written media which has made history recordable and accurate. For instance‚ the age of an old manuscript found while digging a historical site gives information about the era in which it was written‚ which is not possible with electronic media. This has been quite helpful to present day researchers and history students. Anyone can anonymously post articles and raise their voices in print media i.e. newspapers. It is difficult to track the real owner of an article. With electronic media‚ anyone can
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the mass media are a core risk factor for negative body image‚ particularly in women” (Dittmar‚ Helga) My hypothesis is “Does the media influence adolescent girl’s weight concerns and their perceptions of body weight and shape?” The media in many aspects controls the way that people see themselves and the way they do things. So with teenagers striving to look like what they see in the media some of them go through drastic means to achieve these looks. “The role of mass media influences and parental
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The media is a dynamic entity inherent in society that is both powerful and important. It demonstrates this by playing a vital role in the development of a person ’s perspective on political‚ economic and socio-cultural issues. This consequently helps to shape individuals ’ viewpoints of the world and define their lives through the interpretation of media texts. (Newman‚ 2004). Bazalgette supported Newman ’s point by stating "Media studies open up your understanding of how things work‚ how people
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The theories of the mass media‚ better referred to as philosophies of the mass media are the tenets that regulate the affairs of the mass media in any particular country. The democratic-participant theory and development media theory are of special important to us here because they are theories tailored to suit developing nations. Democratic-participant theory is a type of theory that emphasizes and supports the media multiplicity‚ local nature of the media‚ horizontal media involvement and interaction
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PROTECTED AREA BY FOREST A protected forest is a specific term to denote forests with some amount of legal‚ and / or constitutional protection in certain countries. Forests have been used by humans since the beginning of civilization for hunting‚ harvesting trees and other activities. As populations grew there became a need to manage forests for the benefit of humans as well as the animals‚ plants and insects that live in them. Conservation forestry is the part of forestry that focuses on protecting
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The Mass Media is the most influential institution in shaping modern society. Discuss this statement with reference to two sociological theories of media effects. The term mass media refers to a message that communicates from one point to a large number of points simultaneously. This message can reach many people and is one way. Those who broadcast the message through the TV‚ newspapers‚ and magazines are a comparatively small group. The audience can sometimes write back to them and express
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The hypodermic syringe model is a theory of media effect on audience. The term is used to describe interaction between the media and public belief‚ offering the concept of people becoming affected by the information ’injected’ into them through their information medium. (For example‚ television viewers would have their minds injected with sex and violence after watching too many graphically violent programmes‚ and this would affect their views and behaviour). The model tends to see contemporary society
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taken off‚ and the first extant complete printed book containing its date is the Diamond Sutra (British Library) of 868.[4] By the tenth century‚ 400‚000 copies of some sutras and pictures were printed and the Confucian classics were in print. A skilled printer could print up to 2‚000 double-page sheets per day.[5] Printing spread early to Korea and Japan‚ who also used Chinese logograms‚ but the techniques also were used in Turpan and Vietnam using a number of other scripts. Unlike the diffusion of
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what should the media do to help reduce corruption in nigeria By: Amoka Eunice O. 08BE07309 Introduction The destructive impacts of corruption in the lives of nations throughout the world is acknowledged. Corruption is one factor that can impede the accelerated socio-economic transformation of developing countries of the world (Alawode‚ 2008). Corruption can be defined as the misappropriation of public resources to private ends (Ojo‚ 2003). Adeyemi (2013)‚ also defines corruption as efforts
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Review of ‘Media Gratification Research’ From 1974-1985‚ there were some rapid changes in the field of media gratification research but the base were neither new nor revolutionary. It had made some abrupt change with the help of technologies. When the uses of mass communication in 1974 suggested that “Ask not what media do to the people but also what people do with the media”. Than‚ the role of people in the society as one of the significant stakeholder of the society. In term of “Shift of Paradigm”
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