Memes with a Message

This political meme utilizes two different modes, text and graphics, to convey a liberal stance on a heavily debated topic about women’s right to an abortion. Essentially, the creator of this meme is mocking congressmen who believe they have the authority to mandate what a women…

Ponce City Market: Political Built Environment Description

Ponce City Market and its surrounding communities have been influenced by political factors. With the association between political leaders, urban planners, and residents, endeavors have been conducted to revitalize the city of Atlanta. This democratic process has its benefits in redeveloping obsolete properties for renewed…

Gendered Political Advertisement

In Donald Trump’s “Motherhood: Ivanka Trump Political Ad,” Trump utilizes his daughter and her family to gain support of women. The direction of this advertisement clearly distinguishes that the target audience is females. In the video, the first clips illustrate women mothering their children and cuts to…

Gendered Advertising Remixer

The Gender Advertising Remixer helps illustrate advertisers’s biases when marketing based on gender. In terms of audio, the advertisements targeted for males tended to have rougher, stronger voices while the advertisements specifically for females had upbeat, sassy voices. This already distinguishes a stereotype that men should…

Unit Two Readings Discussion Question

Since my article discussed the benefits of natural environments to college campuses, this made me question the integration of nature into Georgia State University. Georgia State, unlike other colleges campuses including Emory and Georgia Tech, doesn’t have a student-inclusive green-space area to do studying. Personally, I…

Blog Optimization Explanation

In order to optimize my blog, I rearranged some items and made a couple of changes to make navigation easier for the reader. First off, I added categories to all my posts; now, none of my posts are uncategorized. My categories include Built Environment Description, Class…

Class Notes: 9/20/2016

Today we discussed the implementation of metadata into our course. The way in which we categorize our annotated bibliographies and built environment analyses should be well-thought and easily identifiable. Essentially, one should organize their texts for ease of access. The tags and categories used for…