8/30 Assignment - Post Answers Here

For today’s assignment, you will complete the next section of your final project. In your proposal, you began components 1, 2, 3, and 4 (choosing representation, description, interest, and analytical tool). Now it’s time to move on to components 5 and 6, analysis and evaluation of consequences.

PLEASE POST TO THIS DISCUSSION BOARD:

• A link to or a copy of the representation you are analyzing

• A 1-2 paragraph feminist Communication analysis of your representation using the tool/concept you defined in prompt 4 of your final, written like it is for someone in the Communication department who has not taken this course. To perform your analysis, apply your concept or tool to the significant elements of the representation that you described in prompt 2 of the final project. Your analysis should look like analyses you have read in the assigned course readings, like I have performed during lectures, and like you have performed in your previous assignments.
  • The goal of this section is to explain HOW your representation is conveying its meaning. Think about the following questions:
  • What parts are the most significant and why?
  • What conventions are present?
  • What would a viewer have to know or understand in order to make sense of the representation?
  • Who is the representation meant for, and what is it meant to tell them?
  • This section should end with a summary of the main message of the representation and where that message can be found within the representation/what elements produce it.

• 1-3 sentences where you begin your explanation of the impact or consequences of your representation. To do this, answer 1 or 2 of the following questions:
  • Who is this representation for, and is it trying to inform them, mislead them, or something else?
  • What does this representation say about sex, gender, and biomedicine?
  • Is what it says accurate or inaccurate based on what we have covered in the course?
  • Does it support, challenge, or comment on the gender binary, gender stereotypes, or gender roles?
  • Does it naturalize a sex binary or invoke the social construction of sex?
  • Who does it focus on and who is omitted or erased in the representation?
  • How is power operating within it?
  • Does it help advance gender equality or women’s and trans people’s rights, does it hurt them, or something else?
  • How is biomedical authority being used?
  • Would a lay viewer be able to analyze the representation?