ENGL 808
Technology Project
Date: June 10, 2015
Technology Project Title:
Project Focus: Slam poetry as identity construction and maintenance.
Learning Goals: To learn about slam poetry as both composition and performance; to analyze the dynamic nature of audience response to such performance; to promote understanding and action around controversial social issues.
Technology Project Type: A website curating and analyzing slam poetry media around contested and marginalized identities in an effort to promote empathy, understanding, and tolerance.
Technology Project Components: Background information; curated sections of slam poetry media constructing contested identities around controversial social issues (immigration, race, gender, LGBT, etc.); a resource section for response.
Technology Project Background Information: While I have researched issues of identity previously, particularly in second language learning, this background study will include research on the composition and performance of slam poetry, how such a medium allows for the construction of identities contested in public space, and the dynamics of audience response in a call for social change.
Technology Project Timeline:
June 14—Collect several examples of slam poetry media and categorize according to the performers’ subjectivity positions. June 21—Develop basic website structure and aesthetic, begin adding identity sections. June 28—Complete background information paper and section for site, as well as develop resource list for responding to the poetry.