Bullying in the School Ground
Introduction to Contemporary Society
STUDENT DETAILS ACAP Student ID: 185017 Name: Sharon Stewart Course: Bachelor of Applied Social Science.
ASSESSMENT DETAILS : Compare and contrast the reporting of the social issue that was identified in assignment 1. Unit/Module ICS_T311_A2 Educator: Guy Vicars Assessment Name: Assessment Number: Academic Essay: 2 Term & Year: T3_2011 Word Count: 1923
DECLARATION I declare that this assessment is my own work, based on my own personal research/study . I also declare that this assessment, nor parts of it, has not been previously submitted for any other unit/module or course, and that I have not copied in part or whole or otherwise plagiarised the work of another student and/or persons. I have read the ACAP Student Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct Policy and understand its implications.
Bullying in the school yard has been portrayed extensively through the media and within it’s many mediums. This essay will discuss the social issue of bullying in the school yard in context to the media and the influence the media has in shaping public opinion on the issue. Coleman & Ross (2008) describe the media’s influencing power as follows “The mediated public voice is managed in countless ways. It is edited, cut off in it’s prime, reduced to polling numbers, confined to banal soundbites, marginalised as background noise & rendered unofficial”(p.45). This essay will integrate aspects of the previous essay (Bullying in the school yard – ICS – A1) to highlight and look at the complex nature of the media and topical areas. Using two different newspaper opinion articles, this essay will discuss similarities and differences between the two sources in relation to the issue of bullying
STUDENT DETAILS ACAP Student ID: 185017 Name: Sharon Stewart Course: Bachelor of Applied Social Science.
ASSESSMENT DETAILS : Compare and contrast the reporting of the social issue that was identified in assignment 1. Unit/Module ICS_T311_A2 Educator: Guy Vicars Assessment Name: Assessment Number: Academic Essay: 2 Term & Year: T3_2011 Word Count: 1923
DECLARATION I declare that this assessment is my own work, based on my own personal research/study . I also declare that this assessment, nor parts of it, has not been previously submitted for any other unit/module or course, and that I have not copied in part or whole or otherwise plagiarised the work of another student and/or persons. I have read the ACAP Student Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct Policy and understand its implications.
Bullying in the school yard has been portrayed extensively through the media and within it’s many mediums. This essay will discuss the social issue of bullying in the school yard in context to the media and the influence the media has in shaping public opinion on the issue. Coleman & Ross (2008) describe the media’s influencing power as follows “The mediated public voice is managed in countless ways. It is edited, cut off in it’s prime, reduced to polling numbers, confined to banal soundbites, marginalised as background noise & rendered unofficial”(p.45). This essay will integrate aspects of the previous essay (Bullying in the school yard – ICS – A1) to highlight and look at the complex nature of the media and topical areas. Using two different newspaper opinion articles, this essay will discuss similarities and differences between the two sources in relation to the issue of bullying
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