Choose a media product that has a global audience (e.g., a TV show, a book, a movie, a video game). Find two online sources (e.g., scholarly books, scholar articles, newspaper articles, magazine articles, TV reports) focusing on this media product, and analyze their main ideas about this media product’s social, economic, and/or cultural influences. Then interview two people with different cultural backgrounds to learn about their perceptions of this media product’s social, economic, and/or cultural influences. Finally write a paper covering the following components:
Introduction: background information of the media product and the organization that created the product.
Online sources: analyze the two online sources about their ideas on this media product’s social, economic, and/or cultural influences.
Interview results: analyze the interview results from the two interviewees. Explain if their cultural backgrounds have affected their perceptions of the media product’s social, economic, and cultural influences.
Compare online sources and interview results: Are they consistent with or different from each other? Explain why.
Conclusion: What have you learned from the analysis?
Write a five-page paper on this analysis. Use the materials we cover in the class when they are relevant to your analysis, and use at least two external sources (e.g., scholarly articles, scholarly books, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist) to back up your analysis. Do NOT cite sources such as Wikipedia or Yahoo Answers. Cite more credible sources instead. Please feel free to check with me if you are not sure about a source.
The paper should be double spaced using 12 pt. Times New Roman font. You will also need a cover page and a reference page for the paper. So the total length of the paper, including the cover page and the reference page, should be seven pages. Read SAS for how to format your in-text citations, cover page, and reference page.
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3356-SP21-CaseStudy2-YOUR LASTNAME
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Grading Rubric: Worth 35 points
Introduction: 3 points
Analysis of online sources’ ideas: 6 points
Analysis of interview results: 12 points
Comparison between online sources and interview results: 4 points
Conclusion: 2 points
Cover page, reference page and in-text citations: 4 points
Grammar and spelling considerations: 4 points