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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: Meet Amy - Your Local Bookstore Manager
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Thursday, 31 October 2013. Meet Amy - Your Local Bookstore Manager. When the topic arose about 'what books are popular with teenagers' I had no idea where to start. Despite Goodreads and Amazon being widely available I headed to the local bookstore that my best friend manages. Amy (pictured left) Original Image. These were some of her recommendations:. I interviewed a new Australian YA author called Meli...
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: Week 12 - Popular Culture Romanticising Crime
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Monday, 7 October 2013. Week 12 - Popular Culture Romanticising Crime. What about the wives and sons of people he killed? What about their story? Why is our society so enthralled with stories of criminals and their exploits? Is it because we want an outlet from our normal, mainstream life and this looks dangerous and exciting? Is it something about a bad boy turning us on? And other primal emotions. ...
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: Book Review - Uglies
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Wednesday, 23 October 2013. Book Review - Uglies. What is it like to be labelled as ugly? What are the societal ramifications of such as body-obsessed world? As much as I would like to say it’s purely science fiction, I think many readers will see loose parallels to our current hyper-consumerism and tabloid culture which idolises beautiful people and sees plastic surgery as acceptable. Week 13 Educationa...
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: Week 13 - The Progression of Television
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Sunday, 13 October 2013. Week 13 - The Progression of Television. Where the protagonist’s eight year old self pays him a visit – when he put’s his younger self in front of the TV to ditch him for a while the kid says “holy smokes… you have 99 channels and there’s nothing on! Bruce Willis and Spencer Breslin in The Kid. Was it that it became more accessible and integrated into our routines over time?
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: Useful Links for Young People
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Wednesday, 23 October 2013. Useful Links for Young People. This is a good site which allows readers to rate and review their favourite books and make recommendations. With over 50,000 titles in various age groups and genres, it's a great way to find new books to read and share them with friends and colleagues. The site also tells readers where they can get the book in print. No idea where to start? Sixth...
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: September 2013
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Thursday, 26 September 2013. Week 11 - What's Popular? When I first heard about this piece I thought "fantastic, this'll be great! Then I sat down to do it. It was a lot harder than I thought because I had to keep asking myself what is. How many people do I need to like something before it's considered popular? 5,50,500,5000? Potter), has been conducted and will be used to provide case studies to demonst...
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: August 2013
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Friday, 2 August 2013. Week 2 - The Good Stuff. I have decided to split this post in two because it was getting too long. Now to the stuff I actually wanted to talk about - The Hunger Games and (to a lesser extent) Twilight. Look Forward to next week. RANDOM NOTE: Did you know that the infamous 50 Shades of Grey. Began as a fan fic entry? Week 2 - Reflecting on Resources Pack A. Floats the idea that bein...
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: October 2013
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Thursday, 31 October 2013. Meet Amy - Your Local Bookstore Manager. When the topic arose about 'what books are popular with teenagers' I had no idea where to start. Despite Goodreads and Amazon being widely available I headed to the local bookstore that my best friend manages. Amy (pictured left) Original Image. These were some of her recommendations:. I interviewed a new Australian YA author called Meli...
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: July 2013
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Saturday, 27 July 2013. Week 1 - Introductions. As an LIS major, this class is one of only two electives I have in my degree - and I've been looking forward to it. So Youth, Popular Culture and Texts. I'm 22 so I'm still young at heart and I still have connections with the current popular culture (we'll worry about the "texts" part of this class later). Who decides what's popular? It also helps reflect s...
