Term of Award
Summer 2012
Degree Name
Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)
Document Type and Release Option
Dissertation (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
Committee Chair
Daniel Chapman
Committee Member 1
Ming Fang He
Committee Member 2
Henry Jenkins
Committee Member 3
John Weaver
Abstract
Author's abstract: The public school curriculum has devolved into merely being a political football for the forces of the dominant culture, no longer even attempting to serve the People of the community or the students that the school ostensibly should serve. In the absence of a curriculum that is meaningful to People, another curriculum has spontaneously appeared outside of school via shared online media between social networks. This new curriculum, identified by a relatively wide viewership and its challenge to social injustice, oppressive conventions or hegemonic forces, is a curriculum of viral videos shared because of their meaning and cogence in the moment. This inquiry examines a number of these videos through a modified method of Critical Discourse Analysis that utilizes aesthetic analysis as its primary lens to attempt to determine meaning.
Recommended Citation
Ryan, Michael J., "Moments When the Weak Gained Ground: Viral Video as a Curriculum of People" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1016.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1016
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No
Included in
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Instructional Media Design Commons
