Digital Argument And Media Analysis

My digital argument and media text is trying to accomplish educating people about the ways contemporary culture like the media, misrepresents culture and race like the Ancient Egyptians, which reflect how we deal with race/culture today. My goal was to help change the perspectives that many people have on Ancient Egyptian race/culture because the media misrepresents and white historians throughout history have whitened Egyptian history. My audience in the research paper was geared towards academics and scholars, but during the remediation project, shifted to appeal towards college students, or upper high school level audience. I chose a video for my project because my topic dealt with media, movies and images. A movie was a way to cohere all of these elements and also present visual …show more content…
The first way, is that in my research paper, I focused on contemporary tourism in Egypt, and talking about how tourists see Egypt as a place of lure, which sets up cultural barriers. However, when I remediated the project, I decided to focus just on how contemporary media misrepresent Ancient Egyptian race and culture. My argument developed throughout my remediation project because I was able to focus just on Exodus: God and Kings and the Katy Perry “Dark Horse” video. This allowed me to go more in depth about each of these sources of media, and allowed my argument to stay more focused, and not overwhelm my audience with information. Finally, my project was able to develop because I didn’t have to explain all of my quotes. Since my topic revolves around race and cultural appropriation, in the research paper it was necessary to unpack the quotes, however in the remediation project, my argument changed because I didn’t put all of the quotes I had used in my paper. This allowed me to shorten my argument, but make it more succinct, and understandable since my argument changed from a written one, to a visual and auditory