Monday, October 21, 2013

Workshop 1: worldings


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We conclude the second section of our course with Workshop 1: sharing with each other our projects on Tuesday, then keeping the energy going in discussion on Thursday. Next week we begin the next section of the course with you all running the show! 

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>>POWER, MOVEMENTS, WORLDS: FEMINISMS IN THE PLURAL, FEMINISTS IN MOVEMENT


Tuesday 22 Oct & Thursday 24 Oct
Tuesday we will share our work poster session style: divide in two groups, and all move around talking to each other about work during the class time. Thursday we will have a conversation about what we learned, noticed, thought about, and draw from the last class presentations. Make notes after Tuesday so you can run the discussion yourselves on Thursday.



WORKSHOP #1 – Power, Movements, Worlds
We explore how feminists analyze how power structures our worlds. 

You will investigate two class texts carefully, and chose EITHER 

• to analyze Zandt’s or McGonigal's book through the analysis (eyes, lens) of Davis’ The Making of Our Bodies, Our Selves; OR 

• to analyze Davis’ book through the analysis (eyes, lens) of Zandt’s Share This! or McGonigal's Reality is Broken

=Davis’ book explores power in transnational and transdisciplinary frames. 
=Zandt’s book explores accessibility and the currency of social media today. 
=McGonigal's book asks us to create new ways of making social change. 

NOTICE who is addressed in each book, and why? NOTICE what it demonstrates and assumes about what counts as power, which social movements matter, and how worlds are connected across differences. 

No matter which of these approaches you take, also 

NOTICE that you will need to do some additional research. 

=You will need to find out more about the various editions of the book Our Bodies, Our Selves, and 
=you will need to play around with social media and/or games yourself, and 
=do some web research checking out both Our Bodies, Our Selves and also 
=how feminists today are using social media, as well as how social media and marketing are interconnected.

Always make a point of connecting projects to class readings and lectures. Presenting and discussing in workshop mode means that by attending and listening we will all benefit from the hard work of everyone. 

Notice that both sorts of projects in both workshops should be begun several weeks ahead of their due dates. Not only do you need this time to do the additional research required, but to get good grades you need to • write papers in at least three drafts, and • plan out posters carefully to demonstrate both the results of your research and also how you got to those results.

·       DUE THURSDAY IN CLASS: LOGBOOK 2, PAPER & HANDOUT IN HARD COPY & ALSO SENT ELECTRONICALLY, DIGITAL PICS IN HARDCOPY AND ALSO SENT ELECTRONICALLY
·       Everything must be in final finished state on Tuesday to display, but you are allowed to revise one more time before turning things in on Thursday
·       Send to katiekin@gmail.com , use filename <yrlastname> 300 <paper1> or <poster1> number pics if more than one. Subject header <yrlastname> 300 workshop1



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