week 10
webtext proposal assignment rough draft due Monday 10/26
Tell us about a research question (or set of related questions) you would like to explore in a scholarly webtext. Refer to some related preliminary research. Persuade the audience of the relevance and interest of this topic. 300 words.
assignments due this week:
publish all work so far;
complete your redirect;
webtext proposal;
preliminary research for webtext
10/26 ch 34: How to "Use Your Olympian" (Amy)
commercialism
promotion and marketing (Olympics)
lesser-credited sports
"Celebrate Humanity" ad 2000
branding, raising money for Olympics: undermines goals?
opposite purposes?
2008: Tyson chicken
the hard work that is invisible
amateur status
fans as consumers; athletes as paid workers
hero status (Jenner-Montreal)
1886: aristocratic beginnings of Olympics
de Courbetis
10/26 ch 49 : HIV on TV (Daniel)
TV dramas with HIV positive main characters
not necessarily the storyline
discrimination against the queer community as a topic
Queer as Folk season 1: the community
season 2: HIV positive character dating non HIV positive character
a study: gay undergrad males watched it: broke stereotypes
humanized HIV positive character
(research method: focus group)
is the treatment HIV themes on TV safe-sex education
10/28 ch 25: Heterosexuality, Homophobia, and Sports Talk Radio (Elijah)
Jim Rome vs "Chris" Everett: host calls athlete female name
the Rush Limbaugh of sports
gets in the face of an athlete
ultra masculine, ultra anti-feminist, audience middle-aged white males
degrades athletes
what do you think of portrayal of female athletes?
pro sports not as highly regarded or watched
WNBA looked at in different way
American culture: obsession with hyper-masculine sports: football: physical dominance, testosterone-driven
keyword: homosociality
keyword: hegemonic
Like A Girl campaign
female sports: hyper-sexualized, female volleyball outfits,
"what athletes are allowed to be out?"
funding high school soccer
10/30 ch 53: Six Decades of Social Class in American TV Series (Ben)
realism
naturalism
webtext proposal assignment rough draft due Monday 10/26
Tell us about a research question (or set of related questions) you would like to explore in a scholarly webtext. Refer to some related preliminary research. Persuade the audience of the relevance and interest of this topic. 300 words.
assignments due this week:
publish all work so far;
complete your redirect;
webtext proposal;
preliminary research for webtext
10/26 ch 34: How to "Use Your Olympian" (Amy)
commercialism
promotion and marketing (Olympics)
lesser-credited sports
"Celebrate Humanity" ad 2000
branding, raising money for Olympics: undermines goals?
opposite purposes?
2008: Tyson chicken
the hard work that is invisible
amateur status
fans as consumers; athletes as paid workers
hero status (Jenner-Montreal)
1886: aristocratic beginnings of Olympics
de Courbetis
10/26 ch 49 : HIV on TV (Daniel)
TV dramas with HIV positive main characters
not necessarily the storyline
discrimination against the queer community as a topic
Queer as Folk season 1: the community
season 2: HIV positive character dating non HIV positive character
a study: gay undergrad males watched it: broke stereotypes
humanized HIV positive character
(research method: focus group)
is the treatment HIV themes on TV safe-sex education
10/28 ch 25: Heterosexuality, Homophobia, and Sports Talk Radio (Elijah)
Jim Rome vs "Chris" Everett: host calls athlete female name
the Rush Limbaugh of sports
gets in the face of an athlete
ultra masculine, ultra anti-feminist, audience middle-aged white males
degrades athletes
what do you think of portrayal of female athletes?
pro sports not as highly regarded or watched
WNBA looked at in different way
American culture: obsession with hyper-masculine sports: football: physical dominance, testosterone-driven
keyword: homosociality
keyword: hegemonic
Like A Girl campaign
female sports: hyper-sexualized, female volleyball outfits,
"what athletes are allowed to be out?"
funding high school soccer
10/30 ch 53: Six Decades of Social Class in American TV Series (Ben)
realism
naturalism