Learning from Katrina: Teach-In

"Learning From Katrina: Anticipation, Preparation, Response" is a university-wide teach-in at the University of Southern California that was held on Tuesday, October 25th, 2005. The event was sponsored by the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the USC College Program for American Studies and Ethnicity, and the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy. For more information, and for full video coverage of the teach-in, visit the Learning for Katrina Blog.

Students from IML 104 videoblogged the event for TenFour. Each student created a 2-3 minute video blog about one of the professors who talked at the teach-in. All video blogs were shot, edited, uploaded and broadcast during the teach-in.

• Professor J. Lawford Anderson discusses "natural" and "unnatural" disaster, and the environmental impact of political policy decisions.
  Vlogged by Lindsay Pond.
• Professor Steve Anderson discusses coverage of Katrina on the Internet.
  Vlogged by Sam Ghods.
• Professor Judith Jackson Fossett discusses Katrina in relation to the history of slavery.
  Vlogged by Andy Hogan.
• Professor Barry Glassner discusses the use of misdirection in how the media coverage of Katrina focused on crime.
  Vlogged by Isomi Miake-Lye.
• Professor Tara McPherson discusses how the cost of the war in Iraq impacts homeland protection.
  Vlogged by Sonia Seetharaman.

Channel Surfing the Creative Commons

Created by IML 104 Students and Instructors
Students were given 60 minutes to remix and mash-up audio and images from Creative Commons licensed works into a 30 second video segment. These segments were then compiled in this video, which represents a spontaneous explosion of the collective creativity and insanity of the IML 104 students and instructors.
Mediagraphy of Sampled Works

Who Owns Culture?

Created by Sam Ghods
A summary and extension of Lawrence Lessig and Jeff Tweedy's presentation, Who Owns Culture?, at the New York Public Library on April 7th, 2005. Followed by excerpts from a classroom discussion and a clip from a Q&A with Lessig that followed a talk he gave at USC in December 2004.

Culture Jamming and Video Culture

Created by Andy Hogan
An expository view at video games and grassroots media production. After examining Mark Dery’s article concerning culture jamming in relation to video game culture, we then discuss grassroots and juvenile appropriation of video game images and later include theories of radicalism in general.

Heteronormativity and Tween Culture

Created by Lindsay Pond
In this podcast, Lindsay explores how tween culture is shaped by adult attitudes towards sexuality. She draws on the article "Sex in Public" by Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner (from Simon During, ed., The Cultural Studies Reader) to analyze how heteronormative hegemonic systems impact how society views non-heterosexual identities in children and children's culture.
Links: PBS Kids: It's My Life

...And What Did We Learn Today??

Created by Sonia Seetharaman
This video is an introduction to my area of study, the realms of online and distance education as well as the use of technology as a replacement teaching tool. Will the increase of computerized education be an advantage or a disadvantage to future generations? It is one of five After Effects animations exploring the culture industry.

Tweentacular, Tweentacular

Over the past half century, children have become one of corporate America’s most important marketing demographics. An offshoot of this is the development of tween culture, whose members consist mainly of homogenized preadolescents, aged 8-14. They are easily influenced by peers and even more so by advertising and marketing schemes directed toward them. This video is one of five After Effects animations exploring the culture industry. Created by Lindsay Pond

Apples and Oranges

A video exploring the consumption of individuality, in which a girl searches to fit into the community of “different” Apple consumers. This video is one of five After Effects animations exploring the culture industry. Created by Isomi Miake-Lye

So What If There's Violence in Video Games?

Based loosely upon a post-Columbine testimony to Congress given by MIT Professor Henry Jenkins, this project engages in a rational view of video games and popular culture while mocking those who are engrossed in and perpetuate moral panic. This video is one of five After Effects animations exploring the culture industry. Created by Andy Hogan

Privacy

The details of your life may not be as private as you’d like to think. You’d be surprised who knows about them. This video is one of five After Effects animations exploring the culture industry. Created by Sam Ghods