Thursday February 9, 2012
ydei student illustration Fall '10
Assignments overview:
- read peer essays for grammar, syntax, structure, elaboration
- read ydei zines
- readings on commercialism & kids
1. Read peer essays to offer constructive criticism on grammar, syntax, structure, elaboration (of story and the meaning of these experiences). Sign name on bottom of last page. Return to author next class. Note: these essays with peer notes will be turned in next Tuesday, 2.14.
2. Read Fall’11 ydei zines distributed in class; make a plan to meet with other zine group members to trade zines so as to read all the zines before next class. Evaluate form (technical design elements, e.g. layout, legibility, font size) and content (stories, illustrations). What works? Could work better?
3. Readings
1. Juliet Schor, Work, Family, & Children’s Consumer Culturein Unfinished Work: Building Equality & Democracy in an Era of Working Families. New Press, 2005, pp. 297-305.
2. Susan Linn, Commercializing Childhood: The Corporate Takeover of Kids’ Lives. Multinational Monitor, Jul/Aug 2008, 30:1.
Reading questions
Note: While doing the readings, list the varied dynamics at play.
–How do the dimensions of power theorized in the Oppression Matrix play out in the forces “Commercializing Childhood” described by Schorr Linn)?
–How might you map these varied forces & outcomes in a visual diagram?
– What is Schor’s (p. 304) characterization of the industry response to criticism about predatory marketing to kids? What do you think?
– What does Linn propose as ways to counter the hypercommercialization of youth?