[Air-l] Re: Teaching Hurricane Katrina (Lois Ann Scheidt)

[Tama Leaver]

Hi Lois et al,

In response to your inquiry regarding Katrina's aftermath and teaching, 
I'll be using some of the many citizen journalism/blogosphere responses 
to Katrina as a case study in my Communication Studies unit 
iGeneration: Digital Communication & Participatory Culture (http://i-
generation.blogspot.com/).  I'm particularly interested in the way the 
blogosphere and mainstream media found common cause against the 
extremely slow response of the US Federal government and the way 
mainstream and citizen journalists hit a symbiotic approach, far more so 
than these two groups have in the past.  In my personal blog, I wrote a 
series of posts with some of the key links ...
http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-aftermath-politics-
citizen.html
http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-aftermath-politics-
citizen_04.html
http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-aftermath-politics-
citizen_05.html
http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-aftermath-politics-
citizen_08.html
http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/kayne-west-voicing-
anguish.html
http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/kayne-west-political-mashup-
george.html
... and I'll be using these as a reference point for students to engage 
with the many, many online responses to Katrina.  My three starting 
points will be: (1) Kayne West's speech, the responses in all online 
media, and then the politics of the new, unauthorised mashup/remix of 
West's words with his #1 chart hit; (2) the way television and other 
"older" media are being used/quoted/remixed in blogs, especially in the 
Crooks & Liars (http://crooksandliars.com/) blog which has many, many 
(copyrighted) excerpts from mainstream TV; and (3) a compassion of 
the speed at which the Katrina Information Map 
(http://www.scipionus.com/) was constructed versus the  snail's pace at 
which such information became available through any government 
authorities (incl. FEMA). I also expect students will come fully armed 
with their own interesting links and positions regarding the mediated 
responses to Katrina.

This seminar won't be until October, but if you (or others on the list) are 
interested, I can post a follow-up on how my student's responded.

Regards,
Tama Leaver

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Tama Leaver (Mr)
English, Communication and Cultural Studies (M202)
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009 Australia

Fax: +61 8 6488 1030
email: tama at cyllene.uwa.edu.au
blog: http://ponderance.blogspot.com/

CRICOS PROVIDER No. 00126G

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> Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2005 15:48:16 -0500
> From: Lois Ann Scheidt <lscheidt at indiana.edu>
> Subject: [Air-l] Teaching Hurricane Katrina
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> I couple of days ago I posted a message to the group asking how those that are
> teaching this semester are using or planning to use the issues surrounding
> Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in their classes.  So far response has been
> very low, N=1.  
>
> I taught a unit to my Introduction to Informatics students last evening.  If you
> are interested you can access my blog post on the topic at
> http://www.professional-lurker.com/archives/000918.html
>
> Lois Ann Scheidt
>
> Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana
> University, Bloomington IN USA
>
> Future Faculty Teaching Fellow (2005-2006) - School of Informatics, Indiana
> University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis IN USA
>
> Webpage:  http://www.loisscheidt.com
> Blog:  http://www.professional-lurker.com