Intention

In the United States, the media has been a dominant source of information and has shaped the perception of their consumers in many ways. However, there are a lot of cases where they have not done that responsibly.  An example of this is when The Chicago Tribune published an article about the Olympian, Corey Cogdell-Unrein, winning her bronze medal, headlining it with "Wife of a Bears' lineman wins a bronze medal today in Rio Olympics." This irresponsible headline lends towards the misogynistic views that are very prevalent today. Other examples include when teenagers commit crimes or go through something tragic and far too often the media will portray a white person as a "troubled teen" and a black one as a "thug". So my project will explore these differences in portrayal using a readymade assist. I plan to have a few pairs of different people and in each pair the two people will be doing the same action in the same context. Above each of them will be a shrunk version of an article about the action in their context (big enough to see the headline or picture but small enough to not focus on the article itself). The background will transition the context from pair to pair so that one can see the many different groups that this problem occurs with.