ARIN6905 Digital audiences and creators
Description
The essay assignment of 3500 words in this class is a little different from most essay assignments.In the essay questions you will see that each question contains two parts:a link to a video,and a set of three readings which might be journal papers,chapters from an academic monograph (a single or co-authored book),or chapters from an edited collection(a book consisting of many essays from many different writers). Please write the question number,not the full question text, at the top of your essay.
For these essays,your task is to analyse the video via the readings.To give an example of what I mean, here is a sample paragraph I have written (using invented using fictional references and a fictional topic that has nothing to do with digital platforms) to demonstrate what an extremely good(85+,HD level)paragraph of such an essay will look like:
The video essay also mostly confrms what the readings have to say about the breeding habits of the Greater Sydneyfish,although with exceptions.For example,at 10:24 the video states that the Greater Sydneyfish reproduces solely in water with apH level of under 6,just as Bloggs(2022,p.167)states that these fish require slightly acidic water,and Smith (1978,p.661)similarly asserts that these fish arerarely if ever found in alkaline waters.Craig(1999)does not overly comment on the pH level of the
water for the Greater Sydneyfish,but does say it is rarely found in very pure water.Similarly,both Craig(1999,p.51)and Smith(1978,p.668)agree that in the Greater
Sydneyfish it is the female who takes the lead in selecting a mate,and this element of the creature's mating habits are noted in the video at various points(05:15,07:14, 35:33,51:31).However,there is a key different between the video essay and the workof Bloggs,who states (2022,p.144)that young Greater Sydneyfish remain close to their parents for up to a full year after being born,whereas the video(17:14)claims that young Greater Sydneyfish spend only a few months near their parents before striking out on their own.Of interest in this comparison is Smith(1978,p.655)who says it was not known,when they were writing,what the behaviour of young Greater Sydneyfish is.Given therefore the two conflicting claims in the video and Bloggs(2022,p.144),and Smith's(1978,p.655)comment about the uncertainty on thisissue,it appears that even in the present day this question has not been fully established,and further observation would be required to identify the behaviours of young Greater Sydneyfish.
As you can see,the key point of this essay is a close comparison between the readings and the video,with regular comparisons between the readings(precisely. cited) and the video presented(precisely timestamped),as well as analysis about what these comparisons tell us or show us.You should also have a short introductory paragraph of no more than 200 words in which you list the topics you'll be addressing in your essay,and a short conclusion paragraph (again no more than 200 words)in which you summarise the main points of comparison you have drawn out between the video and the readings,and thus how the readings can help in our understanding of the video.Again,please write the question number,not the full question text,at the top of your essay.