The idea about what crosses the line from being funny to being offensive. There are many different approaches to comedy and raising awareness to sensitive issues. The power of laughter often becomes the venue for broaching the subject. Sarcasm is a great tool as long as the viewer knows you are being sarcastic, the same can be said about dark humor... when its soooooo over the top people must realize you are not being serious, but many times this type of an approach is insensitive and offensive. These types of rhetoric can also cost the initiator of the comments their jobs... people like Jimmy the Greek, Don Imus, Athony Cumia, ... and others... make no mistake I'm not defending their remarks, nor am I trying to minize the consequences, but rather pointing out that most of these individuals did not set out to ruin their careers or viciously attack anyone. They simply crossed the line. The ReelWorks.org is a venue for young people to create short videos about issues that are important to them to try and build effective change in culture. The tactics should always appeal to the target audience in this case anyone that interacts with anyone else, but mainly those that interact with students. This is to try to bring about awareness to social issues that allow or condone the perpetuating of stereotypical bigotry.
My PSA
Citation:
Hobbs, R. (2011). Research as Authentic Inquiry. In Digital and media literacy: Connecting culture and classroom. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press.
4 comments:
Rafe’s I really like your slogan “When does parade go to far?” I personally struggle with this topic. I believe no matter what we say, someone is going to be offended by our comments. I use to take this very personally when I offended someone not knowing it. Looking back, I never intentionally was trying to hurt someone and I feel this is the true meaning and lesson when it comes to parade. Are you doing it in good fun or are you doing it to put down someone else?
Rafe, I think you hit the "wow" score on the rubric! You have a clear theme, provide meaningful and thoughtful messages and your entire presentation was very imaginative! Thank you for sharing your PSA with me!
I enjoyed your PSA and found it quite different and original. Yes we need to be concerned with the content we post and how we phrase what we say, but making sure our words are represented with our intended message is critical as well. I feel that sarcasm never really has a good result, so I tend to avoid it in my life because I work with children all day everyday. It is easier to not even go there. I know many sarcastic people, and more often than they realize, them come across as mean and insensitive, so I can completely understand the basis for your spa. Nice job and thanks for sharing.
Rafe, I think you did a great job with your PSA. One thing I liked in particular was your use of humor to accentuate the point. For example, although the topic is serious, you were able to use some images that conveyed humor. The meme about assuming make me chuckle, but I was still able to get the point and the seriousness of your topic. I think the only thing missing is a little bit of music to enhance the mood of the PSA, but otherwise you do a great job of making an important point. I think it is all too easy to "cross the line" and not even realize it, so reminding people to think before speaking or to ask rather than assume is not uncalled for. Thank you for sharing!
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