T101 Media Life "Avatar Day" 26 April 2011

Brief impression of so-called "Avatar Day" in T101 Media Life, a course offered by the Department of Telecommunications of Indiana University. The course is open to students across campus, and has about 420 students in it every Fall and Spring semester.

Attendance is taken in this course through creative media-related projects, in which students actively participate. In this lecture we discuss examples of political and cultural activism that become 'rea' and thus meaningful by their appeal to ostensibly 'unreal' things: for example, people protesting in the Middle East (Bi'lin), Brasil (Xingu River tribes) or India (Dongria Kondh) with deliberate reference to James Cameron's "Avatar" blockbuster.

Created on April 26, 2011 using FlipShare. Video by Mark Deuze and Daphna Yeshua-Katz.

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