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Welcome to KCB102:Media Mythbusting
Dr Stephen Harrington
Today:
•Introduction to the teaching staff
•Introduction to each other
•How this unit will work
•Assessment and feedback
•Unit communication
•Some final notes
•Getting started...
Teaching staff
Dr Stephen Harrington
Unit Coordinator
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Teaching staff
Dr Andrew King
Unit Manager
All unit enquiries should be directed to Andrew.
Teaching staff
Daniel Padua
Andrew Quodling
Katherine Kirkwood
Steve Fox
Each other
•Introduce yourself to the person sitting next to you!
How the unit will work
•No face-to-face tutorials.
•Weekly readings, lectures, and online tutorials (Blackboard Collaborate).
•Online tutorials
•Recorded lectures.
Assessment
•1: Video oral
• Due Wednesday 10 April (Week 6)
•2: Essay
• Due Friday 31 May (Week 13)
•Further details forthcoming...
Communication
•Check your emails regularly!
•Contact us if anything is causing you troubles in the unit.
•Become familiar with Blackboard.
•Use the #KCB102 tag on Twitter
Stuff you should know
•Don't be afraid to ask get involved with the discussion, or ask a question at any time.
•Lectures may include sexual scenes/references, course language, nudity, drug use/references, violence.
Stuff you should know
•Attend class! It's the best way to maximize your chances of succeeding in this unit.
•Do the readings before coming to the lecture each week.
•Busting myths...
•Addressing key public debates and controversies surrounding the mass media's intersection with society.
•Re-assessing assumptions. ("Everybody knows...")
•Building professional identity.
What's this all about then?
What's this all about then?
What's this all about then?
“Have I been exploring the far reaches of online torture pornography and snuff movies? Was I checking out necrophilia genre? No. I was watching rapper Kanye West’s new video teaser for the single Monster...”
“The clip is not only interested in fetishizing female bodies – it revels in fetishizing female pain, female passivity, female suffering and female silence. The ultimate female is the quiet, passive female - a mannequin - who accepts violence, abuse and suffering while remaining hot and sexy.”
What's this all about then?
“Women are slaves and bitches who can service a man’s sexual needs, even in death. Men are brutal and dominant, and have no empathy for women. Men enjoy dead women as sex and entertainment. The female body is to be devoured, reduced to the same status as meat. Female bodies should be displayed before men as a great feast for their consumption.” - Melinda Tankard Reist
