The team then ranked the captions based on votes, and randomly assigned one highly ranked caption to each student. This semester's winning team ( Natalie Erdelt, Julia Hartwig, Shivaun Jones, Enid Lai, Nadine Malek) proposed an individual brainstorming session where the class generated caption ideas on slips of paper individually followed by a collective idea selection session where the class voted on the creativity of every caption using clickers.
Each team presents their method along with a rationale, the class votes on the best, and then the winning team implements their method for the last hour of class. Hollingshead gives teams of students one hour to develop a method for producing creative cartoon captions. The winner receives a framed picture of the cartoon with their caption. Editors select the top three captions, and then readers are invited to vote online for the best caption. Only one submission is allowed per person. A cartoon is provided without a caption, and readers can enter their caption ideas into the contest. The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest is published on the last editorial page of every issue. Online readers can vote for their favorite caption. The caption reads: "I didn't expect to gain weight on this cruise." A skeleton is also on the raft, dressed in a gown and a hat made of fruit.
The New Yorker cartoon depicts a raft on the open water with two men eating fruit and talking to each other. "The activity requires students to apply principles from course readings on collective intelligence and team creativity to a real but fun problem," Hollingshead said. The collective wisdom of CMGT 536 (Team Communication and Leadership) produced a finalist in this week's New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.Ĭommunication professor Andrea Hollingshead's entry was the result of a class activity where she challenges her students to devise a method for producing the winning entry in the popular New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. Specialized Journalism (Arts and Culture) (MA).Public Relations Innovation, Strategy and Management (Online) (MS).Global Media and Communication (MA) / Global Media and Communications (MSc).
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