Review the Week 1 readings and videos.
Select and complete one of the following assignment options:
Option A
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you answer the following questions:
- What were the major developments in the evolution of mass media during the last century?
- How did each development influence American culture?
- What is meant by the term media convergence, and how has it affected everyday life?
- Conclude your paper with a reflection on why media literacy is important for responsible media consumption today.
- Format your essay according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.
- Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.
Option B
- Choose three cultural products you have viewed, read, or otherwise interacted that are examples of distinct forms of mass media.
- For example, the biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is an example of a cultural product of the mass media channel of print publishing and, more specifically, Penguin Books.
- Another example is the cultural product The Walking Dead, whose mass media channel is Television, and more specifically AMC.
- Write a 700- to 1,050-word personal essay that describes your three selected cultural products.
Include a discussion of the following in your essay:
- In what ways did your examples shape, change, or reinforce your own cultural values?
- In what ways do you think they shape, change, or reinforce the cultural values of our society, in general?
- What is media literacy and why is it important?
- Format your essay according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.
- Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.