One artifact that I could criticize using the ideological method of criticism is the book "Crystallizing Public Opinion" by Edward Bernays. A specific section of the book would be most easily assessed as it deals with the ethics related to Public Relations which is a highly debated subject within the academic world. Bernays presents his beliefs within the section which gives a perfect example of an ideology.
A second artifact that would be relevant for me to criticize would be the Public Relations Society of America's guidelines of ethical behavior (http://www.prsa.org/AboutPRSA/Ethics/). I think this would be an interesting artifact to analyze because it shows the generally accepted code of ethics that PR Representatives are expected to uphold and maintain as set out through the beliefs of the PRSA.
A final artifact that I would be interested in analyzing through ideological criticism would be the novel "A Color Purple" by Alice Walker. It does not directly have anything to do with my major and my future career, but the book is full of ideologies and references to them. Walker does a great job of displaying both sides of certain ideologies and it would be interesting to go through some of them and compare the basic principles of each.
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I think that your first artifact would be my vote for your first essay. There is so much you could write about the subject. You stated that it could be easily assessed.
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ReplyDeleteI think that the best artifact to do is the Code of Ethics since the others may take time to read or research. If however, you choose
the Code of ethics it would make an interesting artifact that would yeild an essay of the proper length. The code of ethics might also make a good essay that is done using pentadic critism since the results it would yeild might give people an over view of its importance. Or even more interesting,it
may do the opposite and show how the Code of ethics itself is not significant. I would follow the steps in pentadic criticism and show the audience how you reached your conclusion and then give your oppinion of why
the article is or is not significant.