Assignment 13 - Reflective essay
I want my reflective essay to explore why I chose my topic.
-adolescent decisions vs. the media.
-I am an adolescent so I put myself into my research paper and wrote about myself.
-Some of the cites I used are a little farther away from my topic than i would have liked, but I can explain why I used them.
-I focused on the things that I did everyday and what I seen on TV, heard on the radio, and seen on the internet and Facebook to give me an idea of where adolescents where looking and leaving information.
-I used my sources to help demonstrate the facts behind how media is manipulating decisions and/or ideas of what the adolescent may think is real. My cites related because they point out different areas and questions of why adolescents are doing what they are doing.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
assignment 12
In my research paper, the stakeholders are: the adolescents, 'peers', adults/guardians/parents, the media portrayals i.e.. actors, singer/songwriters, models, ect..., school teachers, and also the scientists conducting the experiments on the adolescents.
The adolescents and peers are a stakeholder because they are the main point in my paper. The adolescents are the ones making the decisions and the peers are the friends or sociable group that could be involved or else not involved in what the adolescents do. peers as in whole and could also include the adolescent. The adults/guardians are the ones that should be censoring what their child is viewing or listening to. They may not always have the availability to keep constant eye on their child however the parents should have an idea to prevent unwanted viewing. The media portrayals are the people that create or display provocative things or say certain things that may act on an adolescents mind. The school teachers are another example of adolescents guardians. The scientist are the ones who control what they are searching for in their experiments. Holding the stakes on what and what not to research into.
I also think the audience has a great hold in stakes. If the audience does not have the questions asked and answered in the way that they want, the audience will loose interest. I need to address every stakeholder with a question that can be narrowed down and answer fully, considering all sides or possibilities.
The adolescents and peers are a stakeholder because they are the main point in my paper. The adolescents are the ones making the decisions and the peers are the friends or sociable group that could be involved or else not involved in what the adolescents do. peers as in whole and could also include the adolescent. The adults/guardians are the ones that should be censoring what their child is viewing or listening to. They may not always have the availability to keep constant eye on their child however the parents should have an idea to prevent unwanted viewing. The media portrayals are the people that create or display provocative things or say certain things that may act on an adolescents mind. The school teachers are another example of adolescents guardians. The scientist are the ones who control what they are searching for in their experiments. Holding the stakes on what and what not to research into.
I also think the audience has a great hold in stakes. If the audience does not have the questions asked and answered in the way that they want, the audience will loose interest. I need to address every stakeholder with a question that can be narrowed down and answer fully, considering all sides or possibilities.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Assignment 11
To revise my rough draft, i need to start by adding more details and summing up citations. i also need to add in more facts to help me support my main idea. I also need to create conclusions to sum up my paragraphs and sections throughout my essay.
The main purpose i am trying to make is that i believe music and media influences adolescents decision making process. I believe that this is important because parents and guardians could help sensor what their child is listening to.
I used sources that are scholarly articles. I liked using information that i could find experiments to support the causes.
I would like to use outside sources and accounts from some actual parents on how they raised their children.
I liked using my sources to think of certain life-stories that i have encountered thus far. I feel that if I use some personal stories, it will help the audience connect to what i am righting about.
The main purpose i am trying to make is that i believe music and media influences adolescents decision making process. I believe that this is important because parents and guardians could help sensor what their child is listening to.
I used sources that are scholarly articles. I liked using information that i could find experiments to support the causes.
I would like to use outside sources and accounts from some actual parents on how they raised their children.
I liked using my sources to think of certain life-stories that i have encountered thus far. I feel that if I use some personal stories, it will help the audience connect to what i am righting about.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Assignment 8
Ruzich uses her “Schmoopy.” Starbucks Coffee Company Promotional Sign. 2004. cite in her article to show how the consumers of Starbucks were enticed by the slogan in the window of the store, persuading the consumers to enter the store and purchase coffee. Ruzich reports that Starbucks would give away these signs to loyal customers.
“Starbucks Eyes Overtaking McDonald's.”Seattle-Post Intelligencer. 26 July 2002. 13 Mar. 2004 〈http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/80069_starbucks26.shtml〉 Ruzich uses this cite in her opening paragraph. The quote used from Bishop's article says that Starbucks could surpass McDonalds. This could be used to show how many Starbucks store are actually opening in the world, giving Ruzich the advantage and strategy of giving possible facts to the audience for a more general feel of her article.
States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1994. Is an article that Ruzich uses to start her process of giving information about the importance of coffee companies in the world. This article is quoted before Ruzich goes into detail about how the coffee industry influences growth in areas of the world.
Using sources in a research essay help grab the audiences belief and attention when reading an article. Without sources, one could not have any backbone to what they are writing about. I think that cited work helps build the foundation to a research essay. Finding sources is the actual research part of a research essay.
“Starbucks Eyes Overtaking McDonald's.”Seattle-Post Intelligencer. 26 July 2002. 13 Mar. 2004 〈http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/80069_starbucks26.shtml〉 Ruzich uses this cite in her opening paragraph. The quote used from Bishop's article says that Starbucks could surpass McDonalds. This could be used to show how many Starbucks store are actually opening in the world, giving Ruzich the advantage and strategy of giving possible facts to the audience for a more general feel of her article.
States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1994. Is an article that Ruzich uses to start her process of giving information about the importance of coffee companies in the world. This article is quoted before Ruzich goes into detail about how the coffee industry influences growth in areas of the world.
Using sources in a research essay help grab the audiences belief and attention when reading an article. Without sources, one could not have any backbone to what they are writing about. I think that cited work helps build the foundation to a research essay. Finding sources is the actual research part of a research essay.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Assignment 7 - 60 minutes
From the 60 minutes clip, I realized that the audience is the most important part of the research project. If the audience cannot understand the point the researched is trying to get across, then the project is basically garbage. If the audience cannot trust the facts being stated, or even the reason for the story, then the audience will not like the paper they are readying. I noticed that the show was missing many important points and views from other people that should have been on there. Personally, I was not following or believing what the reporter and the protagonist were trying to sell off because there was a lack of proof behind what was said to have happened. It was a good story to sell and grab attention, but being critical of it, I did not like it.
In my annotated bibliography I tried to find supportive for my research question from different perspectives. After watching the 60 minute scene, I really got the idea that the audience is hungry for facts and feeding them before giving them the bedtime story, or the conclusion, really sets the right tempo of moving the research paper along. Without them proper facts and different sides of the story, the audience is not going to be interested. An audience is not hungry for crap, they want the juicy steak and potatoes to set them straight.
What I have so far is basically a list of details and perspectives and facts from multiple levels of fighting from my side, or the side that shows the bad decisions based of watching media. One of my sides shows that media does in fact influence decisions, stating that adolescents are attracted to vibrant media posters and slogans. I do not want to try and just fight and basically say that media is bad, however I do want to get the point across that media may influence adolescent drug use or underage drinking and early sex. Since watching the 60 minute scene, I don't want to be that reporter just trying to make a sob story for some bimbo who got too drunk and raped. I do feel bad for her, but how do I really know that she got raped? Am i supposed to believe she did because she feels bad for how drunk she got and how many guys took advantage of her? Maybe she actually had consensual sex with one of those boys, but the boys thought it would have been funny to just come in and start tag teaming, which is wrong Im not saying its not, but why didn't she go to the police? Why didn't the reporter talk to the boys? Maybe the boys didn't want to be on TV... and so on and so on.... The report was not right and did not show the proper sides of the story before going off on the college about how it is wrong to let these boys get away with what they did with the minor consequences.
With that being said, I do not want it to seem like I am going off on the media without 'letting the media speak for itself'. I think that i have some great points in my annotated bibliography, but I also think that it is lacking on some things that may support the media more as well. Maybe a testimony from an adolescent, maybe a testimony from myself.
In my annotated bibliography I tried to find supportive for my research question from different perspectives. After watching the 60 minute scene, I really got the idea that the audience is hungry for facts and feeding them before giving them the bedtime story, or the conclusion, really sets the right tempo of moving the research paper along. Without them proper facts and different sides of the story, the audience is not going to be interested. An audience is not hungry for crap, they want the juicy steak and potatoes to set them straight.
What I have so far is basically a list of details and perspectives and facts from multiple levels of fighting from my side, or the side that shows the bad decisions based of watching media. One of my sides shows that media does in fact influence decisions, stating that adolescents are attracted to vibrant media posters and slogans. I do not want to try and just fight and basically say that media is bad, however I do want to get the point across that media may influence adolescent drug use or underage drinking and early sex. Since watching the 60 minute scene, I don't want to be that reporter just trying to make a sob story for some bimbo who got too drunk and raped. I do feel bad for her, but how do I really know that she got raped? Am i supposed to believe she did because she feels bad for how drunk she got and how many guys took advantage of her? Maybe she actually had consensual sex with one of those boys, but the boys thought it would have been funny to just come in and start tag teaming, which is wrong Im not saying its not, but why didn't she go to the police? Why didn't the reporter talk to the boys? Maybe the boys didn't want to be on TV... and so on and so on.... The report was not right and did not show the proper sides of the story before going off on the college about how it is wrong to let these boys get away with what they did with the minor consequences.
With that being said, I do not want it to seem like I am going off on the media without 'letting the media speak for itself'. I think that i have some great points in my annotated bibliography, but I also think that it is lacking on some things that may support the media more as well. Maybe a testimony from an adolescent, maybe a testimony from myself.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Assignment 6 - Annotated Bibliography
1) Article:
14) Austin, Erica Weintraub, Bruce E. Pinkleton, and Yuki Fujioka. "The Role Of Interpretation Processes And Parental Discussion In The Media's Effects On.." Pediatrics 105.2 (2000): 343. Academic Search Complete. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
15) Erica Weintraub Austin, Meng-Jinn Chen, Joel W. Grube, "How does alcohol advertising influence underage drinking? The role of desirability, identification and skepticism", Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 38, Issue 4, April 2006, Pages 376-384, ISSN 1054-139X, 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2005.08.017.
-This article focuses more on alcohol advertisement and how the advertisements are or may be appealing to adolescents and possibly persuading them to consume alcohol. I also like this article because it goes in-depth on the psychological factors that come into play with adolescents and how their brain perceives certain alcoholic, or any, images or advertisements that they may see. This article does not necessarily give answers to exactly why an adolescent may underage drink, but it gives clear facts about how images are interpreted.
16) Wilma A. M. Vollebergh, et al. "The Soundtrack Of Substance Use: Music Preference And Adolescent Smoking And Drinking." Substance Use & Misuse 44.4 (2009): 514-531. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
17) Primack, Brian A., Erika L. Douglas, and Kevin L. Kraemer. "Exposure To Cannabis In Popular Music And Cannabis Use Among Adolescents."Addiction 105.3 (2010): 515-523. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
Maynard, W. Barksdale. "Thoreau's House at Walden." Art Bulletin 81.2 (1999): 303. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2002.Image:
2) Anderson, Craig A., Nicholas L. Carnagey, and Janie Eubanks. "Exposure To Violent Media: The Effects Of Songs With Violent Lyrics On Aggressive Thoughts And Feelings." Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology 84.5 (2003): 960-971. PsycARTICLES. Web. 16 Feb. 2012."Clown Fish." Getty Images. Points of View. EBSCO. Web. 30 Jan. 2007.
- I like this cite because the article uses multiple displays and graphs of the effects of violent song lyrics and aggressive thoughts. This shows that with the rise in aggressive music, more aggressive thoughts develop. The problem is that it is hard to tell if the thoughts are actually developed because the the aggressive music vs. actually personality.
3) Works Cited
3) Works Cited
Primack, Brian A., Erika L. Douglas, and Kevin L. Kraemer. "Exposure To Cannabis In Popular Music And Cannabis Use Among Adolescents."Addiction 105.3 (2010): 515-523. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
4) Valkenburg, Patti M., and Tom H. A. van der Voort. "Influence Of TV On Daydreaming And Creative Imagination: A Review Of Research."Psychological Bulletin 116.2 (1994): 316-339. PsycARTICLES. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
-This one is as well useful. The author uses multiple psychological graphs and experiments to display the amount of cannabis use in music vs. the use among the youth associated with the use in the music. The author is very scientific with his/her methods of experimenting to show all different possible accounts of music vs. sex/age/ect.., to show that the use is indeed more while listening to the cannabis-filled music. Although this article as well has a downfall of actually having enough evidence that music makes adolescence smoke weed, which is not the right decision while taking in the fact that it is against the law.
5) Harriss, Chandler. "The Evidence Doesn't Lie: Genre Literacy and the CSI Effect."Journal of Popular Film & Television, 39.1 (2011): 2-11.
7) Boer, Diana, Ronald Fischer, Micha Strack, Michael H Bond, Eva Lo, and Jason Lam. "How Shared Preferences in Music Create Bonds Between People: Values as the Missing Link." Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, Sept, 2011, Vol.37(9), P.1159(13), 37.9 (2011): 1159.
4) Valkenburg, Patti M., and Tom H. A. van der Voort. "Influence Of TV On Daydreaming And Creative Imagination: A Review Of Research."Psychological Bulletin 116.2 (1994): 316-339. PsycARTICLES. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
-This one is as well useful. The author uses multiple psychological graphs and experiments to display the amount of cannabis use in music vs. the use among the youth associated with the use in the music. The author is very scientific with his/her methods of experimenting to show all different possible accounts of music vs. sex/age/ect.., to show that the use is indeed more while listening to the cannabis-filled music. Although this article as well has a downfall of actually having enough evidence that music makes adolescence smoke weed, which is not the right decision while taking in the fact that it is against the law.
5) Harriss, Chandler. "The Evidence Doesn't Lie: Genre Literacy and the CSI Effect."Journal of Popular Film & Television, 39.1 (2011): 2-11.
-This article explains the idea are affected by what is scene on TV by using the example of the show CSI and how crimes are committed now to prove that people are in fact learning from TV.
6) Quill, Elizabeth, and Quill. "A Mind for Music.(SPECIAL SECTION)(music Influence in the Brain and Body)(Brief Article)." Science News, August 14, 2010, Vol.178(4), P.17(1), 178.4 (2010): 17.
-This article fights that music influences the brain. Somewhat useful, but more of just a research paper and personal bias.
6) Quill, Elizabeth, and Quill. "A Mind for Music.(SPECIAL SECTION)(music Influence in the Brain and Body)(Brief Article)." Science News, August 14, 2010, Vol.178(4), P.17(1), 178.4 (2010): 17.
-This article fights that music influences the brain. Somewhat useful, but more of just a research paper and personal bias.
-This article proves that people are attracted to people with the same music preference. The point of this article is to help support my eventual point about peers and the media and bad decisions. People are most likely going to associate themselves with people of the same music preference. Some adolescence make decisions based off of their peers, who could be affected by the media in someway.
8) Schwartz, K. D., & Fouts, G. T. (2003). Music preferences, personality style, and developmental issues of adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 32(3), 205-213. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/60284566?accountid=15078
-This article provides an exceptional but broad base for discussion when determining the developmental issues of adolescents associated with music preference. The music preference is said to also bring about a sort of personality style, possibly based off of peers with similar music preference. Adolescents appear to have a more troubled youth when associated with more violence in their peer life and choice of music genera.
-This article provides an exceptional but broad base for discussion when determining the developmental issues of adolescents associated with music preference. The music preference is said to also bring about a sort of personality style, possibly based off of peers with similar music preference. Adolescents appear to have a more troubled youth when associated with more violence in their peer life and choice of music genera.
9) Music Taste Groups and Problem Behavior
Journal of youth and adolescence [0047-2891] Mulder vol:36 iss:3 pg:313 - 324
-This article focuses on the possible relations between peers with the same music preference and behavioral problems. The article brings experiments to Dutch adolescents, focusing on their preferred choice of music and how they feel afterwords. Their are multiple different experiments done to try and eliminate any possible outside variables that may come into play, using large numbers of adolescents.
Journal of youth and adolescence [0047-2891] Mulder vol:36 iss:3 pg:313 - 324
-This article focuses on the possible relations between peers with the same music preference and behavioral problems. The article brings experiments to Dutch adolescents, focusing on their preferred choice of music and how they feel afterwords. Their are multiple different experiments done to try and eliminate any possible outside variables that may come into play, using large numbers of adolescents.
10) "Clinical Digest. Listening To Music With Cannabis Lyrics Encourages Use."Nursing Standard 24.39 (2010): 17. CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
-This article is pretty straight forward using information from previous experiments done.
-This article is pretty straight forward using information from previous experiments done.
11) "Propensity Scoring and the Relationship Between Sexual Media and Adolescent Sexual Behavior." Developmental Psychology, 2011, Vol. 47(2), P.577-579, 47.2 (2011): 577-579.
-This article differs from the last articles that i have read through by focusing more on media portraying sex and underage-sex. This article also goes more into depth on actual psychological science and behaviors that adolescents endure and how sexual media can interact with adolescents choices to have sex by portraying it in ways that are appealing.
12) Effects of Visual and Verbal Sexual Television Content and Perceived Realism on Attitudes and Beliefs. Journal of Sex Research, 2005, Vol. 42, p130-137, 8p, 2 Charts, Taylor, Laramie D.
13) Hsiu-Chen Yeh, et al. "Media As Social Influence: Racial Differences In The Effects Of Peers And Media On Adolescent Alcohol Cognitions And Consumption." Psychology Of Addictive Behaviors 24.4 (2010): 649-659. PsycARTICLES. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
14) Austin, Erica Weintraub, Bruce E. Pinkleton, and Yuki Fujioka. "The Role Of Interpretation Processes And Parental Discussion In The Media's Effects On.." Pediatrics 105.2 (2000): 343. Academic Search Complete. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
15) Erica Weintraub Austin, Meng-Jinn Chen, Joel W. Grube, "How does alcohol advertising influence underage drinking? The role of desirability, identification and skepticism", Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 38, Issue 4, April 2006, Pages 376-384, ISSN 1054-139X, 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2005.08.017.
-This article focuses more on alcohol advertisement and how the advertisements are or may be appealing to adolescents and possibly persuading them to consume alcohol. I also like this article because it goes in-depth on the psychological factors that come into play with adolescents and how their brain perceives certain alcoholic, or any, images or advertisements that they may see. This article does not necessarily give answers to exactly why an adolescent may underage drink, but it gives clear facts about how images are interpreted.
16) Wilma A. M. Vollebergh, et al. "The Soundtrack Of Substance Use: Music Preference And Adolescent Smoking And Drinking." Substance Use & Misuse 44.4 (2009): 514-531. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
17) Primack, Brian A., Erika L. Douglas, and Kevin L. Kraemer. "Exposure To Cannabis In Popular Music And Cannabis Use Among Adolescents."Addiction 105.3 (2010): 515-523. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 16 Feb. 2012.
18) Perspectives on Personality, Seventh Edition Author(s): Charles S. Carver; Michael F. Scheier
19) Zhong, Bu, Marie Hardin, and Tao Sun. "Less Effortful Thinking Leads to More Social Networking? the Associations Between the Use of Social Network Sites and Personality Traits." Computers in Human Behavior, 27.3 (2011): 1265-1271.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Homework 5
Does present-day media affect student's bad-decisions?
The question itself insists that students make bad-decions. Do students make bad-decisions? Does present-day media affect students? While attempting to revise, these are some of the questions I asked myself. Also, what is media? Well I would like to say that media is broad. From Facebook to the news and media to sports and music, general TV and movies. Maybe by saying "How does.." or "How can.." How can would seem to be a list. How does would seem to be a attempt to find an answer. Is this whole thing an attempt to find an answer to my inquiry question? This is were I am struggling... When in this 'process of elimination' I keep coming back to the starter of my question. The rest of the question seems to be almost simple enough to re-word.
Instead of affect, maybe I could use... "The effect of media on present-day students." But that would be too listy...
I suppose that my actual question at hand is not the NAME for my research paper.. just a question to base it off of. Instead of affect, maybe I could use 'impact', or 'bear upon'.
"How does media impact present-day students?"
Now when i write it like that, media seems like a bad word to use..
A book that i found on some of the implications of media in society.. I read parts of the book, since it is a long book and I am just on the starting-line of this project, and can summarize it as a book the shows how students can be critical consumers of media while retaining the pleasure they derive from it.
I can use this book to help produce ideas of new places to research, where to find them, what terms to search for, and how to search for them. I believe this book is a great starting place for my research project.
The question itself insists that students make bad-decions. Do students make bad-decisions? Does present-day media affect students? While attempting to revise, these are some of the questions I asked myself. Also, what is media? Well I would like to say that media is broad. From Facebook to the news and media to sports and music, general TV and movies. Maybe by saying "How does.." or "How can.." How can would seem to be a list. How does would seem to be a attempt to find an answer. Is this whole thing an attempt to find an answer to my inquiry question? This is were I am struggling... When in this 'process of elimination' I keep coming back to the starter of my question. The rest of the question seems to be almost simple enough to re-word.
Instead of affect, maybe I could use... "The effect of media on present-day students." But that would be too listy...
I suppose that my actual question at hand is not the NAME for my research paper.. just a question to base it off of. Instead of affect, maybe I could use 'impact', or 'bear upon'.
"How does media impact present-day students?"
Now when i write it like that, media seems like a bad word to use..
Speaking the lower frequencies: students and media literacy
By Walter R. JacobsA book that i found on some of the implications of media in society.. I read parts of the book, since it is a long book and I am just on the starting-line of this project, and can summarize it as a book the shows how students can be critical consumers of media while retaining the pleasure they derive from it.
I can use this book to help produce ideas of new places to research, where to find them, what terms to search for, and how to search for them. I believe this book is a great starting place for my research project.
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