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1 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................1
2 MEDIA, LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE..................................................................................................1
2.1 The discursive practice of journalism...........................................................................................1
2.2 Reasons why I believe this story is newsworthy...........................................................................2
2.3 The criteria I would use to decide the news value of the event...................................................2
2.4 Whom I would interview for the story and why...........................................................................3
2.5 The structure I would present the story.......................................................................................3
2.6 The process of the story...............................................................................................................4
2.7 The notion of ideology in relation to mass media........................................................................6
3 TEXTUAL ANALYSIS: NARRATIVE AND ARGUMENT..............................................................................7
3.1 The contribution Propp made to the field of narrative analysis...................................................7
3.2 Propp’s six sequential stages........................................................................................................7
3.3 Television advertisement.........................................................................................................9
3.3.1 Description of the television advertisement.........................................................................9
3.3.2 Two character functions in the advertisement....................................................................10
3.3.3 Three of Propp’s sequential stages......................................................................................10
4 QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS IN MEDIA RESEARCH..............................................................................11
4.1 A definition of survey research and explain why it would be suitable for the study above........11
4.2 A suitable research problem......................................................................................................12
4.3 The difference between Target Population and Accessible Population..................................13
4.4 Unit of Analysis..........................................................................................................................14
4.5 Probability Sampling..................................................................................................................15
5 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TELEVISION...................................................................................................16
5.1 A suitable research problem for the proposal............................................................................16
5.2 The six similarities between television and dreams in your own words.....................................17
5.3 The four different processes through which the unconscious “speaks” its distorted messages.19
6 CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................21
7 SELF-ASSESSMENT AND SELF-REFLECTION.......................................................................................22
SOURCES CONSULTED..........................................................................................................................23
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