This begins our study of this century’s most globally disruptive media technology.
In our first workshop, you will work with a partner to write an effective social media (SM) post.
The ways that events are presented by the media profoundly shapes their meanings.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has been hailed as “required reading” by Toni Morison and many others.
Our textbook’s introduction offers some first thoughts about globalization and its definitions.
The final section of chapter 2 focuses on the design cycle and user research.
From the beginning, hip hop challenged the dominant frames used to define people and communities.
To be effective, Social Media (SM) strategy must be integrated into the organization’s larger content strategy.
A “public sphere” includes all the venues through which a community discusses important issues.
“People are the key to successful web projects at every stage of development” (Lynch and Horton 6).
Effective use of social media (SM) requires a clear and broadly understood content strategy.
Coates complicates the audiovisual culture he experienced as a young man.
King was one of the first American thinkers to reckon with the forces that we now call globalization.
In class we will discuss the Event Release assignment and writing models from recent issues of Espresso.
Appadurai’s five “scapes” offer a framework for examining global flows and their impacts.
Understanding what audiences value about and expect from social media is critical to a successful strategy.
In this first reading from our textbook Decoded, Jay-Z remembers Brooklyn in the 1970s.
“The Time has Come” (1990) is the first episode of Eyes on the Prize‘s second series.
Focus the interview (and the writing) on your organization’s messaging objectives.
A BBC documentary does a good job of grounding rap music within hip hop’s earliest forms of expression.
This assignment begins our study of images with a reading from chapter 11 of the Web Style Guide (WSG).
With this assignment, we begin to apply what we’ve learned to an analysis of your chosen web site.
This assignment details recent demographic changes in the United States.
“Deterritorialization” is a hallmark of globalization and a key driver of cultural identities worldwide.
This assignment continues our study of graphics with a reading from chapter 11 of the Web Style Guide.
Hollywood films made by, for, and about African Americans thrived for a brief time in the early 1970s.
Neal’s chapter 1 focuses on the birth and evolution of soul music in the 1950s and 1960s.
Recent shifts in two major world religions demonstrate the cultural impact of globalization.
“The era of Western Christianity has passed within our lifetimes, and the day of Southern Christianity is dawning” (430).
One jazz player’s speech offers a great window onto the music industry in the 1960s.
We continue our discussion of Photoshop and size and formatting guidelines.
The U.S. apparel company Nike helps to introduce a fundamental concept, the global commodity chain.
Swedish journalists focused on aspects of Black Power that were ignored by U.S. media.