Ithaca College

Sox Sperry returned to his alma mater this past June to present as part of Hampshire College’s Food, Farm, and Sustainability Institute. Sperry’s presentation was part of a six-week session, which led students, faculty, staff and alumni through the hands on experience of food production and sustainable agriculture.

Sperry presented to a small group of eight students and introduced the concept of constructivist media decoding. He also led them through an analyses of farming related documents from the Project Look Sharp’s Media Construction of Sustainability Food, Water, and Agriculture and Media Constructions of Sustainability: Finger Lakes. Sperry concluded his presentation by suggesting a number of outlets where media literacy can be a tool for community education on issues related to food, farming and sustainability.