How do media representations stereotype cultural ‘others’ in the context of globalisation?

Media, Globalisation and Culture

Assessment 2 (Research Essay):
You are required to write a 2,500-words piece on one of the following questions:

1. Are global brands an expression of cultural imperialism?

2. What is the role of celebrity culture in processes of globalisation?

3. In what ways do media events bring global populations together?

4. How do media representations stereotype cultural ‘others’ in the context of globalisation?

Demonstrate an understanding of how the field functions and will utilize your communication skills,are there specific things you have learned about the communication discipline that will help you in your future career?

Goal Paper

Write a two-page paper identifying your short and long-term career goals.Explain how your course of study will help you achieve those goals.
This should meet the following requirements:
2 pages
1 inch margins
double spacing
12 point font
grammar and spelling will count
clearly state the career you hope to attain and how you plan to get there
Demonstrate an understanding of how the field functions and will utilize your communication skills,are there specific things you have learned about the communication discipline that will help you in your future career?
written in the first person

Should Twitter Factcheck Trump’s Misleading Tweets?

Should Twitter Factcheck Trump’s Misleading Tweets?

The first is the guidelines for the case study.
The second is the case study topic.

As english is my second language and would rate myself as a good English speaker,use vocabulary that is not VERY advanced in writing the case study. In addition,use quotes in a way you feel it will benefit the paper but let the majority of the case study from your understanding and point of view.

How might social stigma influence the Hmong community’s health care experiences and what are the possible consequences of such stigma?

The purpose of this paper is to apply your understanding of these central themes. Your task is to read the select chapters (3 and 6) from Anne Fadiman’s (1997) book, The spirit catches you and you fall down: A Hmong child, her American doctors,and the collision of two cultures. The selected chapters provide a brief overview of the Fadiman’s exploration of the Hmong community’s health care experiences in the Merced Community Medical Center (MCMM) in Central Valley, CA, during the early 1980s. Although the book details the experiences of baby girl Lia Lee, whose family along with hundreds of other refugee families arrived in central CA after fleeing war-torn Laos, the author describes the conflicts between the Hmong community and their American health care providers in the American health care system.
Carefully read the select chapters and answer the following, using evidence from the texts to support your ideas.How do differing cultural conceptions of health and illness shape the health care interactions between the Hmong community and the American health care providers?
How do the health care experiences described in these chapters illustrate the importance of source, message, and channel factors in health communication interactions at MCMM?
How might social stigma influence the Hmong community’s health care experiences and what are the possible consequences of such stigma?
What might help to improve the health care interactions between the Hmong community and American healthcare providers?

How does Vivian Bearing’s experience support Nuland’s ideas about how our cultural conceptions surrounding the “beautiful death” cause so many people to die alone?

The purpose of this paper is to apply your understanding of these topics to the movie Wit (2001), which features the story of an English professor, Vivian Bearing, who is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Bearing describes her experiences as a cancer patient and offers her reactions to various health communication interactions during her diagnosis and treatment. You can access the entire movie.Carefully watch the movie and answer the following questions, using evidence from the texts to support your ideas:
How does Vivian Bearing’s experience of social support influence her illness experience?
How do Vivian Bearing’s experiences with health care providers support the well-documented trends in patient-provider communication (e.g., physician-centered communication, asymmetrical versus transactional communication, etc.)?
What evidence do you see that both Vivian Bearing and her healthcare providers have been socialized to use the Voice of the Lifeworld and/or the Voice of Medicine? Does anyone in the movie deviate from the patient and/or health care provider role expectations and if so, how?
How does Vivian Bearing’s experience support Nuland’s ideas about how our cultural conceptions surrounding the “beautiful death” cause so many people to die alone?

Which strategy or strategies (passive, active, interactive) were employed to reduce uncertainty? What elements about the individual and the context of your meeting motivated your quest to reduce uncertainty?

Advanced Interpersonal Communication w/ Biblical Perspective: Enter a Strange

We have all had experiences where we have had to reduce our uncertainty about strangers. Or, in many cases we were the stranger. Experiences such as returning to college, changing schools, new jobs, new bosses, blended families, new neighbors, etc. are common ones. Using one of these (or like) common experiences complete the following as it pertained to your experience.
What specific uncertainties and anxieties characterized your first days?
What incentive did you have to reduce your uncertainty about others? (future interaction, goal, or unique behavior)
Which strategy or strategies (passive, active, interactive) were employed to reduce uncertainty? What elements about the individual and the context of your meeting motivated your quest to reduce uncertainty? Be specific.
Which axioms might you have used to help, if you were to do it all over again? Explain and be specific.

Write a report on a trend in business that you’ve observed, and highlight at least the main finding.

Business Trend

Write a report on a trend in business that you’ve observed, and highlight at least the main finding. For example, from the rising cost of textbooks to the online approach to course content, textbooks are a significant issue for students. Draw from your experience as you bring together sources of information to illustrate a trend.

In addition to the guidelines in Exercise 2, your report will need to include the following requirements:The report will be five pages double-spaced, not including the cover page, abstract page and list of references.You need to use at least four reliable outside sources published within the last five years.The report will include at least one visual aid, which does not take up more than one-half page of the report.

How and why would these books be suitable to use to develop narrative competencies and/or cognitive and affective abilities?

Printed Text Reading Program
Using a framework for narrative competence for children from pre-school to the age of thirteen, outline and describe a library program involving reading stories in printed text (lasting a day, a week, a month, or more). Explain the program in terms of two or three of the texts that you have chosen and explain why you chose those texts. Do they match children’s reading interests and abilities, or do they challenge them? Which competencies do you think that the children will bring to, or develop in, the program? What cognitive and affective abilities are involved? What strategies and behaviours would you expect in narrative processing activities?
Information Book Lesson Plan
Using the criteria for judging information books outlined in the course readings, consider three information books on one topic that include visual images for children. Write a background rationale for your choice of one or two of these books as resources for a lesson plan. Comment on the complex relationship between words and pictures. How well do the books incorporate narrative to inform children? What static visual components and narrative strategies are involved, and what methodologies would you use to analyze them? How and why would these books be suitable to use to develop narrative competencies and/or cognitive and affective abilities? What strategies and behaviours would you expect in narrative processing activities?

Discuss an important concept or prominent figure from one of the disciplines of the humanities (Introduction to Humanities, World Humanities, Music Theory, Religion, Philosophy and Logic).

Humanities Knowledge Assessment

Essay Directions:

Utilizing information learned in HCC humanities classes, write an essay addressing the following prompt statement.

Discuss an important concept or prominent figure from one of the disciplines of the humanities (Introduction to Humanities, World Humanities, Music Theory, Religion, Philosophy and Logic).The essay should utilize core terminology/vocabulary of the selected discipline in the discussion of the concept or prominent figure.

Your essay should be formatted as follows: Typed. Two pages/500 word minimum; double-spaced; 12 pt Times New Roman font; 1” margins.

Essays will be evaluated on the following criteria:

Knowledge and understanding of topic.

Ability to provide specific reasons of why topic is being discussed.

Identify a question that you have about the particular communication phenomena. 

Literature Review Paper Instructions

Stepping-stone two: Literature review

100 POINTS

The primary purpose of a review of literature is to provide a rationale for the proposed research question(s) and/or hypothesis(ses).  A review of literature should represent a synthesis of existing theory and research literature that argues for the research question(s) and/or hypothesis(ses).The process of constructing a literature review acquaints the researcher with the studies already done in a particular area and allows the researcher to build/extend the existing knowledge.  The key to writing a good literature review is synthesis.The following questions may help to guide your reading and paper organization processes:

Which research articles come to similar conclusions?

Which research articles disagree with one another or have contradictory findings?

Are certain theories consistently used to frame studies on the topic?

How does your thinking about the topic relate to, differ from, and/or add to the previous literature?

Guidelines:

Identify a topic for research that focuses on communication behavior (i.e., verbal and/or nonverbal messages in some capacity).  Identify a question that you have about the particular communication phenomena.  (You may have a question in mind OR you may find a question by examining the literature and identifying gaps.)make sure that your topic is in fact appropriate to the Communication discipline.  This will likely be the topic that you presented in your topic proposal.  The project should build upon the research that you have already started.