Digital digest outline

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Digital Digest Final Project 10-­‐15 pages • A dynamic visual front cover and a table of contents (10 points) -­‐ Find images on Google and other places and give your "magazine" a title. On a second page, list your main features in a table of contents. Pinterest • A textual introduction to the issue in the form of a “letter from the editor” (20 points) (500 words or 1 page or less)-­‐ Discuss why you chose this topic, why it's meaningful to you. Give a brief intro into how a few of the items (music, books etc.) listed in your "magazine" tell the story of your topic/population/event etc. Give a brief preview description of what to expect. • Live-­‐linked resources for further information or services (10 points). If there are outside websites, links to songs on YouTube etc. that you'd like to share, be sure to copy and paste the links into your document and once it is saved as a PDF, those links should be active. There is no minimum or maximum number of outside resources to list throughout but include at least a few. • Relevant images (5 points) (appropriately curated and placed), including screenshots of social media (i.e. Tweets/IG-­‐optional) to capture the essence of public dialogue on the issue. Choose images (Google etc.) that help to tell the story of your topic/population/event. Consider screenshots of charts and graphs, social media posts etc. to make the story compelling. • A “playlist” of 5-­‐7 songs that provide a fitting musical soundtrack AND a list of 5-­‐7 movies/documentaries (15 points) that provide context (with attributions). You only need to list the song title, author/artist name and year of publication. I welcome live links to youtube so that I can sample a few songs, but it's not necessary. For movie lists, it can be any movie you think is fitting (documentary, drama, etc.)-­‐ List the movie title and year. For each song and movie, include at least one sentence on what it is about this song (lyrics, instrumentality etc.) and movie (theme, characters etc.) that help them to represent the topic of the digest well. • Songs: • Movies: o Mona Lisa Smile o The Hunting Ground o Miss Representation o A League of Their Own o Mary Poppins o If These Walls Could Talk o Legally Blonde o Mulan • A list of at least 5 fiction or non-­‐fiction works and or recent news/opinion articles or “think pieces” that provide socio-­‐historical context on the topic with citations/attribution. (10 points). Feel free to provide live links to the articles/websites so that I can read them, if not, provide title, author, exact date, and source (i.e. NY Times). • A Feature Story on your theory of choice and how it is applied to the issue (750 Words max, 20 points). Discuss the selected theory, why and which specific components or constructs apply to this issue/event/population. What current events in the last 5 years are salient examples of how this theory frames this particular issue? What do clinicians, advocates, researchers etc. need to know about this issue in order to effect change, based on what you know and the resources you've


compiled? • A back cover-­‐ A closing image and text that is appropriate to the story you're telling. (5 points) • Style, layout, spelling/grammar etc. (5 Points). 100 points total.

Women and men across the country talk - often quite spiritedly - about their attitudes towards feminism. (Illustration by Olimpia Zagnoli) - http://wapo.st/204vqDx https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/feminism/betty-­‐friedan-­‐to-­‐beyonce-­‐todays-­‐generation-­‐ embraces-­‐feminism-­‐on-­‐its-­‐own-­‐terms/2016/01/27/ab480e74-­‐8e19-­‐11e5-­‐ae1f-­‐ af46b7df8483_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/feminism-­‐project/feminism-­‐typology-­‐quiz/ Quiz with videos! https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/feminism-­‐project/poll/?tid=feminismseries https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/feminism/make-­‐a-­‐woman-­‐the-­‐action-­‐hero-­‐and-­‐see-­‐how-­‐ she-­‐flips-­‐the-­‐script/2016/01/27/3dcf61dc-­‐b621-­‐11e5-­‐a842-­‐0feb51d1d124_story.html


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