Assignment
Write a 1,500- to 2,000-word paper in which you do the following:
• Discuss the history of your social issue as expressed in popular culture in general.
• Define the audience for each of your artifact categories and explore whether this audience has changed in any way. Consider whether this audience is local, global, or regional.
• Discuss what each of your chosen popular culture artifacts communicates regarding your issue.
• Analyze how at least one additional social issue relates to at least one of your popular culture artifacts.
• Race/ethnicity
• Sexuality
• Gender
• Social and economic class
• Violence
• Indecency/free speech
• Analyze access and distribution limitations for each of your popular culture artifacts.
• Determine whether or not access and distribution forces control content. Explain your reasoning.
• Explain whether your popular culture artifacts send messages that define social values or provoke change.
• Analyze how your chosen popular culture artifacts connect or do not connect with your personal values.
The final paper should include:
• a full revision of the Milestones from Weeks 2, 3, and 4. Check for overall structure and appropriate transitions between sections of the text. Please refer to the resources available on the Walden Writing Center site to help with this.
• the full listings for each of your three popular culture artifacts on your references page. Use the Final Project Worksheet from Week 1 to help with this.
• At least five additional references to the required, optional, and/or student-contributed resources.
Be sure to follow APA guidelines for formatting and referencing.