Content Analysis

Going over the details of our final project today in class really proved to me that I love studying the media.  While we were discussing the paper and the presentation I kept thinking of tons of topics that I could potentially get to study!  The one that I most want to study (although I obviously have to run it past my group first) is the phenomenon that has come to be known as "Brangelina".  The fact that Americans will pay money to see the photos of the infants that this couple happens to have (even though thousands of couples have infants every day) is fascinating to me.  The trend of selling photos of a baby is fascinating and looking at the couple that "started it all" would be really interesting.   If my group agreed and we actually did this project I would probably want to compare the number of pages and pictures devoted to the family in the initial  magazines they sold the pictures too both with the birth of their first child and then recently with the birth of their twins.  I'm willing to bet that my group won't be very excited about this topic though so maybe I will do it on my own some other time.