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Chapter 1, Chapter 3, and Chapter 9 in Poepsel, M. (2018). Media, society, culture, and you. Open Textbook Library. Minneapolis, MN: Rebus Community. For this discussion choose one of the questions noted below and provide a substantive response. Be sure to first include with your response the question you are addressing and then your response to the question. Review chapter 1 in Media, Society, Culture and You in the required readings. What is meant by the mass media dynamic and what are some of the challenges we face in critically assessing media content? Why might news media outlets engage in sophistic objectivity? Review chapter 3 in Media, Society, Culture and You. How is media literacy defined and what is the role of critical thinking? What is meant by a bad dynamic? How can we apply one or more of the theoretical perspectives to help illuminate our own critical thinking? Review chapter 3 of Media, Society, Culture and You. Outline at least one theoretical approach to media analysis. What alternative sources of information would you suggest to find less-biased accounts of current events? Why do you suggest these? Review chapter 9 in Media, Society, Culture and You. Discuss the effects of cable news in terms of polarization mechanisms, and economic and entertainment motivations.. What are some of the ethical issues of the interaction of marketing, ads and journalism? What solutions do you suggest? Discussion 2) This week’s discussion board focuses on institutional racism in the workplace, adding to what we have already covered in previous modules and incorporates an activity (KWL) for you to reflect on. The “KWL” assignment looks at what you know about a topic (K), what you want to know about a topic (W), and what you have learned in this class about a topic (L). Our topic is institutional racism in the workplace. Before you enter your Discussion post, complete the following exercise. Create three lists as indicated in following bullets: The K List: What knowledge did you come in to this classroom with regarding institutional racism? This can be based on assumptions you had about it tooeven if they were incorrect. Just write a list of your assumptions and knowledge. The W List: What are you are interested in knowing more about regarding institutional discrimination? You have done some reading on the topic at this point, so what are you curious to know more about? Is anything about it confusing? Do you just want to deepen your knowledge? The important point here to reflect on is why you want to know more. The L List: Time to connect the dots! What have you learned about institutional discrimination in this class that you did not know before? Did any information change your perspective? Did any of your pre-existing opinions solidify after reviewing the material in class? Make that list and provide some explanations. For your initial Discussion post, share your KWL list with your colleagues in class. This should make for a great discussion as you learn about the various places of knowledge each of us come from!
