Media assignment. LGBTQ+ Community in Canada: A Media Analysis.

Media Assignment
Due week 10 (11:59 p.m.) 
Worth 10% 
Type – Individual or Pairs 
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Purpose of the assignment
1. Develop an analysis of how the media can contribute to the perpetuation of stereotypes and myths about diverse groups of people in society. 
2. Understand the importance of effective online social activism for SSWs through social media, and how it can contribute to demystifying and countering stereotypes, stories, and myths used to perpetuate the oppression in society of diverse groups of people. 
Process of the assignment
Students will self enroll into pairs in SLATE. Groups will be open on SLATE for self-enrollment from November 9, 2020.   For more information on how to self enroll into a group on SLATE, please watch the video How to self enroll into pairs. 
In pairs, students will identify a current situation in Canada that is discriminatory toward any ONE group of people discussed in class and course material (i.e. older adults/ children, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants/refugees, women, low-income people, or people with disabilities) amid COVID19, and share it in their online forum for discussion. Consider your chosen group’s intersectional identity as it relates to the current situation in your responses. 
You can use the news, credible web-based material and/or mixed media content online and in the course contents to identify and share your social justice issue related to your chosen group. 
Students will answer the following questions in their online group forums:
1. What is the experience of oppression/s experienced by the diverse population? 
2. How does the media content perpetuate and/or debunk stereotypes, discrimination and/or myths about the oppressed population?
3. Please identify the action that each person in your group can play as an Ally and/or in the role of an SSW online, using an anti-oppression approach to support the oppressed group in the current situation. 
4. You are required to use a minimum of two (2) academic sources to answer all three questions. APA citations are required and writing rubrics apply.
Product (written submission OR video submission)
To answer the above questions students will meet in the discussion boards to discuss, analyze and share resources. After exhausting the process:
1. Students are expected to organize their answers into a word document for submission to the Group Assignment folder in SLATE. The document should be at least three pages and it should include references.
OR
2. Students can use the Bongo Video Assignment in SLATE to record, combine, organize and upload video responses.  Each pair must upload their reviewed media content to the Media Gallery prior to submitting their video responses in Bongo. You must include a page with references or include them in the video.
Here is a helpful tutorial on  how to create and combine videos using Bongo in the online Media Gallery and in the Virtual Assignment and Classroom spaces on SLATE. (Note: Students are welcomed to use other platforms to create and share their video responses. If using an alternative video sharing platform other than Bongo, students are encouraged to contact their professor about the specific mediums and platforms that will be accepted for their video submissions).
The media assignments must be submitted by the end of the day in Week 10 (by 11:59 p.m.)  If you have any questions, feedback, or accessibility needs, please contact your professor in SLATE, or by using the contact information and instructions provided under course information for more support.