3 – 5 (750 – 1250 words) pages in length (not including bibliography)

Your prospectus should be a foward-looking, foward-thinking piece that begins to formulate your thinking on your topic but also shows what you already know about it.

Introduction: Overview of your topic; what you already know about it; any hypotheses you have about it; potential arguments you want to make about your topic.

Description:  Your plan-of-action.  You have already been given the framework or method of cultural analysis with/in which you’ll be working–that is the circuit of culture, as laid out in your Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the SONY Walkman book: representation, regulation, identity, production, and consumption. In this section you should begin to formulate your thinking about your topic in terms of each of these five cultural processes. How is your object represented? What social identities get associated with it? How does your object get produced? In what ways does it get consumed? How does its distribution and use get regulated?

Your research plan: What do you still need to know or find out about your topic? What are your plans for attaining this information? What kind of resources will you be using?

Include a bibliography that includes the sources you plan to use for this project.

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