Blog 22 Analysis of data

Here is the link to the article....

http://www.essence.com/2013/01/23/real-talk-stop-making-michelle-obama-your-feminist-leader/

Some evidence of my analysis of data:

The Big issue about this article is about The “F” word (Feminist), Minority among

groups are making Feminists look bad. A few comments toward Michelle Obama were like

about Forcing overload, being anti-male, educating her daughters as well as America’s girls, and

more. As I read through more of the article it seems as if the viewers are saying that Hillary

Clinton has been able to take on more political duties than Mrs. O, but others are saying that

it’s because her children were older than Mrs. O (Michelle Obama) daughters. Mrs. O decided

to dedicate more of her motherly duties more so over political duties, and a lot of people were

viewing her as a feminist. . Some statements quoted in the text reads, “many feminist have

forgotten that motherhood still works,” and “Blame feminism for the actions of black men in

Hip Ho, prison, and destruction of black community.”

G is known to understand how it is to be misunderstood by others, how these viewers

are placing Mrs. O at the bottom of leadership. Some readers are upset about the fact that being a full-time mother is considered to be “un-feminist.”

Blog 21 data

This article the article I will be analyzing from Essence magazine post, including comments from readers about the issue....

Real Talk: Stop Making Michelle Obama Your Feminist Leader

Shortly after I began penning this column in June 2011, I wrote a somewhat controversial post, “Struggling to Claim the F-Word,” in which I distanced myself from being called a ‘feminist.’ “Do I believe in equality, equal pay, equal rights for everyone, including men? Yes,” I wrote. “But to say, 'Yes, I am the F-word!' Just feels... like a burden I'm not ready to bear.”

More than a year later, I’m probably farther away from claiming the title than ever before. Feminism, at its core, is a great and empowering purpose. But a vocal minority among the group are making all feminists look bad. Here’s a recent example: a story in the Washington Post last week headlined “Four years later, feminists split by Michelle Obama’s ‘work’ as a First Lady.” (The quotations around work, as if it’s debatable whether Mrs. Obama does any, are the original publication’s and not my own.)

The first half of Lonnae O’Neal Parker’s piece considers Mrs. O’s “strange but considerable” power in the White House where some feminist women accuse FLOTUS of “letting down the team" by "not working" and scoff at her self-described primary duty of “Mom-in-Chief,” a sort of Captain America Mom where no child leaves the table without eating their vegetables. Mrs. O, these feminists lamented, is no Hillary Clinton.

I really adore Mrs. Clinton, whose career trajectory, including her current role as Secretary of State, is a series of boss moves. But I don’t understand why the two women need to be pitted against each other—how unfeminist is that? Or why the First Lady needs to follow in a predecessor’s footsteps to be thought of as great. And, for what it’s worth, lots of people think she is. Mrs. O—arms toned like a superhero and rescuing kids from obesity one workout at a time—has managed an astronomical 73 percent approval rating.

I suppose it’s because FLOTUS is uber-educated with degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School that she’s expected to tackle so-called ‘more important’ fare than the health of Americans' beautiful little kids, helping military families cope or tackling the fate of even her own brown girls, who were uprooted from their hometown and are being raised in a media circus. For some, I guess, it might seem like a waste to well, waste, all those smarts on issues so unworthy. Nothing in a woman’s life should ever take precedence over climbing a career ladder, right?

Fortunately, the second half of Parker’s article, tackles the perception from the other (and melanin-infused) side of feminism, one that paints Mrs. O for the revolutionary that she is. Not just for being the first Black First Lady, but for being a rare Black woman who doesn’t feel compelled to do it all (and all the time too). Sure FLOTUS could have swooped into Washington in Olivia Pope's power ensembles to tackle policy, and she would have been great at it, undoubtedly. But it would have been a career that she had to balance in addition to her duties as First Lady—a full-time job on its own—and the Second Shift of raising her children—another full-time job. Is it really so bad for Mrs. O to lay a burden down and choose family and what looks like a whole lot of fun over trying to prove herself in a new arena? It’s like it’s never occurred to some feminists that after years of toiling in corporate America—yes, toiling because I know lots of people in it and very few who like what they do as much as they like the check, the access and the power trip—Mrs. O might just have wanted a break from that sort of madness, especially since she was taking on another dimension of it becoming, you know, the First Lady of the United States. 

When we see Mrs. O., she looks happy standing beside her man, digging in her garden, and loving her well, lovable children. It’s not like she’s chilling in the White House with her feet up—which I also wouldn’t object to—she’s always on the move, advocating something or another and looking like she’s having a ball. Maybe “just” being happy and having fun isn’t feminist enough, but I’ll take however Mrs.O is living over how some feminists expect her to.

Blog 20 research Lit. review data

At this point in my research I am still collecting data but also working on my literacy review. I am looking up mulitple articles and possible interviews by editors, writers, and readers of the magazines that I have chosen to use for my project. So far from the workshops in class and given examples of past papers is really helping me alog with my own paper. Here is some of my lit review in relation  to my research question.. It's still in working progress.

Literature review

            Some studies show that the media is a wide segment of a community and offers to individuals, especially young people to have access to valuable information and resources. The media is to both entertain and educate people of all ethnic background and of all ages, sex, etc., in order to gain more viewers and keep up with group and communities. This is to also allow students or people to reach out and speak out about topics that are not spoken about within the space it’s in. this outcome can shift social norms and become positive in some way or another. But, it can also be offensive and to direct toward some people and cause negative actions.

            Articles forming topics about games and technology can be a way to bring together a diverse community along with music, art and cultural activities. What makes this relevant is that the topics of discussion with magazine articles or through blogs responses can produce positive change in attitudes and behaviors. As a media lover, reader, and writer you want to be able to target some social issues that is currently going on, topics such as Korea, taxes, education, Africa, or your own neighborhood that  maybe only a few residents know about and possibly be able to reach out to others. This forms groups of the same interest, dealing with the same issues, and coming together as a discourse community through the effect of the media.

Blog 20 corrections

Notes from Sharrelle's research topic.

• research: how can the media rule articles and responses of public form a Discourse community.
• focus: observe and look up articles form magazines that are similar but not so similar. look up the age groups of responses.
• how can a Discourse community form because most responses are the same but different.
• diverse magazines. different ethnics ages.
• important: how are these a Discourse community. growth of a magazine.

Feedback:
look at different articles with diverse populations. why does some articles have diverse pictures and some articles do not. Look for articles in different magazines with the same topic. Find articles relating to media creating a Discourse community. Look online to see who posts about the articles- are the comments the same among diverse populations.

Blog 19 1/2

Today in class we dicussed more about the literature review and was given examples from other papers to see how the writers gave their discription of the beginning of their literature review. This was really helpful because we the students can now understand what is needed to get the point straight across. It's like an extra explaination of the introduction for your research project. This workshop was really helpful and the example papers was a great way to not make the same mistakes for our own papers.

Blog 20 Intro and Lit review workshop

Today's notes workshop from Stephanie:

Stephanie research question:- What makes an effective teacher?
Her Focus-  observing the teacher/ interaction w/the students to see his reaction
                   -interview the teacher/ record/ observe body language or maybe not
                   - observe where the teacher stands in the classroom ( center front when discussing something      important)

What's important- To see what's so important about what makes the students comfortable about the that teacher.

My feedback- For me as a student and other students I feel like this research question is really good to know to compare why some teachers are better to understand and better overall than others. Through the research this can help me and other students see the difference and maybe look at the other teachers in a way to understand then more. 

Blog 19...Rsearch plan

During my research development I will use methods as to compare some responses from different  magazines with similar questions asked in interviewed sessions. This will be helpful for me to collect the data I need to gather infomration, and show how even though through differnt topics asked some of the responses may be the same. Each magazine has there own discourse community form the topic based of what the actual magazine is about, so I want to show how questions and comments within the magazines can form an even more Grande discourse community. Then, I can look at the types of questions being asked (not so much as an interveiw) but jaut broad questions about a certain topic. And see the readers response to the questions and also compare it with other questions asked in other magazines.

So far this is my vision of wjat I plan to do to start collecting ny data....

Blog 17/18 Resarch Project post...

My project doesn't have anything to do with an actual interview but part of my project I have to observe some written interviews in a magazine, and observe the questions and responses that are mentioned in some interviews.