Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Critical Investigation Targets for 3rd Draft

  • include a generic historical overview within the introduction 
    • how was a patriacrhal societ affected representations of women?
  • create a hypothesis of how and why things are changing in the 21st century
    • media effects
    • globalisation 
  • include more critical debates
    • regulation and censorship
    • ownership - ASA
  • use the idea of zeitgiest
  • research the feminist theory in detail and relate to more media concepts
    • historical links as well as current links using texts as examples
  •   find 3 more books to get quotes from
  • analyse texts using key concepts in more detail relating them to wider contexts 
    • especially, political and social aspects
  • in foot notes and bibliography, make the title of book or website in italics
    • footnotes - take out the web address 
    • use ibid
  • consider re-structuring the essay 
    • intro
    • historical texts 
    • dominant and alternative ideoligies
    • relate to texts (coty lipstick, young love etc)
    • feminism theory (movement)
    • 21st century texts (rihanna, beyonce, lily allen etc)
    • dominant and alternative ideoligies
    • media effects - ASA, sexualistation, aspiration, globalisation, regulation  
    • effect on economy - revenues, celebrity endorsement
    • continue to weave in theories and textual analysis round texts
  • Overall, aim to write a more sophisticated CI with careful thought to structure, in depth content and making it more concise.