Project: Final Project Milestone: Personal Skills Inventory This Final Project Milestone functions as a partial first draft of your Final Project. It provides the opportunity to consult with your Instructor for guidance, ensure that you are on track for

This Final Project Milestone functions as a partial first  draft of your Final Project. It provides the opportunity to consult with  your Instructor for guidance, ensure that you are on track for  completing your final slides/web pages, and make adjustments to parts of  your project before final submission.

By Day 7

Complete each of the slides/web pages as described.  Remember to record information about your sources throughout your  project, including author, year, page number, and publication title. You  will need to include these as a final slide with both the milestone  submission (at least four sources) and the final submission (at least  four more sources). Your sources will help you support your opinion with  facts, research, and expert’s ideas, and you will need to credit those  sources in your work.

This week, you will submit a presentation or web pages that address the following:

• Slide/web page 1: Identify the medium you have chosen and the reason for choosing that particular medium.
• Slide/web page 2: Analyze the evolution of your chosen medium. To do this, show how it has changed over time.
• Slide/web page 3: Evaluate the significance of  your chosen medium. Describe how the significance of your medium has  changed over time, as well. Has it become more or less significant? What  other factors have influenced its significance?
• Slide/web page 4: Analyze how the evolution of  your chosen medium affects the way you experience that media today in  your career, in your community, etc.
• Slide/web page 5: Identify five  important people who helped to develop or grow your chosen medium  during its evolution. (In Week 5, you will analyze their contributions.)

Questions about this assignment? Post them in the Contact the  Instructor area. That way, everyone in the class will see, and benefit  from, the Instructor’s response. 

In order to receive full credit, all assignments are due on time.  Should you encounter an unanticipated and uncontrollable life event that  may prevent you from meeting an assignment deadline, contact the Instructor immediately to request an extension.  Your Instructor’s contact information is in the Instructor area. For a  full description of the late policy, please refer to the “Policies on  Late Assignments” section of your Syllabus.

Submission and Grading Information

uired Readings

Wallace, J. D. (1998, October). Pervasive problem. Reason, 30(5), 52–57. Retrieved from http://reason.com/
Note:  You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
 

LoMonte, F. D. (2012). Student journalists and free speech. Insights on Law & Society, 12(3), 20-24. Retrieved from https://www.americanbar.org/publications/insights_on_law_andsociety.html
Student journalists and free speech by LoMonte, F. D. in  Insights On Law & Society, Vol. 12, Issue 3. Copyright 2012 by  American Bar Association. Reprinted by permission of American Bar  Association via the Copyright Clearance Center.
 

Grossman, W. M. (2012). Tightening the net. New Scientist, 216(2894), 28-29. Retrieved from EBSCO Host databases. (Accession No. 84037437)
Tightening the net by Grossman, W.M., in New Scientist,  Vol. 261, Issue 2894. Copyright 2012 by Reed Business Publishing, LTD.  Reprinted by permission of Reed Business Publishing, LTD. via the  Copyright Clearance Center.




Project: Final Project Introduction
Throughout this course, a familiar theme will be the  rapid changes that characterize mass communication. While it may seem  difficult to keep up with these changes in daily life, understanding how  the changes have come about is a valuable guide to the present—and a  way to help predict the future. For the Final Project in this course,  you will trace the evolution of one form of media in order to better  comprehend its significance.
The Final Project for this course will be due by Day 7 of Week 5. In Week 3,  you will also submit a graded Final Project Milestone that contributes  to your final submission. This Final Project Milestone is due by Day 7 of Week 3. See below for a description of what you will turn in for each part of this assignment.
To plan out what you will do for your Final Project, complete these steps:
Choose one of the forms of media from the “Media” column below as  an object of study. You may consult the associated chapters from the  Course Text, The Dynamics of Mass Communication: Media in Transition, to help you make your selection.     Media
  Associated Chapter
    Newspapers
  (Dominick, Chapter 5)
    Magazines
  (Dominick, Chapter 6)
    Books
  (Dominick, Chapter 7)
    Radio
  (Dominick, Chapter 8)
    Sound Recording
  (Dominick, Chapter 9)
    Motion Pictures
  (Dominick, Chapter 10)
    Television
  (Dominick, Chapters 11 & 12)
    Internet
  (Dominick, Chapter 4)
    Public Relations and/or Social Media
  (Dominick, Chapter 14)
    Advertising
  (Dominick, Chapter 15)
    Choose between the following options as a way to present your chosen topic: Create an illustrated PowerPoint presentation OR
Create a website
If you choose to do a PowerPoint presentation, review the  applicable PowerPoint presentation tutorials in the Week 3 and Week 5  Learning Resources.
Research: This Final Project requires you to  find examples to illustrate and support your work. You are required to  use 8 sources in your Final Project. You should plan to find and include  4 when you submit your Week 3 Milestone and another 4 for the  additional material required for the final submission due in Week 5.
To organize your project, follow the outline of PowerPoint slides or website pages shown below.
Again, for Week 3, you will complete part of the Final Project, as described below. The assignment:
In your presentation, you will demonstrate the evolution of your  chosen form of media by accounting for or addressing the items below.
Final Project Milestone (Slides 1–5). These slides or web pages are due in Week 3: Slide/web page 1: Identify the medium you have chosen and the reason for choosing that particular medium.
Slide/web page 2: Analyze the evolution of your chosen medium. To do this, show how it has changed over time.
Slide/web page 3: Evaluate the significance of  your chosen medium. Describe how the significance of your medium has  changed over time, as well. Has it become more or less significant? What  other factors have influenced its significance?
Slide/web page 4: Analyze how the evolution of  your chosen medium affects the way you experience that media today in  your career, in your community, etc.
Slide/web page 5: Identify five  important people who helped to develop or grow your chosen medium  during its evolution. (In Week 5, you will analyze their contributions.)  Remember to include 4 sources for this part of your project. They  can be included on a separate slide/web page at the end of your project  called Sources.
Final Project Submission. In Week 5, you will  build upon what you have already submitted by refining and adding to it.  For the final submission, you will revisit slide 5 and add slides 6 and  7 to conclude your Final Project submission. Slide/web page 5: In Week 3, you identified five  important people who helped in the development or growth of your chosen  medium during its evolution. This week, analyze the contributions of  these people to the history of the medium and add that information to  the slide.
Slide/web page 6: Make a summary statement about the effect of mass communication on people today  based on the information collected for slides/web pages 1–5. Add a  short bulleted list that highlights three predictions about where mass  communication could lead people in the future.
Slide/web page 7: Provide a total of 8 sources  for your project. For all sources, record where you found information  about them. Include all relevant information about the source (author;  date of publication; the book, article, or website; etc.).