Category: Communications and Media

For this assignment, you are first going to find some instance in media of interpersonal communication happening. Focus on ONE scene that features TWO people communicating. You can pick from any kind of media that interests you: a tv show, a movie, a book, a podcast, a news broadcast, a Youtube video, a TikTok, a comic, etc. Regardless of chosen medium, you want ONE scene with TWO people in it.
Your job for this paper is to demonstrate understanding of ONE theory, concept, or model from any of the resources you’ve been given for the class so far (including the optional 4th and 5th chapters). You’ll do that by both explaining the theory, concept, or model in your own words (you can quote the course materials, too, if you want, but you are showing me that you understand, not just regurgitating the text), and then by applying it to the media you’ve selected. What does this theory, concept, or model help you understand about the communication in the scene?
For example, you might be interested in nonverbal communication, so you pick proxemics as your concept. First, explain what proxemics is. Then you would look at the scene in question and explain how the characters are using space to communicate, and what you might learn about the scene or characters when you pay close attention to that aspect of their communication. Perhaps they are standing really far apart when they first start talking, but move closer together. Maybe they stand so that there is always a piece of furniture between them. What is the significance of that communication behavior?
1) a 3 page minimum paper 
your name, date, class, etc business at the top of the first page does NOT count towards your page numbers
you should be sure to explain some of the context of the scene you are analyzing and offer a description of what is happening – enough that I can reasonably understand your analysis
any outside sources should be properly cited (you do not need to cite our class materials)
MLA format (1″ margins, 12pt font, double-spaced)
To Get an A:
project is turned in on time and/or an extension has been negotiated prior to the due date
paper meets or exceeds minimum page length/presentation meets or exceeds minimum time
the context, background, and/or description of the scene to be analyzed is clear 
clearly explain the theory, concept, or model in your own words, demonstrating a clear understanding
offer an application of that theory, concept, or model that further demonstrates that understanding
ideas are organized and easy to follow, with some kind of informal introduction and conclusion

• In groups of 2, select a movie or a documentary on any topic from Week 11 to 15 to produce a visual essay that mobilizes at least 4 media literacy concepts from Week 5 to 10 and other key media theories/ ideas from Week 11 to 15.
A minimum of 7 references to the script, 4
references to the cinematography, 2 references to the use of pathos and logos, and 16 screenshots from the movie are required.
Word length: 1100-1500 words (excluding bibliography).
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FINAL PAPER:
ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES
The plot: Briefly introduce the plot and the overall context so that the reader can understand the: What? When? Where? Who is the audience) of vour chosen
production.
• Key concepts: Identify and define a minimum of 4 key concepts encountered in the class that are tackled in your production (audience reception; agenda setting; gender roles; racial injustice; media advocacy; social Injustice etc.) drawing on academic references.
• The Script: Include a minimum of 7 references to the script (text) to support your
arauments. rovide the exact occurrences in the production min and sec.
The Cinemarographv: Include a minimum of 4 references to the artistic approach (Colors, symbolisms, visual cues, music, associations, body language etc.) to support your arguments.
– Pathos/ Logos/ Ethics: Include a minimum of 2 references to the use of Pathos (feelings, emotions), Logos (reason, rational thought) and/or Ethos (ethics: what is right or wrong) in the production to support your arguments.

Homework
1. Use one of the datasets you are familiar with and choose several scalar variables that you
believe related.
2. Do a bivariate correlation with those variables.
3. Explain the results: significance, type of correlation, strength of correlation.
4. Save the results and export them as a PDF file with your name and place it in the appropriate SPSS
homework dropbox.
5. Add a screen shot of the LinkedIn Learning correlation unit completion.

How is public speaking a pedagical act to you and why ? Please use a story where you see that happen and how is that an educational experience ? If public speaking is shaped by an audience and in speakers effort , How are you diffrent once you speak your mind ? What is your ethical responsibility when someone does that ? 
short essay (2-4pgs) double spaced that answers the question that was asked. Upload your responses a separate word document. 
To cover chapter 6, skim the chapter and defined one type of outline at the end of your essay. Explain how this type of outline helps you become a better student/ citizen of the world in beyond the classroom. (2 paragraphs)
*A paragraph for me is 5-7 sentences. 

For this assignment, you are an employee who is experiencing a global workplace issue. This issue may be a current issue you are facing, a past issue, or a hypothetical issue. Design a plan to resolve this global workplace issue.
In this formal plan, include the following information. Use these subheadings to organize your plan.
Introduction
Description of workplace and your role/job at the global workplace (half-page)
Workplace Issue (one page)
Identify the issue (ethical, technological, cross-cultural or a combination of two or more).
Explain how this issue has caused a communication breakdown between employees, employees and supervisor, or employee and workplace.
Issue Resolution (minimum two pages)
Communication Concepts
Identify two communication concepts from this course that would help resolve this issue.
Explain how each of these concepts would create stronger communication between employees, employees and supervisor, or employee and workplace.
Codes of Conduct
Suggest two codes of conduct that would help resolve this issue.
Explain how each of these codes would create a more ethical workplace.
Reflection (one page)
Review your plan. Answer: How have changing technologies impacted this workplace issue? Did these technologies help or hinder resolution of the workplace issue? How so?

Final Paper Prompt
Com 328 Sports Media
Spring 2024
Assignment Task: In your final paper, you will select a sports media trend of your choice, be it a set of sports broadcasts, a sports talk show or YouTube channel, an eSports Twitch trend, a marketing campaign for a sports league, promotional videos for a professional fight, or an internet-based form of sports media entertainment. For example, one could study how modern athletes use platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok to grow their brand. Your paper will incorporate all the skills you have learned in the span of this semester (summary, analysis, and connection). 
Unlike previous papers, in this final paper, you will need to properly situate the sports media text/trend you are analyzing. This involves identifying what media company/organization produces it, its genre style, and its main media personalities, influencers, and stars. Ideally, your thesis statement should be crafted in relation to a media critic’s argument about your chosen sports media text/trend. In practical terms, this means you need to search for academic articles or op-eds by a major newspaper/magazine that address your chosen topic and media outlet.  
Lastly, your paper must engage how sports media fulfills the basic human need to be part of a cultural tribe or social collective and often functions as a proxy for something else like race, gender, region/place, nationality, or civic religion. While an intersectional analysis is encouraged (i.e., an analysis that considers the nexus between multiple identity categories), you do not need to fully cover every single possible identity in one paper. You can emphasize one main identity over others.     
These are the three core intellectual themes that we’ve engaged in class that could guide your media analysis paper, particularly your thesis and the conclusion section.
How do the sociological & psychological aspects of sports media connect to the business of sports media? Is this primarily harmless, or does it amount to audience exploitation? 
Why are the professional ethics of sports journalism and commercial sports entertainment so often in tension?
Does sports media challenge stereotypes and dominant ideologies or reinforce them? 
Format requirements: The paper must be 6-7 pages in length, double to 1.5 spaced, 12-point font, and 1-inch margins. No spaces between paragraphs. You will be docked points for not following these format requirements. Quotes over three lines must be formatted into a single-spaced block quote (Google search “block quote”). I encourage the use of screenshots and photos to illustrate the media you’re analyzing but only writing counts toward the length requirements (e.g., if an image takes up half the page, your paper should be 7½ pages). The paper must use in-text citations, and the last page must include a bibliography of the works cited, including videos or films.
Due date: May 21st at 11:59PM. Must be uploaded on Blackboard via SafeAssign. See “content” section. It must be in Word or PDF format. 
Plagiarism: Using another person’s words and writing or AI-generated writing will result in an automatic F grade, likely leading to a failed grade in the course overall.  
Paper structure guidelines: 
Introduction (one to two pages)
Set up the text (basic info, media/institutional origin, genre, connections to other media trends). In short, tell the reader what the media trend/text is like in a nutshell. (three or four sentences).
Method: Explain the range of media content you will analyze and make a case for why the media object you picked is typical or representative of broader media trends. If you analyze only one episode or one sports broadcast, offer ticket sales, ratings, or social media metrics that indicate its popularity, reach, audience size, or potential societal impact. Put plainly, you need to answer the question: Why does this sports media trend matter? Why should the reader care? (three or four sentences)
Analytical framework: Identify the essential formal elements of the media text you will explore such as its narrative structure (e.g., the underdog that defeats the champion), core binaries (e.g., hero vs. villain, blue-collar player vs. flashy player), and the media production techniques that add drama and give the sport greater meaning (e.g., visual aesthetics, video graphics, music, camerawork). Additionally, a key theoretical concept, or set of key concepts, from the course readings needs to be cited. Very briefly explain how your chosen concept helps “see” the deeper aspects of the sports media trend/text. **These concepts can be introduced in the roadmap section.  
Thesis: Articulate a critical thesis about your chosen media text or trend. Often, the best way to form your own argument is to read another writer’s critical commentary on the topic and then position your argument for or against their thesis. This strategy involves doing some research to find a critical essay or op-ed about your chosen sports media trend. Ultimately, your argument should engage the underlying politics of your sports media text, which comes out through the social identities it highlights (e.g., race, class, gender) and ideologies it implicitly promotes (e.g., ‘traditional masculinity,’ whiteness, nationalism, capitalism, consumerism, Orientalism, etc…). (Half of a paragraph)
(half of a paragraph)
Roadmap paragraph: Layout the contents of the body section and the order of the paper.  (One paragraph). For example, “The first section of this paper will….Next section will address…….Lastly, the paper will conclude… (half of a paragraph)
Structure for paper’s body section (four to five pages)
—First sub-claim followed by 1st example or set of examples
—Second sub-claim followed by 2nd example or set of examples
—Third sub-claim followed by 3rd example or set of examples
—Fourth sub-claim followed by 4th example or set of examples
Essential writing requirements for the body section:
Must include transition sentences between these paragraphs.  
Must offer close readings, specific and pointed details, and AVOID extended summarizing.
It must utilize the theoretical concepts mentioned in the introduction.
Body paragraphs must follow the AXES (i.e., Assertion, eXample, Explanation, Significance) structure. However, in certain cases, you could devote a paragraph to just Assertion and eXample and then transition and devote a paragraph to “Explanation” and “Significance.” The “Explanation” component can be extended. It could entail using and explaining a concept through quotes as long as it is tightlyrelated to the evidence mentioned in the previous sentence (the eXample component). References and connections to other sports media trends can also be used as a form of “explanation,” again if they are tightly related to the evidence and media text.  
Conclusion (one and a half pages)
Brief reiteration of the sub-claims of the body and its tie to your overarching thesis (one paragraph)
The audience’s uses and gratifications: hypothesize about how you think the viewers use the sports media text(s) you analyzed and what they get out of it. What is this media text’s function in society?  While not necessary, any evidence to support your hypothesis helps.  
Mirror or distortion of reality: Articulate a clear argument about how the sports media text measures up to your own sense of social reality or to other sources of evidence about the social world (e.g., sociological research, statistics, etc…). Is its representation of the social world insightful and realistic, or is it distorting, inaccurate, and fantastical?
Harmful or helpful: Conclude with a strong argument about the sports media trends’s larger political-social significance.  Is this sports media trend harmful or helpful to society? How does its representation have broader implications that go beyond the sports media trend itself? Why is the sports media trend much more than mere entertainment?

Before you begin working on your final report, ensure that you have done the analysis portion correctly. If you haven’t done your analysis correctly, it is impossible to get an A on your final report. If you did do it correctly, it will be much easier to write your final report.
Ground your thesis statement by making it the answer to your research question and the solution suggested by your research findings to the social problem you have been trying to understand. Make sure you have a clear and strong thesis statement, or you cannot get a top grade.
Explain how your thesis statement emerges from your research findings by listing the relevant codes and memos in your introduction, then discussing them each in turn in the body of your report.
DO NOT get bogged down rehashing your secondary research. You may use most of the writing you’ve already done for your proposal, but it must be edited and anything that is no longer relevant to your findings should be deleted.
Follow a structure that makes sense for your findings. Refer to the textbook and powerpoint materials on how to structure your report. If you aren’t sure how to do it on your own, use the outline structure from the PowerPoint slides (see ppt slideshow in this folder).
Make your writing flows from one paragraph to the next. Use transition sentences. Make your writing as beautiful as possible. Use your spell checker and grammar checker, even if you don’t think you need to. Trust me, you need to. Read your written report out loud, as that can help you identify grammatical and word choice errors.
Make sure you have properly referenced every paraphrase and quote you’ve borrowed from other authors, as failing to do so is plagiarism.
Make sure any elements you carry over from your research proposal to your report are rewritten so that they reflect the past tense instead of the future tense.
Proof read, edit and revise your report before you hand it in.
Make sure your bibliography from your lit review section is AFTER the report’s last page. (Yes, I have to write this, as some people are very lazy and think they can just copy/paste their full lit review into their final report!)

SPSS homework 12
1. Use one of the practice datasets, preferably one with many ordinal variables.
2. Create and test hypotheses in which you look at the difference in rankings between two
groups, then at the difference in ranking of three or more groups. Explain the results.
3. Create and test hypotheses in which you look at the similarities between two groups, and then
at the similarities among three or more groups. Explain the results.
4. Output the results as a PDF file, save it with your name, then put it in the Camino SPSS
homework dropbox.

Students must produce an argumentative essay with a word limit of 2,000 words
(excluding bibliography).
You must answer one essay question from the list below, presenting and developing
a main argument and at the same time engaging with existing academic scholarship about US intelligence and foreign policy. You must engage with at least five secondary sources (scholarly books/book chapters/journal articles) uploaded as either required or recommended reading. Failure to engage with secondary sources on LM will result in a two-mark penalty per missing source up to 10 marks. You are encouraged to supplement these sources with your own independent research of other English-language academic sources and to engage with primary source evidence (such as government policy papers and intelligence memoranda, speeches, memoirs etc.).
How and why did the Agency’s role and importance within US foreign policy change under Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump (2001-21)? 

Each of you will complete a research paper on a legal case study
dealing with communication, media, or the related professions to communication and media. Every student is to do a 10-15-page case study analysis arguing a point of view on this particular law (i.e. why the law is wrong or how it should be changed and why those changes should be made, etc.). You must get your case study approved by me before you can proceed. Proper APA format must be used, 12-inch font, Times New
Roman, 1-inch margins. Each paper must have 15 separate, distinct, and reputable sources cited in-text in the paper and presented in the works cited page. The title page and works cited page do not count towards the length of the paper.