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3rd
Dec (M) 11:00 - 11:25 a.m. |
| 3rd Dec
(M) 11:25 - 11:50 a.m. Cornell, Colleen R. Depina, Vallery Diamond, Kristin M. Foster, Ashley R. Giannino, Nicholas M. |
| 5th Dec
(W) 11:00 - 11:25 a.m. Lins, Vanessa E. McKallagat, Brittany Papadogiannis, Pamela Quinn, Sean C. Saltos, Roxana Straus, Aaron J. |
Discussion
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1. Moores mentions that workers in the service industry are subject to
issues of emotion, standardisation and surveillence (p. 155). Do you think
that users of MySpace, Facebook and the SecondLife ("online" in
following questions) are subject to these issues too? If yes, can it be suggested
that users of new technologies are also labour?
2. Moores argues that "many now have the opportunity to experience forms
of familiarity (and strangeneness) at a distance via media, in addition to
the kinds of intimacy (and practices of civil inattention) that are found
in circumstances of physical proximity" (p. 158). How does this quote
apply to your online experiences?
3. What does "performativity" mean? How is "performativity"
related to gender? Do you find that you perform your gender and class differently
online? Why or why not?
4. Have you noticed any gender norms online? What are they? Is it easier to
break through gender norms online?
5. How are community constituted through online activities? Do you belong
to any virtual community?
6. Why did Edward Said say that collective identity is imagined? How does
this apply to your experience?
7. Would you suggest that your online activities are just an extension of
your offline activity (p. 167)?
8. What is meant by "diaspora"? Do you join a "diasporic"
community online? How may an online community facilitate the formation of
a diasporic community?
From The 70s show:
1. Make sure that you understand what "routines", "seriality",
and "ordinariness" mean.
2. What kinds of techniques do the producers use to let the audience know
each episode belongs to a series?
3. What are some of the "routines" and "ordinariness"
that the characters do at the beginning of both episodes that we watched in
class?
4. Why would the audience be attracted to watch a show that is about the "daily
life"? (make sure that you do draw ideas from Moores)
From The Simpsons
5. Make sure that you under what "tradition", "lifetime",
and "eventfulness" mean.
6. Discuss how the episode that we watched draws on some American traditions.
Do you think the audience of other cultures will understand the episode in
the way that American audience understand it?
7. Do you agree that The Simpsons is an example of "the key is
the correspondence between the movement of time in the fictional world and
the actual world" (p. 28)? Why or why not?
8. How do the characters of The Simpsons go beyond the "fictional
world" and get embedded in the audience's everyday life?
9. Drawing on the idea of "eventfulness", do you think The Simpsons
reflect a national culture or is it more like a global product that is produced
by the global audience?
From The Daily Show
10. To what extent does The Daily Show use the "dailiness"
format of news programme?
11. Would your characterise The Daily Show as a show of "dailiness"
or "hourliness" or neither?