Introduction to the class
Class interview
In-class writing

What is teach-in?
Draw names for teach-in
Template for teach-in plan (here for pdf)

What is the Gender and Communication blog?

Mapping gender in the field

• hooks, bell. (2000). Feminist theory: From margin to center. Cambridge, MA: South End Press. (Preface to the 2nd ed.)

• Kroløkke, Charlotte, & Sørensen, Anne Scott. (2006). Gender communication theories and analyses: From silence to performance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Introduction)

• Wood, Julia T. (2005). Gendered lives: Communication, gender, and culture (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson. (Introduction: Opening the conversation)

• Hegde, Radha S. (2011). Introduction. In Radha S. Hegde (Ed.), Circuits of visibility: Gender and transnational media cultures (pp. 1-14). New York: New York University Press.

• Wackwitz, Laura A. & Rakow, Lana F. (2004). Feminist communication theory: Selections in context. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Feminist communication theory: An introduction)

Communication syllabus critique
Group discussion

Analysis Paper 1
Decide on topic and blog

Mapping gender in the field paper

Communication syllabus critique

Analysis Paper 1 topic discussion (blog) due by the following Sunday midnight (thereafter sun0000)

REPRESENTATION 1
Post-feminism

• McRobbie, Angela. (2004). Post-feminism and popular culture. Feminist Media Studies, 4(3), 255-264.

• Lotz, Amanda. (2001). Postfeminist television criticism: Rehabilitating critical terms and identifying postfeminist attributes. Feminist Media Studies, 1(1), 105-121.

• Joseph, Ralina L. (2009). “Tyra Banks is fat”: Reading (post-)racism and (post-)feminism in the new millennium. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26(3), 237-254.

Teach-in 1

Analysis Paper 1
Data collection and summary

Teach-in 1

Assessment 1

REPRESENTATION 2
Techno-feminism/cyborg

• Haraway, Donna J. (1997). Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan(c)_Meets_OncoMouseTM: Feminism and technoscience. New York: Routledge. (Syntactics)

• Shaviro, Steven. (2005). Supa Dupa fly: Black women as cyborgs in hiphop videos. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 22, 169-179.

• Marcellus, Jane. (2011). Business girls and two-job wives: Emerging stereotypes of employed women. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Ch. 3 office machine, office wife)

Teach-in 2

Analysis Paper 1
Preliminary analysis

Teach-in 2 (Sabrina, Artem)

Assessment 2

Evaluation 2 (blog) (sun0000)
(Mingyu, Sendy, Nikki, Shirin, Amanda, Adam)

Responses to evaluation 2(blog) (before class)

REPRESENTATION 3
Politics

• Wackwitz, Laura A. & Rakow, Lana F. (2004). Feminist communication theory: Selections in context. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Representation in feminist communication theory)

• Carlin, Diana B. & Winfrey, Kelly L. (2009). Have You Come a Long Way, Baby? Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Sexism in 2008 Campaign Coverage. Communication Studies, 60(4), 326-343.

• Van Zoonen, Liesbet. (2006). The personal, the political and the popular: A woman’s guide to celebrity politics. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 9(5), 287-301

• Palmer-Mehta, Valerie. (2009). Aung San Suu Kyi and the rhetoric of social protest in Burma. Women's Studies in Communication, 32(2), 151-179.

Teach-in 3

Analysis Paper 1
Draft critique

Teach-in 3 (Mingyu)

Assessment 3

Evaluation 3(blog) (sun0000)
(Sabrina, Artem, Alan, Chenny, Moss, Mark)

Responses to evaluation 3 (blog) (before class)

Analysis Paper 1
Presentation
(See following for order)

Evaluators of paper (note: not presentation)

Whose paper? (Evaluators)
1. Shirin (Alan, Artem, Mark)
2. Mark (Moss, Sabrina, Chenny)
3. Chenny (Mingyu, Amanda, Nikki)
4. Nikki (Adam, Sendy, Shirin)
5. Alan (Shirin, Artem, Moss)
6. Moss (Mark, Sabrina, Mingyu)
7. Mingyu (Chenny, Amanda, Adam)
8.Adam (Nikki, Sendy, Alan)
9. Artem (Shirin, Alan, Sabrina)
10. Sabrina (Mark, Moss, Amanda)
11. Amanda (Chenny, Mingyu, Sendy)
12. Sendy (Nikki, Adam, Artem)

Analysis Paper 2
Decide on topic and blog

Analysis Paper 1 (blog)

Evaluation of Analysis Paper 1 (blog) (sun0000)

Analysis Paper 2 topic (blog) (sun0000)

DIFFERENCE 1
LGBQT

• Wackwitz, Laura A. & Rakow, Lana F. (2004). Feminist communication theory: Selections in context. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Difference in feminist communication theory)

• Gournelos, Ted. (2009). Puppets, Slaves, and Sex Changes : Mr. Garrison and South Park's Performative Sexuality. Television and New Media, 10(3), 270-293.

• Leung, Helen. (2008). Undercurrents: Queer culture and postcolonial Hong Kong. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press. (Ch. 4 In queer memory)

Teach-in 4

Analysis Paper 2
Data collection and summary

Teach-in 4 (Sendy, Nikki)

Assessment 4

Evaluation 4 (blog) (sun0000)
(Sabrina, Mingyu, Alan, Amanda)

Responses to evaluation 4 (blog) (before class)

DIFFERENCE 2
Migrants

• Kim, Youna. (2011). Transnational migration, media and identity of Asian women: Diasporic daughters. New York: Routledge. (Ch. 5 Diasporic nationalism and the media).

• Madianou, Mirca, & Miller, Daniel (2011). Mobile Phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children. New Media and Society, 13(3), 457-470.

• Sun, Wanning. (2011). Maid as metaphor: Dagongmei as a new pathway to Chinese transnational capital. In Radha S. Hegde (Ed.), Circuits of visibility: Gender and transnational media cultures (pp. 196-209). New York: New York University Press.
  

Teach-in 5

Analysis Paper 2
Preliminary Analysis

Teach-in 5 (Shirin, Alan)

Assessment 5

Evaluation 5 (blog) (sun0000)
(Artem, Sendy, Chenny, Adam)

Responses to evaluation 5 (blog) (before class)

DIFFERENCE 3
Muslim women and men

• Frye, Marilyn. (2004). The necessity of differences. In Laura Wackwitz & Lana Rakow (Eds.), Feminist communication theory: Selections in context (pp. 38-51). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• MacDonald, Myra. (2006). Muslim and the veil: Problems of image and voice in media representations. Feminist Media Studies, 6(1), 7-23.

• Echchaibi, Nabil. (2011). Gendered blueprints: Transnational masculinities in Muslim televangelist cultures. In Radha S. Hegde (Ed.), Circuits of visibility: Gender and transnational media cultures (pp. 89-100). New York: New York University Press.

Teach-in 6

Analysis Paper 2
Draft Critique

Teach-in 6 (Chenny)

Assessment 6

Evaluation 6 (blog) (sun0000)
(Nikki, Shirin, Moss, Mark)

Responses to evaluation 6 (blog) (before class)

Analysis Paper 2
Presentation

Evaluators for papers (not presentation)

Mingyu (Alan, Artem, Shirin, Nikki, Sendy, Chenny)
Alan (Mark, Artem, Sabrina, Amanda, Adam, Moss)
Artem (Shirin, Mingyu, Mark, Nikki, Sendy, Chenny)
Sabrina (Artem, Mingyu, Alan, Amanda, Adam, Moss)
Mark (Mingyu, Sabrina, Shirin, Nikki, Sendy, Chenny)
Shirin (Sabrina, Alan, Mark, Amanda, Adam, Moss)


Analysis Paper 3
Decide on topic and blog

Analysis Paper 2 (blog)

Evaluation of Analysis Paper 2 (blog) (sun0000)

Analysis Paper 3 topic (blog) (sun0000)

VOICE 1
Women's movements and feminism

• hooks, bell. (2000). Feminist theory: From margin to center. Cambridge, MA: South End Press. (Ch. 2 & 3)

• Kroløkke, Charlotte, & Sørensen, Anne Scott. (2006). Gender communication theories and analyses: From silence to performance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Ch. 1 Three waves of feminism)

Teach-in 7

Analysis Paper 3
Data collection and preliminary analysis

Students will blog their progress before 8:00 p.m. and comment on their group members' blog entries before 29th Nov. There is no word limit to both the blog entry and the comments. Just do whatever you'd do if you were talking about your progress in class.

Group A: Adam, Nikki, Chenny
Group B: Moss, Amanda, Sendy

Teach-in 7 (Amanda, Moss)

Assessment 7

Evaluation 7 (blog) (sun0000)
(Sabrina, Mingyu, Alan, Chenny, Adam, Mark)

Responses to evaluation 7 (blog) (before class)

Week 13
29th Nov.

VOICE 2
Motherhood

• Wackwitz, Laura A. & Rakow, Lana F. (2004). Feminist communication theory: Selections in context. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Voice in feminist communication theory)

• Edley, Paige, P. (2004). Entrepreneurial mothers' balance of work and family: Discursive constructions of time, mothering, and identity (pp. 255-273. In Patrice M. Buzzanell, Helen Sterk, & Lynn H. Turner. (Eds.), Gender in applied communication contexts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Foss, Karen A. & Domenici, Kathy L. (2001). Haunting Argentina: Synecdoche in the protests of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 87(3), 237-258.

• Nakamura, Lisa. (2010). Avatars and the visual culture of reproduction on the web. In Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, and Lynn Spigel (eds.), Electronic elsewheres: Media, Technology and the Experience of Social Space. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Teach-in 8

Analysis Paper 3
Draft critique

Teach-in 8 (Adam, Moss)

Assessment 8

Evaluation 8 (blog) (sun0000)
(Sendy, Nikki, Shiri, Amanda, Mark)

Responses to evaluation 8 (blog) (before class)

VOICE 1
Women's movements and feminism

• hooks, bell. (2000). Feminist theory: From margin to center. Cambridge, MA: South End Press. (Ch. 2 & 3)

• Kroløkke, Charlotte, & Sørensen, Anne Scott. (2006). Gender communication theories and analyses: From silence to performance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Ch. 1 Three waves of feminism)

Teach-in 7

Re-mapping gender in the field
Instruction on syllabus

Re-designing syllabus
Instruction on syllabus

Teach-in 7 (Amanda, Mark)

Assessment 7

Evaluation 7 (blog) (sun0000)
(Artem, Sabrina, Mingyu, Alan, Chenny)

Responses to evaluation 7 (blog) (before class)

Re-designing syllabus

sample (narrative)
sample (syllabus)

Analysis Paper 3

Presentation

Evaluators for papers (not presentation)

Sendy (Moss, Adam, Nikki, Mingyu, Artem, Mark)
Amanda (Sendy, Nikki, Chenny, Alan, Sabrina, Shirin)
Adam (Nikki, Sendy, Amanda, Mingyu, Artem, Mark)
Moss (Amanda, Chenny, Adam, Alan, Sabrina, Shirin)
Nikki (Chenny, Amanda, Moss, Mingyu, Artem, Mark)
Chenny (Adam, Moss, Sendy, Alan, Sabrain, Shirin)

Analysis Paper 3 (blog)

Evaluation of Analysis Paper 3 (blog) (sun0000)

Take-home examination
Study guide

Final Exam questions

Posted online at 5:00 p.m. on 11th Dec. (Tue) or will be e-mailed to you.
Due via e-mail (mlee@suffolk.edu) at 8:00 p.m. On 13th Dec. (Thur.)