Category: Communications and Media

I have my PPT and speech done. We need to record the PPTX. Have to use virtual sound and loom to do it.

According to data from Statista (2023), the average American adult spends more than half of each day (13 hours, 8 minutes) consuming media across various platforms. This includes watching television, browsing the internet, listening to music, reading books, and using mobile devices. The impact of media consumption on individuals can vary depending on the content and context of what they consume. 
Objective:
To assess the implications of your media consumption. 
Skills:
For this activity, you will be applying critical thinking skills to formulate and support your conclusions on a problem or issue. 
Activity: 
For this exercise, choose a day this week and catalogue all the mass media you consume during that day. Then, reflect on your media use and write a 1–2 page (about 250-500 words) essay that addresses the following questions:   
How does your daily media consumption influence your personal and social well-being? 
What has the impact of increased consumption been on your family, your friends, and your community?  What do you see as the implications for society of this increasing media consumption?   
Requirements:
A thoughtful, thorough 1-2 pages (about 250-500 words), double-spaced essay in 12-point Times Roman or similar serif font, with all the basic components for a beginning, middle, and end.
The first paragraph should contain a thesis that introduces 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 final paragraph should sum up your main idea or position on the topic.  
Support your comments with relevant information that you researched in the course’s learning resources.
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. 
(make sure Turnitin Score is 20% or below for all assignments; otherwise, revisions will have to be made before grading).
Reference: 
Statista. (2023, January 9). Time spent per day with digital versus traditional media in the United States from 2011 to 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/565628/time-spent-digital-traditional-media-usa/

Write 500 words on using 3 sources
Topic:
Animal Rights and Experimentation-Examine the ethical justifications for and against using animals in scientific studies, educational experiments, and cosmetic testing.

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is for you to research a country you are interested in or have a passion for and explore its geography and culture. Choose a country or culture you are not affiliated with and/or culturally a part of. Imagine yourself in the role of a tour guide leading us through the beauty and excitement of the country of your choice.
Please be very cautious as to avoid playing into any negative or offensive stereotyping of your selected country or culture.  Engaging in this type of behavior in your essay will not be tolerated and may result in a failing grade.  I trust that all of you will be fine, but if you have any questions as to what constitutes stereotyping, please feel free to consult with me. 
Requirements:
In this assignment you will upload your completed essay and works cited page.  
Write a 4-7 page paper researching and addressing all of the following aspects of the country/culture of your choice:
Geography/Capital/important lakes, oceans, mountains etc.
Food/Famous Cuisine
Religions
Cultures
Various Peoples
Dress/Fashion
(Cultural/Traditional Customary & Contemporary Modern Fashion)
Music/Arts/Sports
Entertainment
Tourist Attractions/Special Structures
Languages Spoken
Educational System
Problems experienced by the country (current push factors)
Education
Economics/Currency
Other additional/unique/important factors or features of your country
Culture and communication patterns (high-low context, Hofstede)
Skills: The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in school and your professional life beyond school. In this assignment you will:
Access and collect needed information from appropriate primary and secondary sources.
Synthesize information to develop informed views about countries and their cultures
Compose a well-organized, clear, concise and balanced report to expand your knowledge on a subject of your interest.
Knowledge: This assignment will also help you become familiar with the following important knowledge in the field of communication studies:
Cultural influences on communication
How to communicate content in a brief and persuasive manner
Conducting scholarly research formats for documenting in-text sources and creating reference pages
Task: To complete this assignment, you should:
Select a country that you feel passionate about researching and want to explore to learn more about.
You can click on the following link to search countries: https://history.state.gov/countries/allLinks to an external site.
Watch the library tutorial on Canvas (location) to familiarize yourself with credible sources.
Collect 5-7 sources that help you gain insight into the above mentioned topics (geography, dance, arts, etc.)
Write a 4-7 page paper reporting on your findings of your country and its culture. Devote at least one paragraph to describe the communication patterns in your country. Research especially Edward T. Hall’s low- and high-context communication (see below) and Geert Hofstede’s research on individualism etc. (Chapter 8 in our textbook and see below). Cite your sources in your paper MLA or APA style.
Paper Format:
Title page: Name, Title (think of something creative), date
5-7 text pages
Reference page: list the 5-7 sources you found in alphabetical order in MLA or APA style.
Point breakdown:
Paper: 100 Points
Sources to begin your culture and communication research with:
Click on these links and read the relevant information about cultural differences in communication. If you cannot find your country explicitly listed, research which of the listed countries are culturally similar to yours.
Edward T. Hall
https://online.seu.edu/articles/high-and-low-context-cultures/Links to an external site.
https://www2.pacific.edu/sis/culture/pub/context_cultures_high_and_lo.htmLinks to an external site.
Geert Hofstede
https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-hofstede/6d-model-of-national-culture/Links to an external site.
https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/compare-countries/Links to an external site.

Essay overview:
Write an essay to explore the role of the urban space in film. Your essay should demonstrate a good understanding of the complexities of representation and the city in films. 
The theme：City and the dystopian imagination; 
CITY IS NewYork, And the Film is, X-men: days of future past (2014) 
The cities and urban sites represented in films reflect prevailing cultural norms, societal structures and ideologies. You must engage one of the claims/arguments about the relationship between film and the city in the  academic sources I have uploaded.. The purpose is not to repeat what is being argued in the academic sources. Instead, you should examine and analyse the argument in the literature and then critique it or develop it further. You should provide your own interpretations of the chosen film(s), defend and justify your arguments, propose your own responses to the references. In your essay, you should refer closely to the aspects of film form and style of the chosen film(s) such as mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound and editing. 

I need a visual aid for my persuasive speech that I have to record at home for my online public speaking class. I will more than likely print the powerpoint out and place it on a posterboard to be used during my recording of my speech at home. I will attach my whole speech outline, however I just want slides created for my second main point in the outline, the cost analysis of smoke detectors with 9v batteries versus 10 year lithium ion batteries. I am looking for the slides to be simple but catchy overall, including pictures of the smoke detectors, spare batteries, and the cost analysis information i have provided in the outline. I would like the cost analysis data to be summed up well so it is not too wordy on each slide. I want the slide to show the cost of each style smoke detector, cost of spare batteries, and the 10 year savings that occurs when buying the 10-year lithium ion style smoke detector compared to the 9v standard smoke detector. I have highlighted the content for reference of the slides in red on my outline. I also am attaching smoke detector photos and battery photo of the models i am speaking to for pricing in the speech.

●      This assignment offers you the opportunity to express an understanding of the reading and to draw comparisons between readings and class discussion. Further it allows you to ask pertinent questions about the material. Students should closely read their selected article and write an 800–1000 word (around 3-4 pages, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins) assessment that discusses the following:
●      Explain the main idea or concept offered in the reading. 
●      Critically assess the reading under examination. That is, what did you learn? What surprised you about the reading? 
●      What are the arguments proffered by the authors? What is convincing about the arguments presented? What is not as convincing?
●      Find a current event and find a corresponding outside article and connect it to the main concepts from the readings. Cite this article in a works cited page with a link. 
●      Explain how, if you had the opportunity, you would conduct a study that was interested in similar questions. What data would you analyze? Why? 
●      Lastly, develop and describe at least four pertinent questions about the reading. For your questions you should:  
o      Ask for further clarity in reference to the main concepts.  
o      Think about potential flaws or inadequacies of the author’s ideas. 
o      Ask whether the author’s ideas might be used in explaining a different and/or original example. 
o      Investigate the logic of the author’s thinking and attempt to follow it to its logical conclusion.

all of the instructions are in the files, and one of them named ATS2439 Literature Review and Proposal is my previous assessment, and please use those sources at this essay. 

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Laos / Hmong) by Anne Fadiman >> NOVEL
Summarize (characters and setting) and critique the novel. – maximum 250 words
• What are your general impressions of the culture you read about? – about 250 words
• Discuss two culturally significant events mentioned in the book and what each event communicates about that culture. – about 500 words
• What evidence of spirituality did you discover in the book? – about 250 words
• Discuss two of your own personal biases that you discovered while reading. – about 250 words
• Describe a miscommunication incident as addressed in the book. – about 250 words9
• Examine aspects of intercultural communication that are found in the novel. (Example: prejudice, identity, power distance, culture shock, collectivism, etc.) – about 500 words
• Discuss how the book was beneficial to your quest to be an effective cross-cultural communicator. – about 250 words

Please answer the following question in approximately 1000 words (+/-
250). In answering, illustrate your arguments with concepts and
concrete examples and make certain that you address the question. You
should draw upon both the lectures and readings in formulating your
answers.
It is often argued that CNN and 24/7 news have transformed the relationship
between the media and policymakers and al Jazeera has contested the Western
framing of news on the global stage such that we can talk about a media induced
transformation of time, space, and perspective. According to Livingston, “We may
speak of the CNN effect as 1) a policy agenda-setting agent, 2) an impediment to
the achievement of desired policy goals, and 3) an accelerant to policy decision
making.” Given what you have learned from the lectures and the readings (Gilboa,
Bennett and Livingston and Livingston on CNN and Seib and Ricchiardi on al
Jazeera), what are the important things to consider in the conduct of the debate
about the CNN and al Jazeera effects (remember to use examples to buttress your
argument with respect to particular cases)?