Leisure Gender Research Blog Post and Infographic

I did research about my leisure activity, which is to watch TV. The 10 articles that I searched on Google included 5 articles about men and 5 articles about women. Those articles talk about men and women watching TV as a leisure activity. I think that both girls and boys can watch TV. It doesn't matter which gender you are. But, the articles that I read said watching TV was more for men than for women and another one said men are watching more TV than women do. For example, men watch TV 6 hours a day and women watch TV for 4 hours. I did this assignment in many different steps. First I searched about watching TV as a leisure activity. Second I wrote a gender project storyboard and then I went to easel.ly to create an infographic about watching TV for men and women. So, I used the writing part to finish my infographic about leisure and gender. I learned from this study how to create an infographic, how to use google search to find articles about watching TV, then find the word that represents men and women, and write how many images represents men and women watching TV and finally, I learned how to put the images in easel.ly for the infographic.

Below is a link to the infographic I created.
http://easel.ly/infographic/4qcoa8

Gender project Storyboard

Please make a copy and share on your blog

Gender Project--Storyboard

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Introduction:

Leisure Activity: Watching TV

Prior to the study I thought that watching TV was more to the men and to the women about the impact of gender on my leisure activity. (Refer to Edmodo response from Day 1 of study)

I thought this because: (Think about your life experiences, and what has been told to you in life through the media, societal norms, or other influences)

1) Both girls and boys can watch TV, it doesn't matter which gender you are.

2) Anyone can watch TV when ever they wants.

3) Watching TV is for everyone like some people can watch movies and others can watch dramas and etc.

Google:

In the news (Google searches)  I have seen men portrayed as: (in regards to my leisure activity)

Quote words, explain meaning

1) more time in watching TV, socializing or exercising (6.0 hours).

2) listening to music.

3) like to play video games.

4) relaxation.

In the news (Google Searches)  I have seen women portrayed as (in regards to my leisure activity)

Quote words, explain meaning

1) little time in watching TV, socializing or exercising (5.2 hours).

2) female viewers are looking for relaxation.

3) don’t like to play video games.

4) schedule for entertainment.

Out of the first 10 articles that appeared during the Google article search:

__5__/10 discussed mostly women participating in my leisure activity

__5__/10 discussed mostly men participating in my leisure activity

Analyze: I can make the following statements about the way gender is portrayed in the media in regards to my leisure activity.

1) I have learned from the article is that men watch TV more than women.

2) Men watch TV 6 hours and women watch TV 4 hours.

3) Men like to play video games and women don't like to play video games.

Google Image Search

Out of the images I looked at, the percentage of images showing women doing my leisure activity is little time watching TV 60%

Women were seen as: (in relation to your leisure activity)

1) crying.

2) watching cartoons.

3) watching comedy movie or laughing.

Here are examples to support my points (include at least 3 images-they should have been saved on a Google Drive document)
  
Out of the images I looked at, the percentage of images showing men doing my leisure activity is 40%

Men were seen as (in relation to your leisure activity)

1) watching romantic movies.

2) He's watching TV in the bed.

3) watching news and about foods.

Here are examples to support my points (include at least 3 images-they should have been saved on a Google Drive document)

 

Analyze: I can make the following statements about the way gender is portrayed in images in regards to my leisure activity.

1) I learned that boys are watching less TV than girls.

2) most of the boys and girls watching movies.

3) some are seating on the floor and some are seating in a coach to watch TV.

My video of leisure activity

https://goanimate.com/videos/0ojRFKolvJV8?utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=usercontent

Animate Script about leisure time

Go Animate Script:

Hello, my name is Masuma begum and I will be telling you about my leisure activity, ____________.

**In the places that say this leisure activity you can fill in the name of your activity

which is to watch TV.

Introduction:

• I picked this leisure activity because the indian TV shows are so nice to watch and I have lot of fun by watching the indian TV shows.

• How does the neighborhood impact your leisure activity: (THINK: HOW DOES BEING IN NYC ALLOW YOU TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY DIFFERENTLY? IS THERE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS IN NYC THAT EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY DIFFERENTLY? HOW DO NEIGHBORHOODS EITHER ENCOURAGE OR DISCOURAGE THE ACTIVITY)
• 1)Watching TV I experienced different languages how the actor talks.
• 2)No, there aren’t any neighborhood who impacted me for watching TV.
• 3) I think neighborhoods are encouraged because they also watch TV with me when I went to their homes or when they come to my home. So they like to encourage me when I watch TV with them.

• I hope the viewer will learn ….. about my leisure activity.

Interviews: Analyze audio from your interviews.

Must use 3 interviews!

• Pick best part of interview
• Best part can include favorite question asked or favorite answer received. (you cannot use the same person for these clips, you must use 3 different people)
• Write down the time of the clips you'd like to use (example: Liz/ Samantha from 1:30-1:36)

Clip 1: Time 5:01 to 5:05

• What is your interpretation of this interview? What does this interview mean to your study?

My interpretation of this interview is that the person who I interview she is a nice person and I like how she tell me the answers about watching TV. I think this interview mean to my study is that to learn about my leisure time and to know about another opinion about watching TV.

Clip 2: Time 05:35 to 5:41

• What is your interpretation of this interview? What does this interview mean to your study?

My interpretation of this interview is so good and I like how kembeli explain me about her opinion of this leisure time. This interview mean to my study like it helps me to learn about others opinion of the leisure time.

Clip 3: Time 5:41 to 5:50

• What is your interpretation of this interview? What does this interview mean to your study?

My interpretation of this interview is that I like that interview because the woman was giving her opinion of watching TV. This interview mean to my study like it helps me to know and understand about others feeling of watching TV.

Analyzation:

• What trends do you notice? I notice that the interview was so good and when we both was talking so nicely to answer the questions.
• Where did you do your interviews? I do my interviews inside the classroom and inside the library. What impact do you think this made? I think the important thing is that we have to ask and answer more loud.
• What does the data from the interviews mean to you? The data from the interviews mean to me is that I think it was kind of okay to speak.

Article (please go back to your blog post to get this information)

• Name of Article: Restaurant Review - Lyon - NYTimes.com
• Author: By SAM SIFTON
• Date of Article: Published: January 18, 2011
• Site: http://restaurant%20review%20-%20lyon%20-%20nytimes.com/
• Quote 1:
• What does the quote mean to you? “We Like to Watch TV ” this means that we both love watching TV.
• How does the quote relevant to your study of the impact of neighborhood on leisure? This quote doesn’t impact my neighborhood on leisure time to watch TV.
• Quote 2:
• What does the quote mean to you? “Watching TV is our hobbies” this means that we both really like to watch TV.
• How does the quote relevant to your study of the impact of neighborhood on leisure? The quote helps my neighborhood to watch TV when there is some leisure time for us. So I think is not impacted.

Closing:

• What did you learn by doing this study? (explain the link between neighborhood and your leisure activity)
• 1)I learn by studying about the neighborhood of the places that are my neighborhood and it helps me to learn about the neighborhood.
• 2)I learn by studying about the leisure time which I really like to do in my free time. Also, I learn how leisure time impact my neighborhood.
• Why is leisure important in life? Leisure time is important in life because it gives a person the balance needed to focus on his or her other, more stressful, daily activities. Leisure time gives a person to enjoy their break or their free time with their friends and their family. Taking time to focus on enjoyable leisure activities gives a person's mind a rest from daily stress. This allows him or her to be more focused when the time comes.
• Why is leisure important to you?Leisure time is important to me because it gives me to enjoy my free time with my friends and with my family. Also, it gives me some free time to watch TV, to go to library and do other things.

Interview 10 Questions about leisure time

Interview: leisure time topic is watching TV

1. Do you like to watch TV?
2. Why do you like to watch TV?
3. What is your favorite TV show?
4. Why do you like this kind of TV show?
5. When do you like to watch TV?
6. Do you like to watch TV alone? Why and Why not?
7. Do you like to watch cartoon or movie? Why and Why not?
8. What do you feel when you watch a sad movie or a sad TV show?
9. How many hours do you watch TV?
10. When you watch a TV show, do you have any question to ask by your self?