A Block Physical Geography - Today we look at the impacts of climate change.
You have one question to answer:
- So, what can you do? What grassroots activism can you engage in to shift peoples’ attitudes towards climate solutions? (Pages 204-5 Geosystems Core)
A really fantastic online course is Earth in the Future: Predicting Climate Change and Its Impacts Over the Next Century
And in terms of British Columbia:
NASA has a good website (Earth Observatory Global Warming) that tries to explain the concept of climate change and global warming without a biased political viewpoint for or against the subject. Check it out. You could also look at the Hyper Physics website from the department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University. We'll take a look at two sections of the National Geographic video "Six Degrees Could Change the World" (1 to 3 degree temperature changes).
B Block Criminology - In the class this week as I would like you to look at the Casey Anthony trial and specifically the media coverage of her trial in the United States. From the Biography Channel,
Casey Anthony, a young, attractive, single mother, stood accused of the murder of her adorable two-year-old daughter, Caylee. Hailed as "the trial of a decade," the proceedings generated a media feeding frenzy as each shocking new disclosure provoked a blizzard of coverage leading up to the shocking verdictIn June 2008 Casey's daughter Caylee went missing and was found dead later that December. Due to inconsistencies in her story, her delay in reporting her child missing, and increased public pressure and scrutiny, Casey was charged with Caylee's murder. A ferocious media storm ensued and Casey Anthony's trial was conducted both in a Florida courtroom and the national media in June 2011. This crime is relevant in that it represents a massive shift in what crimes are reported, spectacle culture and what is considered "newsworthy", how crime reporting changed with different media platforms, the polarization of society connected to injustice and outrage. Nancy Grace helped to shape a decade’s worth of suspected murderers and rapists in the public imagination, stressing their cruelty and alien coldness, tapping into a cultural enthusiasm for righteous witch hunts and armchair convictions (Lots more on this tomorrow and then later this week with the documentary "15 Minutes of Shame")
I want you to try to make sense of the crime (Casey and Caylee Anthony), the media's coverage of the crime (particularly Nancy Grace), feminist perspectives on criminology, the bad mother motif, and Social Comparison Theory connected to Schadenfreude. Today we'll watch part 1 and some of part 2 of the retrospective 2017 Investigation Discovery documentary Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery which provides an interesting eye on the topic of the media, true crime, and infamy.
Today's Fit...
No comments:
Post a Comment