Critical Investigation: Project Proposal

Working title
How is institutional bias influencing the representations of certain groups and the Miscarriage of Justice?

Angle

What Impact does the influence have on the justice system, people with disabilities and the documentary genre?
Should there be more regulation on sites such as Netflix? (but not as much as the BBC)

 Hypothesis

Making a Murderer is a perfect example showing that institutional bias is still a complex and major problem (or factor) in the contemporary media landscape.

Linked production piece

A Short film
There are two protagonist's one committed a crime and didn't serve, the other didn't commit a crime and served. The person who went to prison will have scenes that directly contrast and will be in black and white.

MIGRAIN

o Institutions - Netflix - Bias - Law Enforcement
o Genre - Documentary - Changes to it over the years.
o Representation of Law enforcement - Negative - 
                                People with disabilities - Vulnerable, law breakers?
                                Working Class - Gold diggers? e.t.c
o Audience - Impact - Passive vs Active - Influence

Creation of Dominant Ideologies


SHEP

Apply the Wider Contexts (Social, Historical, Economic, Political) to your text/topic, including at least three bullet points on each one.

Social
o http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54837/1/U585226.pdf
o Representation - http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/australian-justice-system-disability-indigenous/7326240

o http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/jr13/p5a.html

Historical
o https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/18/miscarriages-justice-history
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_miscarriage_of_justice_cases
o http://thecrimereport.org/2013/10/03/2013-10-sex-race-and-wrongful-conviction/

Economic 
o http://moneynation.com/steven-avery-money-facts/ 
o 'Gold digger Fiance' 


Political
o Criminal Justice system on the whole
o http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/making-a-murderer-criminal-justice_us_5699952de4b0b4eb759e8757



Issues/Debates

Select at least five and say how each relates to your study, using the Media A-Z to help you think about this:
  • Representation and stereotyping
  • Media effects
  • Reality TV
  • News Values
  • Moral Panics
  • Post 9/11 and the media
  • Ownership and control
  • Regulation and censorship
  • Media technology and the digital revolution – changing technologies in the 21st century
  • The effect of globalisation on the media

Theories

Select at least five and say how each relates to your study, using keywords/specific theorists' names from the Media A-Z:
  • Semiotics
  • Structuralism and post-structuralism
  • Postmodernism and its critiques
  • Gender and ethnicity
  • Marxism and hegemony
  • leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others. Law vs Avery's.
  • Liberal Pluralism - 
  • Colonialism and Post-colonialism
  • Audience theories
  • Genre theories
  • Contemporary Media Landscape
  • Shirky and Jenkins

Explain how your study fits into this.

Research plan (media texts, academic texts and websites)

Media texts
Making a Murderer - Stephen Avery and Brendan Dassey

Other media texts
Orange is the New black (S4 Particularly)


TV documentaries
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0327z4t/the-people-detective-5-maybrick

Academic texts/books

Shirky and Jenkins.(SEE HALSEY)
Re-Thinking the Miscarriage of Justice - Michael Naughton
The First Miscarriage of Justice: The 'Unreported and Amazing' Case of Tony Stock

Internet Links

http://thejusticegap.com/2014/09/justice4tonystock/

http://people.com/crime/judge-overturns-making-a-murderer-subject-brendan-dasseys-conviction/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5ad914e1-afed-4e0d-b7ab-754bf3d0b1e6
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34891288

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwikocHInrfPAhWoIcAKHcbcBzUQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefrisky.com%2F2016-01-25%2Fmaking-a-murderer-biased-journalism-necessary-outrage%2F&usg=AFQjCNGoMs4RVlotXU-GKIzrdGbgdJSzfg&sig2=tSdGtZ6cMFCujGRAhHArQg&bvm=bv.134495766,d.ZGg Use 

Other NETFLIX SHOWS: http://kmest4.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/mest4-critical-investigation-to-what.html

AGAINST AVERY
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwilw_Tom7fPAhVlI8AKHem6ABMQqQIIHTAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Ftv%2Ftv-news%2Fmaking-murderers-steven-avery-wants-8946031&usg=AFQjCNEugy87T_HHjftYpKYmS_keU1hVaQ&sig2=ImlglkkoUdnA5jcAOmXUgw



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