Materials:
Media Report Form, which you will answer everything there (attached to this questions along, and I will also need an email to send you the readings powerpoints )
Detailed Instructions:
- You will watch a TV show, Movie, or TV News Broadcast (CNN, FOX News, KHON, etc.) that relates to or depicts some form of deviance or crime.
- Using the Media Form that is attached to assignment, write a full bibliographic citation for the TV show, Movie, or TV News Broadcast, in the following format:
The general style for citing a movie or film is: Director. Year. Title. Studio.
Example: Frankonovic, Frankie. 1996. Urban Poverty: A Documentary in Teen’s Voices. New Media Films.”
The general style for citing a TV episode is: Director. Year originally aired. “Episode Title” Series Title. Production Company. Date aired when you saw it.
Example: Frankonovic, Frankie. 1999. “Teens in the Projects” The Evening News WPIX New Jersey. February 20, 2005.
- Fill in your name, student ID, and the date at the top of the form.
- Write a very brief summary of the TV show, Movie, or TV News Broadcast in your own words, and make sure your summary includes information about the deviance depicted, described, or what you observed in the content of the TV Show, Movie, or TV News Broadcast. Don’t copy reviews or summaries of the TV show, Movie, or TV News Broadcast. You will get NO credit if you copy and paste directly from other sources (i.e. plagiarism)!
- Write a brief comment in which you apply the readings we have done so far in the course to analyze the TV show, Movie, or TV News Broadcast in sociological terms. You will not get credit for the TV show, Movie, or TV News Broadcast unless you can relate it to one of the readings.
Questions to consider in analysis:
- How are specific characters portrayed as deviant, non-deviant, criminal, or non-criminal?
- Are these accurate portrayals, stereotypes, or over dramatizations?
- What criminological theories can help explain the deviance or crime depicted?
- What makes the act, behavior, or character deviant or criminal?
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