Class activity for Sureiny Fermin and Melanie Beltran (March 21)

Activity 1= Students are shown an ad/campaign and have to analyze it in groups of four answering one of the 5 key points from the reading. We will discuss each group’s answers. ( Elizabeth Thoman and Tessa Jolls, Media Literacy: A National Priority for a Changing World)    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2018/sep/07/nike-releases-full-ad-featuring-colin-kaepernick-video

Key Question #1: Who created this message? All messages are ‘constructed.’

Key Question #2: What creative techniques are used to attract my attention? Scary music, grammar, metaphors, etc.

Key Question #3: How might different people understand this message differently from me? “Different people experience the same media message differently”.

Key Question #4: What lifestyles, values and points of view are represented in — or omitted from — this message? “Media have embedded values and points of view.”

Key Question #5: Why is this message being sent? “Media messages are constructed to gain profit and/or power”.

Activity 2=

After analyzing the articles, there was a trend of identity loss when bringing people from different cultures together.

Create or recreate an app that will help you bring people from different cultures together that has not already been created BUT won’t have the same effect of losing one’s identity.

Knowing the disadvantages of media in the global scale, create ways to prevent those disadvantages from interfering with your app.

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