Contemporary television programme and examine its media reception

Choose a contemporary television programme and examine its media reception. You need to choose a cross-section of reviews, from UK broadsheets such as The Guardian, The Times and The Independent and US newspapers such as The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times to magazines and guides such as TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly. […]

Media Journal 7: Television

Media Journal 7: Television  Minimum 2 full pages (your writing goes all the way to the bottom of page two), not including cover sheet. No abstract required.  Write using multiple paragraphs, each of 8-10 well-developed sentences. No formal thesis required. Organize your journal as you see fit. What to do:  Visit http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/top10s.html […]

Review of the television shows relate your understanding of the

From a sociological perspective the dominant group is the group that has greater (or complete access) to power.  Access to power often equates to privilege, property, and prestige.  The minority group is the group that has less or limited access to power.  The term “minority”, from a sociological perspective, has nothing to do with numerical […]

Television as Culture (name of the course)

TOPIC: Using a selection of the readings we have explored in the first few weeks of the course (will be attached), demonstrate how the texts make claims for the ways that particular locations and historical moments determine the character of the television systems they construct. What sorts of factors affect the ways that television is […]

Is this a coincidence? Using a reality television program of your

3. The aughts, Emily Nussbaum observes, were characterized by a rise in artful programming, formal experimentation, and complex storytelling. It was the decade that television finally became recognizable as great art. At the same time, however, it was also the decade of Reality Television, a decidedly less-esteemed and more artless kind of programming. Is this […]

Socio-Political Functioning of Film and/or Television

Description This assignment asks you to develop, investigate, and respond to a researchable question about the socio-political functioning of film and/or television. You will be required to construct a research question of interest to you, to identify and obtain information relevant to answering that question, to evaluate the validity and relevance of the evidence, to […]