The Discussion on #PlannedParenthood
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Today, we will quickly review the reports you are developing on your Twitter research.
Next, we will listen to an audio essay.
After we have discussed the audio essay, we will review our next assignment.
We will then go over some more sample audio essays that are part of a reading assignment.
Listen to the audio essays below, and then add a comment discussing aspects of the essays you might emulate or avoid:
Is social media shortening attention spans? Some experts would argue it is. However, what about the productive content people are creating and posting through social media platforms.
Create an audio essay that explores the significance of a topic associated with our class. The aim of your audio essay is to conduct research, identify audio samples to compose with, and then use your voice to narrate an "argument" that delivers that research in way that takes advantage of the medium of audio. The informal and aural qualities of sound will need to be balanced with the academic and informational aspects of the research.
You will narrow your focus after starting with a broad topic like: