Artifacts
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All of these pieces started with something I wanted to learn or explore: making a gif in photoshop, styrofoam recycling, and my family's past at Michigania
They have inspired my (capstone) work by helping me see how I can use different media to tell a story, by encouraging me to find answers to the questions I ask, and by allowing me to use what I've learned in the classroom on a more personal quest, outside of the traditional academic context.
Learn more about each artifact below.
"Breaking the Mold" Remediation Project
This artifact is the second part of a two-part project from Writing 220: Introduction to the Minor in Writing. The project started with an existing academic paper I wrote on gender norms, was re-purposed into blog posts that would appeal to a different audience, and was finally re-mediated to discuss the same topic in a different medium. I chose to create a series of animated GIFs, mixed with videos, photographs, and other posts revolving around the same theme of gender roles and socialization.
The project can be accessed from the dropdown menu above, or at www.writingremediation.tumblr.com.
"U.S. Foam Bans on the Rise"
This piece is a news feature article I wrote for Environmental Journalism: Reporting About Science, Policy, and Public Health. It started with a question I had always wanted to answer: Why can we not recycle foam products, like high school cafeteria trays, in the way we recycle other plastics, such as water bottles or milk gallons?
Read the article using the dropdown menu at the top of the page, or click here to view as a PDF.
"Time, Tradition, and the Family Icon"
This paper comes from Communication Studies 455: Global Visual Cultures. Although the class primarily dealt with images at the global level, this assignment had students analyze an iconic photograph from their own families.
Read the essay from the dropdown menu, or click here to view as a PDF.