Last week you completed a worksheet to start planning your Final Project. You chose the social issue you will explore as well as two categories of popular culture as defined in this course. This week, you continue your analysis of social issue messaging through popular culture and how it has changed over time. Do this by selecting artifacts/expressions within your chosen categories to serve as specific illustrative examples. You may include any artifacts/expressions you used in last weeks discussion as well as selecting new ones. To prepare, research the history of your popular culture category over time. This time period should be approximately 50 years but may be longer. Select specific artifacts/expressions from the past and from today to compare social issue messaging over time. Examples are provided on the Week 1 Final Project Summary resource. Consider the following: How has the audience and social values changed over time in relation to your popular culture artifact/expression categories? How have the popular culture categories either reflected or opposed the changing audience and social values? If the audience and social values have changed over time with regard to one of the popular culture categories, describe the changes. By Day 7 Submit a 400- to 500-word paper that addresses these questions for your popular culture artifact. Include at least two references to academically relevant sources. You may use the ones provided in the Learning Resources or research your own. Note: Wikipedia, , , and similar websites are not considered academically relevant.
