The last issue of the Chronicle featured a free DVD:  "Obsession:  Radical Islam's War Against the West."  After the shock of receiving this right wing dvd, I found that it was funded by the Clarion Fund.  28 million copies were distributed to swing states through publications.

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Not particularly an Olympics fan, I did watch the 100 metre...arguably the definitive championship of the games.  Jamaican Usain Bolt flew by his competitors to win, becoming the fastest man in the world.

Amazing, and a real prop to the small nation of Jamaica....

Try to find it on the web.  NBC has scrubbed every video of the race in keeping with maintaining rights...

Naturally, the Jamaican people want to see this race...but if they didn't turn on the tv at the perfect moment, they lost the chance, as the race cannot be re-watched on line.  And considering the poverty level of Jamaica, one assumes that the majority of citizens probably do not have access to a DVR...

But, NBC keeps the integrity of its 9.69 seconds.

i really appreciated ozlem's presentation today, i think she also set a good model for ways to engage our students with images.  you know this class is amazing--every presentation has been thoughtful, brilliant, and just plain smart.  i will miss you all and hope you keep in touch.

just thinking about the "last frontier" of arabs and muslims as fodder for image trashing...perhaps another group would be the poor white working or welfare class...it seems like "redneck" humor is still in vogue.  i realize that whiteness has a capital, however, when one is poor and uneducated, there is not a lot of privilege associated with it.

what do you think?  s

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so, great class…fun, open, informed, and participatory…very cool for a summer class.  it is amazing how much media is in our veins…our students’ veins…our consciousness and formation of our knowledges.  it is hegemonically in the dominant culture’s interest to keep us media illiterate…perhaps that is why media literacy is not on education syllabii, in core curricula, and on our radar.  how different would a critical media curriculum be?  we would not have to alter our content, merely add another lens in which to read media. Freire advocates us to teach our children and youth to read the world–that reading the word is not enough–being functionally literate is still being culturally illiterate.