Category — Discussion Questions

Here’s the thread where you should post your raw observation data for Nara’s assignment.

Don’t forget to do the very short reading that goes with this assignment, the excerpt from Species of Spaces by Georges Perec, available on Blackboard.

The observation assignment is due by 11pm on April 5th. If you’re having trouble with the blog for any reason, please email it to me. The completion of this assignment counts towards your final grade … no excuses!

Don’t forget, your script for the podcast is also due Sunday, April 5th. Post it under the ‘Scripts for April 7th Podcasts’ thread. The actual podcast itself is due Tuesday, April 7th.

Please write a short paragraph on the following question in preparation for your discussion in class on Thursday:

Now that you have had some experience recording your own image-enhanced podcast, how does Cristina Grasseni’s article on “Video and Ethnographic Knowledge” offer you some new ways of thinking about the use of images and video as means of media-enhanced storytelling?

As you are reading the 2007 reading about Robert Moses, ask yourself:  What is at stake for these authors? How would you evaluate both the arguments and the historical sources that are used by Jackson, Ballon, and their accompanying authors, measured, say, against the account we have been reading by the journalist Robert Caro?

Issues to think about:  How do they write? What are their footnotes and sources like (as compared to the sources Caro uses)? What sort of rehetoric or “discourse” do they seem to employ, and how does this affect you you interpret the reading???…

Hello Everyone,

Please post your reaction here to the podcast-making exercise today. Please submit your comments or suggestions for how we might do this again next time, in a “new and improved” podcast exercise? Questions to consider include: The hardest thing about the podcast exercise was _______… Or, the most confusing step in the podcast-making process was ______, etc., etc…

Thanks!

John Maciuika