I think we should start seeing other texts:

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I think we should start seeing other texts

• Using non-print resources in a LAC recitation
  section
• Jonathan Risner
• March 2007

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Those other texts

• Photographs
• Films
• Websites

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Benefits

• Visual culture
• Learn about different filmmakers and
  photographers
• Technology in other cultures

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Photos
Megacities and Sebastião Salgado
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Megacities

• City in excess of 10 million people
• Immigration
• Microcosm of globalization
• Urban experience

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In class

• Use photos in lieu of texts or to accompany
  another reading
• Small group discussions or class discussion
• How to discuss what one sees and relate to topic
• The photographer
• Museum visit

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Film Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) and
The Take
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Structural Adjustment Policies
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In class

• Organize a screening outside of class
• Require students to create discussion questions
  about film
• Particularize and contextualize SAPs
• Possibility of broaching other topics, such as
  alternative economic models

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Websites Jihad vs. McWorld and the Zapatisas
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Jihad vs. McWorld

• Jihad
• Not exclusive to Muslim cultures
• Slaughter of other
• Undermining democratic institutions
• Uses information technology

• McWorld
• U.S. popular culture
• Expansionist commerce
• Undermining democratic institutions
• Uses information technology

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The Zapatistas
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In class

• Website as text or accompanying another text
• View as a class or outside of class
• Student discussion leaders

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Textual harmony

• Print and non-print
• coexisting
• Mixing texts
• Flexibility
• Being aware of resources