Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action
Video and Multimedia
Video
Learning Objective: Define media. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: How media influences us: priming, agenda setting, framing, change, persuasion are among the inherent factors in media messages, some more obvious than others. Good introduction to subject.
Learning Objective: Define media. Explain how the different sociological perspectives examine social problems related to the media. Review the importance of the digital divide
Description: Frontline explores how social media has been transforming the way adolescence is experienced: less time reading, more time taking photos, texting and posting. Friendships and relationships online are essential, and the way social life is conducted has changed. Teachers guide available.
Learning Objective: Define media. Explain how the different sociological perspectives examine social problems related to the media. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: Frontline examination of advertising and marketing, which has gone scientific. People use brands to establish identity. How the private sector collects information about individuals and uses it in persuasion.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives examine social problems related to the media. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: Body evolution. The body of a model is transformed in time lapse. Partial nudity.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives examine social problems related to the media. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: What if sexy female roles in advertising were portrayed by men? The use of sex to sell common products like chips and burgers is parodied.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives examine social problems related to the media. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: Promotional video for SeeJane.org, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media highlights the gender imbalance of children’s television characters.
Learning Objective: Define media. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: Wall Street Journal short history of journalism from the handbills of the 18th century, through biased news in the 19th, to efforts to balance news in the 20th and 21st centuries. Depicts readership decline beginning with internet.
Learning Objective: Define media. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: Illustration and voice over give the seven secrets of persuasion one can use honestly.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives examine social problems related to the media. Review the importance of the digital divide.
Description: The challenges of getting things done in the U.S. when you don’t have internet are demonstrated by a single mom and her three children who need internet for school.
Audio
Learning Objective: Define media. Explain the relationship between media technology and a boundary-less workplace. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: Beyond the interpersonal, social media is being used by local government. What does it mean to have a million Twitter followers?
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives examine social problems related to the media. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: People don’t trust government, partly because they don’t trust news media. Many believe that the information they get is biased. News organizations try to present unbiased information to regain trust, or to make their bias public.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives examine social problems related to the media.
Description: Women journalists covering stories of upheaval and war face sexual violence as well as the physical dangers male colleagues face. Women view their work and its importance very similarly to these men.
Web Resources
Learning Objective: Review the importance of the digital divide.
Description: One of many local non-profits across the nation working to get computers into the hands of those who can’t afford it.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives examine social problems related to the media. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: Interactive lists showing ownership of media in Internet, cable, television/radio, and print categories.
Learning Objective: Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: Going to a news media outlet from a mobile device has become more common than desktop access, among other news trends from Pew Research Center.
Political Ideology and Media Preference
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives examine social problems related to the media. Identify the importance of media literacy.
Description: Interactive site reveals viewers political perspectives for different media outlets. News resources include the Daily Show, Al Jazeera America, and Glen Beck, PBS and internet sources like Google along with legacy network news sources like ABC.