New Orleans March For Our Lives, March 2018
Continue your online survey of your topic, this time focusing on dialogue streams in which readers comment; could be Twitter, Tik-Tok, Instagram, what else?
Survey 3 distinct discourse streams (e.g. particular hashtags) and apply media literacy questions: How do these streams name and analyze the issue in terms of:
- What’s the story? What are the important issues being discussed?
- Is context addressed? (root causes)
- institutional
- cultural
3. Are alternatives considered? (root solutions) What changes are called for?
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- demands for systemic institutional change (policies, programs)
- changes in cultural beliefs, norms, values
- are strategies for change offered
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/03/megan-rapinoe-us-soccer-anthem-policy-protest-colin-kaepernick-national-team-uswnt
Write summary notes (1-3) paragraphs that respond to the media literacy questions.
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- Start with a strong opening sentence.
- Include 1-2 images that come from these streams: memes, screen shots, illustrations, what else?
- Discuss how these issues relate to youth.
- Offer a conclusion that might be a last thought, question(s), follow-up directions.
POST ON YOUR GOOGLE DOC; INCLUDE ASSIGNMENT DATE & TITLE AT TOP.
Occupy Wall Street protesters march to abolish debt in 2012.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/17/you-are-not-loan-rolling-jubilee-abolishes-millions-student-debt