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Respond to When the Levees Broke

FB Analysis

Let’s continue to focus on analysis…but let’s analyze something near and dear to many hearts: FB. I want you to spend some time on FB (and if you don’t have an account, ask to look around on someone else’s page). We just read 1984 and the NYTimes article on “Little Brother.” With these in mind, analyze FB. You can focus on status updates, one person’s profile, or the structure of the site as a whole. But the point is to think critically (as in analytically not negatively) about this crazily popular social networking site and what its contents say about our own society.

Storm Coverage

I want you to read up on the local, regional, and national coverage of last week’s storms. Get a sense of the tone, focus, and purpose of several different articles (make sure to read articles from different publications). Then I want you to blog about your observations of this coverage. You can in whatever direction you want, but your goal is to ANALYZE (aka argue with support) the media coverage of this most recent event. Try to help us see the past few days from a different or more thoughtful angle.