WIKI ASSIGNMENT #7   

The Cool Hunt
Posted 4.23.2012 Due 4.24.2012

This assignment requires the creation of a new wiki page, just like you did for the Global Issues (2.16.2012), Shakers Summary (2.28.2012), Anderson High School (3.14.2012),  Ideal High School (3.16.2012),  30 Days on the Reservation (3.22.2012) and  The Tour of West Java (3.28.2012)

STEP #1  Create an individual assignment page for this activity  Save the document  as   ex your intials  +  Cool Hunting

STEP #2 Copy and paste the following questions into the page you just created.  Answer the questions (please save as you go!!)

STEP #3  Save you new wiki page in your personal folder

Copy and paste the information below for the "Cool Hunting" assignment 

The Cool Hunt  
Media as an Agent of Socialization

TASK #1 What is your defintion of cool?  

TASK #2 Based on your experience as a media consumer, please state whether you AGREE or DISAGREE with the following statments and briefly explain your position.

Statement #1 (Medias impact on Emotional well-being) Author and Boston College sociology professor Juliet Schor finds links between immersion in consumer culture and depression, anxiety, low self esteem, and conflicts with parents

Statement  #2 (Medias impact onSelf-image and sexual behavior) Wheelock College education professor Diane Levin sees correlations with sexual imagery in children’s ads and increases in eating disorders among girls, adding that as “children struggle to make sense of mature sexual content, they are robbed of valuable time for age-appropriate developmental tasks, and they may begin to engage in precocious sexual behavior.”

Statement #3 (Medias impact on Financial self-control): National surveys reveal that kids are leaving high school without a basic understanding of issues relating to savings and credit card debt. No surprise, then, that over the past decade, credit card debt among 18-24 year olds more than doubled

TASK #3 Read The Marketing of Cool is All the Rage and answer the following questions

#1 What is the nation's teenage population  and how much do the spend each year?

#2 What is a "mook?"

#3 What is a midriff?" 

#4. According Mark Crispin Miller who has become the laughing stock  in the "official rock video world view?" 

#5. What, according the the authors of the article is considered "the front line of teen cultural resistance?"

TASK #4  The Cool Collage
Using the Technology of your choice create a "Cool Collage" using images and quotes from the internet.  Please keep in mind this is your defintion of what "cool" is. Save your Cool Collage to your "H" Drive or provide a link to the web based program you used.