Response Week 5

The following prompts and questions are meant to help you organize your thoughts on this week’s readings and lecture topic as well as developing your audience project. Please submit your response to Canvas by the due date.

The best way of going about this is to go over your notes from the lecture and to read the article carefully and highlight things that seem important and/or will help you to revisit the text later on in your studies.

Produce a response considering the following prompts and questions. These responses are informal and can be relatively short. They should help you to get your head around the reading and this week’s topic, giving you the opportunity to reassess content in your own words. You may use prose or key words, mind maps, drawings, poetry, videoclips – whatever helps you engage with the material and organize your ideas/question. What we want to see is that you have thought about the ideas and the prompts.

If you have questions/comments please bring those to tutorials o talk to us during Zoom Q and A sessions.

Here are this week’s prompts:

a) Drawing on the lecture explain what is meant by femininity and hegemonic masculinity

b) How is gender identity and/or sexuality negotiated though media use (provide an example of your choice)

c) In the lecture we mentioned that gender and race are not “added to the mix” but always already play a role. The question is whether we choose to pay attention to these aspects. Keeping this in mind consider how your project is related to gender? If it is not an aspect you are exploring, consider how the question would change if you would factor this aspect in?

*note your project does not have to explore gender, but it is nevertheless worthwhile to think through these dynamics in order to unpack how gender inflects media use.