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**Workshop Three: Public Service Announcements & The Construction of Publicness**
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Workshop Overview
This workshop will explore the history and growth of the Public Service Announcement - from its earliest conceptions in print and commercial culture through to its current digital forms. Who (or what) is the "public" that the PSA claims to address? The first section of this workshop explores more conventional notions of public address through a look at visual representations that play off of our understanding of "public life" and the "public good." In the second half of the workshop participants will define, explore, and (hopefully) unsettle the boundaries of the public worlds they inhabit, by working in small groups to compose a short "flash film": a mini-PSA. From internet political campaigns to culture jamming, the workshop closes with the following question: what is the future of the PSA?

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**Other Documents & Resources:**
Article: Publics and Counterpublics (Michael Warner) Article: Selling American Diversity and Muslim American Identity through Nonprofit Advertising Post-9/11 (Evelyn Alsultany)