Category: Communications and Media

This assignment asks you to apply three key concepts from Chapter 8, Chapter 9, or Chapter 10. For example, from Chapter 8, you might select concepts such as ethnocentrism, stereotypes, and prejudice; or from Chapter 9, you might select concepts such as IC conflict goals, conflict styles, and conflict facework; or from Chapter 10, you might select concepts such as individualism-collectivism relationship expectations, IC-intimate conflict obstacles, and relationship conflict resolutions.   
​Your case study selection can consist of either two current (i.e., this semester or last semester) intercultural news stories ORpersonal/family real-life intercultural story (for inspiration, read some Opening Cases in the UIC3 text) that reflects some of the above concepts. If you decide to pick two news events for analysis, the news events should have some interesting controversies, parallels, and contrasts. If you decide to go for the personal storytelling analysis, summarize the background setting, the key plots, and the key characters who were involved in your personal story. Take note of the communication exchange that occurs between the characters in the story and reflect about the overall intercultural meaning of the story. The IC news events or the two personal episodes you pick from your story should lend themselves to a persuasive analysis of concepts such as stereotypes and prejudice, divergent conflict goals and facework styles, or IC dating and relationship development issues. For news events, you will need to cite current major news magazines or newspapers or Internet sources.

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Bachelor’s essay- please use Harvard referencing
– Please use majority Media references e.g Rosalind Gill, Attawood, Bell Hooks, Hall 
– Explore ideas of racialisation, gender, stereotyp, objectification & sexualisation in relation to Serena Williams
– link these ideas to how it affects media consumers.

For the final paper, we need to extend on a short paper that we have already written. I have already completed 5 pages. The total number of pages is 12. There are 7 left. We need to include 3-5 more primary sources and 3 secondary sources to the short paper. I have already picked the sources. They are listed in the bibliography. Using these sources, please extend the 5 page paper attached to 12 pages by explaining how women in baseball were depicted in the media, what drew their attention to women in baseball, why women in baseball were forgotten, why baseball for women changed to softball, etc. TOTAL PAPER IS 12 PAGES. CHICAGO STYLE FOOTNOTES NEEDED.

Using the concept of limited effects from ch 2.2 Media Effects Theories, find a piece of media (print, audio, visual, social media, internet) that showcases limited effects- different audiences reacting in different ways to the same piece of media. 
Write a paragraph summary of the piece of media. 
Write a paragraph summary of the differing responses from the public to the piece of media. 
Include the link to at least TWO SOURCES (internet sites, online articles, social media posts) to help showcase your research into this topic. 

YOU DO NOT NEED TO FOLLOW THIS FULLY, JUST WANTED TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE OR IDEAS OF 
WHAT YOU CAN TALK ABOUT and or STRUCTURE IT LIKE BUT PLEASE DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH AS WELL AND MAKE IT FLOW WITH THE CONTENT I HAVE IN THESE INSTRUCTIONS.
PLEASE INCLUDE THE TWO VIDEOS I SELECTED FOR THIS GOOGLE SLIDESHOW.
Slide 1: 
Title Slide
– Title: “Advancement of Technology….”
Subtitle: ……
Slide 2: 
Introduction
– Briefly introduce the topic of technological advancement.
– 
Mention the ubiquitous presence of technology in our daily lives. 
Slide 3: 
Advantages of Technological Advancement
– Discuss the positive impacts of technology on various aspects of life, such as communication, healthcare, and education. 
– Include examples of how technology has improved efficiency and convenience. 
Slide 4: 
Video 1
– Insert the first YouTube link (https://youtu.be/cGFAvfEj2bQ?si=KbtzsYyMJVGxR04S). 
– Summarize the content or key points of the video in a bullet point format. 
Slide 5: Disadvantages of Technological Advancement 
– Explore the negative aspects of technology, such as privacy concerns, job displacement, and social isolation. 
– Provide examples of how technology can contribute to environmental degradation and inequality. 
Slide 6: 
Video 2
– Insert the second YouTube link 
(https://youtube.com/shorts/eIMkvPz47KY?si=cuFJjkNSAHRqiUod). 
– Summarize the content or key points of the video in a bullet point format. 
Slide 7: 
Conclusion
– Sum up the main arguments presented in the slideshow. 
– Encourage critical thinking about the role of technology in society and the need for 
responsible usage. 
Slide 8: 
References
– List the sources used for the slideshow, including the YouTube videos 
and any other references. 
For your thesis statement, you could argue that while technological advancement has 
brought about numerous benefits, it also presents significant challenges that require careful consideration and management to ensure a balanced and sustainable future.
OVERALL, 
JUST CREATE A VERY QUALITY AND STRUCTURED GOOGLE SLIDESHOW 
AND A THOUGHTFUL ARTIST STATEMENT ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS IN THE UPLOAD BELOW

In this assignment, you will examine coverage of a current news topic relevant to the
agenda-setting theory. I haven’t picked a current news topic for you to analyze. Please choose one and let me know what it is before your write about it. Please follow the rubric attached. Please do not use AI, this paper needs to have apa in text citations for everything you use from online. I do check each in-text citations used. Answer all questions. Please watch the youtube videos and review the attached resources to gain an understanding. Please reach out if you need me. 

Assignment: This 6-8 page paper (double-spaced) should advance a focused, argumentative thesis about 1-3 films (at least one of which we’ve seen in class) and should support this thesis with persuasive analysis of specific scenes and formal choices. Use definitely the film called, “Passion Joan of Arc.”
Process: To arrive at a thesis, I recommend that you think about the topics and films that have interested you the most over the course of the semester. Think about what questions, themes, and ideas you’d like to explore further in these films (or a single film). A great way to derive a thesis is to think of an essential conflict arising from a theme/idea expressed in a film (or up to 3 films). This can be a matter of social or cultural commentary expressed through the film’s formal techniques or you can focus on the meaning-making of the aesthetics of formal techniques themselves. This assignment is essentially a longer version of your scene analysis. Please refer to the scene analysis guidelines for concrete writing suggestions. 
Review Comments on Scene Analysis: It is also a good idea to review the comments I made on your scene analysis and to keep those in mind as you draft your final paper. For instance, if you struggled with logical transitions between ideas or paragraphs in your scene analysis, you will want to make sure to attend to similar problems as they may arise in your final paper. Similarly, if you struggled with a focused thesis, you will want to make sure that you are more concrete and explicit in your final paper. If your scene analysis had a lot of “Significance” tags, you need to do a more thorough job analyzing the significance of your observations to the thesis you are advancing. 
Final Paper Due via Turn-It-In link –December 13th, Noon
Grading Rubric: Please keep the following rubric in mind as you write your final paper. 
A/A+ – 
·      Clear, focused thesis communicating a persuasive and unique argument about to a well-defined central theme/idea of the film(s) in question. 
·      Close-readings and analyses of scenes and specific elements from the film(s) that are persuasive and specific and provide evidence/support for the paper’s argument. 
·      Unique observations and well-developed analysis throughout.
·      Logical transitions between sentences, ideas, and paragraphs that build an argument rather than create a laundry list of examples.
A-/B+ – 
·      Many unique observations but perhaps lacking in a focused enough or argumentative enough thesis. 
·      Alternately, a focused thesis with weak/vague analysis and language throughout or close-readings that are not persuasive or specific enough or are presented without strong logical transitions and thus read as a laundry list. 
·      Papers in this range all at least attempt analysis (rather than simply making observations).
B/B- 
·      Functional observations but no central thesis or a weak/vague thesis.
·      Some legitimate observations but generally absent analysis or unpersuasive analysis or analysis of a scene’s entertainment value rather than of a theme/idea central to the film.
·      Papers that do not present enough evidence from the film(s) in question or present such evidence in insufficient depth. 
·      Papers with generally vague language and unspecific citations/discussions. 
C+/C 
·      Bare minimum for the assignment. 
·      Vague citations of scenes and/or undeveloped analysis and/or absent thesis. 
·      Papers that are only half the minimum length.
Scene Analysis is attached below for help. The sources listed as mandatory are only the suggested amount of sources. You can use less sources.

You should write a 600-800 words original response to  Leland Griffin (1969)“A Dramatistic Theory of the Rhetoric of Movements” and Fabj (1998) “Intolerance, Forgiveness and Promise in the Rhetoric of Conversion: Italian Women Defy the Mafia.” The paper should demonstrate your ability to integrate the material from the text, analyze it critically and provide your reaction.
1) Make sure to identify the key arguments/relevant concepts in the the readings. As far as Griffin’s essay, focus on the three stages of a movement and the rhetorical strategies he identifies as characteristic to the different stages. 
2) Summarize what the authors meant, or at least what you think the authors meant, and try to see the world with that theoretical lense.
3) Whenever possible, integrate examples from past or current social movements. 

Write and submit a one-page, double-spaced reaction paper to the After Dinner Speech (a speech done with humor). The topic is controversial so think about where you watch it and who might be able to hear it without context. The context for the speech is an intercollegiate speech competitor delivering her nationally award-winning speech to a group of incoming speech students as an example. The audience knows that the speech is meant to be funny and controversial.
she uses persuasion to make her point and she uses humor in an
attempt to temper the topic. Consider the claims she makes, the evidence she provides (this speech is abit older so don’t be worried about it being older, it was very current at the time), think about the
impacts of her arguments. Do you find this compelling? Why or why not? Do you think she is thinking of
her audience? How does she use non-verbal communication?