Analyzing Media
What I Was Supposed to Learn:
What I Actually Learned:
This class was completely outside of my comfort zone. It was communications, it was statistics and it was all new to me. The basis of the class was that we would be working for The Seattle Times for the quarter to put on a content audit of their paper. Groups would choose to focus on a topic ie how many articles mention youths in poor situations, appropriately plan how to analyze for that topic, code the results and present the findings in a presentation to the paper. I felt so out of my element but also so excited to be doing something different with my time. I sincerely loved the class and it made me so aware of headlines and news content now when I read articles. I also was really proud of being in the Honors Program, it was the first time that I left the University setting with the Honors title and saw how people valued us. The artifact below is my written midterm exam, its so fun to read just because its a mix of all these different scenarios and statistical analyses that I never had to work with before. It had nothing to do with what I wanted to pursue in my career but everything to do with making me an aware citizen of society.
- perform a content audit for The Seattle Times
- how to use statistical analysis in communications
- how to choose appropriate tests to analyze different social situations
What I Actually Learned:
- people trust Honors Students a lot outside of the University
- news content can be unintentionally biased towards race, gender and class
This class was completely outside of my comfort zone. It was communications, it was statistics and it was all new to me. The basis of the class was that we would be working for The Seattle Times for the quarter to put on a content audit of their paper. Groups would choose to focus on a topic ie how many articles mention youths in poor situations, appropriately plan how to analyze for that topic, code the results and present the findings in a presentation to the paper. I felt so out of my element but also so excited to be doing something different with my time. I sincerely loved the class and it made me so aware of headlines and news content now when I read articles. I also was really proud of being in the Honors Program, it was the first time that I left the University setting with the Honors title and saw how people valued us. The artifact below is my written midterm exam, its so fun to read just because its a mix of all these different scenarios and statistical analyses that I never had to work with before. It had nothing to do with what I wanted to pursue in my career but everything to do with making me an aware citizen of society.