Your group has been assigned a topic to research, looking for the facts as they have been presented in the media and how those facts have been constructed to be taken as totally true. All media construct reality. Audiences negotiate meaning in media. Media have commercial implications. Media contain ideological and value messages.
Media have social and political implications.
Media have unique aesthetic forms that are closely related to content. For this assignment, you are to find as much information on your subject as possible. Minimum requirements per group is 5 magazine articles and 5 newspaper articles. Divide the sources fairly among your group. Once you have collected your sources, your group will prepare to give an oral report of 5-10 minutes to the class.