This blog seeks to fulfill the following assignment:
Personal project: Mass Media and Me
Students will assess the impact of mass media on their own lives. How have messages from the various media influenced your thought processes, habits, mode of dress, relationships, spiritual life, attitudes towards society and life? Trace these influences back to the various mass media sources. This assignment requires an introspective and honest look at yourself. Has media influenced you mostly negatively, positively or both? What do you need to change about your media consumption habits?
Of course this has scope for creativity. I do not require an autobiography, it is an analysis of mass media and your life. A few suggestions- you may include your favourite childhood cartoons that impacted you in some way for example, or ads that you can sing word for word that convinced you to buy or be loyal to a product. What news stories shocked you and changed your worldview? Which ones made you feel hopeful that all is not lost for humanity? Which programmes inspire/d you to make a change in your society? What mass media or mass media device can you not live without? Which do you consider all hype and no substance? Why? Which books/magazines do you love? Why are you so interested in them?
These are just guide questions. Do not use them as subheadings and just go through answering them one by one. Be creative, but be sure to use the concepts and theory we have discussed in class in your analysis.
The ‘journal’ should be equivalent to 5 to7 pages (no font size above 12 except for headings which shouldn’t be larger than font size 20, 1.5 spacing). Make sure the paper is well balanced between your analysis and the videos, graphics, pictures, articles etc you want to reference. Do not pad your paper with these external resources, thereby decreasing your analysis.
Be creative in your layout, make it vibrant, colourful and engaging- something YOU would pick up off a shelf to read. Ask for help if you need it, and do not wait until the last minute. To be submitted online.
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