4/4 Weeks done in the 2023 Annenberg Youth Academy. Over the past weeks, we have passionately gone over civic engagement and how it naturally connects to society and the media as whole. It has been an amazing experience gaining more knowledge every day with wonderful colleagues from Los Angeles County. Every person has such a …
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Week3:The intersection Of Media, Gender and Race
Week 3 at Annenberg Youth Academy communications class was an exciting and enriching experience. We learned about media literacy and how important it is to report news accurately and responsibly. Communication and identity are closely connected. The way we communicate can shape our identity, and our identity can influence how we communicate. For example, if …
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New Projects and New Friends
This week flew by really quickly because we had the first two days off for the 4th of July holiday. Though the week was short a lot happened in the three days we spent on campus. As a class we wrapped up our previous projects and begun working on our finals for the program. In …
Almost
Week three at USC Annenberg Youth Academy flies by quickly due to the Fourth of July holiday, Independence Day. The program is also coming to an end. As the program’s third week is short, we only get to the lesson about critical media literacy. All races, education, gender, language, social class, etc., are essential in …
Stereotyping?!?!?
Throughout my Journey with USC AYA, I have been dreading the last week. As week 3 comes to an end I realize how close our final day is. I know I’ll be leaving this program with so much knowledge thanks to my peers and Professors Lopez and Turner. In these three weeks I have spent …
Baddies We’ve Seen On Our Screens
As our third Week of AYA comes to an end, our weekly Friday Field Trips do too. This Friday, students visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Everyone arrived with interest, curiosity, and of course, phones out for pictures and the assignment given: name 5 top moments in film history according to your opinion. The …
Drake Vs. Childish Gambino
In the third week of AYA, one of the questions I most reflected on was , who produces the media I consume? Personally, I did not have to think twice for this one. My answer would be Aubrey Graham otherwise known as Drake. He happens to be my number one listened to artist, as I …
Art, Fashion, and Propaganda
After visiting the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures with Professor Turner and the others at AYA, seeing all the fashion and art made me think of how important those things are in our society. The mere fact that there is a museum dedicated to these things demonstrates that we have placed a high value on …
Navigating Nabokov: What Lolita really means according to art
Oftentimes readers are told to look past a book’s cover and create a full opinion until they have read the material. Despite this initial impressions of certain works form a crucial understanding in our interpretations of meaning in media. As leadership of production companies and publishing houses cater themselves to Eurocentric patriarchal views they then …
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They Call me “The Spicy Latina”
In almost every movie, Latinas are either non-English speaking babysitters, maids, waitresses, or “Cholas”. Latina women are either shown as these exotic and sexualized things or people working low wage jobs. We are either sexualized or looked down upon. Why does it matter? It portrays harmful ideologies like white men putting on black face to …
Communicating Change 