COM 3703 MEDIA STUDIES: MEDIA CONTENT AND MEDIA AUDIENCES SEMESTER 2‚ 2013 PORTFOLIO TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA SEMIOTICS 3 3. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS 3 4. NARRATIVE ANALYSIS 5 5. MEDIA AND VISUAL LITERACY 7 6. MEDIA‚LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE 8 7. CONCLUSION 10 8. SOURCES CONSULTED 10 9. SELF ASSESSMENT 10 10. ADDEDUM A 11. ADDENDUM B 12. ADDENDUM C 13. ADDENDUM D 14. ADDENDUM E 1. INTRODUCTION
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extent does the portrayal of racism in the media affects society because I believe that media is the cause of unfair treatment between two or more races. I am interested in this and it relates to my studies this year because I have personally been affected by racism and to see how media portrays and supports racism disappoints me. My first question is “who is affected by the portrayal of racism in media?” My second question is “What countries are affected by the portrayal of racism in media?”‚ and my final
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REVIEW/CRITIQUE Media Portrayals of Suicide In recent years‚ there has been growing concern over the reporting by the media of those who die by suicide. Various groups‚ such as the Centers for Disease Control (1994)‚ the World Health Organization and the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) (WHO & IASP‚ 2008)‚ have proposed recommendations. In addition‚ scholarly research has studied the impact of the media on suicidal behavior – that research recently confirmed that media attention
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For decades now‚ people have debated the negative ways that images we see in media impact the way we perceive ourselves when it comes to beauty ideals and expectations. Today’s beauty standards of women have been created by advertisments and photos in the media‚ that portray unrealistic images of beauty. A 2004 study showed that‚ 72% of girls feel tremendous pressure to be beautiful‚ and 90% of women would change at least one thing about their physical appearance (Brodbeck 2007). According to the
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they’re watching this trailer because she is the famous novelist; also the political activists in America. Then‚ the drawing with the number from their research gives us the information what the teenagers are doing every day. They are showing how the media has an influential to their young age people. There are many screens cut from movies‚ video games‚ television shows‚ or music videos showing in the trailer. The common point of those of is giving the images of women with their beauty and sexy looks
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Portrayal of Women in the Media Gender is the psychological characteristics and social categories that are created by human culture. Doing gender is the concept that humans express their gender when they interact with one another. Messages about how a male or female is supposed to act come from many different places. Schools‚ parents‚ and friends can influence a person. Another major factor that influences millions of impressionable females and males is television. Not only does the television
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have those things‚ but they did not come from losing weight. As decades have passed‚ females have progressively gotten thinner. Is this the last stand? The media truly has an enormous negative effect on young girls and women in North America. Our “ideal” image of our bodies is created by our likes‚ as well as our role models and the media. Researchers generated a computer model of a woman with Barbie-doll proportions; they found that “the woman’s back would be too weak to support the weight
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The number one wish of most women and girls is to loose weight. Media presents images that tell woman and girls that acceptance means being unnaturally thin. The average fashion model‚ whose image we are bombarded with‚ weighs twenty-three percent less than the average American woman. Twenty years ago‚ the average
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The Portrayal of African-American Women in Media The stereotypical misrepresentations of African-American women and men in popular culture have influenced societal views of Blacks for centuries. The typical stereotypes about Black women range from the smiling‚ a sexual and often obese Mammy to the promiscuous Jezebel who lures men with her sexual charms. However‚ the loud‚ smart mouthed‚ neck-rolling Black welfare mother is the popular image on reality television. These images portrayed in media
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The Effect of Media’s Portrayal of Women Today‚ the media plays an important role in our society. It is a big component of our everyday lives because we are continuously exposed to it through different means such as the Internet and television. Although media has its positive aspects‚ one of the damages it generates is the objectifying‚ undermining‚ and idealization of women’s image. We see this present in many advertisements and commercials
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