Homework #2: Social Issues in the Media Analysis Report
Instructions: One of the interesting things about social issues in Economics is that they can be seen everywhere: daily life, current events, cartoons, television shows, plays, and movies. Your task is to choose either a scene from a movie, cartoon, TV show episode, song, or play and analyze their message about a current social issue and its relevance. View the source more than once. Then, after reviewing your notes and readings, identify the social issues and connect the issue with at least four-five economic concepts that we have discussed in class. Your report should include the following:
(A)Title of episode, show, date, and Social Issue being addressed. Briefly describe the relevant scene, episode, or movie
(B) Describe in detail the social issue that you believe is relevant
(C) Elaborate on how the selected scene conforms and/or fails to conform to the social issue. How was the issue addressed? Was it solved? What questions is the audience left asking?
(D) How does this relate to the economic concepts that we discussed in class? Connect the social issue to at least four to five economic concepts from our course. (ex. Opportunity cost, cost-benefit analysis, supply/demand, externalities, etc)
(E)Research one scholarly/Academic resource article on this social issue (Economist, Wall Street Journal, Time, etc) and address the perspective of this social issue. Do these articles confirm or deny the social issue as it is portrayed in the media choice that you selected? Cite examples and Support your position. Our Library Class Link
(F) Why you chose this source, and what your opinion is about the portrayal of this issue. Connect this media choice with the articles and make your own assessment on accuracy. What would be your proposed solution to this social issue? Conclude with a short discussion to tie things together
(G) Include a printout of a picture of the scene, movie, characters in your report including air date and source (not counted as the 2-3 pages requirement). Make sure to have a work cited of the media choice, and the one scholarly article that was used in your analysis.
DOUBLE-SPACE YOUR WORK! Your written analysis should be well-written (2-3 pages) double spaced typed paper uploaded here. It is important to have an introduction and conclusion to tie it all together nicely.