CS235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Daytime Television
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Your hypothesis may be a combination of a number of these. Topics: discover the main themes and social attitudes of the lyrics to the top ten songs on a chart. Suggested hypothesis: popular music promotes promiscuity as opposed to monogamous marriage. Hip-hop music promotes a more conscious message in comparison to adult contemporary, country, rock, and pop music: references to adultery and race in relationships in primetime or daytime television. Suggested hypothesis: primetime television promotes adultery (and promiscuity) as opposed to monogamous marriage. Daytime television promotes the dysfunctionality of interracial relationships and the success of same race relationships: race in primetime or daytime television programs or advertising. Suggested hypotheses: primetime television represents racial minorities in subordinate positions, as opposed to white counterparts. Primetime television promotes the ivory skin model of beauty: gender in primetime or daytime television programs or advertising. Suggested hypotheses: primetime television objectifies and sexualizes women as opposed to representing them as empowering.
