What Media Means in Times of Social Unrest

Presenter: Vivian Sanchez

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 20-21

Semester: Fall

Faculty Mentor: Sakina Bryant

Department: Philosophy

Funding Source/Sponsor: SYRCE Symposium

Screenshot URL: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1xAdi2QPADkTDod8gkx5sI-7tfHLm-Y1F

Abstract:
Subtle criticism of today's activism versus the 1980s starring the Act Up Movement fighting the AIDS pandemic. This is a mockumentary of life for a college student surviving the social unrest of the chaos witnessed during 2020. Also includes works from Neuromancer by William Gibson and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood as well as French philosopher Jean Baudrillard to capture my newly transformed brain after this taking PHIL 273 in the SYRCE Program.