Studies in Pop Culture

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 In Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design, the authors define Connected Learning as when youth engage in hobbies or interests they are passionate about “…with the support of friends and caring adults…”  who are then “…able to link this learning and inte...

Stack and Kelly in Popular Media, Education and Resistance state that powerful media institutions have and continue to misrepresent and stereotype diverse communities.  Through various texts , the media often misrepresents women, people of color as well as cultural and...

In the article “Damsels in Discourse: Girls Consuming and Producing Identity Texts Through Disney Princess Play”, Karen Wolhwend discusses how toys and video games have preconceived identity narratives attached to them which “…communicate gendered expectations about wh...

One aspect of this week’s class and readings discussed how mainstream media can often depict false, stereotypical or one-sided representations of people or communities. It is important to create democratic spaces for the public and youth to question, discuss and critiq...

Production 2: Connect to the Reading: Towards a Theory of Popular Culture for Learning

Response to "Popular Culture in Traditional and New Literacies" by Donna E. Alvermann

New Literacies can be defined as plural ways to understand and communicate ideas (demonstrate lite...

 Morell in his article “Critical Literacy and Popular Culture in Urban Education” quote Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo; “Critical literacy is a reading and re-writing of the world” (240).  Critical Literacies is a practice that contemplates the world and with diverse...