the Mass Media? * Mass media – communication technologies that have the potential to reach a large audience in remote locations * Print Media –first mass medium * Printed materials * 19th – 20th centuries‚ newspaper industry experienced explosive growth * Motion Picture and Sound Recording * Thomas Edison invented: * Phonograph – recorded sound * Kinetoscope – showed short‚ silent films to individual viewers * Broadcast Media – media brought
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Reality of Akbar the Great (?) EXPOSED! [Part-1] Very chosen few legends in Indian history had the privilege of being honored with the suffix ‘the Great’ or ‘Mahaan’ after their name. I recall only three – Alexander‚ Ashoka and Akbar. This great title does not come easily. One has to indeed display exemplary greatness to be called ‘great’. This great land has produced one legend after another – Vikramaditya‚ Prithviraj‚ Rana Pratap‚ Shivaji – to name a few. But none qualified to be called ‘the
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MEDIA AND POLITICS We all agree that a well-informed public leads to a more open‚ just and civic-minded society. Yet today it seems every major and minor news network has a Sunday talk show or weekly roundtable dedicated to "educating" the American public about politics. In addition‚ with the growth of the Internet‚ thousands of Web sites exist with information on politics and government. The irony is that while the quantity of places we can go for political information continues to increase
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discussing that the “aid of computer retouching and other techniques further increases the gap between media images of women intended to portray beauty ideals and the reality of most women’s appearance.” Engeln-Maddox explored college women’s ideas regarding their physical appearance and opportunities in life. She asked her participants to write a description of this culture’s ideal woman according to the media and then reflect on how different their lives would be if they looked like this woman. I thought
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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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It is difficult for news‚ in any form‚ to be a true reflection of reality‚ due to the many factors involved in the production of news. Human error‚ human interest and the fallacies of management all conspire to blur the line between truth and fiction. Potter (1998) stated that news is not something that happens; instead‚ news is what gets presented. We almost never see news events as they happen. Instead‚ we are shown the medias manufactured construction of the events. This essay aims to determine
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Social media plays a huge role in our society. Social media is a rapidly growing industry‚ with approximately 56% of the world’s population using some type of social networking sites as of 2012. Social media is the means in which people interact amongst others through creating‚ sharing and exchanging information and ideas on virtual communities or networks. The fact that social media is all around us‚ it makes our everyday lives easier and more convenient. The downside of having too much social
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Introduction to Media Studies ICOE2005 Fall 2012 Mondays 14:45–16:45 Professor: Joseph Bender Course Description What is/are the media? Who produces and influences them and under what circumstances? How do the media represent reality? What effects do they have on the audience? To what extent are the media globalized or different across countries? What is new about the new media? The course considers the nature of mediated communication‚ historical transformations in and functions of media‚ and
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kinds of media and the types of content that satisfy their social and psychological needs. Researchers Jay G. Blumer and Elihu Katz introduced the Uses and Gratification Theory not asking the question of "What do media do to people?" rather asking‚ “What do people do with media?" The Uses and Gratification Theory A theory of Mass Communication that places the needs‚ motives and gratifications of media users in the center of interest and sees media users playing an active role in the media consumption
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Albania is a country in south-eastern Europe with surface area of 28748 km2. it boards Greece‚ Macedonia‚ Kosovo and Montenegro and is always 70 km by sea from Italy. Famous Albanian includes Gjergj Katriot Skandergeg and Mother Tereza. Having lived in different period and having done different works they are very close to each-other through their message on what Albania was and what it should be. Gjergj Kastrioti united Albanians in a struggle to resist an international power on behalf of the
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