Before you begin this assignment, review all the course materials again, especially Chapters 1 and 2 of Saylor’s Understanding Media and Culture. link https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_understanding-media-and-culture-an-introduction-to-mass-communication/index.html
A. Ponder what you have learned about these four basic roles that media fulfill in society:
Entertaining,
Educating and informing
Serving as a public forum
Acting as a watchdog
B. Choose a radio show, television broadcast, video, internet site, newspaper, podcast, or other form of mass media that you would like to write about for this paper.
C. Briefly summarize a specific episode, article, etc., from the radio show, television broadcast, video, internet site, newspaper, podcast, or other form of mass media that you chose.
D. Answer the following questions. Each response should be a minimum of one paragraph.
To which of the four roles that media plays in society does your selection correspond? Explain.
Why did the creators of this specific message present it in this particular way and this particular medium? Explain. Did this message appeal to you? How and why?
What events have shaped the public’s adoption of your chosen medium?
How have technological transitions shaped the industries involved in the medium you have selected?
How has your selection personally shaped you?
Requirements:
Do not simply answer the prompts. Write a thoughtful, thorough 3-4 page (up to 1,000 words), double-spaced paper (excluding the APA-style title page and reference page[s]) in 12-point, Times Roman or similar serif font, with all the basic components for a beginning, middle, and end.
The introductory paragraph(s) should contain a thesis that summarizes your main idea or position on the question posed to you in the assignment prompt. What is the point you intend to make in your answer?
The middle paragraphs should provide information, examples, and details to support your main idea or position. This is where you should show use because statements and detail what you know or think about the topic.
The concluding paragraph(s) should summarize the major points that you raised about your main idea or position on the topic.
Support your comments with relevant quoted, paraphrased, and summarized information from your research.
Use APA-style in-text citations to cite the sources of the information that you used in assembling ideas for your argument.
Create a matching APA reference list at the end of the document.
Deadline:
Once you know what you want to say and have checked the assignment’s grading rubric to ensure you have met all the assessment requirements, you will be ready to submit your essay in a .doc, .docx, or .rtf format. Do not submit it as a .pdf, .Pages, .txt, .Gdoc, or other file format.
Upload your completed assignment here in your Assignment 8 folder by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday (note date!), Week 8.
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