Assessment

 

ASSESSMENT I

 

A. Summary of the author’s attitudes

 

The author’s attitudes towards the literature she emphasize in the reading is clear and full of substance as the reading commends on the power of mass communication in exploring the value of media integration and its contents affecting such audience awareness and understanding of arising situations surrounding them. The author strongly implies the importance of media as an ideological reality as based in the Marxist theory and that media influences strongly on people’s views about the society and that in adrift stance, affecting the decisions and plans of the authority impacting the greater community. Thus, a person as a social being is dominated by the culture as it is visible that, the author’s attitude implies sense of conviction to the audience in providing own meaning to such media messages.

B. Evaluation of the article standpoint

The standpoint of the article shows how people accept and embrace media languages and its broad context mostly affecting the social structure and cultural underpinnings in such a way that media is one of the factors concerning issues pointing to the greater majority in the society such as political assumptions due to the fact that media allow to have unity and clashes of minds of people in authority. Thus, there initially provides impeccable perspective on the role of media as well as its underlying function to such people and culture activities respectively.   

 

ASSESSMENT II

 

 

 

 

 

The topic proposed: Use of Drug among Children

 

 

Applicable Research Lenses

 

 

The use of drug among children ascribes a controversial issue and is a growing problem of the society as o the present. There posits that there are several agencies conducting such seminars and workshops addressing for the prevention of drug use in children. Thus, due to the rising reality that children can be sometimes called as ‘’criminals’’, involving themselves into crime incidences because o such affective reality of drug use. The use of drug among children can be avoided and prevented through community involvement, persuading campaigns against drug use with the ample presence of agencies concern and support groups that can be composed o health care providers, family members and parents or guardians.

 

 

 

 

Research Statements

 

These of drugs among children is due to general statements in factor concepts involving such truths behind the following:

 

Family problems – being involved in broken homes and disoriented family set ups, parents are separated or divorced

Violence and Discrimination – these children can possibly be victims o family violence and discrimination within the family members and it can be also related to domestic and or societal violence a well as racial or ethic discrimination

Child Labor – this situation is true mostly to those children growing in a tight and chaotic environment

Gang Involvement – reflecting strong sense of peer pressure and is influenced greatly on the type o peers these children go into

 

Case study utilization and semi-structured interviews can be applicable in assessing such reality as well as unstructured survey and questionnaire that can possibly be given to those affected children and their families as a whole. It can be ideal in focus groups using youth as main subjects for the research.    

 

 

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