Answer the question below in an essay format . Please limit your answers to 550-1100 words. Confine any references to our course materials, ie. textbook, lectures, videos, PowerPoint slides, etc. You are not allowed to use any other text reference, but can use examples and cases not mentioned in the classroom. Your answer must contain: One media platform as example, a social group, and at least two concepts used in the course. QUESTION: As discussed in the whole course, communication enables the spread of culture. It propagates the values and symbols, structures and discourses from a culture through the repeated interaction and exchange of information enabled by the communication process. Without using social media as an example, explain HOW media shaped the discourses of our society in the past and influences us today. FOLLOW THE STRUCTURE BELOW Guiding Questions to support you with the essay: Answer the following points, then write them in paragraph form. Don’t keep the answers separated, turn them into one single text. I. The platform: Introduction (about 100 words) a) Choose a media platform b) Why did you choose this? Why is it important to study this in a communication and social change class? How did your relationship with this object change over the last year? c) Identify the main theme in this object you would like to explore (the impact of that object in our culture and discourses) d) Write a brief summary of your main points about this object — this will be your thesis. II. The Communications Object and the Culture Industries (100-200 words) a) Situate (put) the object in the discussions of The Critical Theory or any other theory you prefer and discuss. You could choose: Cultural Studies — Stuart Hall and the British Cultural Studies Critical studies — Frankfurt School and the Critical Studies Strong Effects Theories — Hypodermic Needle/Magic Bullet or the Mass Society Limited Effects perspective — Two-Step Flow and Lazarsfeld’s perspective Political Economy of Media Surveillance Theory b) Describe every important aspect of that product in its context; c) Discuss each part in relation to your communication object in 1-3 sentences using concepts from the text. III. Social Changes (about 200 words) Choose ONE or two of the following social groups with which you will analyze your object. You will assess how your media impacts the chosen groups and can influence people over history: age class gender sexuality race and ethnicity disability and health national framing religion IV. Reflection and Summary (about 100-150 words) Summarize your main thoughts about your analysis of the communicational object, including: What makes this object unique or special as a source of information about communications? What can this object tell us about the society we live in and about the specific theoretical dimensions you discussed? What can be learned from studying communications platforms in this way? V. Academic Sources and Citations — Include a ‘References’ list at the end of your work All sources must be relevant to your topic and from 2010 or later (unless classics, such as The Communist Manifesto or Orientalism) APA style — ex. (Lee, 2018) or (Lee, 2018, p. 3). Please use Alexander College’s APA Citation Guide to help you 2 in-text citations per paragraph 3-5+ academic references, including books, journal articles, and high-quality websites etc. The textbook counts as a source, as do the Contextual Assignments, using the same references as you did in these assignments Explanation & Answer: 1100 Words Tags: communications media platform Contribution of Television User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool’s honor code & terms of service.
Reference List: Basic Rules
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.
This resource, revised according to the 7th edition APA Publication Manual, provides fundamental guidelines for constructing the reference pages of research papers. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (7th ed.).
Note: Because the information on this page pertains to virtually all citations, we’ve highlighted one important difference between APA 6 and APA 7 with an underlined note written in red.
Formatting a Reference List
Your reference list should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the body of the paper. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text.
Your references should begin on a new page separate from the text of the essay; label this page “References” in bold, centered at the top of the page (do NOT underline or use quotation marks for the title). All text should be double-spaced just like the rest of your essay.
Basic Rules for Most Sources
- All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented one-half inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation.
- All authors’ names should be inverted (i.e., last names should be provided first).
- Authors’ first and middle names should be written as initials.
- For example, the reference entry for a source written by Jane Marie Smith would begin with “Smith, J. M.”
- If a middle name isn’t available, just initialize the author’s first name: “Smith, J.”
- Give the last name and first/middle initials for all authors of a particular work up to and including 20 authors (this is a new rule, as APA 6 only required the first six authors). Separate each author’s initials from the next author in the list with a comma. Use an ampersand (&) before the last author’s name. If there are 21 or more authors, use an ellipsis (but no ampersand) after the 19th author, and then add the final author’s name.
- Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
- For multiple articles by the same author, or authors listed in the same order, list the entries in chronological order, from earliest to most recent.
- When referring to the titles of books, chapters, articles, reports, webpages, or other sources, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of the title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and proper nouns.
- Note again that the titles of academic journals are subject to special rules. See section below.
- Italicize titles of longer works (e.g., books, edited collections, names of newspapers, and so on).
- Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as chapters in books or essays in edited collections.
Basic Rules for Articles in Academic Journals
- Present journal titles in full.
- Italicize journal titles.
- Maintain any nonstandard punctuation and capitalization that is used by the journal in its title.
- For example, you should use PhiloSOPHIA instead of Philosophia, or Past & Present instead of Past and Present.
- Capitalize all major words in the titles of journals. Note that this differs from the rule for titling other common sources (like books, reports, webpages, and so on) described above.
- This distinction is based on the type of source being cited. Academic journal titles have all major words capitalized, while other sources’ titles do not.
- Capitalize the first word of the titles and subtitles of journal articles, as well as the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and any proper nouns.
- Do not italicize or underline the article title.
- Do not enclose the article title in quotes.
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
- Deep blue: The mysteries of the Marianas Trench.
- …but you would write the journal title as follows:
- Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
Please note: While the APA manual provides examples of how to cite common types of sources, it does not cover all conceivable sources. If you must cite a source that APA does not address, the APA suggests finding an example that is similar to your source and using that format. For more information, see page 282 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed.
