What insights would Janice Radway, Edward Said, or Stuart Hall provide?

Please only make an offer if you are knowledgeable about communication theories. Instructions: Create a media history of a present technology. First, choose a contemporary media technology or an aspect of a media technology (i.e., Instagram; SMS/MMS; emoji communication; iPhone, etc.). This is your “media object.” Then, research the history of this media object, including any “old media” which may have informed its design, function, and popularity today. Format: Write an essay on your chosen media object to answer the questions below. You can include text, images, and audio-visual materials in your essay. Assignment requirements: Include the following in your essay: ● The history of your media object (1-2 pages): ○ Use scholarly materials as much as possible here. Google Scholar and the library website are good places to start. ● Historical precursors (1-2 pages): ○ What earlier media forms can shed light on your contemporary media object? Explain well how you make this/these connection(s) ● Relevant communication and media studies theory: drawing on theories we have seen in class and in the readings since the Frankfurt School, offer at least three ways of “making sense” of this contemporary media object (2-3 pages): ○ For ex.: What would Adorno and Horkheimer say about your media object? What insights would Janice Radway, Edward Said, or Stuart Hall provide? ● The history of emoji: where did they come from? Who decides what gets to be an emoji? When did it emerge? How? With which means? Who developed/commercialized it? Who was targeted by its development? What is the process by which new emoji are introduced? ● Historical precursors: are there other examples of visual – rather than text-based – communication that might provide insight into our contemporary use of emoji? ● Relevant communication and media studies theory: Stuart Hall’s work on Representation would allow you to theorize the use of emoji skin-tone modifiers Habermas might be concerned about the role of emoji in the public sphere, and the relationship between emoji communication and democracy; etc.