Study Guide Due on March 4 (10 points)
This Study Guide
covers readingsfor March 11 and March 13. They are:
Readings
·
“Considerations of Media Effects,” by Bradley W. Gorham (no date). On
Canvas.
·
“Everybody Knows That Mass Media …,” by Michael P. Levine and Sarah K.
Murnen (2009). On Canvas.
·
“Crime News and Racialized Beliefs,” by Travis L. Dixon (2008). On
Canvas.
Instructions: Open a Word document on your computer and
save it. Type your name and student number at the top of the document. Type
your answers to the required questions, numbering them to match the questions
in the Study Guide.
Answer the six
questions. The Study Guide is intended to help you prepare for the March 14
quiz. Your Study Guide answers should be
brief and direct. Many of the questions can be answered in a few words.
Upload your completed study guide to
the appropriate Canvas location by 1 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11. (Canvas
accepts files only in Word’s .doc or .docx format.) Then bring a printed or
electronic copy of your completed study guide to class on Tuesday, March 11,
and Thursday, March 13. This Study Guidemay be used for in-class work those
days.
We will not accept your Study Guide
during class nor will we accept it by email. No exceptions. The only way to get
credit for this assignment is to upload it to Canvas by the date and time it’s
due.
Your Study Guide is worth up to
10 points. In grading the Study Guide, we will select one "3-point
question" at random and evaluate its answer for correctness and
completeness. You will earn three points for answering it correctly and
completely. For the other questions, we will look for complete and thoughtful
answers – not necessarily correct answers. A thoughtfully answered
question is one that responds directly to the question posed, following the
instructions within that question. Please see the grading rubric in Canvas for
more information.
Required questions
for your Study Guide
“Considerations of Media Effects”
1.
What is a schema? How do humans use schema? Each question can be
answered in a sentence or two.
2.
What’s the connection between a stereotype and a schema? Limit your answer to about two sentences.
“Everybody Knows That Mass Media …”
3.
This is a recent article that seeks to summarize the social-scientific
research about mass media images and their relationship with negative body
images and disordered eating among females.
It includes terms that will be unfamiliar to many of you, some of which
I explain below. Don’t get distracted by
those terms. Read the article for
general meaning. After you’ve read the article, write a 50- to 75-word summary
of what social scientists know about this relationship between media images and
negative body image or disordered eating among females. Think of your task this way: If you had to
convey the main “takeaways” of this article to me, what would you say? Be sure to write this in your own words.
Here are brief definitions of three terms
that may be unfamiliar:
·
Cross-sectional surveys or studies: These are surveys or studies done at
a single point in time. If I were to survey our class on March 11 about the
number of magazines each student reads in a typical month, that would be a
cross-sectional survey of magazine readership.
·
Longitudinal studies or surveys: Longitudinal refers to research that
takes place over a long period of time and typically involves several phases of
data-gathering, often from the same people. A longitudinal survey might involve
asking the same group of people about their media-use habits multiple times
over several years.
·
Meta-analyses: These are research projects that analyze the findings
from many similar research studies of the same subject. A meta-analysis of research studies about the
relationship between exposure to media images of fashion models and negative
body self-image among women would seek to make sense of the findings of dozens
of studies about that issue. The
meta-analysis would seek to discover what these studies, as a group, have found
about that relationship.
4.
This article talks about causation in a way that’s slightly different
from the reading you did three weeks ago in “Effects of Mass
Communication”. It’s focused, of course,
on whether certain kinds of media images affect (cause changes in) perceptions
about body image among females and in eating disorders. In your own words, try to describe what you
see as the main difference between the two readings’ approaches to causation
(at least as I’ve presented it in class).
I know the difference may not be entirely clear, but I’d like you to try
to grasp the distinction between the articles and to tell me what it is.
“Crime News and Racialized Beliefs”
5.
Find the list of hypotheses. List the three dependent variables in this
study.
6.
I’m interested in you telling me the “big-picture conclusion” from this
study. As in the “Everybody Knows That Mass Media …,” many of you will
encounter terms that are unfamiliar or tables that are hard to understand. Don’t get
distracted by them. Read for general
meaning. Then, in your own words, write
a 50- to 75-word summary of the main findings or conclusions from this
article.
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