Hi Lois et al, In response to your inquiry regarding Katrina's aftermath and teaching, I'll be using some of the many citizen journalism/blogosphere responses to Katrina as a case study in my Communication Studies unit iGeneration: Digital Communication & Participatory Culture (http://i- generation.blogspot.com/). I'm particularly interested in the way the blogosphere and mainstream media found common cause against the extremely slow response of the US Federal government and the way mainstream and citizen journalists hit a symbiotic approach, far more so than these two groups have in the past. In my personal blog, I wrote a series of posts with some of the key links ... http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-aftermath-politics- citizen.html http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-aftermath-politics- citizen_04.html http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-aftermath-politics- citizen_05.html http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-aftermath-politics- citizen_08.html http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/kayne-west-voicing- anguish.html http://ponderance.blogspot.com/2005/09/kayne-west-political-mashup- george.html ... and I'll be using these as a reference point for students to engage with the many, many online responses to Katrina. My three starting points will be: (1) Kayne West's speech, the responses in all online media, and then the politics of the new, unauthorised mashup/remix of West's words with his #1 chart hit; (2) the way television and other "older" media are being used/quoted/remixed in blogs, especially in the Crooks & Liars (http://crooksandliars.com/) blog which has many, many (copyrighted) excerpts from mainstream TV; and (3) a compassion of the speed at which the Katrina Information Map (http://www.scipionus.com/) was constructed versus the snail's pace at which such information became available through any government authorities (incl. FEMA). I also expect students will come fully armed with their own interesting links and positions regarding the mediated responses to Katrina. This seminar won't be until October, but if you (or others on the list) are interested, I can post a follow-up on how my student's responded. Regards, Tama Leaver --- Tama Leaver (Mr) English, Communication and Cultural Studies (M202) University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 Australia Fax: +61 8 6488 1030 email: tama@cyllene.uwa.edu.au blog: http://ponderance.blogspot.com/ CRICOS PROVIDER No. 00126G -----Original Message-----

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I couple of days ago I posted a message to the group asking how those that are teaching this semester are using or planning to use the issues surrounding Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in their classes. So far response has been very low, N=1.

I taught a unit to my Introduction to Informatics students last evening. If you are interested you can access my blog post on the topic at http://www.professional-lurker.com/archives/000918.html

Lois Ann Scheidt

Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA

Future Faculty Teaching Fellow (2005-2006) - School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis IN USA

Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com