Mr. Salo
Mass Communications
Television Research Projects
Assignment: Students will research an assigned topic on television and create a tri-fold display with text and graphics to be displayed at HVHS.
Suggested Topics or Suggested Subject Headings and/or Key Words:
| History of Television: Nipkow/Disk Sarnoff Zworkykin/Kinscope Farnsworth Baird/lconoscope tube |
TV Audiences: Nielson Ratings Demographics/Targeting Sponsorship Commercials |
Business of Television: Networks Affiliates Syndication |
| Changes in Television
Programming and Delivery: Network Television Public Television Cable TV Direct TV Digital TV Internet/Interactive Television |
Timeshifting: VCRs TiVo DVR DVD
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| Power of Television: McCarthyism OJ Simpson trial (May include the civil rights movement) (Current topics: Schiavo-(right to die), Michael Jackson trial) |
News Staging: Geraldo "Re-creation or simulations" Tabloid journalism Journalism Ethics Media Literacy
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Call Numbers which might be helpful:
| 070. | B SCH |
| 345.73 RIC | World Book |
| R 361.1 PRO | Encyclopedia of World Biography |
Online Databases on the library's homepage:
| Discovering Collection--search by subject; very good source for history of television |
| InfoTrac--search by subject |
| e-library--This
database houses reference books and periodicals and also recommends
websites.
Search by subject or topic search to find websites. Try topic<communications<history of television<farnsworth, philo t.<big chalk editors choice websites |
Websites:
| http://www.tvhistory.tv/ |