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=__Step 1__= 1. Create a list of all the types of media you and your partner can think of. If you are on your own, you may need to check out other 8th graders work as the week progresses. 2. Identify the purposes of all media messages – for example to entertain, to inform etc. 3. How is the media influenced by social, political and economic factors? What other influences do you think media is affected or influenced by? More today than ever the news stations and magazines are biased towards whoever owns the company and what that person believes in. Like when fox is talking about the presidential
 * 1) Newspaper
 * 2) Social media
 * 3) Books
 * 4) T.V.
 * 5) Propaganda
 * 6) Movies
 * 7) Internet
 * 8) Radio
 * 9) Magazines
 * 10) Textbooks
 * 11) Music
 * 12) Billboards
 * 13) Advertisement
 * 14) Church Sermon
 * 1) Inform
 * 2) Entertain, Inform
 * 3) Entertain, Inform, persuade
 * 4) Entertain, Inform, persuade
 * 5) Persuade
 * 6) Entertain, inform, persuade
 * 7) inform
 * 8) Entertain, inform, persuade
 * 9) Entertain, inform, persuade
 * 10) Inform, persuade
 * 11) Entertain, inform, persuade
 * 12) Inform, persuade
 * 13) Persuade
 * 14) Inform, persuade

4. What do you think are the effects on those groups of people who are not represented by these media stories and those who portray them? Some groups aren't represented like Iraqi soldiers because the US is telling the story. =__Step 2__=

1. How are both sides of the war (i.e. Iraqis and the Americans) portrayed in these images and video? Americans amazing and Iraqi's aren't so. Because they are telling the story. 2. Your group will now undertake research on the Internet to gain a brief overview of the Iraqi culture. Consider information such as major cities, religion, government, social structures. Major Cities- Baghdad, Kadhimain, and Adhamiya Religion- Muslim and Islam Government- Dictatorship Social Structures- United Nations 3. Using the **Presentation (Resource 2),** compare the images portraying the same event. Point out the similarities and differences between them. In slide three there was a American and Iraqi flag and they both were on the statue but 1 was real the Iraqi 4. What choices were made in depicting this event in a certain way (i.e. through photographs, video, or written articles)? They zoomed in and out depending on what they wanted the people to see. In one slide, they put two pictures together to make it look like more people, which in reality there was only 40 or 50 and it looked like 100 to 200. 5. How did this information affect your understanding of the event? I thought that it was a great event when in reality it wasnt 6. What choices were made by the media in how they captured this event? What elements did they choose to omit or select to show? What do you think the intentions were by portraying the event this way? The U.S. captured this event to make us look good when were not. The ones that were making the U.S. look good. To make the U.S. look good. 7. Why do you think the newspaper images were doctored? To make the U.S. look amazing when there not. 8. What purpose did it serve? To make the citizens beleive we were helping Iraq when we were really hurting them. 9. Who gains from altering these images? The U.S. 10. Do you think an altered image can change history, and if so, how? yes because if other countries get ahold of our pictures they will think we are a helping country. =__Step 3__= 1. Consider how the Newspaper Editors have chosen to portray the war in Iraq. Consider elements such as a) Image size- Amereicans had smaller pictures to not show some of the grusome scenes behind them, The Iraq's showed what happpend to some of there citizens family's b) Use of colour and font size-the americans had small font and brod colours, and the Iraq had big font and pictures almost to colorful c) Dedication of space to a particular article – consider the size of the article. Does this give it more prominence? The Iraqi's looks like the whole page, and gives more prominance to the picture, While on the other hand the Americans article was semi long and the pictures took no space.

2. Who is the audience of the newspaper? America is the only ones who read this newspaper. But almost all spanish people get the Iraqi one. 3. Consider the ‘other’ side of the story. Who is not being represented in these newspapers? What ramifications does this have for ‘their’ side of the story? In the American newspaper the soldiers are hero's but in the Iraqi newspaper there killers and that man feels like all American's are like that when they arent.

=__Step 5__= Often the media assits in shaping and influencing the way events are potrayed and recorded. A govertnment or country's actions can be supported and "legitmised" through the media. These perspectives have a special impact on historical accounts and sources for a particular event.