
This guide was made to help students in the Media Literacy course through the process of creating their podcast assignment.
The goals for this podcast are:
- To highlight a person or people with marginalized gender identity in media in a way that hasn’t been previously done
- To use the potential reach of a podcast to shed light on how media have historically stereotyped gender marginalized people and to make your audience more media literate
- To figure out who the audience of your podcast would be and how best to reach them with the product you produce
- To use the power of sound to entertain and to inform
The purposes of this assignment are:
- To identify “found” audio materials and use them thoughtfully and creatively
- To learn how audio editing can alter the meanings of media messages
- To work collaboratively in a group
- The tasks for this assignment are:
- To identify relevant materials for your podcast
- To develop a production schedule
- To create your podcast
- To write a reflection paper on the experience