What We Learned in Critical Media Studies of Health & Medicine
My students learned a lot in our course on deconstructing health and reimagining health media and communication.
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My Media & Pop Culture Students’ Top 9 Learnings
These are the top concepts and ideas Media & Pop Culture students learned this semester; what they’ll take with them into their media lives.
Tracking Our Media Diets in Intro to Media Studies
This semester, students merged theory and practice in a deeply self-reflexive way through Media Diet Journals, which they then represented visually.
Food Media Syllabus
Through historic cookbooks, Instagram, and 30+ virtual guests, “Food Media” critically considers our global food system through media.
Thinking Through Food and Media
A panel synopsis on the intersection of food studies & media studies that explores key texts, concepts, challenges & a future research agenda.
Teaching the Unruly Unessay
My students and I tested out unessays this semester, an assignment I now highly recommend.
CFP—You Are What You Post: Food and Instagram
Emily Contois and Zenia Kish welcome chapter proposals on the topic of food and Instagram for an edited collection.
Teaching with Infographics
My students translated 1500-word essays into infographics. I share details for instructors interested to try a similar assignment.
On Teaching “Persuasive Influences in America” for the First Time
I reflect on what my students and I read, wrote, and learned in a course on persuasion in the U.S.
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