Media Assignment Tips

♀ Use HEADINGS ♀ Organize your paper according to the steps in the assignment outline ♀ Be consistent ♀ Cover all areas (review the grading criteria)

♀ Intro ♀ Research Findings ♀ Media targeted toward children ♀ Print media ♀ Premise, character roles, etc. ♀ Televised media ♀ Premise, character roles, etc. ♀ Advertisement analysis ♀ Product, roles, actors ♀ Media targeted toward adolescents/adults ♀ Print media ♀ Premise, character roles, etc. ♀ Televised media ♀ Premise, character roles, etc. ♀ Advertisement analysis ♀ Product, roles, actors ♀ Conclusion

Introduction ♀ Purpose of the project: ♀ To review four media resources targeted to children, adolescents, and adults. ♀ A brief literature review ♀ The first media source that I examined was an episode of ___________. ♀ This show is about ___________. ♀ The target audience is ____________. ♀ The main characters include _____________. ♀ Some of the central concepts in the show (related to psychology of women) are _____________________.

Research Findings ♀ Televised Media: Name of Show ♀ The main premise of the series __________ is ____________. ♀ The primary characters are __________. ♀ The character(s) who get the most attention are ____________ because __________. ♀ The roles that the female characters play are ______________. They enjoy __________. ♀ These roles are/are not stereotypic. ____________ reinforces/defies gender stereotypes by __________. This is represented in the show as _____________. ♀ Relationships between female and male characters on the show are __________. Some of the power structures in relationships include the one between ______ and _______. In this relationship, _______ has most of the power because ________, and __________ has less power because __________. ♀ And so on …

Conclusions ♀ summary of your general comments and impressions of how girls or women were portrayed in these media. ♀ What messages were there about the roles of the female characters? Were the depictions of the female characters primarily positive, negative, or neutral? Did these characters emulate the gender stereotypes or defy them? ♀ Would you want your child to learn about sex roles from this source? ♀ What did you find most interesting, disturbing, surprising, and so on from doing this research?