Class Notes & Course Terms
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Class Notes- Blogging In College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Gender & Pop Culture's ...Midterm Blog-tagular!
SOCS @ TCNJ: "Here's the plan for the week of March 19th
It's the Midterm Blogtacular!
You (if you are in my class, of course) must be in class this week and adhere to the deadlines listed below:
Each Team now has a blog (See your Team's SOCS sub-section for how to use it, where it is, and how to post to it).
Monday, March 19
Deadline for completion of team work (based on plan due 2/26)
Keep updated work on your Team's Blog.
It should be ready to present for Thursday by this Monday's deadline
Thursday, March 22
Mid-Semester “State of the Blog Report”
Team Reports & Individual Questions/Requests
Self Grade & Group Grade both due using SOCS Assessments
For Class Team Presentation :
-Each Team's Speaker will present the completed work of the group (using Monday's finished work to help her/him prepare). Teammates are welcome to jump in to the presentation to cover specific aspects of the work (this delegation of speaking tasks is optional and up to the individual teams to decide how the group proceeds); however, the speaker will introduce the team and the team's work.
Friday, March 23
Blog Post #3
Topic Analysis (examining power and your topic):
(more details to follow)
Students in the class should check in at SOCS for the readings and more details for this week's assignments (this post is not at all comprehensive for the work you'll need to do this week).
Monday, March 12, 2007
Blue Book: Student-Blogs published for Blogging in College Experiment
Blogging in College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment: "Blue Book: Student-Blogs published for Blogging in College Experiment
Hey Class- We're being blogged about (and clipmarked too!) Amanda's blog seems to have generated Paul's (the author of the blue book blog) interest in our experiment! Check out his blog by clicking the title!
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
In case you have trouble uploading the collage
If you need a photo editor (that's easy to use) for uploading your collages to your blogs (a student emailed me and asked about what to do b/c the collage isn't in a format (currently they're scanned and saved as TIF files, which I'm surprised Blogger isn't able to handle) that's compatable with the blog's image upload process, feel free to download from the link below. After installing, open "Picassa" or "Picassa 2" (they call it one or the other), then open the file for the photo based on where you originally saved it (from the upload instructions email). Once you've opened it, go to file, save as (or "save a copy"), and the file window will open. Save it as a yourimage'sname.jpg and make sure that the line below the file also lists .jpg or .jpeg (and not the .tif information still) or "all files, *.*" to avoid saving it as the same file type. If it asks you to export or "flatten" your image, okay it until you're done and have a file called yourimage'sname.jpg (picassa may not show the filename in the window of the main screen, if that's the case, you can go open the folder from the "my documents" or "My Computer" in Windows, look for the file where you saved it, and make sure it was saved as a .jpg file. Then you can upload away!
Download Here!
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Email- Check your spam filter and make sure you accept invite
Hi Everyone-
Amanda has sent a requst that needs your attention and I realized that the invites sent for granting student-access to the big blog might have been intercepted by your spam filters!
Please check your spam filters for the invite and make sure you accept the request to become a blog author at http://genderpopculture.blogspot.com.
The next blog assignment has been sent via email too...
For Amanda's request, see the email w/ the .doc download and follow her great instructions for adding the needed elements to your blog (they're really clear and well done!) asap!
Thanks!
"Idol"-ology: Gender and Reality Television: American Idol Season 6 - Ian Benardo
Amanda got a response from Ian (on American Idol) using MySpace!
Friday, March 2, 2007
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
(Kind of) Befriending our first blog topic on MySpace...The Girls Next Door
As an addendum....to this week's scholarly topic...eh hem...
I figured I'd post my little adventures in the world of MySpace finding Kendra, Briget, and Holly (much to the confusion of my actual friends... "What is Jessie doing on MySpace befriending the playboy girlfriend trio?" Nope, I haven't (completely) lost it yet...
Here's Bridget
www.myspace.com/bunnybridget
Kendra
www.myspace.com/kendrawilkinson
& Holly (the ewok?)
www.myspace.com/hollyewok
Martha Stewart's HELL!
A NY Times Recipe:
1 Column) Restaurant Review,
1 Establishment) The Penhouse Club
(and yes, appropriately named)
2 sets of nude phots of women) Multimedia Slideshows
1) Dude who has NY Times authority to claim the steaks are the reason for his trip...mix together and (emeril-style...BAM!):
and I give you... This really relevant to class...and sadly illustrative of life....Restaurant Review of Robert's Steakhouse!
The New York Times > Robert's Steak House Restaurant Review > New York City Restaurant Reviews
If Ever there was a topic more relevant to your blogs in college...Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias
GREENCASTLE, Ind. — When a psychology professor at DePauw University here surveyed students, they described one sorority as a group of “daddy’s little princesses” and another as “offbeat hippies.” The sisters of Delta Zeta were seen as “socially awkward.”
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Andrew Hancock for The New York Times
Women at DePauw University in Indiana who were either asked to leave the Delta Zeta house or resigned in protest hold a sorority photo.
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Andrew Hancock for The New York Times
Elizabeth Haneline, who was among those evicted, said, “The Greek system hasn’t changed at all, but instead of racism, it’s image now.”
Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.
The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit.
“Virtually everyone who didn’t fit a certain sorority member archetype was told to leave,” said Kate Holloway, a senior who withdrew from the chapter during its reorganization.
Go to...the NY Times article for more:
Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias - New York Times
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Research Team!NCAC - National Coalition Against Censorship
Good site w/ plenty of links to issues and places that are great analytical sites, as well as great issues/sites to analyze :o)
NCAC - National Coalition Against Censorship
Friday, February 23, 2007
Research & PR - feminist blogs » Reality TV: Survivor
Thanks Jen! I found this one on your blog :o)
go to http://feministblogs.org for more topics (this one links specifical to reality tv shows, with "Survivor" as the subtopic).
feminist blogs » Reality TV: Survivor
PR Team! PopMatters Blogs
Here's a list of blogs listed on the Pop Matters blog (they link to other blogs here), see if you can get them to link to our blogs (or the "blogging in college" one)!
PopMatters Blogs
Research Group: A blog on pop culture! (and it's a cultural criticism of pop culture): PopMatters
PopMatters
Not a fan-site! Check it out :o)
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Photo Blogging on 29 in NJ- a bit of a delay
See...I said I 'd blog the pic of my ridiculous commute! It just took about 10 hours to actually get from my phone to the blog....hmmm...delayed photo blogging kind of defeats the whole "mobile blogging" on the go rationale :o)
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
The Power to Name -- For Etheridge, Oscar Nod Is a Dream
For Etheridge, Oscar Nod Is a Dream: "Melissa Etheridge knows all about labels. First there was the 'rock goddess' with the classic hit, 'Come to My Window.' Then there was 'lesbian singer.' Then came 'cancer survivor.' Now there's 'Oscar nominee.'
Etheridge, 45, competes in the best-song category for the anthem 'I Need to Wake Up' from the global-warming documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth.'"
iWon News - Many Playboy Playmates Have Died Young
Linking the Inventing the Cosmo Girl Reading, watching the Girls Next Door in class last week, and the blog post about Smith from (last week? I think)...an article...that ties them all up...Miami AP, Bring us home!
iWon News - Many Playboy Playmates Have Died Young
iWon News - Laughs End With Bizarre Britney in Rehab
iWon News - Laughs End With Bizarre Britney in Rehab: "The 25-year-old pop star has been seen wearing skimpy outfits and partying heavily since filing for divorce from Kevin Federline in November, after two years of marriage.
On Friday night, Spears, the mother of two young sons, shaved her head bald. But that didn't send her into hiding as she was later seen wearing an inexpensive blond wig.
'You know, for these celebrities, it's really tough,' New York-based psychiatrist Gail Saltz told The Associated Press. 'They have no idea if anybody likes them for them. ... Everybody wants a piece. Everybody wants to make something off of her, get somewhere by her.'
Spears' very public divorce isn't helping matters, said Saltz, who also suggested that Spears could be suffering from postpartum depression."
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