Category: Media

3. Media Analysis. The purpose of this paper (4pages) is to explore how the mediarepresents the fashion and/or the fashion industry. watching Confessions of a Shopaholic(film, 2009), Analyze themedia and consider the following questions: How does the film conceive of gender, sexuality, and/or race and fashion? What theories of fashion that we have explored can you apply to this film? You need at least 4 sources—1 of which must be academic in nature (such as a book or journal article). i will send you some sources that you must read so you know what we have discussed in my class

 

Few people immigrate to new countries simply because they want to. Often there are financial or political reasons people need to leave their home, thus leading them and perhaps many members of their family to a new place where automatically they will be treated as outsiders. Seldom does this uprooting represent tacit desire to be at the new place. Often this act entails pain and sadness, not only with respect to leaving family and friends, but also due to a grand lack of welcome in the new spot. There are positive stories, indeed. There are also many more stories of strife and hardship, including imagery of horrific violence and indeed rancid squalor. Thus, this assignment deals with the topic of displacement, a phenomenon often imposed on innocent people.

There is little question that the politics surrounding refugees, immigration, and displacement are daily conversations in the media and in our profession. As a result, it will be more than essential that we be both aware of and clued in on professional conversation with respect to asserting that language minority students have voice in today’s school, community, and public policy conversations.

For this web quest, you will be asked to delve into the topic of displacement as such applies to the lives of refugees, immigrants, and indeed language minority students. Reasons for doing so include notions that policy makers often fail to take into consideration issues of human rights, racism, or oppression in those displaced.

You will have this week to work on the project and offer your results at next week’s discussions threads online with Moodle. You may work with as many as two partners, if you’d like.

Objectives

Demonstrate an understanding of a particular issue facing language minority students and language learners with respect to displacement, immigration, or refugees.
Become conversational regarding the issues surrounding this issue.
Understand where your voice may be offered up publicly with respect to this issue.
Possible procedure:

Select a specific issue or event currently pertinent to language learners, immigrants, language minority students with respect to public policy toward displacement, immigration, or refugees.
Research and collect media related articles concerning a particular issue of displacement, involuntary immigration (particularly with respect to children), or refugees. In other words, attempt to answer this question: What is public perception concerning the issue?
Research the policies (local, state, or national) that are actually in place or that are currently being considered.
Research what organizations are trying to do in order to address these issues. Statements may include responses that professional organizations and community centers are making in response to these policies, either positive or negative.
Show the context and spectrum of this issue, a story of people from this context, and the nature of the response (both in terms of policy and aid).
Idea: If you can personalize your report with a story of a particular person, you can substantially underscore the issues represented in your report.
Here are some possible topics:

Displacement due to warDisplacement due to economic hardship
Hunger
Political asylum
Human rights
Illness
Employment
Illegal immigration
Human trafficking

Communicate with an expert

You may want to email an expert who can help you discuss the context and story you’re investigating. (Of course, you might consider other forms of communication, but you can start online here, being that this is a WebQuest). Here is a possibilities from the Refugees International Web site. You can attempt to contact anyone who participates with these Web sites.
Video/audio material

If you can, you can refer to and include any video or audio you come in contact with that helps you put your story into context.

Example books available in Green Library

You might refer to some publications regarding specific displacement events. Here are some examples of books that are available in the Green Library. Their codes are included,

Darfur: A Short History of a Long War. Julie Flint & Alex de Waal.
Green Library General Collection DT157.673 .F58 2005

One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War. Charles London.
Green Library General Collection HQ784.W3 L65 2007

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees. Caroline Moorehead.
Green Library General Collection HV640 .M66 2005

Guiding questions

As you consider displacement, here are some guiding questions that might help you. As you go through these, you too might come up with other questions that will help your colleagues. Please feel free to add to the list.

Give us some history about refugees, immigration, and displacement.

What has been professional organizations’ response to the displacement?
What has been professional organizations’ response to the displacement?
What are the main issues?
What are the arguments on all sides offer up?
What have been the results?
Include an online discussion chat with transcript from the Moodle chat room. Do this at the end of your project. Discuss the most critical and important elements you learned from the project.

Final output: An online “Book”

You’ll put together a small online “book.” This can take shape as a web site, a downloadable MS Word document, a brief film, a PowerPoint, any other kind of media, or a combination thereof. Feel free to include graphics, animation, sound, if you’d like. The point will be that you’re offering a story and its context.

Show off your book next week in the online discussions section.

Evaluation

You can use this chart to see the degree of success you’re having with the project. Book bullet points factors regarding the context of the displacement issue. Factors are listed but are not necessarily in any special order:

2 points

The story of the issue is general. It applies to an issue we can see from news resources, but doesn’t necessarily refer to a unique experience or specific event.
Book includes resources one may contact in order to get involved in assessment situations with respect to immigrants, language minority students, or language learners.
Book relies specifically on its principal medium, perhaps PowerPoint or MS Word.
Book is a list of considerations, without consideration for putting these together in a cohesive item.
3 points

Book includes a brief but full description displacement.
Displacement story occurs such that there is sufficient detail to understand the context of the issue.
Story of the person or group of people indicates a detailed timeline of the issue and its development over this time.
Book includes description of the response to this event, both in terms of public and private policy. Book describes what some organizations are doing in light of this kind of story.
Book includes at least one piece of supporting media: videos, audio, graphics, sound, or animation.
Book includes quotes and paraphrasing of any experts.
Book includes appropriate citations.*
Book has appropriate writing conventions, including spelling and grammar.

4 points

Book demonstrates insightful detail regarding the context of the displacement issue, including specific anecdotes.
Story goes to the human dimension of the experience, noting numerous anecdotes, which place this issue into an even deeper perspective.
Book includes the groups’ personal reactions to this story and offers suggestions on ways people can help.
Book includes multiple kinds of media.
Book alludes to strategies and techniques in which advocacy may be helpful to those who need it.
Book demonstrates high critical thinking and sound connections of this experience, connecting it with the theories and conversations of the course.

 
Creation and Implementation of Social Media Marketing Plan (not more than 2500 words).

This is what has been sent to me to complete my course work:

The aim of this qualification is to equip candidates with skills and knowledge to enable them to create and execute a social media marketing strategy that contributes to business goals.

Through this assessment the candidate will show that they can”
1. Identify how social media marketing can benefit their organisation’s business goals
2. Create a social media business account/profile
3. Create a channel plan for social media marketing activities
4. Create a content calendar for the development of social media marketing activities
5. Create content for social media marketing
6. Identify how to optimise social media listening, monitoring and measuring tools
7. Develop a social media marketing strategy
8. Identify how a social media marketing strategy will be implemented

 

Aims:

This module introduces students to a range of themes in and various dimensions of media and creative Industries spanning the press, radio, film, television, gaming, books, museums, libraries, dance, and “new” media industries. By drawing from social and political theory, cultural studies, political economy, anthropology and cultural policy studies, this module aims to offer students critical perspectives of the field that question and integrate the relationships to media, culture and commerce, and address cultural and political struggles between commercial and public interests.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Understand various theories and analytical frameworks, which underlie globalized media and creative industries.
Understand how major media organizations are organized and structured and generate profits, and various actors behind the shaping of media organizations.
Understand how global media and creative industries are organizing their labor as they compete in global markets and seek to generate profit.
Understand debates around regulatory and policy frameworks governing media and creative industries such as print and broadcast media, cable networks, film, music, and the Internet.
Understand the environmental consequences involved in the production and consumption of media and new technologies.
Understand democratic struggles and tensions between commercial and public media systems and cultural policies.

Skills
Be able to interrogate changing media and cultural environment and its larger social implications.
Be able to critically question the role of states, cultural policy, media and cultural practices in media and creative sectors.
Be able to identify merging issues/trends, engage and identify debates, discussions, and emerging issues around media and creative industries.

Content:
The module content consists of strategies and organizations of the major media companies, environment, technology, Internet, research methods, law and policy (Intellectual Property, Privacy, Internet Regulation), labor, and big data.

Assessment

Essay
Assessment is made up of 1x 3,500 word essay

Assessment will be based on an essay of 3,500 words (10-12 typed pages) and will be evaluated on the following criteria: timely completion, understanding assigned literature, articulation of the issues, analysis, and clarity of arguments. You may EITHER choose to answer one of the questions listed below OR suggest your own essay topic. If you decide to choose your own topic of interest, you’re required to disucss your proposed topic with one of the lecturers, before you work on your essay. Please contact the lecturer who most aligns with your essay topic/issue.

1. Do the owners of major media companies have too much control over the range and emphasis of public culture?

2. The last two decades have seen the communication industries , both established and emerging, increasingly dominated by large multi-media conglomerates. Why has this happened and what are the consequences for creative production and consumer choice?

3. Please choose a media and cultural organisation or a media firm whose product or service you’re currently using, analyse its labor organisation and practices and contextualise them within current emerging labor structure.

4. Should the length of the copyright term be changed? Justify your answer.

5. Propose and argue for one change to current EU media regulations.

6. Investigate where your electronic goods (mobile phone, lapbtop, etc) are discarded, explain why they are discarded in the particular regions/territories, its impact on the environment and human condition and critically analyse policies and/or activism around them.

Plagiarism rate must be lower than 8%

 
Order description: Assignment Brief
You are required to identify a specific focus (topic) from the programme and critically analyse the employee relations issue as they are manifest in your topic of choice.

You should identify and evaluate the ways in which the relevant actors*, that is, the state, employers and employees (including the trade unions) play a role in the employee relations issue that you have identified. It will also be appropriate and important to critically evaluate the way that these three sets of social actors impact on and influence the balance of power in the employee relations issue you have identified.
Your answer should draw on relevant theory and you should illustrate your work with appropriate organizational examples. You may if you wish draw on more than one national context to illustrate your answer.

*which of the specific ‘actors’ you should mostly focus on will depend on your choice of topic.

Guidance on the process of identifying a specific topic for your assignment
Try to identify an area/ topic of interest from the menu of topics in the programme. The topic may be something specific that we have not addressed directly in class but your answer will address the roles played by each set of social actors (the state, employees and their representatives and the employers) and will thus rely on the material that we have addressed throughout the module programme.
To get you thinking about possible topics these are some choices made in previous years:

• To what extent is it desirable and practical that statutory measures be used to curb strikes in key industries/occupations?
• Employee Relations in contemporary work settings (eg call centres, knowledge intensive firms)
• Diversity issues in Employee Relations
• Changing patterns of representation.
• The analysis of a current or recent industrial dispute? (Post Office Workers, Fire service, Morrisons, Prison officers, Local Government workers, British Airways workers, Teachers)
• What future is there for collective bargaining or collectivism in general?
• Changing patterns of pay determination
• Impact of Working Time Directive on working patterns
• Changing Trade Union agendas and priorities.
• An analysis of the situation of Chinese construction workers
• A critical evaluation of the role of the state in employee relations in China
• A critical evaluation of the role of Trade Unions in China
• An analysis of the labour market position of Eastern European migrant workers in the UK
In addressing your chosen topic please note the following assessment criteria
1 Demonstration of critical understanding of Employee Relations issues

2 Analysis of the roles of the state, employers and employees (and their trade unions) with regard to your identified topic as appropriate

3 Analysis of the balance of power between the actors (employees & their trade unions, employers and the state) as relevant to your topic

4 Integration of theory and practice (include examples of organizational or government policy and practice where relevant)

5 Effective written communication

6 Appropriate referencing to academic texts and journals

Presentation Format
The assignment shall be submitted in the form of an extended essay with appropriate sub-headings.
Assignments shall be 4,500 words in length. Good referencing should be evident throughout.

It is important to start early with this assignment as it constitutes 100% of the module marks. The submission of a 250 word synopsis in class on 26th October and the Assignment support sessions w/c 16th November are designed to enable you to keep ‘on track’ with these assessment requirements.

Number of sources/references: 25

 

Directions

This week you are going to examine the use of stereotypes in the media; specifically, you will evaluate ten television commercials paying particular attention to the role of the primary figures. Select commercials that have only two central figures and complete the following rating sheet (click here (Links to an external site.) for a downloadable version of the tally sheet):

Commerical Number
Name of Product
Time of Commercial
Location of Scene
Type of Product
Figure Number
Gender of Figure
Role of Figure
Type of Argument
Focus of Figure

(morning, afternoon, primetime, late night) (home, office, store, other) (home, food, body, other)
(male, female) (spouse, parent, homemaker, boyfriend, girlfriend, worker, celebrity, professional, other) (scientific – facts, research, nonscientific – testimonials, opinions, none) (narrator, product user, authority, other)

At the conclusion of your observations, tally your results according to gender. Submit your tally sheet and your answers to the following questions:

Which gender was more likely to be depicted as the product users?
Which gender was more likely to be depicted as homemakers?
Which gender was more likely to be seen in homes?
Which gender was more likely to be seen in an office?
Which gender was more likely to use scientific arguments?
Which gender was more likely to be a narrator?
Which gender was more likely to be depicted as an authority?
Based on your results, what type of message are we receiving from the media concerning gender roles?
If previous patterns hold, women should be more likely to play the roles of product users, spouses, parents, and homemakers. Women depicted in commercials tend to be seen in the home or in stores and they tend to make nonscientific arguments. Men tend to be depicted in commercials as narrators, authority figures, workers, and professionals. They tend to be seen in offices and they are more likely to make scientific arguments. Did your findings support these conclusions? Explain.

 
I need an argumentative essay about the positive things video games can do despite research showing a link between video games and behavior problems. I would need a rough draft of at least 4 pages within 48 hours also (Nov 4th).

I just wanted to make sure that you know that I need a 4 page rough draft for this paper by tomorrow (Nov 4th)Also for all of the works cited that you use for the paper, can you provide me with a link or a file to download? I would like to see the sources that are used.

 
This research paper will focus on how CNN (www.CNN.com) perpetuates the Black-White binary (Perea, 1997) and reinforces the invisibility of Asian Americans within the affirmative action debate post 2003. Please sort through articles on www.cnn.com to determine how media has largely contributed to the silencing of Asian Americans as it relates to affirmative action policies within higher education. Use the Black-White binary as a framework when parsing through the articles. I need the actual findings from the cnn.com research with citations to specific articles illustrating how media reinforces the affirmative action debate as a Black-White issue. Please reference and elaborate on the relevant Supreme Court cases including Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Fisher v. University of Texas (2013). Also highlight the invisibility of Asian Americans in the discussion and the problems of their model minority status by specifically looking at those Supreme Court cases. Use as many citations as necessary. I do not need an introduction – I just need the body of the paper to be about the research findings.

Branded media
How has branding changed media, in terms of both audiences’ experience and industry practices?
A case study would draw on a detailed examination of the use of a specific medium in promotion and market research (for example, looking at a case of consumer surveillance in the new media).
Branding is often associated with an expanded sense of what qualifies as “medium”, so one way to tackle this question is to consider the implications of everything becoming a channel for promotional messages,. This can be linked to debates about how promotional culture has saturated culture as a whole. A more theoretically involved approach would be to examine the idea that brands represent new media in their own right , by mediating between the manufacturer and the consumer and thus framing our experience of the branded good.
Another angle into this topic would consider how the development of marketing and branding has shaped developments in the media landscape. A canonical example is the importance of advertising revenue in the creation of the mass media, creating ‘commodity audiences’ that could be sold to advertisers. Contemporary developments include media fragmentation and (especially) convergence, which have led to novel forms of branding that link various different media together with audience activity in a “cross-media” or “transmedia” franchise (Freeman, 2015; Jenkins, 2008).
A third approach could look at the use made by marketers of new and social media. Since social media explicitly draw on the users’ pleasure in sociable behaviour and their existing networks of interpersonal connections, the issues of ‘prosumption’ and exploitation mentioned in Q2 also come to the fore here . A good way to theorise these issues might be to connect them with the notion of “knowing capitalism” (Thrift, 2005), in which commercial activities are based on the continuous and in-depth surveillance of all forms of consumer behaviour . In any case, it would be important to consider political issues of discrimination and control, in terms of who has the power to determine the information that flows across these new media links and regulate its accumulation and reuse .

For this task, imagine that you have been contacted by a local radio or television station to participate in its series entitled “Promoting Positive Development in Teens:
� What Can a Parent Do?� Your media contact has told you that he/she will ask you to provide concrete tips for parents that reflect the latest research findings on promoting positive development in adolescents.

� Create a transcript for a mock interview in which you respond to at least two interview questions related to physical development/puberty, and two interview questions related to psychosocial development in teens. Also, include a response to the following question:
Many parents really want to do what�s right, but when they turn to the experts they get conflicting advice. One day it seems research says it is good to ignore teens when sulking; the next day research shows that teens who sulk need more attention. What should a parent to do when it seems like even the experts cannot make up their minds?
To acquire the feeling of being interviewed, stage this meeting as an audio or interview. Using simple equipment like a web cam, ask a friend to conduct this mock interview. You may choose to upload this video to YouTube or another video site, and then submit the URL for the video, along with the transcript of the interview to your Course Room. Or you can do an audio interview using Audacity. Audacity is an open-source recording program available on the internet. Be sure to upload a transcript of your interview as well, if you choose Audacity. If you choose to record your lecture upload it to your instructor in MP3 format; this file must not exceed 8MB. An average lecture tends to be 100 to 150 words per minute. There are many audio recording programs available.
Once you have completed the transcript (and audio or video recording), write a brief self-reflection paper summarizing the experience. Reflect on your experience of being asked to respond as an expert to the real life concerns of parents, and describe your feelings of knowing that you were audio or video recording this interview. How do you think you would approach gathering and sharing knowledge differently if you were facing an audience or interviewer, rather than simply turning a paper to your instructor?
Support your interview responses with at least five references from research conducted in the past two year
2 -3 pages