Room 611: Wednesday, June 4. 2025

Today's schedule is BADC

B Block Criminology - Yesterday we finished the full doc of Superheroes and today you'll work on the question about the documentary

How do the "superheroes" explain why they are part of this subculture and what are their core values?

Real Life SuperHeroes

Everyone in HBO's Superheroes documentary is going to die

Then, True Crime...From the Ringer article The Bloody Bubble

Parrot Analytics - a media-tracking company that measures audience demand with a formula that accounts for streams, search-engine traffic, illegal downloads, and social media - said in April that the documentary genre as a whole had become the fastest-growing segment of the streaming industry, with the number of series growing 63 percent between January 2018 and March 2021. In data prepared for The Ringer in May, Parrot revealed that true crime was not only the biggest documentary subgenre, but that it was also growing faster than nearly any of the others. The current boom is most easily traced to the 15-month stretch across 2014-15 that saw the debuts of the podcast Serial, HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, and Netflix’s Making a Murderer.

And from VIVINT's study Popularity and Impact of True Crime Content

From NBC True crime: Behind America’s growing obsession | Cracking the Case

Why do you think True Crime is such a popular content area/genre in mass media and what are the potential effects of consuming it? Are the voyeurisms of consuming the True Crime genre of media an example of curiosity or exploitation? Does it teach? Does it normalize? Does it Rationalize? Does it Trivialize?

Examining The Popularity Of True Crime And Its Impacts

True Crime: Insight Into The Human Fascination With The Who-Done-It

Is True Crime Binging Affecting Your Mental Health?

What is it that makes the true crime genre so fascinating to so many people?

Information or Exploitation? The Problems With True Crime

If it Bleeds, it leads: glamourizing crime in the media and its adverse effects

True Crime’s True Impact: Advocacy or Exploitation?

My Sister Was Murdered 30 Years Ago. True Crime Repackages Our Pain as Entertainment.

Is Our True-Crime Obsession Doing More Harm Than Good?

Half of Americans enjoy true crime, and more agree it helps solve cold cases

True Crime: America’s Obsession, By The Numbers

CrimeCon an immersive, weekend-long event dedicated to all things true crime and mystery.

True Crime Awards

A Block Physical Geography - Today we are in the class, continuing our work on the last Topographic map lab, which is the Okanagan Valley topographic map out of the Canadian Landscape Air Photo & Topographic Map textbook. The map can be found on pages 27-31 of the text and you will need to work on questions 1 a-c, 2 i, ii b & c (so, not a), 3 a & b, 5 a, b, c, & d, 6, 9 a, b, c, and 10. Please note that map 1 is 1:250000 in scale (1 cm = 2.5 km) and the contours are in feet while map 2 is 1:50,000 in scale (1 cm = 0.5 km) and the contours are in metres.

For an on line version of the NTS 082E (Penticton) 1:250,000 map here and the NTS 082E14 (Kelowna) 1:50,000 map here. You will have today and next Wednesday (Flex) to work on this assignment.

If you need help with topographic interpretation check out the following websites:

How to Read a Topo Map Find your way the old-school way by mastering the map.

How to Read a Topo Map from REI

Topographic Maps: The Basics from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

How to Read Topographic Maps from GAIAGPS

Lab 14: Map Skills I – Defining Location from Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Geography – Second Edition (you know, like a first year post-secondary physical geography course text)