Identify three weekly topics that connect to your object (one of those topics must be Griswold/Week 3/Cultural Objects). Then, for each of those three weekly topics, you should map out and explain: What is the connection between your chosen object and the weekly topic How is this weekly topic meaningful in the context of your own everyday life; What are three parts of the set reading that help you connect the object to your own life. § Include a quote for each of these.
What do I need to include in this mindmap? • Identify three weekly topics that connect to your object (one of those topics must be Griswold/Week 3/Cultural Objects). Then, for each of those three weekly topics, you should map out and explain: What is the connection between your chosen object and the weekly topic How is this weekly topic meaningful in the context of your own everyday life; What are three parts of the set reading that help you connect the object to your own life. § Include a quote for each of these. THE CHOSEN CULTURAL OBJECT IS A HIJAB. PLEASE BASE THIS OFF THE PERSPECTIVE OF A FEMALE MUSLIM WOMAN WHO WEARS THE HIJAB. MUST USE GRISWORLD SOURCE AND REFERENCE IT WSU HARVARD STYLE – LINK: https://library.westernsydney.edu.au/main/sites/default/files/pdf/cite_Harvard.pdf MUST USE 2 OTHER SOURCES FROM THE PROVIDED FILES. CAN NOT USE TWO SOURCES FROM THE SAME WEEK (ONE FROM EACH FILE.) 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Academic Pathway Programs are delivered by Western Sydney University The College under arrangement with Western Sydney University. 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Week 3 — Celebrities ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Readings .................................................................................................................................................... 4 Griswold 2013, ‘Connections: the links between culture and society’ .................................................... 5 Turner 2010, ‘Reality TV and the construction of cultural identities’ .................................................... 10 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 4 WEEK 3 — CELEBRITIES Married at First Sight? Kardashians? Jersey Shore? Big Brother? Wife Swap? What qualities do you need these days to be famous? And how has this shifted and changed in recent times? And more than this: how do famous people — from sports stars, to celebrities, to social media influencers — impact our everyday lives? This week, we are going to delve into the world of celebrities and reality television to explore three fundamental aspects of our everyday lives: culture, power and publics. You will also be introduced to analysing everyday cultural objects: this is vital information for your final assessment task in this unit. READINGS The readings for this week are: Griswold, W 2012, ‘Connections: the links between culture and society’, in Cultures and societies in a changing world, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, pp. 10–14. Why am I reading this? You will notice that this reading isn’t about our theme for the week. However, the conceptualisation of “cultural objects” that Wendy Griswold proposes here underpins much of what you learn in this unit, and will be necessary knowledge for the final assessment for this unit. What should I be focusing on? o The definition of culture as being meaningful (at the top of p. 11), as well as what a “cultural object” is, lower down on the same page. o How is bread a cultural object? Try to understand this as a framework that can be applied to anything. Yes, really, anything can be analysed and understood as a cultural object! Turner, G 2010, ‘Reality TV and the construction of cultural identities’, in Ordinary people and the media: the demotic turn, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, pp. 33–42. Why am I reading this? One of the key aspects of the lecture this week is the dual notion of power and publics. This reading will give you some added information to contextualise the lecture content, understanding just how it has come to be that “everyday people” can now be famous, often for not doing anything extraordinary. What should I be focusing on? o Gaining a broad overview of the ideas in the reading, and contextualising in relation to the lecture content. 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 5 GRISWOLD 2013, ‘CONNECTIONS: THE LINKS BETWEEN CULTURE AND SOCIETY’ 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 6 5 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 7 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 8 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 9 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 10 TURNER 2010, ‘REALITY TV AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL IDENTITIES’ 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 11 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 12 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 13 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 14 700135 Everyday Life, 2020 — Student reader, Week 3 © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 15 STUDENT READER — WEEK 10 EVERYDAY LIFE 700135 2020 Last amended: October 2020 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Contributor: Dr Shanna Robinson © Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited 2020 Except as provided by the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this publication may be produced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of Western Sydney University Enterprises Pty Limited. 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