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American mashup (1st ed )
A Popular Culture Reader
Author: Morales Aaron
Language: English
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The American Mashup is a popular culture reader for the Facebook/Twitter generation with cutting-edge themes and reading selections designed to encourage critical thinking and writing by analyzing diverse genres, disciplines and strategies.
In touch with today's generation of students, for whom trends and styles change more rapidly than any other generation, The American Mashup teaches to read texts, and then it sets them free to make complex connections on their own. The book builds upon the textual readings students do on a daily basis, unaware of the fact that they are judging, critiquing, and evaluating texts without consciously thinking about the process. Using texts from blogs, videos, magazines, advertisers, journalists, researchers, and pop culture gurus, The American Mashup incorporates current trends in music, fashion, advertising, entertainment, and technology.
Chapter 1 The Mashup Approach to Reading Popular Culture
The Mashup College Composition Course
Defining Popular Culture
Why Popular Culture Matters
How We Think About Popular Culture
How We 'Read' Cultural Texts and Media
Reading Strategies
Understanding Signs, Signals and Symbols
Pre-reading
Reading and Commenting
Rereading
Credibility and Reliability in Sources
Other Texts
Visual Media
Film and Television
Websites
Apps
Reading People
Chapter 2 The Mashup Approach to Writing About Popular Culture
The Mashup Essay
Planning Your Essay
Invention Strategies
Constructing a Thesis
Outlining
Writing Your Essay
Writing Strategies: The Mashup Essay
Opening and Supporting Paragraphs
Conclusions
Refining Your Essay
Revision
Proofreading
Finding and Citing Your Sources
Why Cite?
In-Text Citations
Creating a Works Cited
Sample Student Essay
Chapter 3 Identity Construction
Making the Cultural Connection
'Citizenship' (cartoon) David Fitzsimmons
Thinking about American Identity
'Objectif Lune' Charles Dantzig
'America: The Multinational Society' Ishmael Reed
'Friday Night Lights: Rural Mojo on TV' David Masciotra
'Is the Latino Community Losing Its Identity?' Zayda Rivera
Mashup Essay: 'A More Perfect Union' Barack Obama
MashItUp Topics
'Runaway Bride' (cartoon) Mike Lester
Thinking about Gender and Sexual Identity
'The Problem with Boys' Tom Chiarella
'I Won. I'm Sorry.' Mariah Burton Nelson
'It Gets Better Project' ItGetsBetter.org
MashItUp Topics
Chapter 4 Social Media
Making the Cultural Connection
'Social Media' (cartoon) Bob Englehart
Thinking about Social Media
'The End of a Social Media Era?' Emily Long
Mashup Essay: 'Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism' Christine Rosen
'If We Don't Regulate the Social Web, Someone Else Will' Manish Mehta
MashItUp Topics
'Digital Communication' (cartoon) Andy Singer
Thinking about how we communicate
'How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live' Steven Johnson
'A Call to End Contraband Cell Phone Use' Alexander Fox
'Jesus 2.0' Daniel Murphy
'Facebook vs. FTC Round 2: Facebook Responds' Gregory Ferenstein
MashItUp Topics
Chapter 5 Mass Media
Making the Cultural Connection
'Simon Cowell' (cartoon) Taylor Jones
Thinking about Mass Media
'The Ethics of Grey's Anatomy' Mandy Redig
'The Gayest. Show. Ever.' Rob Sheffield
'C.S.I. Effect' Has Juries Wanting More Evidence' Richard Willing
'Adult Situations' Brett Fletcher Lauer
Mashup Essay: 'Retching with the Stars' James Parker
MashItUp Topics
'Award Worship' (cartoon) Brian Fairrington
Thinking about Media Values
'Biebered! How Team Edward,' Team Jacob,' & Justin Bieber Killed the American Man' Shana Ting Lipton
'The Notting Hill Effect: How Romantic Comedies Can Harm Your Love Life' David Derbyshire
'Guitar Hero: More than a Game' Christopher Palmeri
'The Video-Game Programmer Saving Our 21st-Century Souls' Jason Fagone
MashItUp Topics
Chapter 6 Sexuality and Relationships
Making the Cultural Connection
'And The Love?
· Organized around major themes that impact students’ lives today, including social media, mass media, sexuality and relationships, violence, heroes and celebrities, and work and careers.
· Encompasses a wide variety of genres in addition to the essay, including visual texts, video texts, fiction, memoirs, book excerpts, poetry, legal documents, speeches, research reports, cartoons, advertisements, and blogs, among others.
· The Mashup Essay in each chapter provides a model for students to use when writing their own Mashup essays using various writing strategies, texts and media. The essay’s introduction describes the ways in which each Mashup Essay author employs various writing techniques, as well as how the author incorporates a wide variety of texts and media into the essay itself. Each Mashup Essay is also annotated so that students can see specifically how the different texts and writing styles are used in the essay.
· The two sets of MashItUp discussion and writing prompts featured in each chapter enable students and instructors to respond to multiple selections within the chapter and across multiple chapters, enabling a more critical, comparative, and textual analysis approach. Students are given the opportunity to write from multiple strategic approaches, thereby elevating their critical thinking/arguing skills beyond the simpler single-strategy approach. These prompts will also encourage students’ creativity, allowing for them to put the idea of different texts into practice themselves by potentially incorporating media beyond just the ink and page of a traditional college composition essay.
