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RESOURCES
FOR ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Teaching Resources
The Center wishes to thank the generosity of the
professors who have shared their syllabi. They are offered as a
guide for planning or devising your own course, or for furthering
your knowledge, with institution-specific institution information
deleted where possible to save space.
Center for Social Media
Hosts Panel at AMLA: How do social change and advocacy materials
fit into a classroom standing in the shadow of standardized testing?
By Pat Aufderheide
A Teacher’s
Guide to Use of Personal Essay Films
Personal essay films have been widely diffused to teachers and community
organizations, because they so powerfully evoke responses from and
make connections for audiences. They are also favorites of film
scholars, who use them to demonstrate with all the drama of the
personal voice, the formal structures in filmmaking.
The
Social Documentary: Bibliography
Compiled by Dr. Laura Stein, University of Texas at Austin, for
her course The Social
Documentary, this bibliography serves as a comprehensive reading
guide for anyone interested in learning more about the genre.
Using
Video to Create Social Change
Developed by The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, this handbook
aggregates information on creating socially motivated work. The
document is available free in PDF format or in print at low cost.
Course Syllabi
NEW! Updated
Media and Social Change
Syllabus by Profs. Curtis Marez and Doe Mayer, USC
Spring 2005 version of the course previously taught by Michael Renov
and Doe Mayer. New reading and viewing, providing alternate perspectives
on how media affects social change.
Media and Social Change
Syllabus by Profs. Michael Renov and Doe Mayer, USC
A course that asks whether media can change society, looking across
borders and genre lines with a diverse theoretical bibliography
of films and literature.
Video Activism
Syllabus by Prof. Lydia Foester, New School University
Like other courses here, Video Activism combines production with
theory on the various uses of video and how it is employed strategically.
UPDATED!
Documentary Research
Syllabus by Prof. Lora Taub-Pervizpour, Muhlenberg College
Students in this course have the general topic of "identity"
to ground their inquiry into documentary production.
Video
Activism
Syllabus by Prof. River Branch, University of Iowa
With video technology's increased portability came on-the-scene
report and an evolution of strategy surrounding the use of such
materials. This course is a historical survey of video activism.
Social
Documentary
Syllabus by Prof. Pat Aufderheide, American University
This is a course designed to familiarize students with audio-visual
production for social action, including nonprofit, advocacy, institutional,
and museum display. The assignments include analyzing case studies
of successful work, mapping the economic and social environment
for media, meeting professional media producers, and developing
proposals.
TV
Practicum: Documentary and Social Change
Syllabus by Prof. Andy Opel, Florida State University
This course explores the contemporary world of documentary video
production with an overview of the history and major trends in documentary
production. It combines critical viewing skills with practical instruction
in documentary production.
Non-Fiction
Film Theory
Syllabus by Prof. P. R. Zimmerman, Ithaca College
This course deals with the intersection of film theory and history;
it employs a wide range of films and books to ground students. Lectures,
discussions and screenings expand, develop, and criticize texts
and films.
Images:
Women/Men/Media
Syllabus by Prof. P. R. Zimmerman, Ithaca College
This course is a survey of contemporary feminist cultural theory:
it interrogates and assesses the construction of women within diverse
representational systems. It also investigates film, photography,
video art, and digital forms as contested, fluid sites articulating
discourses on women, men, sexuality, difference, and nation.
The Social
Documentary
Syllabus by Prof. Laura Stein, University of Texas at Austin
This course offers a conceptual overview of the forms, strategies,
structures and conventions of documentary film and video. The course
focuses on social documentary, or documentary that aims to construct
arguments about the social world.
Survey
of Gay and Lesbian Documentary
Syllabus by Prof. Bob Connelly, American University
This course will follow the evolution of gay and lesbian-themed
documentary within the historical context of the gay and lesbian
movement.
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