Details of task: Why does society need media research? In your answer, explain how people, organisations, businesses and institutions benefit from understanding how media create social reality.
1. Identify an event or social situation that demonstrates how media *create* social reality.
2. Identify a specific idea (a theory or an argument) that helps explain the significance of your example, with regard to media-created reality. You must be able to relate this idea to a particular author or reading.
3. Explain how society as a whole would benefit from research on your example.
Instructions.
This is the first step in three connected assignments. The assignments are connected to help you to achieve the main learning outcome for this unit. ATS3732 is a capstone unit in the Media major. What that means is the unit presents an opportunity to summarise what you have learned from your media units, and demonstrate your ability to apply your knowledge and skills to extant social interests.
With that in mind, your goal for this semester is to complete three assessment items that will enable you to defend your decision to study media subjects. Imagine that sometime later this year you are interviewing for a job, and you are confronted by a sceptical employer who doubts the value of a media degree. For media graduates, being able to explain the merits of media research is a key real-world skill.
The best way to do that is to provide a real-life, understandable case study where you can clearly demonstrate that media have had a real impact on how society has worked. We’re living in the middle of one such case study. The 2020 Corona Virus emergency has had a major impact on key economic and social drivers such as education and tourism, media have been central to how all interested parties have understood and reacted to that crisis. Media haven’t just reported this crisis, or provided tools to managing its outcomes-they have actually shaped the form of the crisis itself.
We will be exploring these ideas in greater depth elsewhere, but for this assignment, your task is to.
Identify an example of media influence at work that interests you. For example, you might think about how media, in all their forms, have played a part in the Coronavirus event. This event has affected us all. How have media played a part in shaping what this event means for you? You *do not* have to use this example. Feel free to use your own case study.
Reflect on what you have learned in your media units. What are the most interesting ideas that you have encountered, and how can you use those ideas to explain how media shape societies, in terms what people think, what they do, and how they form relationships with one another? You don’t have to do any extra reading for this, at this stage. All you have to do is go over the notes you have taken, the reading you have, done, and the assignments that you have written in the course of your media education.
Argue that the scholarship identified in step two is relevant to general audiences; explain why the ideas identified to step two can enrich public discussions on your issue.
Value: 20%
Presentation requirements:
12 point font, Arial or Times New Roman
1.5 or double spaced
Consistent referencing style – Harvard preferred.
**** I have attached the file that I have general dot points written down for the essay, please talk about racism and ideology in the wake of COVID 19 in relation to cohen’s theory of folk devil and moral panic , also about how media shapes society supported by a theory. Thanks!