CONNECTED WORLDS

A Communication Media Studies Portfolio

Evidence

Sports and society paper

In this paper I dive into a specific sports story within recent years and relate it to social issues within our society today.

Learning Objectives:

  1. learned how to connect different pieces of evidence regarding sports and societal problems.

Target audience:

The target audience would be sporting event fans specifically 20 years or older.

Poster project

I created a poster project that was a mass media contact analysis through a specific medium, Disney movies.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Learned how to collect data and analyze it.
  2. Learned how to create a study on my own.

Target audience:

The audience I reached for this project was younger children who watch Disney movies.

Social identity paper

We had a group dissemination project to write a research paper on socioeconomic and class identity.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Worked together in a group and collaborating ideas.
  2. Splitting up responsibilities within multiple people.

Target audience:

The audience for this project could focus on any class, age or social group. 

Independent study

This my Independent study in which I conducted a research study my Junior year. I researched relational maintenance within emerging adults. 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Learned how to conduct my own study and recruit participants.
  2. learn how to get certified through CITI.

Target audience:

The study group I focused on was emerging adults in college. I gathered 12-15 participants, male and female ages (18-22) with any racial ethnic background. The target audience would be anyone interested in studying relationships and social media effects.

Reflection

This was for my intimate relationships course. This is a reflection on chapter 5 discussing Love and intimate relationships.

Learning Objectives:

  1. I learned how to reflect on articles I have read and analyze them critically and effectively.

Target audience:

  1. This audience included anyone in college and or professors.
  2. Anyone interested in studying intimate relationships.

Dissemination project

This is my dissemination project in which I studied how stereotypes affect certain groups of people. My final project was a video describing my findings in my research project.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Gathered and organize all my thoughts and evidence in a video format.
  2. How to organize and conduct a professional interview

Target audience:

  1. This audience involved college students of all gender and race.

Digital storytelling project and paper

Through this project we had to come up with our own digital story telling project.We had to pick a social media trend and create our own study based off that.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Gained a better understanding of how to tell a story through different platforms.

Target audience:

  1. This target audience could be college students who engage in social media use.

Infographic

I created this info graphic for my social identity and intergroup communication. This infographic shows the disparities that women and men face in sports, a pretty large societal problem.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Gain a good understanding of disparties within sports and genders.
  2. How to design and organize information for a poster

Target audience:

  1. Target audience can include athletes of all genders who take part in any sports.