class 26 takeaways &

Write on TAKEAWAYS, FUTURE TOPICS, and BEING A CHANGE AGENT.  1-2 pages.

  1.  TAKEAWAYS 
    1. Review the class assignments on the course blog and your reading response notes to review what we’ve covered.  
    2. From this, select TWO THINGS that seem particularly meaningful in terms of new ideas, information, history, point-of-view.  
    3. State what it is, and say a bit about what it means, it’s significance.
  1.   FUTURE TOPICS:  If you were shaping the curriculum for next term, what’s a topic you’d want to study?  It can be related to an entertainment industry pleasure, problem, concern, youth issues, democratic practices in terms of social change-activist movements.  Say a bit about its significance; and how it relates to questions of the power matrix between youth, democracy, and the entertainment industries.

3.  BEING A CHANGE-AGENT:  On the levels of the individual and the institutional-systemic, what would you consider doing to advance principles of democracy in relation to the culture and power structures fostered by the entertainment industries?  This might include involvement in social change movements, both online and in-real-life.  Here’s a list of some of the movement hashtags and issues: #metoo, #neveragain, #blacklivesmatter, electoral politics, climate crisis, queer rights, living wage campaigns, the Dreamers.   

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