Final Paper and Presentation

Submit your final paper to the Assignment Files tab.Deliver your final presentation.For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations with notes.
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Final
Learning Team Paper and Presentation

The goal of the final Learning Team paper and presentation is to
demonstrate effective social science analyses of current controversies
regarding the way mass media affects contemporary American life.

For this paper, your team must
identify and critique a current mass communication or media issue you consider
substantial and worthy of research. Examples include the role motion pictures play
in promoting or demeaning American family relationships; the role of
advertising in promoting or preventing obesity; the role of Internet file-sharing
in promoting free expression of ideas; or encouraging piracy of intellectual
property, and so forth.

Next, you must explain the
nature and history of the controversy and identify the major conflicting points
of view in the discussion.

Then, you must analyze related
controversies and critique the relevant arguments from the following social
science perspectives:

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Social Learning Theory
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Individual Differences Theory
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Cultivation Theory
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Agenda-Setting Theory
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Uses and Gratification Theory

Choose one social sciences
or cultural studies perspectives or theories to critique a political, social, orcultural issue in contemporary mass communication.
Explain the theory and justify its selection to analyze the issue or
controversy.Explain, with specific examples,
and analyze this issue or controversy as it relates to the following medium:

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Books
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Newspapers
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Magazines
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Movies
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Radio
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Television
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Internet

Finally, you must submit your
research findings and conclusions about the controversy in an analytical paper
of 1,400 to 1,750 words. Explain and support your team’s point of view, and
recommend next steps to be taken with regards to future research on this topic.
Conclude the paper by answering the following question:

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How do you anticipate the analysis
of this issue or controversy will be different 1 month, 1 year, and 10 years
from now?

Include citations to support your research from three different
peer-reviewed outside sources per team member.
Format your citations consistent with APA format.

Formal Outline and References for Final Learning Team
Paper (Week 3)

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Each Learning Team must prepare
a 1- to2-page
formal outline covering initial preparation for the final paper. The outline
must have a thesis, major topics, subpoints, key supporting evidence, and conclusions.

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Additionally, each team must submit
an annotated reference list. The list shows work that will be cited in the
paper, including at least two peer-reviewed scholarly journals per team member in
your research for this assignment.
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A paragraph describing the main
points of each reference article and why it is relevant to the paper is part of
this list. Format the reference list in APA style.

Final Learning Team Paper and Presentation Rough Draft (Week
4)

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Continue working on the paper
and presentation. Teams should complete a rough draft of the final paper and
presentation.

Final Learning Team Paper and Presentation (Week 5)

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Learning Teams must deliver the
final presentation and submit the final paper.

The final Learning Team presentation must detail the overview of the
paper. For Online students, the final presentation is submitting the paper and
supporting Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides of 5 to 7
slides to the Assignment Files tab. For Local Campus students, the final
presentation is a 10-minute speech in which the group presents the key ideas
from its paper to the rest of the class.