Reflection Assignment

Reflection Assignment

The Course Introduction compared popular culture to the air you breathe. Now that you've learned new ways to think about breathing—that is, ways to examine and understand the surrounding popular culture—you will have the opportunity to reflect on how this close analysis affects your reaction to popular culture and actions in society.

To prepare for this Reflection:

·         Detect the ways in which you consume, react to, and engage with popular culture.

·         Reflect on how studying popular culture has changed or reinforced your beliefs and values and whether or not your choices about popular culture will change.

THE ASSIGNMENT:

·         Compose a 1- to 2-page paper in which you do the following:

o    Appraise the effect of studying modern popular culture on your personal beliefs and values.

§  Discuss the extent to which your consumption of and attitude about popular culture may or may not change.

o    Support your assertions by making at least 3 references, in proper APA format, to your course readings.

REFERENCES

·        Holtzman, L., Sharpe, L.  (2014). Media messages: What film, television, and popular music teach us about race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. (2nd ed.) Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.

·         Lasn, K. (1999). Culture jam: How to reverse America's suicidal consumer binge—and why we must. New York: Harper.

·         Introduction (pp. xi - xvii)

·         "Autumn: The Ecology of the Mind" (pp. 9 - 27)

·         "Spring: The New Activism (Fire in the Belly)" (pp. 111 - 121)

·         "Summer: Media Carta" (pp. 185 - 199)

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This text encourages you to examine assumptions about the way you perceive the world and challenges you to analyze media messages in a rigorous way.