Prompt: For the first assignment, you are going to generate ideas for your research project. At later stages of this project, you will need to narrow down your research to one television series and one social issue, but at this point you’ll choose two of each: Choose 2 television shows and write a 100-150 word paragraph on each, detailing why you think it’s significant and worth studying. When choosing your television shows, be mindful of shows that would pair well with the social issues you are interested in; eventually you’ll be analyzing one show and its relationship to one social issue. At any point during these assignments, you are able to change your television show or social issue. What you choose now doesn’t restrict you in future assignments. You can choose a television series from the syllabus OR a television series not on the syllabus You can choose non-American television series There are two ways to start: series first or topic first Is there a television show that you really like or are fascinated by or troubled by or want to know more about? Start with that and then consider what might be a fitting key concept or social issue that is significant in that show. Browsing through IMDb or Wikipedia might be helpful at this stage. alternatively, is there a topic or key concept or social issue that you are interested in knowing more about? Start with that and find three television shows that depict that topic. Browsing through IMDb or Wikipedia might be helpful at this stage. Choose 2 key concepts/social issues from the Television: The Key Concepts textbook or the list below and write a 100-150 word paragraph on each, detailing why you’re interested in that concept. If you’d like, you could start applying that concept to either of your television shows. examples of social/cultural issues/themes/concepts: ability, access, affect, algorithm, appropriation, audience, authorship, body, brand, capitalism, celebrity, censorship, children, citizen, class, colorism, comedy, commercialization, commodification, community, convergence, crime, cultural imperialism, data, democracy, discourse, documentary, domesticity, drama, ecology, education, encoding and decoding, ethnicity, ethnography, family, fans, feminism, gaze, gender, genre, globalisation, hegemony, history, hybridity, identity, ideology, image, independence, industry, information, infrastructure, institutions, intertextuality, intersectionality, irony, justice, knowledge, labor, marxism, mass culture, melodrama, memory, mental health, narrative, nation, network, new media, nostalgia, ownership, other, pleasure, policing, policy, political economy, politics, postmodernism, power, production, public, race, realism, reflexivity, regulation/deregulation, religion, representation, resistance, science fiction, semiotics, sex/sexuality, sign, sound, space, sport, stereotypes, structuralism, surveillance, synergy, taste, technology, text, time/temporality, violence, war if you have an idea for a theme/issue/concept that isn’t listed above, you are welcome to write about it instead, just make sure that it is a significant social or cultural issue Where to Watch Television Online free streaming services: Peacock, IMDbTV, Vudu, PlutoTV, Tubi, Roku, and Crackle library streaming services: Hoopla, Kanopy paid streaming services: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Paramount Plus, and Disney+ Black film services: ALLBLK, BET+ LGBTQ+ services: Here! TV, Revry, WOW Presents Plus Hispanic/Latinx services: Univision NOW, YipTV, Pantaya buy/rent television episodes from Apple, Google Play, and Amazon to find where specific television series are available to stream or rent, use the service JustWatch Explanation & Answer: 100 Words Tags: Social Issue television series nonAmerican television series 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.
