MEDIA OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL: A COMMUNICATOR’S REFLECTION OF CROSS-OWNERSHIP OF MEDIA IN KENYA SUSAN MURUGI MUNYI JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY A PAPER PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR A DEGREE IN MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN MASS COMMUNICATION DATE: 20TH JULY 2013 ABSTRACT Media ownership trends and control patterns have been changing world over mainly
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Does the media undermine or enhance democracy in Britain? Democracy means ‘rule by the people’ and for this to function properly‚ it requires an informed public. Media provides this information to the public and therefore‚ the very definition of media suggests it is a democratic device; The media includes all organizations such as television‚ radio and newspapers‚ which provide news and information for the public. media informs and empowers all members of society‚ therefore enhancing democracy.
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20-16-2013 ASSIGNMENT NO: 2 MEDIA GIANTS AND CROSS MEDIA ACTIVITIES. DEFINE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE MEDIA STRATEGIES OF THESE MEDIA GIANTS. MEDIA GIANTS AND CROSS MEDIA ACTIVITIES A World of Blurred Media Boundaries Six related trends describe the mass media world at the turn of the twentieth century. 1 media fragmentation 2 audience segmentation 3 distribution of products across media boundaries 4 globalization 5 conglomeration 6 digital convergence. MEDIA FRAGMENTATION: This term
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Liberal Media is a Myth It is often said that the news media has a liberal bias. Joseph Goebbels said it best “if you repeat something often enough‚ people will believe it.” This couldn’t be truer in politics‚ it’s that bandwagon effect; everyone believes it so you should too. Alterman (2003) stated‚ “Conservatives have intimidated journalists into repeating their baseless accusations of liberal bias by virtue of their willingness to repeat it… endlessly.” (p.37). In fact‚ 75% of conservatives
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Phoenix Material Media Convergence Worksheet Write brief 250- to 300-word answers to each of the following: |Questions |Answers | |What is meant by the term media |Technological convergence is the process by which existing technologies merge into new | |convergence with regard to technology‚ |forms that bring together different types of media and applications. Devices
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5 (a) Explain the factors that influence the content of the news. The mass-manipulative model argues that the content of the mass media is largely controlled and determined by members of ruling class‚ with the object of using the mass media to maintain their control over the proletariat. The do this either by diverting them from seeing the class relations of a capitalist society for what they are‚ or by portraying any groups who challenge bourgeois control as sinister‚ dangerous and misguided
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Media ownership rules in the UK are intended to both ensure plurality and provide freedom to companies to expand‚ innovate and invest. Plurality is vital in a democracy as it ensures that consumers have access to a diverse range of sources of news‚ information and opinion. At the same time‚ allowing companies to have a certain level of freedom increases competition and thus this freedom provides a basis for delivering higher quality programs‚ greater creativity and more risk-taking. However there
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Commercialization of Indian media The media industry across the globe has witnessed spectacular changes in the recent years. There has been a considerable change in the perception of media in the olden times‚ as revolutionary instruments and powerful political players. Today‚ the media is perceived more as businesses with a motto of `remaining profitable’. The growing competition along with the trend of confinement of media ownership to a few major transnational conglomerates has further intensified
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Media Literacy Essay By Jason Barnett In this essay I will discuss corporate ownership of the media‚ who owns these media outlets‚ and there tools of deceiving the public. There is a great group out there called "Project Censored" and this group "shows important news stories that aren’t being covered properly" (project censored.org) "Every year for the past three decades‚ Sonoma State
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Introduction: Throughout the centuries‚ media has played a key role in the development of companies and in the incubation of capitalism mutations. The history of media shows that media and its effects have been around since the beginning of humanity and have been conglomerating into different nations developing the methods of communication. According to the French radical theoretician Regis Debray‚ there are “three historical ages of transmission technologies: the logo-sphere‚ the grapho-sphere
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