Critical Analysis Portfolio
Critical Analysis Portfolio: Critical Analysis Portfolio and Presentation Proposal. For this first milestone, you will select a popular culture artifact to analyze through the four general education lenses. You will also analyze the artifact’s relationship to culture and society. Once you submit this Milestone One assignment, be sure to wait until your instructor has graded it and has approved your issue or topic before starting on the remaining Milestones for the project.
Overview: For the first part of your final project, the critical analysis portfolio, you will select an artifact from popular culture and critically analyze it through the four general education lenses: history, humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social sciences. By viewing the artifact through these lenses, you will gain insight into how the mediated nature of popular culture affects society, as well as both your own individual framework of perception and the choices, attitudes, and behaviors of others in the world around you.
For this first milestone, due in Module Two, you will select an artifact to analyze through the four general education lenses. You will explain the artifact and its relationship to popular culture as well as describe its connection to all four lenses.
Prompt: First, review the module resources you have so far encountered, as well as your work in Module One. Select one example of a popular culture artifact and write a paper that addresses how this artifact fits into the framework of popular culture, and then addresses how each lens influences perceptions and attitudes toward the artifact, popular culture, and society. The paper should outline each lens’s impact and framing of the artifact. Be sure to provide a working thesis statement and clear definitions for your key terms.
Specifically, you must address the critical elements listed below.
I. Introduction: You will compile a series of critical analyses of your popular culture artifact through the four general education lenses: history, humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social sciences.
A. Topic: Using the four lenses, explain how your artifact has or has not influenced modern society.
II. Lens Connections: In this section of your assignment, you will describe the connections between your artifact and each of the four general education lenses.
A. What is the connection of your artifact to the lens of the history for determining its impact on various institutions? Utilize evidence from theory and research to support your analysis.
B. What is the connection of your artifact to the lens of the humanities for determining its impact on various institutions? Utilize evidence from theory and research to support your analysis.
C. What is the connection of your artifact to the lens of natural and applied sciences for determining its impact on various institutions? Utilize evidence from theory and research to support your analysis.
D. What is the connection of your artifact to the lens of the social sciences for determining its impact on various institutions? Utilize evidence from theory and research to support your analysis. Be sure to use evidence from research to support your responses. Relevant current news sources may be used with instructor approval. Incorporate instructor feedback into your final project.
Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Milestone One should be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Word document. Use 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Begin building your reference list for Final Project Part One by supporting your responses with at least two sources for each lens from the assigned course resources or other scholarly sources located independently via the Shapiro Library. Cite your supporting sources in APA style.
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For this assignment, I will use social networking websites as an example of a popular culture artifact. According to Obar and Wildman (2015), social networking sites are platforms that provide people with the opportunity to build social relationships, share experiences, ad common personal and career interests. The artifact affects modern society in several ways. From the lens of the social sciences, which focuses on studying the community and relationships, social networking websites have given contemporary society an opportunity to build relationships that go beyond geographical boundaries…
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