Tuesday (Media) Prompts – Page 2

For Tue 10/6

During our Zoom this coming week, we will loop back and finish up a discussion of the scholarly and non-scholarly texts on Internet Addiction that we began looking at this past week while continuing to talk about thesis-/theory- based essay writing. In the meantime, as far as new readings, go, I’d like us to begin shifting our attention from internet addiction to a more nuanced view of online culture.

To that end please read: K-Hole’s “Youth Mode”, a tract on 2010s fashion trends, virality, and youth culture and also Jerry Salz’ “Art at Arm’s Length”, an art-theoretical text on the selfie.

For Tuesday, read and post a Media Share related to one of these two texts just mentioned (by K-Hole and Jerry Salz). Hold off on writing a draft of Essay 2 for Tuesday; the Course Syllabus/Calendar says it’s due then, but let’s give ourselves some more time to get into thinking about social issues and music. (We will begin looking at texts on music over the following week—10/14—which we have off (no new work).

For Tue 9/29

Finish reading :

Lauren Duca, “The Viral Virus” + Christopher Lane, “Addicted to Addiction” + Jerald G. Block, “Issues for DSM-5: Internet Addiction” + Griffiths et al. “The Evolution of Internet Addiction”

Post a Media Share (#6) related to one or more ideas you encounter in these texts.

Continue reflecting on social issues you might write about for Essay 2. Are there any ideas in the above texts that resonate with ideas you get from a song you’ve heard and might like to write about?

For Tuesday 9/22

For Tuesday 9/22, 5p:

Read Lauren Duca, “The Viral Virus” and Christopher Lane, “Addicted to Addiction.”
Post a Media Share (#5) related to any of our three most recent readings: Serpell’s “Triptych: Texas Pool Party” or Duca’s or Lane’s texts…

That’s all for now—will try to catch up on reading, responding and grading in the coming week, I promise!

For Tue 9/15

1. As your Media Share (#4) for Tuesday (9/15), please share your lists of things you’ve seen online that we worked on toward the end of our last Zoom meeting. Include a link to at least one of these things.

2. Read & comment on one other person’s Media Share (any of them—a post with no comments or only a few comments, preferably).

3. Read & comment on one other person’s Essay 1 (scroll down and choose carefully). In your feedback, tell them what you think the conflict they should try to develop is as well as a moment in their essay that they should expand into a scene (a “movie in the mind”).

Work Due Tue 9/8

Respond creatively to someone else’s Media Share (1 or 2).
Read & post a Media Share (#3) related to Dayna Tortorici’s “My Instagram” (in readings).
Read & comment on 2 classmates’ Essay 1s. Guidelines for commenting:

In your feedback, please comment on at least 1 specific passage in the essay you’ve learned something from (and explain what you’ve learned) and make 1 specific suggestion about one passage in the essay that you think could be improved (and explain how to improve it). Please quote from the essay at least once in your post.

NOTE: Please scroll to the bottom until you find someone who has yet to receive a comment from someone else—or someone who has only received 1-2 comments. We have to make sure everyone gets feedback!

Work Due Tue 9/1

Draft your Essay 1 in a Google Doc saved to your ENG1101 folder (see assignment prompt in “Student Work à Essays” menu) and share a link to it in a post ( < instructions for posting). Remember to select the category “Essay 1 Feedback” before posting.
Read Andrea Chu’s “The Pink” (#3 in “Readings” à link in menubar above).
When you’re done reading Chu’s text, post your second “Media Share” (your first was your “Self-Intro Media” this past week) containing a piece of online media (a post, a tweet, a video, a photo, etc.) that Chu’s text made you think of. In addition to your media and/or link, please also include a few sentences describing it and your view of how it connects to Chu’s text.

Monroe Street // Media Share 1

As my intro, I’m sharing a piece of video art by Arthur Jafa titled “Love is the Message, the Message is Death.”

Whenever I watch Jafa’s short piece, it makes me laugh. It makes me cry (every time). Alternations of white and black and black and white, violence and hope. The Kanye soundtrack, replete with Mahalia Jackson wailing via sample, the shots of small children pleading with their drugged-out parents, learning to fear police—this makes you wonder: when in need, who will save you? There Jafa plants a rather cruel reply: the indifference of the sun, far away, glowing, flaring. I am trying to think of what brings tears for me whenever I watch. There is something of the essence of what it means to be a human—living and dying in America in the 20th-become-21st century—here. There is something of me here, I don’t know quite where, when I watch this.

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