Your presentation must integrate concepts from our course, include an in-depth analysis of a particular media text, focus on media literacy, emerge from significant research and be carefully organized.
Each person will choose a media text and develop a speech that explains that text (from a media literacy perspective). Each text must be posted to the course shared google doc, must be IMPORTANT in the last two years and each speech must deal with a unique genre in that particular medium. Andrew will regularly review these topics and let you know if there is a problem.
Examples of media texts could include:
television sit-coms
tv reality shows
tv game shows
(other kinds of television shows)
magazines
video games
movies
an album
a radio show
a song
a newspaper page
a web page
Your media text must be a MASS media text, so cell phone messages, skype, AIM, email, plays and live performances by bands DON'T count.
Your media text must be an INFLUENTIAL (critically or popularly) media text from the past year (12 months).
You may want to include a CLIP or a PORTION or PICTURES of/from your media text, but any videos from your speech may not extend longer than 10% of your speaking time.
Your speech should be carefully crafted, employing all of Aristotle's proofs to engage your audience and persuade them to care about their own media literacy within this genre / medium / (type of) text.
POINTS AVAILABLE: 75 points
ASSESSMENT BASED ON::
Content - value of information, sources & focus (25),TURN IN:
Speaking/Presentation points (25),
Structure & Creativity of Overall Presentation (25),
A full sentence outline, minimally two levels (I. A., B.). Your outline must be the CONTENT of the speech, NOT a description of what you will do in the speech. (in other words, the subject of the sentence cannot be "I" and the verb should never be "will explain" -- make actual claims about your actual subject.)
A works cited page including proper citations of all sources and the text you're focusing upon.
You should share all of these materials with comm.110.malone@gmail.com
