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MACS 101: Mid-Term Paper

This guide is intended to help students enrolled in MACS 101 find resources and complete their midterm paper.

Concepts to Choose From

For your mid-term writing assignment, you are asked to select three concepts from the text book from the following list:

  • space-time compression
  • structure & agency
  • political economy of the media
  • symbolic annihilation of women, racial/ethnic minorities, and/or LGBTQ+ individuals
  • representation of women, racial/ethnic minorities, and/or LGBTQ+ individuals

Keywords for Your Concepts

Once you've chosen your concepts, you can use this list of keywords to help you conduct searches for articles. This is not an exhaustive list and you may need to try multiple combinations of different keywords for your searches.

Space-time compression:

  • Communication, communication--social aspects, connectivity, digital media, digital communications, online social networks, social media

Structure & agency:

  • Mass media, mass media--social aspects, media, structure, agency, influence, social construction, social constructivism, mediatization, determinism, attitudes (psychology)

Political economy of the media:

  • mediatization, influence, information dissemination, hegemony, mass media influence, mass media and politics

Symbolic annihilation of women, racial/ethnic minorities, and/or, LGBTQ+ individuals:

  • symbolic annihilation, symbolic communication, collective representation, representation, critical discourse analysis, media discourse, mass media-social aspects, Black people, minorities, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, women, mass media and women, transgender people, LGBTQ people, LGBTQ communities, LGBTQ identity

Representation of women, racial/ethnic minorities, and/or LGBTQ+ individuals:

  • representation, collective representation, media discourse, critical discourse analysis, stereotypes, gender stereotypes, feminism, mass media and women, Black people, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, minorities, transgender people, LGBTQ people, LGBTQ communities, LGBTQ identity