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Lady Gaga, Literary Criticism, and the Future of Knowledge. Brandy L. E. Buckingham Northwestern University. Considering transformative changes in how and where learning occurs. The Internet is changing education. The Internet is changing learning. The Internet is changing knowledge.
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Lady Gaga, Literary Criticism, and the Future of Knowledge • Brandy L. E. Buckingham • Northwestern University
Considering transformative changes in how and where learning occurs.
Steinkuehler & Chmiel, 2006 Alvermann, 2009, 2011 Hayes, 2006 Bryant, Forte, & Bruckmann, 2005 Steinkuehler & Duncan, 2008
March 11, 2010 March 11, 2010
March 12, 2010 * Prison and Identity (Foucault's Discipline and Punish, Technological Entrapment, etc.) * Real + Fake Product Placement * Aestheticizing Murder * Homage to Michael Jackson
Artists include things like symbolism, metaphor, and allusions in their work. • Someone other than the artist can analyze a work of art and identify these elements. • This applies to popular works like pop music and music videos, not just to “classics.” • People can debate about these elements. You can join this debate - agreeing, disagreeing, positing your own interpretations.
OH MY GOSH you were amazing! There's just so many things I haven't realized but, reading this post was AWESOME. By the way, I'm a 17 year old brazilian and I got interested on it when @ladygaga retweeted this link! Fantastic! did you also mention the plenty of fish site , i think its a celebration of love ,in the darkest , sickest , place people still are searching 4 love... If we're having a Foucaultian discussion about the symbolic imagery of the prison, what about the nature of panoptic observation? It's interesting to think about in the context of Gaga's preoccupation with fame, and how much of her fame has been achieved through very bottom-up, decentralized methods (e.g. YouTube), rather than the top-down, highly controlled mechanisms of the panopticon. in the beginning of the video,u see the prisoners looking in pocket mirrorsi think that has some symbolism to itvanity is a crime? I think the writers of this article are maybe looking for symbolism where there might not be any. ... Quit thinking so much. People need to stop trying to find meaning in things where there may not be any. I don't place a great deal of stock in authorial intent. Just because meanings the author didn't intend are present doesn't mean they're not there... Significance isn't injected into a text from something outside it; it's discovered by everyone who experiences the text. It's there because I found it, nevermind whether or not GaGa meant to put it there.
TRANSFER “Links and retweets provide good examples of the affiliative use of cultural markers and symbols. Generally, highly followed users RT or link to items that interest them and presumably their followers.” (Marwick & boyd, 2011)
Discourse Practices Cultural Markers Epistemological Impact?
“Artist defines meaning” vs “artist has intentions, but audience constructs meaning” • The criteria this domain uses to construct and evaluate knowledge: e.g., an argument is more convincing if it’s supported with examples from the text or related works.
Implications • How prevalent are these potentially epistemologically significant events? What is the impact on an individual? • What is the overall impact of these events, taken as a whole, on the epistemology of modern teenagers? • How might this impact the design of learning environments for these learners?
Thank You • Dr. Meghan Vicks http://gagajournal.blogspot.com • Prof. Edd Taylor