AAAGHH! I haven't blogged in forever. All right, lots of catch-up. I figured media bias would suck, cuz everybody knows that the media is biased and there isn't any really good argument to come up with regarding that topic.
So, I chose the media's effect on children. This is somewhat uncontested, but I think I can make a pretty good argument.
The best source I've had is the Kaiser Family Foundation. I've heard of this group, and I'm pretty sure they're well-respected as a solid source of information. And there's plenty of information on the KFF website. Their reports are available for free on the website, and all the information you could ever want is up there, as well as way more that could make you sick, and some that you'll just zone out on. That's heaven for me! I probably need to back off a bit on KFF, just so that I can get a balance of sources.
I was going to check out a book called Viewing Violence by Madeline Levine. It's in the Ridgewater Library, along with another book by Levine and a book called the Encyclopedia of Children and the Media. I think I might want to read those, so I hope it's not too late.
I typed up my Lit Survey draft the morning it was supposed to be turned in. Obviously, that made it kind of sucky. I think I'll be able to make it into a good one, though, if I give myself enough time.
I like my sources. Half of them are from academic peer-reviewed journals. Three are from the KFF, and three are from magazines: Health, Electronic Media, and Television Week.
I intend to rely mostly on the academic journals, like Impact of Media on Children and Adolescents: a 10-year review of the Study by Susan Villani. I hope to read these through and through.
KFF will provid most of my stats. They have about ten pages of pure stats on each paper, so I will have plenty of statistics to work on. However, KFF seems to be more oriented toward how much media kids watch, rather than how they are affected by the media they see. I may want to dig deeper into the KFF website to find more relevant info, or use other sources for my stats.
The three magazine articles are mainly stats on kid's media use. I think I may just throw them out, or not cite them at all. KFF should cover everything that they cover.