[7.5] Mode Bending

by markpepe

a photo of. bag, books, laptop, a whistle, and adaptors

The ETEC 540 Podcast with Mark Pepe
The 2022 edition of What’s in my bag?

For this weeks task, I decided to create a podcast in the style of the tech reviewer and lifestyle YouTuber Justine Tse. He has many videos about the tech contents in bags: What’s in my School Tech Backpack being an example. 

My goal was to share the significance of the contents in my bag as a YouTuber would review tech. I would like to tie this in with the New London Groups idea of Transformative Practice. I chose to recreate the discourse of an academic assignment into a YouTube tech review by taking on the identity of a tech YouTuber. I did this by changing the delivery of linguistic design, speaking energetically and attempting to emulate some of Justin Tse’s vocal mannerisms. I could have simply read what I wrote, added some music before and after, upload it and call it a podcast. But we are redesigning the original task. I wanted to keep the essence of the original by stating the significance for the Italian books, for example, but to bend the mode I had to change the medium from text to podcast; intertextuality.

This was a fun task that gave me to opportunity to role-play being a YouTuber and podcaster. I found it interesting that I had to consider the script and text when delivering the same message on two different mediums.

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