{"id":678,"date":"2012-10-10T20:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T00:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/?p=678"},"modified":"2012-10-10T20:49:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T00:49:55","slug":"750-mudpit-for-pop-cultural-analysis-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/2012\/10\/10\/750-mudpit-for-pop-cultural-analysis-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"750: Mudpit for Pop Cultural Analysis Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mudpit<\/strong><\/p>\n

For your last 750, you spent some time in phase 1 of analysis on your text or artifact: naming & noticing. Now you’ll want to proceed to phase 2: making connections. Here are some questions to help you in phase 2:<\/p>\n

Do any of the components relate?\u00a0 Do you see any patterns? Can they be grouped in any meaningful ways?<\/p>\n

Do any of the components remind you of anything else? \u00a0What associations can you make?<\/p>\n

Personal connection: what is your reaction to the text? How might you explain that reaction?<\/p>\n

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Now you’re ready to take the leap into meaning with phase 3. Here, you’ll look to connect to something larger than your text\/artifact; here, you’ll look to move from the banal and obvious to the surprising and profound. Following are a few prompts to help you make that leap.<\/p>\n

Pretend you\u2019re a space alien studying our culture. \u00a0What does this text say about our society?<\/p>\n

What does this say about our fears, desires, cultural norms?<\/p>\n

Do the components you’ve named & noticed connect to anything larger? \u00a0Any myths, values, systems of belief?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the cultural context? \u00a0What was happening in the larger world when this text\/artifact appeared?<\/p>\n

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