- Media Journal – You will examine how your CIP individual is represented in the media. Use major areas of identity: race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, age, etc. to examine the ways in which your individual is represented (positively and negatively) throughout history, in local communities, public policies, curriculum in schools, access to food and healthcare, etc. You will discover this information by viewing multiple media sources (e.g., television, magazines, radio, music, video games, blogs, social media, etc.) Using your course materials (textbook, readings, discussion board, lectures, lecture notes), your journal should fulfill the following objectives:
• This is a first-person analysis from your CIP’s perspective—become your CIP person. Describe how your individual is represented or not represented in each media source. Examine each aspect (e.g., race, gender, religion, etc.) separately. Analyze how the particular media source relates to our course and your individual. For example, do images contradict or reinforce stereotypes, prejudice, and/or discrimination?
• Connect required course readings to how your individual is represented in the media source. For example, if the media source portrays a Black man as threatening or hostile, how much something we have read in class contradict that image and/or provide an alternate explanation?
• Journals should have 3 entries. Each entry should:
- be approximately 500-700 words (approximately 2 pages, double spaced) in length, 12-point Times New Roman font
- In the top left-hand corner of each entry include (single-space) information about each media source. For example: The Daily Show, June 26th, 2010. Comedy Central (11:00 pm)
- use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation
• Journals are to be submitted as via NJCU e-mail as a word document only.
• Bibliography is required at the end of the journal. (You do not need to include a separate one for each individual entry.)
CIP Person:
Manu
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Manu is a 26-year old, college educated man Ghanaian man. He is the second born in his family of nine. The ages of the older siblings are 28, 24, 23, 21, 18, 17, 15, and 10. He came to the USA when he was 8 years old and was raised in a strict Pentecostal-Evangelical home. He hopes to ask his fiancee, Bibi, to marry him next year. Bibi’s Swedish parents are not too pleased with her choice of Manu and hoped she would marry a white man. Manu’s annual salary is $70,000 (he does not have any student debt), but this does not impress her parents. Manu’s family is also not thrilled with the fact that Bibi is a non-believer. To them, this is perhaps the most despicable thing Manu has done to the family. CURRENT SITUATION: Manu wants to run away with Bibi without the blessing of either family. Bibi is apprehensive to do this after their recent encounter with the police, alleging Manu stole the vehicle and has a record. Neither fact is true but now she is reconsidering her parents’ warning. POSSIBLE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS TO HELP UNPACK THE INDIVIDUAL, ORGANIZATIONAL, AND STRUCTURAL FACTORS AT WORK: race, class, immigration, patriarchy, religion
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