Sports/Technology analysis

Assignment Requirements

 

Popular Culture Laboratory–Application and Analysis (200 points)

Each module has a number of links entitled “Lab.” After viewing one of the links (an artifact of popular culture), please analyze that artifact using the following parameters:

Your analysis should be at least 700 words; an analysis of less than 500 words will not be graded.
Your analysis should combine information gained from the readings with your own thoughts and insights. Please quote (and then underline) one of the articles in your analysis (e.g.., As Steven Johnson notes in his article “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” TV is “enhancing our cognitive abilities, not dumbing them down.”).
We have intentionally kept the format open, so please feel free take your analysis in any direction you deem appropriate.

Please type your work into Word (or a similar word processing program). When submitting, click the “W” on the toolbar of the submission box. Another box will pop up; paste your work there, then click enter. This will preserve all your formatting.

Please finish the questions below:
1. What does the author state our concept of a sports hero is based on?

A. Athletes’ donations to charity.
B. An ignorance of the athlete.
C. The way that fictional athletes are portrayed in literature, television, and film.
D. Fans’ vicarious triumph through an athlete’s win.

2. What does the author mean by “the propaganda of heroism”?

A. Sports figures are asked to only say positive things about the US.
B. Athletes are often forced to attend diplomatic functions when competing in other countries.
C. Sports figures often use their hero status to further their own goals, such as running for office.
D. Athletes are used by their country to promote specific values, and then ignored after they have accomplished that goal.

3.Some of the changes agreed on by the Division I board are (choose all that apply):

A. an increase in the required GPA of incoming freshman from 2.0 to 2.3.
B. freezing the number of games and length of the playing season.
C. providing on-the-road tutoring for all away games.
D. an allowance of multi-year scholarships.
4. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has repeatedly called NCAA and member schools to task for:

A. turning a blind eye to blatant cheating in non-athletic related classes.
B. an unacceptable level of commitment to the education of student-athletes.
C. scheduling games at times when athletes should be in class.
D. helping only their star players achieve academic success.
5. The $150 million distributed by the NCAA Basketball Fund in April (of 2012):

A. have rigid restrictions on how the funds can be used.
B. was spread evenly across all public colleges in the United States.
C. is only 35% of the amount in the NCAA Academic Education Fund.
D. was based on the success of the 2011 March Madness tournaments.
6. Sherrey Turkle writes of the larger trend in media culture (choose all that apply):

A. sometimes people don’t have a feeling until they check if other people have it too.
B. with so many opinions in the media, people are overwhelmed and prefer to have no opinions at all.
C. thoughts and feelings have been turned into mere entertainment.
D. we learn about what everyone else thinks by reading highly polarized opinions that encourage choosing sides rather than thinking things through.
7. What does author Sherry Turkle say that, most of all, we should remember?

A. Instant connection will make us feel less lonely.
B. We should never be alone.
C. It is more important to have conversation at home than at work.
D. We need to listen to one another, even the boring bits.
8. Kutner and Olson have noted that:

A. as video game usage has skyrocketed in the past two decades, so has the rate of juvenile crime.
B. video games have been used to help rehabilitate juvenile offenders.
C. as video game usage has skyrocketed in the past two decades, the rate of juvenile crime has fallen.
D. video game usage has been proven to cause juvenile crime.
9.Which fantasy is not fulfilled by always-on, always-on-you devices?

A. We don’t have any problems that cannot be solved.
B. We can put our attention wherever we want it to be.
C. We will always be heard.
D. We never have to be alone.
10. How can we present ourselves the way that we want to be (choose all that apply)?

A. editing
B. deleting
C. retouching
D. adding

 

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