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Goal: The goal of this discussion is to investigate a human rights issue and how it is explored in the media and the rhetoric used.
Course Objective:
CO2: Distinguish different types of communication research methods including qualitative and quantities research methods.
Description:
Critical research generally aims to disrupt what we know about social reality in the spirit of liberation or resistance to dominant thinking. Typically, critical studies puts a particular object of study in a wider cultural, economic and political context. For example, critical research may explore women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, voter suppression, disability advocacy, human trafficking, or many other human rights issues.
Please select a human rights issue that is personally important to you. After you've selected this issue, spend some time thinking and exploring how this issue is shared and portrayed in the media. In your discussion post, please discuss these two questions:
Is this an important public issue?
How does the media seek to disrupt the public's perception of this issue?
In your post, please provide a hyperlink(s) to any media coverage of your issue.