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Reading Culture: Contexts for Critical Reading and Writing, Sixth Edition
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About the Book
About the Book
About the Authors
How to Order a Copy
Student Resources
Chapter 1: Reading the News
Chapter Overview
Web Exercises
Exercise 1.1: News on TV and the Web
Exercise 1.2: What "Covering the News" Means
Exercise 1.3: Historical Perspective of the News
Exercise 1.4: News and Freedom of Information
Exercise 1.5: Distinguishing among Types of News
Wired Culture
Visual Culture Online
Mining the Web
Chapter 2: Generations
Chapter Overview
Web Exercises
Exercise 2.1: It's a Generational Thing
Exercise 2.2: Investigating the Way You and Your Parents Use the Web
Exercise 2.3: History and Debates Surrounding Issues in Popular Culture
Wired Culture
Film Clips
Visual Culture Online
Mining the Web
Chapter 3: Schooling
Chapter Overview
Web Exercises
Exercise 3.1: Alternative Forums for Education
Exercise 3.2: Plagiarism
Exercise 3.3: Gendered Schooling
Wired Culture
Film Clips
Visual Culture Online
Mining the Web
Chapter 4: Images
Chapter Overview
Web Exercises
Exercise 4.1: Visual Design
Exercise 4.2: Reading Images and Reading Advertisements
Exercise 4.3: Selling Female Beauty
Exercise 4.4: "Demand" and "Offer" on the Web
Exercise 4.5: Critique and the Power of Advertisement
Wired Culture
Film Clips
Visual Culture Online
Mining the Web
Chapter 5: Style
Chapter Overview
Web Exercises
Exercise 5.1: Punk Rebellion
Exercise 5.2: Theme Parties
Exercise 5.3: Are you branded?
Exercise 5.4: Style and What We Drive
Wired Culture
Film Clips
Visual Culture Online
Mining the Web
Chapter 6: Public Space
Chapter Overview
Web Exercises
Exercise 6.1: Mall Culture in America
Exercise 6.2: The Different Uses of Public Space
Exercise 6.3: The Internet as Interpretive Space
Exercise 6.4: Iconic Spaces on the Web
Wired Culture
Film Clips
Visual Culture Online
Mining the Web
Chapter 7: Storytelling
Chapter Overview
Web Exercises
Exercise 7.1: Literary Nonfiction
Exercise 7.2: Movies and Urban Legends
Exercise 7.3: Rumors Through the Grapevine
Exercise 7.4: The Graphic Novel
Wired Culture
Film Clips
Visual Culture Online
Mining the Web
Chapter 8: Work
Chapter Overview
Web Exercises
Exercise 8.1: Subverting the Culture of Work?
Exercise 8.2: Sweatshop Economy
Exercise 8.3: Globalization
Exercise 8.4: What's the Deal with Social Networks?
Wired Culture
Film Clips
Visual Culture Online
Mining the Web
Chapter 9: American History
Chapter Overview
Web Exercises
Exercise 9.1: "Indians": And the Problem of History
Exercise 9.2: Cultural Objects and History Museums
Exercise 9.3: The Power of Photography in Creating History
Wired Culture
Film Clips
Visual Culture Online
Mining the Web
Chapter 10: Living in a Postcolonial World
Chapter Overview
Web Exercises
Exercise 10.1: The Postcolonial Classroom
Exercise 10.2: Language is a Country
Exercise 10.3: World Music on the Internet
Wired Culture
Film Clips
Visual Culture Online
Mining the Web
Instructor Resources
Introduction
Alternative Syllabi
Focus: Teaching Reading Culture in a Networked Classroom
Focus: Teaching Reading Culture as a Fieldworking Class
Focus: Teaching Reading Culture with a Historical Perspective
Focus: Teaching Reading Culture with a Popular Culture Perspective
Focus: Teaching Reading Culture via Three Modes of Communication: Visual, Verbal, and Written
Collaborative Group Projects
Project: Chapter 2, "Generations"
Project: Chapter 5, "Style"
Project: Chapter 6, "Public Space"
Project: Chapter 7, "Storytelling"
Project: Chapter 9, "American History"
Web Resources
Cultural Studies Resources
Rhetoric and Writing Resources
Fieldwork Resources
Instructor Resource Center
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