On Tuesday, I asked you to suggest specific media topics you were most interested in exploring in our class research activity tomorrow. Here’s the list that resulted. I’m going to come up with a combination of items 1 and 3 – pop culture and music, plus issues of gender which a number of you mentioned – for us to examine.
What a great list of ideas you generated — I hope you’ll continue to pursue these questions in later assignments and classes! The whole list is below. Here are some links we’ll use in our research:
- Rolling Stone covers
- In-Class Content Analysis Form
- In-Class Survey Form
- In-Class Interview Questions
Your research ideas for our in-class project:
- Content/effects of pop culture, from various angles (politics, gender) (7)
- Sports coverage and its effects (e.g., on participation, of athlete product sponsorships, on team popularity) (7)
- Music’s content and effects (4)
- Coverage of religion in the media (2)
Other intriguing suggestions:
- Media coverage of violent video games
- Effects of media portrayals of homosexuality
- Radio broadcasting
- Book publication
- How ratings affect audiences’ perception of specific media products
- Reasons why some stories receive more coverage than others
- Effects of YouTube videos on the audience
- Effects of social networking
- Media coverage of marijuana legalization
- Independent magazines
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