How to Read the News
Channel: Electric Didact
Date: 2016-11-17

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Now more than ever, the news influences our interaction with the world. Maybe we need to read it as playfully as we do fiction.

PBS Idea Channel's video on media consumption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRsQ0-94O9A

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Works Cited: 
John Fiske, Television Culture, 1987, New York: Methuen & Co. 

Stuart Hall et al., Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order, 1989, United Kingdom: Palgrave

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Assets:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kylo-ren-undercover-boss-snl_us_569ba7d2e4b0b4eb759eac14
http://moviepilot.com/posts/3861753
https://www.quora.com/In-The-Force-Awakens-why-did-Kylo-Ren-seem-to-suck-at-using-the-lightsaber
http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Who-Rey-Parents-Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-39514428#photo-39514428
http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Who-Rey-Parents-Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-39514428#photo-39514428
http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Who-Rey-Parents-Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-39514428#photo-39514428
http://eskipaper.com/game-of-thrones-12.html#gal_post_56786_game-of-thrones-12.jpg 

HK Sheung Wan Wing Lok Street Floods, WingLuk, CC BY-SA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HK_Sheung_Wan_Wing_Lok_Street_Floods_News_Camera_Reporter.JPG) 

Donald Trump Supporters React to Enraged Protesters, ABC News (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ-crGlxX5c)

Nixon in China: “News”--James Maddalena (Met Opera), Metropolitan Opera (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJmXMo9nWRU) 

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Music: 
Twin Musicom, 8-Bit March, CC BY (http://www.twinmusicom.org/)

Fabian Measures, 『鯖江市日の出』Sabae Sunrise, CC BY (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Fabian_Measures/Singles_Album/Sabae_Sunrise)