Media Economy

Description Select a media piece from the past 60 days which addresses some aspect of the arts/cultural/creative economy. Analyze very critically this piece in light of the readings and other materials in the course and come to a conclusion about the central theme of...

Creating a Social Media Infographic

Select an online platform offering free tools to create infographics. Create your infographic using Piktochart (Links to an external site.) or another tool of your choice that allows you to download the infographic as a PDF file. Create an infographic about types of...

Position paper- media and society

Imagine that you are running for a state office (e.g., governor, senator, or Congressional representative) and you have to prepare a position paper for a debate on controversial issues in the news. [Select one (1) of the topics addressed in Weeks 5-9 of this class.]...

Poll results’ prevalent in the media

Poll results are prevalent in the media, especially leading up to elections, as report on surveys done by universities and research groups. The survey results of small groups of people are used to portray a general consensus about a population. Do you ever wonder how...

Media Policy & Social Change

Focus on media policy and social change. Write a letter to the editor about an aspect of media policy that you feel strongly about (hint: it should also probably involve things you re. about in this unit). Be sure to start with an identification of the problem, the...

Biased Media Practices in Television Reporting.

Academic thinking and writing is structured as a conversation. No academics operate in a vacuum and even the most brilliant research emerges from both the work of previous scholars and those currently working in the field. Aside from publication, the most common form...