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CMC 210 Complete Class

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CMC 210 Week 1 Checkpoint Cultural Periods

CMC 210 Week 1 DQ1

CMC 210 Week 1 DQ2

CMC 210 Week 2 Assignment Information Control

CMC 210 Week 2 Checkpoint The Effect of Mass Production of Books

CMC 210 Week 3 Checkpoint Patterns of Specialization, Advertising, and Ownership

CMC 210 Week 3 DQ1

CMC 210 Week 3 DQ2

CMC 210 Week 4 Assignment Government Fostered Ownership

CMC 210 Week 5 Checkpoint Cable and Broadcast Television

CMC 210 Week 5 DQ 1

CMC 210 Week 5 DQ2

CMC 210 Week 6 Checkpoint Effects of Internet Convergence
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CMC 210 Week 1 CheckPoint Cultural Periods

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CheckPoint: Cultural Periods

· Resource: Ch. 1 of Media & Culture

CMC 210 History and Overview of Mass Media: Sight, Sound, & Mind

Course Syllabus Page 12

· Describe the characteristics of the premodern, modern, and postmodern cultural periods in 250 to 300 words.

· Portray the values and symbols of the next major cultural period as you envision they might occur. Give the new period a name.
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CMC 210 Week 1 DQ 1

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Discuss how much you think U.S. culture influences American media or vice versa, and explain why with specific examples. Remember that culture includes many aspects of life, including food, fashion, sports, entertainment, education, politics, science, religion, and technology.
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CMC 210 Week 1 DQ 2

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Post your response to the following: Name two or three media products—television shows, radio programs, magazines, newspapers, or Web sites—that you feel consistently exhibit poor taste. Then, name two or three media products that you feel consistently exhibit good taste. Explain your reasons for selecting these examples, and suggest what would move each example from good taste to poor taste, or vice versa. What subjective perspectives or personal value system might influence your rating of these products?
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CMC 210 Week 2 Assignment Information Control

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· Resource: Ch. 10 of Media & Culture

· Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper explaining who determines what is printed and how access to information is limited.

· Summarize the history of the control of printed information.

· Start with prebook manuscript culture.

· Include the formation of early publishing houses.

· Conclude with today’s publishing conglomerates in the United States.

· Explain who has had and who has not had access to printed information throughout the period of history you summarize.

· Format your paper according to APA standards, with appropriate citations and references.

· Post your paper as an attachment
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CMC 210 Week 2 CheckPoint The Effect of Mass Production of Books

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CheckPoint: The Effect of Mass Production of Books

· Resource: Ch. 10 of Media & Culture

· Describe in 250 to 300 words the effects that you think the printing press and mass production of books have had on each of the following:

o Individuals

o Families

o Businesses

o Cities

o Government

o Culture
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CMC 210 Week 3 CheckPoint Patterns of Specialization, Advertising, and Ownership

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CheckPoint: Patterns of Specialization, Advertising, and Ownership

· Resources: Ch. 8 & 9 in Media & Culture

· Discuss specialization, advertising, and ownership patterns in the newspaper and magazine industries in 250 to 300 words.

· Explain the positive and negative impacts these patterns might have on the public’s equitable access to information.
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CMC 210 Week 3 DQ 1

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When reporting is objective it is based in the facts, not on the reporter’s opinion. Sometimes people assume that the inverted-pyramid style is objective. This style just reports “who, what, where, when?” and it might involve questions of “why, how?”

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CMC 210 Week 3 DQ 2

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What characteristics of reporting enable you to judge whether or not the reporting is reliable?
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CMC 210 Week 4 Assignment Government Fostered Ownership

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· Resource: Ch. 4 of Media & Culture

· Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper in APA format, including citations and references, about the following statement: The U.S. government encouraged either monopoly or oligopoly ownership of radio broadcasting throughout radio’s history.

· Explain why you think this occurred.

· Explain how you think the government policy either benefited or hurt the development of radio, citing specific evidence.

· Demonstrate logical inquiry while suspending judgment, and give equitable consideration of all sides before choosing which to favor.

· Practice problem solving by collecting meaningful and comprehensive information about the issues.

· Identify the consequences for various stakeholders, such as owners, consumers, sponsors, and manufacturers.

· Provide an evaluative conclusion about the advantages or disadvantages of monopoly ownership. Consider alternatives, and ensure that your conclusion is based on reasonable interpretation of the evidence.

· Post your paper as an attachment.
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CMC 210 Week 5 CheckPoint Cable and Broadcast Television

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· Resources: Ch. 5 & 6 in Media & Culture

· Write 250 to 300 words on the similarities and the differences between cable communication and traditional television broadcasting. Be sure to include comparisons of content, market share, audience, and how well each provides its audience with a say in our culture.

· Include your opinion for the future role of broadcast television in the face of growing
cable and direct broadcast satellite use.
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CMC 210 Week 5 DQ 1

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How has television impacted social and political life in the United States? Use specific television programs as examples in your discussion.

· Respond to your classmates postings with more examples of television programs that support or refute the influences pointed out by your classmates. Draw a conclusion about which television shows have had a predominant influence over their audience
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CMC 210 Week 5 DQ 2

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Post your response to this statement: When the change from sponsored programming to network programming took place, the amount of advertising dramatically increased. Was this a positive or negative development for the general public at the time? Why or why not?

· Respond to your classmates’ answers by offering your own opinion on whether advertisers or networks produced more bias in television content, and why you think this is so.
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CMC 210 Week 6 CheckPoint Effects of Internet Convergence

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· Resource: Ch. 2 of Media & Culture

· Explain in 250 to 300 words how Internet convergence and related issues about privacy protection affect the following aspects of American life:

o Education

o Business

o Families

o Government

o Relationships with the global community
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CMC 210 Week 6 Exercise Media Adaptation and Convergence

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· Resource: Media Adaptation and Convergence activity

· Post an answer to the question that displays when you complete the interaction.
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CMC 210 Week 7 CheckPoint Advertising Manipulation

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CMC 210 Week 7 DQ 1

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Post your response to the following: Recalling that many people believe their lives are over-commercialized, use the Internet to research action programs or campaigns that are trying to curb the trend toward greater commercialization. Do you believe any of these campaigns can be effective? Why or why not?

· Read about campaigns here:

o Visit http://www.adbusters.org/ and click Campaigns.

o Visit http://www.commercialalert.org/ and click each of the Featured Campaigns to display details on each one.
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CMC 210 Week 7 DQ 2

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This discussion question will be conducted in specific threads to provide collaborative support for an upcoming assignment.
· Read Appendix F about the Murphystown Recycling Promotion Project and look up your thread on the student roster in the Main forum.

· Post your response to your assigned thread regarding the following:

o Brainstorm why you think some people do not recycle.

o Discuss how a noncompliant audience might best be converted.

o Consider different audiences beyond the neighborhood residents that might be involved in such a project.

· Respond to the classmates in your thread by expanding and elaborating on their ideas, keeping in mind that this discussion will provide valuable information for a future assignment

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CMC 210 Week 8 CheckPoint Advertising or Public Relations

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CheckPoint: Advertising or Public Relations?

· Resource: Ch. 12 of Media & Culture

· Identify the major differences between advertising and public relations in 250 to 300 words.

· Include the public relations and advertising strategies developed by Ivy Ledbetter Lee and Edward Bernays as examples.
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CMC 210 Week 9 Capstone Discussion Question

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Post your response to the following: How do issues such as deception and privacy present ethical problems for journalists? Provide two examples of situations that you think journalists could have handled better, and why.

· Respond to your classmates by adding ideas for how the journalists could have ethically handled the situations in the postings.

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CMC 210 Week 9 Final Project Overview of Your Media Specialty

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· Resources: Appendixes A and G

· Write a 1,750 to 2,050-word paper in APA format with citations and references on one of the following media specialties:

o Print—newspapers, magazines, and books

o Radio

o Broadcast and cable television

o The Internet

o Advertising and public relations

· Summarize the development of the specialty up until now, and include its influence on and adaptation to other media.

· Predict the future direction of the specialty medium.

· Post your paper as an attachment.
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