labor. Most of […]
Week 12, Guest Lecture
For Week 12, we had guest lecturer Tanner. He mentioned how art is political. One of his example to prove his statement was Jay-Z and stereotypes in music industry. When he asked if Jay-Z or musicians are still considered as ‘black’ musicians, I had a lot of different thoughts in my mind. I think what […]
Culture Jamming as Media Activism
This week’s articles both similarly mention about parodies that are used in media. Especially, the article, “Pranking Rhetoric: “Culture Jamming” as Media Activism” by Christine Harold caught my attention. This article starts with few examples of ad parody, such as Calvin Klein’s ads that tells “viewers that women are dissatisfied with their own bodies because […]
Media Grammar Literacy and its usage in film
According to Meyrowitz, media grammar literacy is what “entails understanding and recognizing the standard range of production variables within each medium, as well as recognizing the ways in which the variables are typically used to attempt to shape perception and response to mediate communications.” What I understood about media grammar literacy in this article, […]