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.