{"id":11307,"date":"2024-11-13T11:42:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/?page_id=11307"},"modified":"2024-11-18T11:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:49:35","slug":"newmedia2024november13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/newmediafall2024\/newmedia2024november13\/","title":{"rendered":"November 13th: Hank Green\u2019s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Plan for the Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Critical Media Analysis Project<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theseacs.org\/venue\/\">SEACS Conference<\/a><\/strong> at UNC Charlotte\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>February 21-22, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Registration Funding available<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Deadline 12\/06\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Charlotte Motor Speechway (5000-level group)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>January 25th-26th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hank Green\u2019s&nbsp;<em>An Absolutely Remarkable Thing<\/em>&nbsp;(<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/newmediafall2024\/newmedia2024november06\/\">Part 2<\/a><\/strong> and 3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENGL\/AMST 3050 \u201cScience Fiction and American Culture\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spring 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tuesday\/Thursday, 1:00pm-2:15pm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All seats filled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Personal Social Media Research<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A few classes ago, I mentioned that you should consider following or viewing social media accounts you don&#8217;t agree with. Have you noticed anything? I started following a couple, and they really help explain not a totality but a prevailing feeling of many Trump supporters. In fact, tomorrow, I head out to a conference and will present on the rhetoric of moderate right-leaning Trump supporters. I think the academy needs to reassess its approach to first-year pedagogy in order to be better able to combat anti-intellectualism. We&#8217;re thinking to monolithically and missing out on the chance to disseminate knowledge more effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, many of us think we use social media too much (I include myself in this camp). Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hank Green\u2019s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, pp. 223-338<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s think about some more questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Now that you&#8217;ve finished the novel, ?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s April&#8217;s class and class markers?\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Think back to this quotation from <em>Misunderstaninding the Internet<\/em>:<br>&#8220;Young people who have rejected traditional party politics, who have moved away from class-based concerns to a radical politics of identity and who express political interests and hopes that are borderless have adopted the internet as an organising and campaigning tool&#8221; (p. 205).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you think April&#8217;s class or identity is stronger?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gender\/sexuality anyone?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do we make of the president? How realistic is she based on the interactions she has with April?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Random quotes from the third third of the book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>p. 231: &#8220;The news media&#8230;.During these rests it tries to make distant and vague threats seem up close and menacing in order to give you some reason <span style=\"background-color:yellow\"><strong>to watch their advertisements<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 232: &#8220;Seeing only the evidence that confirmed my point of view and not the evidence, right here in front of my eyes, that Carl was undeniably disruptive?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 242: April gets stabbed&#8211;&#8220;&#8216;This is what humanity is, solidarity in the face of fear. Hope in the face of desctruction.'&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 251: April is constantly flirting&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 255: April&#8217;s inheritance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 268: &#8220;&#8230;when a radical extremist stabs someone in the back, the only person at fault is the radical extremist.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 269: &#8220;I wanted to look serious and professional.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 279: &#8220;&#8230;the Defenders&#8230;.I honestly think that the vast majority of them would never condone this kind of action. But when the rhetoric is so inflammatory, so enraged.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 287: &#8220;I also found myself thinking for the first time about the fact that I could and also <em>would<\/em> die someday.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 288: &#8220;I was addicted to the attention and to the outrage and to the rush of being involved in something huge.&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Somewhat related&#8230;distantly&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/videogamesspring2022\/videogamesmarch31\/#Steinem\">Gloria Steinem&#8217;s &#8220;Why Younger Women are More Conservative&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 307: &#8220;By now, my audience was a couple million strong.&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>p. 316: &#8220;&#8230;over ten million viewers.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 319: &#8220;&#8230;more than 700 million viewers.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 333: &#8220;&#8230;more than a billion simultaneous viewers.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 321: &#8220;I honestly believe that is the human condition&#8230;.If you pay attention, there is only one story that makes sense, and that is one in which humanity works together more ans more since we took over this planet.&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A rather anthropocentric assumption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Andy Skampt takes over and mentions this about April: &#8220;&#8230;it was that she dehumanized herself. <span style=\"background-color:yellow\"><strong>She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221; Of course, aren&#8217;t we all just tools. Andy goes on to claim, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war&#8221; (p. 336).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Next Class<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll be discussing the rest of Hank Green\u2019s\u00a0<em>An Absolutely Remarkable Thing<\/em> and then moving onto our last two readings: Angela McRobbie&#8217;s &#8220;Feminism, Postmodernism, and the &#8216;Real Me'&#8221; (Monday) and Adrienne Rich&#8217;s &#8220;Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience&#8221; (Wednesday). I&#8217;ll also discuss writing strategies, so have an outline of your <strong>Critical Media Analysis Project<\/strong>&#8211;as a bare minimum, have the &#8220;concept of a plan&#8221; and the segment you&#8217;re interested in writing about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan for the Day Personal Social Media Research A few classes ago, I mentioned that you should consider following or viewing social media accounts you don&#8217;t agree with. Have you noticed anything? I started following a couple, and they really help explain not a totality but a prevailing feeling of many Trump supporters. 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