Social Change as Influenced by Social and Mass Media
Throughout this course you have been developing your social change blog by using social media to share an academic perspective on a social change topic / issue. For this assignment, reflect on how social media has been used as a tool for social change. Also reflect on the process you have gone through in developing your blog.
To prepare for this assignment:
- Reflect on your experience creating your blog and how mass media (including social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) can impact the behavior of individuals and society at large.
- Consider the importance of mass media’s influence on social change movements and social justice agendas.
- Develop an analysis of the impact of mass/social media on individual and societal behavior
By Day 6 of this week:
Complete a1- to 4-page paper that includes:
- An analysis of the impact of mass/social media on individual and societal behavior
- An analysis of the importance of mass/social media’s influence on social change movements and social justice agendas
- Support for you work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources
- Support for you work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources
This Assignment should be written using APA style and include appropriate scholarly references that were written within the last 5 to 10 years. Note: The title page and reference pages do not count
toward the required number of pages.
Your social change blog is due to launch this week.
To prepare:
- Finish consolidating your collected information and enter it into your blog. Review content, citations, and presentation to ensure that you are putting your best professional foot forward.
By Day 7 of this week:
Launch your blog.
Once your blog has launched, submit the following to your Instructor:
- All relevant information for accessing your blog (i.e., blog site name and link)
Readings
- Dinçyürek, S., & Uygarer, G. (2012). Conduct of psychological counseling and guidance services over the Internet: Converging communications. TOJET: Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 11(3), 77–81.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. - Harold, C. (2004). Pranking rhetoric: “Culture jamming” as media activism. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 21(3), 189–211.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. - Kim, H.-K., & Davis, K. E. (2009). Toward a comprehensive theory of problematic Internet use: Evaluating the role of self-esteem, anxiety, flow, and the self-rated importance of Internet activities. Computers in Human Behavior, 25(2), 490–500.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. - Klein, M. C. (2013). Love in the time of Facebook: How technology now shapes romantic attachments in college students. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 27(2), 149–158.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. - Kraut, R., Patterson, M., Lundmark, V., Kiesler, S., Mukopadhyay, T., & Scherlis, W. (1998). Internet paradox: A social technology that reduces social involvement and psychological well-being? The American Psychologist, 53(9), 1017–1031.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Note: This is a seminal article. - Maier, J. A., Gentile, D. A., Vogel, D. L., & Kaplan, S. A. (2014). Media influences on self-stigma of seeking psychological services: The importance of media portrayals and person perception. Psychology of Popular Media Culture,3(4), 239–256.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. - Marwick, A. E., & Boyd, D. (2011). I Tweet honestly, I Tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience. New Media & Society, 13(1), 96–113. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
- New Internationalist Magazine. (2006, September). How to read an ad. Retrieved from http://newint.org/features/2006/09/01/decode/
- Puttnam, D. (2005, December 19). Life through the lens. New Statesman. Retrieved from http://www.newstatesman.com/node/163475
- Stuart, H. (2006). Media portrayal of mental illness and its treatments: What effect does it have on people with mental illness? CNS Drugs, 20(2), 99–106.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. - Valkenburg, P. M., & Peter, J. (2007). Preadolescents’ and adolescents’ online communication and their closeness to friends. Developmental Psychology, 43(2), 267–277.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
The following websites showcase organizations focused on mass media, psychology, and/or and social change:
- Adbusters. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.adbusters.org/
- Journal of Media Psychology. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/sfischo/
- Society for Media Psychology and Technology. (2012). Media psychology: The intersection of psychology with technology. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/divisions/div46/
Media
- Laureate Education (Producer). (2015b). Social change communication plan [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 4 minutes.
