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Carolyn Guertin UOIT | EDUC 5199G

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Henry Jenkins argues for fan activism as a gateway activity to more traditional kinds of political activism (65).

Do you agree?

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Participatory politics are “a metaphor for making sense of contemporary issues” (Jenkins 66). The skills they learn

include media production, research, and networking (67).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmVJaBuoEYA

Until The Odds Are In Everyone’s Favour…: HPA

The Harry Potter Alliance created a video called “The Hunger Games Are Real.” Throughout the video (follow the link), the narrator refers to events which take place

in Suzanne Collins’ young adult trilogy and shares statistics concerning poverty, hunger, and income equality within the United States. What do you think?

#MyHungerGames

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#MyHungerGames 1.  Health, Healthcare, Ablism 2.  Fight for 15/

#StrikeFastFood 3.  Employment and Income 4.  Housing 5.  Capitol Corruption 6.  Silence and Stigma 7.  Gender and LGBTQ+

Issues 8.  Race and Immigration 9.  Education Accessibility

and Student Debt 10.  Food Security

1.  Does hashtag protest have real impact?

2.  Is this something we should encourage students to partake in?

3.  Is the personal rhetoric of the ‘MyHungerGames’ hashtag effective?

4.  Where to from here? What’s the next step?

https://storify.com/TheHPAlliance/odds-in-our-favor

Hunger Games salute becomes symbol of resistance for protestors of military junta

in Thailand in 2014

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/10872322/Hunger-Games-salute-becomes-symbol-of-Thai-resistance.html

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Andrew Slack on FB: And then there’s us: fan activists who have proven that fantasy is not an escape from our world but an invitation to go deeper into it. We are going to go deeper into it and we are going to fight for 99% of this

country in our Districts to be granted equality.

This is not a small moment. This is THE moment when we have a coalescence of an amazing campaign with an

original message AND the entire world talking about the topic of that campaign. President Trumka of the ALF-CIO, the biggest coalition of unions in the world, has our back.

I want every progressive organization in the country to use the three finger salute as THEIR symbol.

The 3 finger salute is admitting that we have a problem and that we are going to work on that problem together.

The problem is economic inequality.

Ferguson, MO

Children and social justice

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The extreme right views child activism as a product of liberal brainwashing.

“As a genre ‘obsessed with colonialism and imperial

adventure’, sf frequently inverts the genuine threat that Euro-

American imperialism has posed to the non-white peoples of the world, presenting instead

an imaginary realm where ‘white people’ are threatened

with subjugation or annihilation by a hostile alien force;

although it is important to note that a significant portion of sf can be read as anti-colonial in

nature (Berlatsky 2014).” (Saunders in “Imperial

Imaginaries” 152).

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A.V.A.T.A.R. (Anglos Valiantly Aiding Tragic Awe-inspiring Races)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWSiztP2Rp0

The Walking Dead, Season 1 Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJRNHAJAcYg

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Create a lesson plan in which you use one of the following franchises to teach social justice,

civic engagement, self-governance, or international relations.

Define your goals, your methodology, and one activity.

•  Harry Potter – Catherine A., Cassidy, Sandy, Safi •  Hunger Games – Iyanuoluwa, Vikki, Jason,

Jeanette •  Star Trek – Maria, Rod, Kevin, Kathryn •  Star Wars – Nic, Amy, Ashley, Katie •  The Walking Dead – Derek, Swati, Stephen, Anna •  Avatar – Ashley, Justin, Alison, Lori •  District 9 - ?

Student Surveillance

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/learningcurve/day-life-data-mined-kid

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Tragedy of the Commons

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimore-insider-blog/bal-umd-tragedy-of-the-commons-tweet-goes-viral-20150709-htmlstory.html