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Practical Class: Deconstructing Objects of Popular Culture using Media Literacy Techniques

1 Outubro 2024, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Practical Class: Deconstructing Objects of Popular Culture using Media Literacy Techniques

Introduction of using media literacy techniques to read objects of popular culture

26 Setembro 2024, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Finished discussion of the "DIsneyland" chapter in Arthur Berger's Understanding American Icons: An Introduction to Semiotics in this context.

Recognition that there are different types of pop culture objects and depending on the type the result may be different:
1.entertainment or relaxation
2. recognition
3. introduction of ideas that confront realities.
Introduction of the concepts of media literacy when analyzing objects of popular culture

The American Dream and Disneyland

24 Setembro 2024, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Continued discusion of the changes in the concept of the American Dream and new influential texts altered the concept againstthe background of the Kemp Vanity Fair article.

Discussion of the "DIsneyland" chapter in Arthur Berger's Understanding American Icons: An Introduction to Semiotics in this context.

Alterations in the American Dream

19 Setembro 2024, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Review of Kemp's Vanity Fair article "Revamping the American Dream" in the context of the 2008 recession.

Presentation of program and evaluation criteria

17 Setembro 2024, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Presentation of program and evaluation criteria

Discuss of the concept of pop culture