Information Technology Workforce - ITWF: Getting the Media Message: The Portrayal of Gender, Race, and Information Technology in the Media Environment of Middle School Students

摘要信息技术劳动力（ITWF）提案Id: ei -0120056研究者：Phyllis Bernt， Joseph Bernt和Sandra turner机构：俄亥俄大学标题：获取媒体信息：中学生媒体环境中性别、种族和信息技术的写照。该奖项为一项研究提供了支持，该研究调查了中学生从电视、流行杂志、录像带、电影以及提供职业信息的书籍、小册子和互联网网站中获得的有关信息技术（IT）职业的媒体信息。分析将集中在媒体对IT职业的描述，特别是在性别和种族方面，学生在中学时期可能会遇到。六年级和七年级的学生将在全国12个人口统计学不同的教室中参与课堂行动研究，运用数学、语言艺术和社会科学技能调查他们的同龄人，并对有关IT职业的媒体信息进行自己的内容分析。

ABSTRACTInformation Technology Workforce (ITWF)Proposal Id: EIA-0120056Investigator: Phyllis Bernt, Joseph Bernt and Sandra TurnerInstitution: Ohio UniversityTitle: Getting the Media Message: The Portrayal of Gender, Race, and Information Technology in the Media Environment of Middle School Students. This award provides support for a study examining media messages about Information Technology (IT) careers that middle school students receive from television, popular magazines, videotapes, movies, and from books, brochures and Internet sites that provide career information. The analysis will concentrate on the media portrayal of IT occupations, especially in terms of gender and race, that students are likely to encounter during the middle school years. Sixth and Seventh grade students in 12 demographically diverse classrooms across the nation will participate in classroom-based action research employing mathematics, language arts, and social science skills in surveying their peers and conducting their own content analysis of media messages about IT careers.