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Homework: Ownership of Mass Media Businesses Paper
Introduction to the first part of the capstone project
The Capstone Project is a 3-part project that will require students to critically analyze and research an event that has been covered extensively in the media. The project will consist of an introduction, a case study, a final paper
To begin this homework, students will pick a current event within the last year. The event should have been covered in the media extensively, from a local, national, and global standpoint. Then the event must align with one of the four issues that are covered in your textbook.
These four issues are:
1) Ownership of Mass Media Businesses
2) Sports
3) Media Violence
4) Privacy
Write an 800 words essay in APA Style that identifies the key ideas of the event:
Question I. How did the media shape the event/story?
Question II. How did others react to the way it was portrayed in the media?
Question III. Did others create movements based on the way the media portrayed the event?
Question IV. Did people react differently in other parts of the world?
Question V. How was the event shaped by various information systems?