B Block Criminology - Today we'll continue our look at some theories about media. We'll examine Agenda Setting, Framing, the Hypodermic Needle or Magic Bullet, Cultivation, the Knowledge Gap, Uses and Gratification as well as Dependency theory.
After we'll try to connect these theories to the 48 Hours Mystery episode on the Highway of Tears. From CBS:
Since 1969, at least 18 women have gone missing or have been murdered along Canada's infamous Highway 16. Locals call it "The Highway of Tears." The Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Highway of Tears task force, Project E-PANA, consists of 13 homicide investigations and five missing peoples investigations.
So we'll watch the episode and then I have a few things I'd like to talk with you about...We'll try to understand how media reports crime and try to take a theoretical perspective on the show and why it was made the way that it was presented to the audience.
For some more recent coverage check out the CBC Virtual Reality documentary on Ramona Wilson and the Highway of Tears...
or Vice TV's Searchers: The Highway of Tears
or Al Jazeera
or How Stuff Works on the Highway of Tears
or if you get VICELAND as a television channel there is a great show called WOMAN and there is an episode on murdered and missing Aboriginal women; here's a preview:
Highway of Tears from Natanael Johansson on Vimeo.
And of course don't forget the REDress project
A & D Blocks Human Geography - So today we'll continue with the key question Why Are Nation-states Difficult to Create? We'll look at Colonialism and see if there are still colonies today (spoiler alert there are)
- By definition, what is a colony?
- Define colonialism
- Summarize three reasons Europeans sought colonies.
- Which country had the largest empire? Second largest?
- List the largest remaining colonies in the world and who possesses each.
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