My Last Assignment Was Badass and About Geeky Shit!
Published on May 31, 2014 3:30 AM
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So, this was the question: 

You may choose ONE of the following three topics.

1. A theme of this unit is the conflict between creativity and didacticism which manifests itself in much media for young people.  Chose two texts that demonstrate a particular ‘message’ and assess how that message is delivered, taking into account the way that visual and narrative elements work to reinforce particular ideas or ideologies.

2. If transformation is a dominant idea in media for tweens and teens, what does this suggest about how adolescence is represented in film or television for those age groups?  Discuss, relating to at least two television programs or films aimed at the tween/teen market.

3. Fandom.  What do children’s or adolescents’ media products offer adult viewers/purchasers?  Consider in relation to the ideas of ‘kidult’ and ‘adult’, and fan subculture, using as a case study one example of adult fan culture. 

 Obviously, I chose the one in bold haha.

 This was our required readings for the sections it covered:

Week 10. Coming of Age and Playing Games

 
    • Book Coming of Age and Playing GamesBook
    • File Week 10 Study GuideFile
    • Forum Discussing Teens: Coming of Age and Playing GamesForum

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    RESOURCES

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    • Readings

    • URL Reading. Newman: Superplay , sequence breaking and speedrunningURL
    • URL Generation 'Like'URL

    • Viewings

    • URL The Wizards of Waverley Place WebsiteURL
    • URL MerlinURL
    • URL Good Game WebsiteURL
    • URL Halo WebsiteURL
    • URL Halo Parody: Red vs BlueURL
    • URL Age of Empires III WebsiteURL
    • URL Mario Kart WebsiteURL
    • URL Game Playing Statistics 2011URL
    • URL Charmed WebsiteURL

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    DISCUSSION

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    • File Lecture Powerpoint: Coming of Age and Playing GamesFile 118.6KB
     
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    Week 11. Teens, Kidults, and Irony

     
    • Book Teens, Kidults and IronyBook
    • File Week 11 Study Guide and Topic NotesFile
    • File Week 11 Powerpoint SlidesFile 1.2MB
    • File Lecture Powerpoint-2012File
    • File 2012 Lecture SlidesFile

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    RESOURCES

    • URL Reading. Crawford Adult Responsibility in Insecure TimesURL
    • File Reading. Schott and Burn Fan-Art as a Function of Agency in Oddworld Fan-CultureFile
    • URL Banet-Weiser: Is Nick for Kids ? Irony , Camp and Animation in the Nickelodeon BrandURL
    • URL Reading. 'Community' vs 'Big Bang Theory'URL
    • File Additional Reading: Venetia Robertson: Of Ponies and men: My Little Pony: Frienship is Magic and the Brony fandomFile 2.5MB
    • URL Pony CreatorURL
    • URL Viewing. Brony DocumentaryURL
    • URL Oddworld websiteURL
    • URL The Big Bang Theory websiteURL
    • URL Dr Who websiteURL
    • URL The Hunger Games websiteURL
    • URL The Twilight Saga websiteURL

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    DISCUSSION

    • Forum Discussing Kidults and Fandoms
     
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    Look guys. This assignment was straight up made for me. I fucking loved it. If you're wondering what my unit was: COMM315/515 Children's Media

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    KnightDriver
    Posted on May 31, 2014 7:47 AM

    Ha ha. "kidult" My new word of the week. I'm going to use it in every situation I can think of.

    Super Step
    Posted on May 31, 2014 8:54 AM

    Oddly enough, I listened to an overlong podcast about bronies yesterday. The podcast is called Super Tool Shed and it's run by Bennett the Sage and his ... producer I think? friend Neer. That's the first "fandom" I thought of when I read "kidult." I watched an episode on Netflix yesterday where the one pony freaks out about people not coming to her after-birthday birthday party cause it was rated the best episode to start someone out with and ... I don't get it. Gonna stick to just watching Breaking Bad, which I plan to marathon the rest of as soon as I can. I'm on I think episode 3 or 4 of season 2? 

    Alex-C25
    Posted on May 31, 2014 9:53 AM

    As a very mild fan (not to Brony levels), I would say it's better to start from the very beginning.

    Alex-C25
    Posted on May 31, 2014 9:52 AM

    Everything there is also made for me. Maybe when I start studying anthropology next year, I can use geek themes.

    Matt Snee
    Posted on May 31, 2014 1:04 PM

    Is that gonna be your major?

    Alex-C25
    Posted on May 31, 2014 1:17 PM

    No idea :P