Category: Media

I want to cultivate a degree of media literacy in all students, including exercises that work across media. While film and television are typically at the forefront of media studies due to their economic size and ubiquity, my life and research have been much more focused on music, so I am better prepared to guide your work in music media texts. With that in mind, I want everyone to write a review of a popular music album released in the past 12 months. Popular can be defined here as being on the Billboard 100 Charts at any time over the past year.

As with the movie review, I expect everyone to utilize at least three concepts we went over in class and in the readings to inform your review, with references to authors. Although APA citation is not required, it is good practice for your final paper. I also expect everyone to make references to specific parts of songs rather than surface-level commentary on the album in its entirety. If you do not know the musical nomenclature (hook, bridge, intro, verses, etc.), feel free to use time stamps to convey your points.
This paper should not exceed 3 pages (12 point font, Times New Roman, double-spaced) in length. This will be flexible for this assignment based on the format of your paper – if you choose to critique each song individually in a list format, it will inevitably take up more space to write. That being said, if you choose to do a list format, you should still write complete sentences, not bullet points.
List of potential concepts (some have assigned readings attached to them in this course, others you will have to look up authors i.e. postmodernism, hegemony, etc.):
Popular
Culture
Popular culture
High/low culture
Thick descriiption
Masses / mass culture
Remix culture
Commodity fetishism
Commodity as spectacle
Commodity
Audience (as a commodity)
Capital
Patriotism/nationalism
Masculinity
Femininity
Marketing culture
Globalization
Mass customization
Black/white culture
Authenticity
Aesthetics
Neoliberalism
Postmodernism
Hegemony
Difference/othering
Media consolidation
Porter’s five forces of competitive advantage
Fandoms/fan culture
Participatory culture
Celebritization/celebrification
Representation
Intersectionality
Here is the Participatory Culture link
http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2006/10/confronting_the_challenges_of.html

Having read Mu Li’s “Performing Chineseness: The Lion Dance in Newfoundland,” respond to the following questions:
What is meant by “new ethnicity”? How and when are new ethnicities formed?
Why is performing the lion dance significant for Chinese-Canadians in Newfoundland? Why is it significant for spectators?
How are dances like the lion dance “markers” of culture?
Consider Victor Turner’s suggestions that “all senses, including vision, taste, smell, and touch, are employed in cultural performances to communicate the content of culture” (Turner 1981, 158). Describe an example of either a festival, community or family event you have attended that activates all senses. How does dance contribute to communicating the content of culture on a sensory level?
Respond in your own words, using a 12pt font, double-spacing and university standard language and grammar. *Feel free to incorporate your own experiences of learning Cueca, the Hora or Cretan folk dance.* Minimum 750 words / maximum 1000 words. Word (.doc or docx) and PDF files accepted.

Please describe the characteristics of a high functioning adult learning to drive. I have provide of the storyboard and scriipt from the instructor.

Case Study Presentation: Instructions attached -PowerPoint presentation for Digital Studies. Topic -Artificial Intelligence in Digital Media. I attached articles but others can be used. Need presentation for 8 mins and speaker notes.
Target time: 8 minutes
For this assignment, you are being asked to do a presentation with relevant information that is useful to our application and knowledge of digital studies.
In this presentation, you should
1. Describe the topic that is of interest to you, what this topic is about, and why you chose it (can be any topic that we covered this semester).
2. Select two cases that pertain to the topic. For example, if you are interested in Big Data, you can find examples from online about the application of Big Data, and talk about them. The examples can be any aspect related to your topic.
3. Discuss how the cases tie to the materials we have covered in class. For example, how Big Data are used and the dark side of Big Data.
4. Cite your references as needed.
5. Make a narrated PowerPoint (PowerPoint with speaker notes-I’ll add narration)

Word document with instructions and website link attached.
Fact Checking Report Essay
Read the first section of Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. For this assignment, you’ll be putting the contents of that text into practice.
To complete the fact-checking assignment, you must:
1. Find a controversial claim made in the media or shared on social media this year – it could be a Instagram post, Tweet, or meme.
a. If you’re stuck, scroll through your Instagram, Facebook or Twitter feed and look for something that sparks an emotional reaction
b. Remember that the post should contain a claim or argument and should involve widely known people or issues. See examples at the bottom of this document
2. Clearly state that claim.
a. You’ll likely need to put the claim into proper sentence structure (subjects, verbs, etc.)
b. Remember that a claim is an argument. It CANNOT be a question.
3. Make a case for whether that claim is true, false, or somewhere in the middle.
a. This means there are three possible thesis statements for your essay.
b. Write this essay in paragraph form.
c. Cite at least three credible sources in APA style.
i. Use proper in-text citation format and include a properly formatted reference page at the end of the document.
ii. Use the highest standard possible when evaluating the credibility of sources
Example:
Claim: Americans spend $8,000 per household annually “on illegal aliens”
• Note – First you’d have to do a bit of math on this one – my quick math found that 115,000,000,000 (dollars) /126,220,000 (households per 2017 census) = $911 per household
• Next you’d need to determine the source of the claim, what is meant by spent “on illegal aliens” (are we talking lost tax revenue? Social services? Security and identity checks?), and where this person got the $120 M and $115 B numbers.
Sample outline for this essay:
I. Introduction:
• Clear background on any of the people, laws, organizations, or issues involved in the post and claim
• A descriiption of the post/thread/Tweet you’re fact-checking
• A clear thesis statement – something like “The claim made in [organization’s Facebook] post argued _________the claim______________. After fact-checking this claim I have determined it to be [false/partly true-partly false/true].
• A preview of main points
II. Body:
• Paragraph: Argument to support your thesis
o Multiple pieces of evidence to support your thesis argument
o In-text citations for all source evidence provided
• Paragraph: Argument to support your thesis
o Multiple pieces of evidence to support your thesis argument
III. Conclusion:
• Restatement of thesis and main arguments
• Statement in support of or condemning the source of the original post/meme

Review the information that was provided and conduct your own online research regarding this subject area. Then based on the information and your personal opinion, identify one key advantage and one key disadvantage of social networking. Support each of these with substantial thought and discussion, citing the appropriate sources for your rationale. 300-350 words in length.

17 Most Popular Social Media Platforms in 2023

https://www.oberlo.com/blog/social-media-sites#:~:text=Before%20we%20dive%20into%20the%20fun%20stuff%2C%20here%E2%80%99s,Facebook%20%E2%80%93%202.32%20Billion%20YouTube%20%E2%80%93%201.9%20Billion
https://www.lifewire.com/social-media-apps-for-managing-everything-3486302
https://www.lifewire.com/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-social-networking-3486020

You will pitch an idea for a new TV series, attached are areas area that need to be addressed.
Use memo format.

For Jeevan/Frank/Kirsten, what does survival look like in the first 100 days? Or, for the Travelling Symphony, what does survival look like 20 years later? Are their opportunities for personal growth; if so, how do characters respond?
*When quoting dialogue or describing a scene, be sure to cite the appropriate episode.
Notes: Use this secondary text to support your response:
https://www.vox.com/culture/2021/12/15/22833326/station-eleven-hbomax-miniseries-adaptation-book-pandemic

Please rewrite this report according to the original assignment. In fact, most of the content about that original work is about the bushfire incident, and the subject we should pay attention to is the news media. During the Australian bushfire period, the role and influence of news media, the relationships and characteristics of news media, How do news media control public opinion and disseminate information, and the challenges that news media faced.

Topic：
“As more people connect, content from non-Western countries is increasing its presence in the global media sphere” (Thussu, “Contraflow in Global Media” 2019: 191)
Critically discuss how a social media platform complicates or challenges the traditional dominance of global media by Western outlets.
Further Guidance:
your news outlet must be genuinely global (e.g. do not analyze a national news network) You may also wish to consider content within platforms (e.g. the increase of Korean programming on Netflix).your essay should be focused – so focus on news or entertainment, but not news and entertainment!
How to improve:
You should select a specific social media platform that is complicated or challenges the traditional dominance of global media by Western outlets.You can choose Tiktok, which is a good example. It can also be instagram or Netflix,Youtube etc. Please try to include a specific example of one social media platform in the article to change the focus of the article.
This work only analyzes and focuses on the broader relationship between social media, in general, and traditional media.This topic is too broad. I’m looking for an in -depth discussion.
Also this topic has been extensively discussed in the literature. So it will be harder for you to bring a new insight into this, so please find a more specific and concise angle in the paper improvement
You are going to improve the essay in two parts:
1b. The whole essay plan (1,000 words) ( 1500 words total = 25% of grade)
2. The final essay (3,000 words) (75% of grade) –
Parts 1 and 2 are technically separate tasks; however, we ask that you submit them as one document – with the essays clearly separated by a heading. Together, the 4,000 words make up the assessment criteria.