Assignment:
What topic have you chosen for your argumentative essay? Identify it. Remember that you must prepare an essay based on a topic that is relevant to this course in communication (examples are in your syllabus). You need to find 5 scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles to gather information for your essays. Cite the articles in APA style and submit the 5 citations as your assignment.
APA Citation example: Abraham, F. (2018). Histor(iograph)y and memory in `Post-Truth Era`. Towards a European public sphere? Some theoretical considerations. Journal Of Media Research, 11(1), 82-101.
APA Style https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Recommended databases can be found in last module.
Below is the list to choose your topic from. All is needed for now is the topic and 5 scholarly resources.
Essay Assignment There will be a major research and writing assignment for this course-the Argumentative Essay 1 . Suggested topics for the essays include, but are not limited to:
- Journalism in the movies
- Literacy and social change
- Public service radio
- Religion and communication
- Social impact of the telephone
- The effects of printing in the Scientific Revolution
- The radio and democracy
- The role of local newspapers
- The role of the telegraph in WW II
- The role of the telephone in business
- Types of literacy
- Citizen journalism
- Media as political discourse
- The role of the cinema: entertainment v. social change
- Reality television as social influence
- Children and television viewing
- Media and violence
- National public television
- Internet regulation
- Social activism and the Internet
- Social media as social discourse
- Social media as political discourse
- The use of social media in business
- The digital divide
- The laptop in the classroom
- Soap operas as social influence.