This week, I read an article by scholar Gino Canella about the relationship between technology and Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) exploring the central questions: “how are SBWU organisers communicating unionisation with their co-workers and the public? And, how are social media influencing workers’ campaigns and organising practices?” (Canella, 2023, pp. 2). Canella describes the unionization …
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This week, I read Kim Kelly’s excellent book Fight Like Hell: the untold history of American labor. I’ve been excited to read it for a long time and I hope to interview Kelly for my documentary. I like Kelly’s work because it is thorough and well-researched, yet written accessibly. Accessibility is deeply important to me …
I’m very excited about how my research has progressed, especially having found Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I was most concerned with finding a theoretical framework because while I’m confident in my research abilities, I am less familiar with specific theories and when I think of theory, I usually am worried that I won’t understand it. …
Last week in Dr. Kogen’s class, I was introduced to the work of Paulo Freire and discovered Friere’s book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, works as an excellent theoretical framework for the creation of a documentary and a facilitation guide to go along with the documentary. Freire made many excellent points throughout Pedagogy of the Oppressed, …
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In response to Dr. Shaw’s feedback on my academic sources, I decided this week to find an article that explores why scholars might choose to make a documentary film from a feminist lens. I was very excited to find this article, “‘My parents never read my papers, but they watched my film’: documentary filmmaking as …