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Controversial Media

Reading Assignment
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_3_59/ai_54574815/

Banned in the Media: A Reference Guide to Censorship in the Press, Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and the Internet Questia Media America, Inc. www.questia.com

Discussion Questions
Introduction:


 * Censorship  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXmy5cr_cV8
 * The Chilling Effect
 * Self-Censorship  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRE7wgXqVo

( Pertaining to the article)

1. How does censorship affect materials presented in media? 2. Does media have a more positive or negative impact on society's perceptions? 3.List 5 controversial topics that are constantly being debated. Which one on the list stirs up the most emotions among people? Why? 4.Do you feel that censorship fully protects society from negative materials or has its enforcement loosened over the years? Why?

I enclosed a article and some questions- featured above- that might be of some interests to the students.

Final Assignment
Find two controversial artists who interest you who have struggled with censorship of one kind or another. Describe the censorship, and your thoughts about it. Additionally, elaborate on why you like or dislike their work.


 * 1) Market Censorship
 * 2) Constitutive
 * 3) Power/Knowledge
 * 4) Regulative

Show some of the work to the class.

Resources
Here's a website with a bunch of short articles on art censorship that we've been discussing. http://www.tjcenter.org/ArtOnTrial/tourstart.html Karlynbennett

And another...this would work better for the reading assignment (the formating needs cleaning up)(I cleaned it up and will have a copy to be copied for class -Denise Fennewald)(o btw awesome possum article Karlyn!) http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/2046.php Karlynbennett

A Robert Mapplethorpe link from DeniseF 04:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Denise http://www.mapplethorpe.org/

OH OH OH OH Okay I know it is on wiki but I found a tid bit about mapplethorpes censorship in WA DC here's the link it is titled Corcoran Scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe  DeniseF 04:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Denise

Found a link disscussing if sally man and mapplethorpe were child pornographers Linkizle: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mccu0154/artguild/2007/12/child_pornography_art_or_dummy.html DeniseF 04:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Denise

Link to Araki Nobuyoshi http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/oct/04/photography.japan