Thursday 5 January 2012

Timetable

Timetable:




Week 1:

I will create a blog and gather up and organise my research project plan for the next 9 weeks. I will show an overview of the project and show its aims and limits.
Week 2:

I will investigate my theories of how Mass Media functions by showing how it serves the economic system and how the media hold the society together and shows us what our roles are how it has manipulated our ideology of perfection and how it affects us psychologically and mentally 






Week 3:

I will carry on with investigating my theories of how mass media functions





Week 4:

I will investigate how perfection in the media is linked to representation and ideology


Week 5:



I will investigate how media influences audiences at such a young age and show how cartoons are represented and the ideology of perfection perceived in it for example the characters of Walt Disney.



Week 6:

I will research different advertisements both still images and videos and show how the advertisements companies are sexist in how they present a women as a sex object and how a women is only beautiful when sexualized. I will also show some advertisements showing on the man are portrayed in the Media as a dominant and firm figure and show how men should be.




Week 7:


I will then look into different signs and signifiers in movies and adverts and how mass media represents the image of’perfection’ should be presented and how it convinces the audience that this is ‘natural’.

 


Week 8:

I will look over on how the image of ‘perfection’ has affected us in a mental state and how it's caused illnesses such as such bulimia, anorexia and body dysmorphia.



Week 9:

I will be evaluating my research project and critically concluding how the mass media has  manipulated and indoctrinated us as audiences