Women in media class

Women in media class assignments

In this module we will focus primarily on cosmetic surgery, a topic that is becoming more and more relevant in media studies. Please share your views about and experiences with cosmetic surgery, and try to connect your thoughts to examples from the media.  Our discussion can extend to other body modification practices such as bariatric surgery, hair plugs, orthodontia, and the like. 

For this assignment, you will create an annotated bibliography of at least ten sources that are related to the subject you decided on in the last assignment. The sources should include popular magazines or books, and websites, but must include at least three academic/scholarly/peer reviewed articles or scholarly books. Look back at Module 1 if you don't recall how to identify and find these.
Annotated bibliographies are much more than a mere listing of references or resources. For each reference, you will give some context as to what the article/book/or website is about, and also how it will relate to what you plan to write about. Each entry should be between 75-100 words.
Please follow these directions:
1). Discuss how you will use each source to build your analysis/argument.
2). Youmust type out the author's name, title, and publication information for your sources (if available). In other words, do not just paste a link or a URL.
3). At the beginning of your bibliography, you must clearly indicate which of your three topics you have chosen.
4). You may add our course textbooks or the titles of films/TV shows and other media you will examine, but they will not count toward your 10 sources.
Try a variety of search terms. If you are writing, say, about the role of working women on situation comedies, you should look for the broad topics, like "working women" "situation comedies" "television", but also narrower subjects like "Mary Tyler Moore" "ER" or "Mad Men." The more you combine phrases, the closer you may be able to get to what you want to write about, so "sexism" and "Mad Men" might help you find a great article--or nothing at all if no one has published anything on that yet.
The most likely database for you to find good articles in the ESC library, both from scholarly sources or popular magazines or newspaper is Academic Search Complete which you will find (along with much more) in the Subject Guide created for this course by the ESC Librarians. Within the databases you search, make sure to check the box marked "Full Text" and to ensure you have your academic/scholarly articles, you may want to check the box for Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals. If that doesn't help you find what you want, use the "Ask a Librarian" button on the main library page. Please provide this assignment to the librarians and give then an idea of the subjects you are looking for.
Another way to do this is to use scholar.google.com. Then you can go into the advanced options and choose Empire State College's library, (as well as your local public library if you like.) It will show you links to full text articles in our library. Nearly anything you find there will be a scholarly article or book. You can always click on "Ask a Librarian" in our library if you need help refining your search terms, finding other databases that will help you, actually getting to the full text of articles and so on--make sure to provide them with the assignment instructions.
Make sure the information in the sources you choose is timely--if you are talking about the state of something "today," the articles should be no more than five years old.  Only use older articles if you are trying to prove how something was "then"--and make sure you have a present day counterpart. Many websites are not dated, but you may need to spend some time on them to make sure what you are citing is up to date. Media is changing quite rapidly so something written just a few years ago may be completely out of date.
Be very careful of websites. Websites for popular magazines, or purely online journals may be fine, but fan created websites or gossip sites are probably not. It is OK to look something up in Wikipedia, but you must corroborate anything you find there by using a more authoritative source, so try going to the citations at the bottom--and then actually read and cite those, not Wiki.  
Research is about trial and error. You may skim quite a few articles before you find one that is truly relevant. You may have to refine your search terms several times. That is just how research is, but using good research as support allows you to express your own original ideas better.

Talk about body image and sexuality. What are your observations in music, advertising/marketing and other pop culture venues? What patterns are emerging in the mass media? Particularly, what about the music industry? What do they sing about? Has anything changed in recent years? Think about popular singers and what they look like/have looked like in the past and now. What messages are in the lyrics? What are your thoughts about the predominance of men in nearly every popular musical genre when compared to women? There's a lot of space between Mama Cass and Nikki Minaj in many, many ways!

NOTE: Remember to submit both your annotated bibliography and your proposal here, together in one document. You can review the Written Assignment page in Module Two for more information.

A research proposal is similar in a number of ways to a project proposal; however, a research proposal addresses a particular project by writing about it academically. 

Research proposals contain literature reviews and must offer convincing support of need for the research study being proposed. (You've already put together an annotated bibliography, so you're well on your way to writing this proposal with that important step already completed.)

Your proposal should be 1.5 to 2 pages long, in MLA or APA formatting. While I am not looking for an outline, this proposal is essentially a road map for your paper. It should provide, in detail:

1). A discussion of the key points your paper will address.  Whichspecific, concrete trends or patterns will you discuss in your paper?  (For example, if you are writing about Disney princesses, you should narrow your focus to a specific trend or pattern about the Disney princesses, such as the depiction of intelligence in three Disney princess films produced in the last decade).

2). What are some of the examples you will use in your paper to support your argument? You must describe three specific examples you will use in your paper.

Since I'll make lots of comments, please UPLOAD your assignment, do not paste it in. Also, remember if you do not use MS Word (or if you have a new version, since I probably don't), send it in RTF.

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