Project details

The project must have the following contents:

• The Introduction 
• Historical section
• Social section 
• Cultural  section   
• Political section  
• Economics section
• The Conclusion 

An introductory page

·      It is similar to the proposal and outlines your givens and your questions. 

•  Include an introduction to the sections
• Includes some introductory background like what might be found on the back of a movie or a summary from the web. This, of course, is your own work.
• Start with the iconography of the artifact for your graphics
• This is where you can link to most well-known of your sources that discusses your artifact as important
• This is where you will pose the questions you want to ask of the artifact. 

Pages/Chapters

• 1 page per section
• Break your sections into topics for each and create new pages as needed
• Each section needs to have a minimum of five external links that will give more depth to your particular discussion without you going into too much external detail. This is where you don’t have to do all of the writing but explain why this link is important to your questions and givens.

How to figure out what to link to:

Don’t just link to others’ work situate it so people know why you think this is important. You are also “curating” this site. Content curating is a skill that shows up in a lot of comm job descriptions these days and a cool word to through around in job interviews.

• Fan sites and fan fic
• Academic work
• News articles
• Interviews (appropriately categorized)
• Pop culture references (This shows up in your cultural section)
• Artistic work based on the artifact (remakes, art work, operas, books)
• Books about the artifact (link to reviews and the Amazon site)

You will also include your bibliography and link everything in the bib as best you can.

If you have done any ORIGINAL research make it a separate page and call it “original sources” It would be smart to photograph the person if this happens in person or ask for a photo you can use if you are doing a “phoner”.  Include the transcript (if interviewing through any chat this is easy) and if you are doing the phoner record the interview and make it available on the site. Even if you don’t use everything in the writing someone else might find the conversation useful and you could be cited next!