Journalism

Initially I was extremely confused of what was even expected for this project. Thankfully after seeing the example though I knew I was on the right track. It seemed very daunting because I wanted to analyze a local newspaper such as the NT Daily. I was worried that they would be too diverse and that my findings would come up short of nothing. I really did not think there would be any big gaps in UNT's reporting since they are so proud of their diversity. After counting and doing the math though I realized that there were some gaps to fill. The amount of white people that were featured in pictures greatly outweighed the amount of any minority race featured.  The number of minorities seen was nearly half as low as caucasians. I did background research as well that shows UNT's campus to make up 52% minority race and 48% caucasian. Therefore the numbers should be more equal than they actually were. The amount of women vs men ended up being even once looking at the totals graph. ...

From a young age I can recall seeing women and men stereotyped on television. In a lot of the movies I remember woman were always the princesses. They were considered beautiful but also weak and needed to be protected. Men were always the protectors. Coming to the rescue at just the right time. I also recall female movies being geared towards being attractive and pretty. While the boy movies focused on adventure. (This can also be seen in children's toys) It definitely shaped my view of society at a young age. It took a lot of time later to reconstruct those ideas and find new ones. A lot of the movies focused on reinforcing stereotypes within the home as well. In class we discussed the movie Twilight and its specific framework. It contains a lot of white, male, and religious themes that can't be ignored. All the characters presented in Twilight are white. The vampires are praised on being pale and intelligent. While the werewolves are seen as much less so and are made up of i...

The group this week presented over video games and the increasing violence behind certain styles of gaming. Specifically how one on one gaming promotes certain violent behaviors. While fighting in teams may promote team work and working together. But mainly we discussed hate speech within gaming. I am not a gamer. I know of all the basic and popular games but have never sat down long enough to understand or gain any skill. Yet, I know that video games have incredible hate speech. I witnessed this when I used to watch Pewdiepie and other gamers on youtube. I often found that these big time gamers even used hate speech when getting into a game. This was something that I never could understand. Some others in the class explained that the submersion in these games can leave the player forgetting about reality. This makes sense because even players such as Pewdiepie have had to come out and apologize for the speech that had transpired over gaming. Other students in the class explained tha...