The Impact of Media Exposure on the Poetry Writing Skills of Class X Stu-dents: Exploring the Role of the Connecting Motif
Keywords:
Media Influence, Poetry Writing Skills, Connecting Motif, Class X Students, Creative Writing EducationAbstract
In a digital age where media consumption is ubiquitous, understanding the impact of media exposure on the creative abilities of students is imperative. This research explores the intricate relationship between media exposure and the poetry writing skills of Class X students, focusing on the thematic motif of "connecting" in media content. The study employs a mixed-method approach, combining quantitative assessment of poetry writing skills and qualitative analysis of media content and student interviews. The findings reveal a significant positive correlation between media exposure to content featuring the "connecting" motif and the poetry writing skills of Class X students. Students who engage deeply with such media exhibit higher levels of creativity, vivid imagery, and emotional resonance in their poetry. The study further highlights gender disparities in the influence of media, with female students displaying a more pronounced correlation. These results underscore the potential of media to serve as a catalyst for nurturing creativity in the classroom. They emphasize the importance of media literacy education, curriculum integration, and gender-responsive teaching strategies. The study also calls for further research to delve into the mechanisms governing the relationship between media and creative writing, explore the influence of different media types, cultural factors, and individual characteristics, and conduct longitudinal studies to trace the long-term impact of media exposure on creative abilities.
References
Alvermann, D. E. (2002). Adolescents and literacies in a digital world (Vol. 7). Peter Lang.
Amabile, T. M. (1985). Motivation and creativity: Effects of motivational orientation on creative writers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48(2), 393.
Bayer, J. B., Triệu, P., & Ellison, N. B. (2020). Social media elements, ecologies, and effects. Annual Review of Psychology, 71, 471–497.
Best, P., Manktelow, R., & Taylor, B. (2014). Online communication, social media and adolescent wellbeing: A systematic narrative review. Children and Youth Services Review, 41, 27–36.
Chambers, C. (1999). A topography for Canadian curriculum theory. Canadian Journal of Education/Revue Canadienne de l’éducation, 137–150.
Chambers, D. (2013). Social media and personal relationships: Online intimacies and networked friendship. Springer.
Darling-Hammond, L., Flook, L., Cook-Harvey, C., Barron, B., & Osher, D. (2020). Implications for educational practice of the science of learning and development. Applied Developmental Science, 24(2), 97–140.
Deasy, R. J. (2002). Critical links: Learning in the arts and student academic and social development. ERIC.
Feinstein, J. S. (2006). The nature of creative development. Stanford University Press.
Fenge, L.-A., Hodges, C., & Cutts, W. (2016). Performance poetry as a method to understand disability. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 17(2).
Goldsmith, K. (2011). Uncreative writing: managing language in the digital age. Columbia University Press.
Heller, M. F. (1999). Reading-writing connections: From theory to practice. Routledge.
Hobbs, R. (2011). Digital and media literacy: Connecting culture and classroom. Corwin Press.
Kellner, D., & Share, J. (2007). Critical media literacy: Crucial policy choices for a twenty-first-century democracy. Policy Futures in Education, 5(1), 59–69.
Kırkgöz, Y. (2014). Exploring poems to promote language learners’ creative writing. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 158, 394–401.
Livingstone, S. (2004). Media literacy and the challenge of new information and communication technologies. The Communication Review, 7(1), 3–14.
Nelson, J. (2012). Social media as a filmmaking narrative tool. Image & Text: A Journal for Design, 20(1), 146–161.
Obeidat, Z. M., AlGharabat, R. S., Alalwan, A. A., Xiao, S. H., Dwivedi, Y. K., & Rana, N. P. (2020). Narcissism, interactivity, community, and online revenge behavior: The moderating role of social presence among Jordanian consumers. Computers in Human Behavior, 104, 106170.
Rury, J., & Rury, J. L. (2005). Education and social change: Themes in the history of American schooling. Routledge.
Salomon, G. (2012). Interaction of media, cognition, and learning: An exploration of how symbolic forms cultivate mental skills and affect knowledge acquisition. Routledge.
Strasburger, V. C., Jordan, A. B., & Donnerstein, E. (2010). Health effects of media on children and adolescents. Pediatrics, 125(4), 756–767.
Stromquist, N. P. (2002). Education in a globalized world: The connectivity of economic power, technology, and knowledge. Rowman & Littlefield.
Thompson, R. A. (2010). Feeling and understanding through the prism of relationships.
Thomson, C. C. (2017). Short films from a small nation: Danish informational cinema 1935-1965. Edinburgh University Press.
Vass, E. (2007). Exploring processes of collaborative creativity—The role of emotions in children’s joint creative writing. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2(2), 107–117.
Weisberg, R. W. (1988). Problem solving and creativity. The Nature of Creativity: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives, 148, 150.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Dwivedi Ellison, Meiyanti Callista
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
