Reactoin Paper 9

Reaction paper 9, due 10-30:

Instead of reading some articles, I'd like you you to take a step back and analyze the media consumption of you and your peers.

No matter your age, I'd like you to pretend to be a cultural anthropologist. Heck, an alien cultural anthropologist -- someone with no background information or Earthly bias.

I want you to write a report about the media consumption of your generation and how it defines your generation. This is key: How it defines your generation.

Pretend your audience has no familiarity with mass media in the U.S.

Simply saying, "Eighteen year-olds tend to listen to music on the radio" is not specific enough. What kind of music? Where do they listen to it? What kind of music? What bands are popular?

How has the media influenced your specific culture and behaviors (clothes you wear? food you eat? how you spend your time? How you communicate?)

Be sure to identify the age range you are describing.

You can use anecdotal evidence of what media you and your friends/peers use (as opposed to studies).

Be sure to look at: TV and/or movies, music and/or radio, books and/or magazines, the Internet and/or video games.

Main focus: What is popular among your peer group, why, and what influence has it had on your day-to-day life? How has it made who you are (if at all?)

It will be difficult to fit this into 400-500 words, so expect to go longer.

Don't just sit down and write this in half an hour. Let it rattle around in your brain for a few days.