Text Messaging Reading and Writing About Popular Culture
by Alberti, JohnFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-03-05
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary
This new text examines how students are communicating and creating culture through blogs, MySpace pages, texting, and other high-tech means of expression. Alberti engages student interest and provides tools for students to more effectively analyze texts of all sorts. Intriguing writing projects improve text communication, writing, and presentation skills. Unlike other pop culture readers that focus exclusively on U.S. culture, Text Messaging recognizes that these forms of pop culture are global in scope, so individuals can and do interact with diverse cultures from around the world.
Table of Contents
| Reading and Writing About Popular Culture What Is Popular Culture? | |
| How Do We Think About Culture? | |
| How Do We "View" Culture? | |
| Understanding Visual Texts Writing Concerns | |
| Are Also Visual How Do We Write About Culture? | |
| Drafting and Revising Focusing | |
| Your Draft and Finding a Thesis | |
| Proofreading and Editing Using this Book | |
| Reading, Viewing, and Responding to Culture Reading Culture: | |
| Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century Reading | |
| "Cultural Renaissance or Cultural Divide?" | |
| Viewing Culture: Movie Posters | |
| Then and Now Visual Texts: Die Hard poster | |
| Live Free or Die Hard poster Visual Texts: The Poseidon Adventure poster | |
| Poseidon poster Visual Texts: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory poster | |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory poster Creating Culture: YouTube and Viral Videos | |
| Who Owns What? | |
| Ideas and Authority in the Information Age Who Owns Popular Culture? | |
| The Digital Dilemma in Popular Culture: Who Owns an Idea? | |
| Research and Argument in the Information Age | |
| The Research Process Reading Culture | |
| Plagiarism in the Digital | |
| Age Reading | |
| "The Rules of Attribution" Creating Culture | |
| Wikipedia and the Wiki Movement Reading | |
| "The Book Stops Here" | |
| Pop Identity: You Are What You Write Language, Identity, and Writing Reading | |
| "Theme for English B" Reading Culture | |
| Constructing Identity in a Digital | |
| Age Reading | |
| "Leading a Double Life" Reading | |
| from Everything Bad Is Good for You | |
| How Today's Pop Culture | |
| Is Actually Making Us Smarter Reading | |
| from Glen to Glenda and Back | |
| Again Reading: Danzy Senna, "The Mulatto Millennium | |
| Waking Up in the Age of Racial Ambiguity" Visual Text | |
| from American Born Chinese | |
| "What's Wrong with Cinderella?" | |
| "Supernatural Girls" Viewing | |
| Culture: Creating an Avatar Creating Culture | |
| Social Networking Reading | |
| "Meet My 5,000 New Best Pals" Reading | |
| "When a Risqu? | |
| Online Persona Undermines a Chance for a Job" | |
| Pop (Up) Advertising The Universe of Advertising | |
| Advertising and You Interacting with | |
| Advertising Reading Culture | |
| The Evolution of Advertising Reading | |
| "The Hard Sell | |
| Advertising in America" Reading | |
| "Salespeak" Reading | |
| "They Say" Reading | |
| "How Buzz Marketing Works for Teens" Reading | |
| "And Now a Word from Their Cool College Sponsor" Viewing Culture | |
| Fake Ads Visual Text | |
| Shards O' Glass Freeze Pops Creating Culture | |
| Creating Your Own Advertising Parody Reading | |
| Adbusters, "Create Your Own Print Ad" | |
| Pop Music: Revolutions | |
| You Can Dance To DIY: Pop Music | |
| Goes Interactive DIY in the Digital | |
| Age Reading Culture: New Ways of Listening | |
| Reading | |
| from High Fidelity | |
| Reading | |
| "Listening In: Practices Surrounding iTunes Music Sharing" Reading | |
| "The New Tastemakers" Reading | |
| "You Are What's on Your Playlist" Reading | |
| "Bigger Than Hip Hop" Reading | |
| Brooke Gladstone with Sergeant | |
| "Straight Outta Baghdad" Reading | |
| "Rapping Straight Outta Iraq" Viewing Culture | |
| The iPod Visual Texts: iPopMyPhoto.com | |
| Forkscrew Graphics Visual Text | |
| The Cult of iPod book cover Reading | |
| "The Joy of iPod: iCandy for the Ears" Creating Culture | |
| Musical Mash-Ups Reading | |
| "The Mash-Up Revolution" | |
| Pop Goes the News: Whom Do You Trust? | |
| News in the Digital Age Getting the News: Whom Do You Trust? | |
| Reading Culture: The News: Evolution or Revolution? | |
| Reading | |
| "Abandoning the News" Reading | |
| "The Daily Show | |
| Discursive Integration and the Reinvention of Political Journalism" Reading | |
| "Introduction to Participatory Journalism" Reading | |
| "From Cave Painting to Wonkette | |
| A Short History of Blogging" Reading | |
| "Blogging in the Early Republic" Viewing Culture | |
| The Ethics of Photojournalism Visual Texts | |
| Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima Visual Texts | |
| Toppling Saddam Hussein's Statue in Firdos Square Visual Text: An Example of Digital Manipulation Creating Culture | |
| Iraqi War Blogs Reading | |
| Riverbend, from Baghdad Burning | |
| Girl Blog from Iraq | |
| Video Pop: Television in the Digital Age What Is TV in the Digital Age? | |
| Television in the Interactive | |
| Age Reading Culture | |
| Fantasy and Reality on TV Reading: | |
| "How Reality TV Fakes It" Reading | |
| "The Amazing 'Race': Discovering a True American" Reading | |
| "Cartoons from Another Planet | |
| Japanese Animation as Cross-Cultural Communication" Reading: | |
| "The Many Tribes of YouTube" Viewing Culture | |
| Primetime Animation Visual Texts | |
| The Faces of Primetime Animation Visual Text | |
| from Understanding Comics Creating Culture | |
| Do-It-Yourself TV Reading | |
| "A Can-Do Little Website, on the Hunt for Homegrown Stars" | |
| From Bollywood to Hollywood | |
| Movies at Home and Around the World | |
| Movies from Past to Present Movies | |
| Around the World Interactive Movies Reading Culture | |
| Moving Beyond Stereotypes Reading | |
| "Taking Stupid Seriously" | |
| Reading | |
| from G Movies Give Boys a D | |
| Portraying Males as Dominant, Disconnected, and Dangerous Reading | |
| "Where Are All the Female Directors?" Reading | |
| The Editors of Cineaste, "Do We Really Need Movie Ratings?" Reading | |
| "Bollywood Cinema: Making Elephants Fly" Viewing Culture | |
| Computer-Generated Imagery Reading | |
| "300 Changes the CGI Game" Creating Culture | |
| Do-It-Yourself Movies Reading | |
| "Here's the Price of Fame: $218.32" | |
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