Healthscapes Student Projects

In my Healthscapes course, a signature course I designed which examines the evolving health media landscape in the United States, we discuss various media practices used to communicate information about health and illness. Part of this discussion is a consideration of wether or not a given media practice can rightfully be considered a brand of health activism.

The images included here were produced by students in my Winter 2018 class during a discussion about health care memes. After discussing academic literature on memes and communication, and the health care memes that circulated online in the summer of 2017, I had my students try their hand at producing image macros to communicate their positions on health care reform. This was, easily, our most entertaining meeting of the semester. I'm looking forward to trying it again in the Fall 2018 term!