The following six questions are addressed in a critique of an article entitled: Controversial Rap Themes‚ Gender Portrayals and Skin Tone Distortion: A Content Analysis of Rap Music Videos. This article was published in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media and written by Kate Conrad‚ Travis Dixon‚ and Yuanyuan Zhang. Kate and Yuanyuan are PhD students in the Department of Speech Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Travis is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication
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How far do you agree with conservative claims that “the news media helped America lose the war in Vietnam”? The news media was very important during the Vietnam War because due to the advent of television news reporting‚ it was the first war in history where civilians at the home front got to witness the atrocities in the battlefield instead of reading or hearing about it from the newspapers and the radio. At a time where dissent had been legitimised by the Civil Rights Movement in America and
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Oct. 23‚ 2013 “By giving form to peoples deep lying desires and picturing states of being that individuals privately yearn for‚ advertisers have the best chance of arresting attention and affecting communication” says Jib Fowles in his piece “Advertising Fifteen Basic Appeals. Jib Fowles‚ Bergen Evans‚ and Stephanie Ericsson all are components of how one can understand why people tend to buy products‚ and what entices us to be moved by a single commercial. Certain aspects of a product can induce
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Now is the political season. As the races for the victors of the primaries continues to roll on‚ it is important that we as educated American voters as well as critical thinkers take a step back and analyze the things that we are hearing. It is true that one of the main dangers threatening the actual knowledge of an American voter is the media. The media is a wonderful tool. However‚ it also holds power to which no one else can compare. This we know. However‚ There is another danger to be mindful
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Mass media culture has become a source of trivial distraction from true reality. The mass media industry allows information to be misconstrued by being produced through multiple sources. The information portrayed in real literature is much more authentic and concrete than the ideas depicted in “unreal” mass media. In Brave New World Revisited Huxley describes human reaction to mass media as “the tendency to response to unreason and falsehood- particularly in those cases where the falsehood evokes
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Media has the power to strengthen the changes in our social‚ cultural‚ and political values. The improvement of media has increased the spread of ideas and has made communication more convenient. Television‚ Facebook‚ and Twitter are all considered mass medias because they provide people with entertainment‚ and it is where the flow of ideas is disseminated. In James Fallows essay‚ “Win in China!” he states that media encourages the Chinese to follow their dreams‚ such as becoming an entrepreneur
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Particularly for the urban people‚ the need for information is more important than ever. Our values and way of life in the society in this information era are strongly influenced by the mass media like newspapers‚ TV‚ radio‚ video‚ and the internet. Mass media’s influence on people’s lives is even greater and deeper than many kinds of state indoctrination or priest’s sermons from the pulpit in the church .The full range of unfiltered media is now available to most of us by using a parabola and satellite
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University of 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 convergence with regard to technology‚ and how has it affected everyday life? Media convergence means that the lines are getting blurred between the traditional forms of media and they are almost becoming one. A decade ago‚ there were clear differences between print media‚ TV‚ the internet in general and social media in
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Is media a boon or a curse? Everything in this modern age is powered by media from the moment we wake up until we sleep at night. Have we ever asked ourselves how all of this affects our reasoning‚ our power to choose and our lifestyle? Since mass media is used to communicate and interact with people from various walks of life‚ it can often result in a conflict of opinions. The media‚ specifically in India‚ represents a convergence of paradoxes: tradition and modernity; anarchy and order; diversity
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Hello Grade 10s‚ I’m sure you all have heard about Sydney’s lockout laws in the news recently. Although right now it doesn’t affect us‚ this issue is literally EVERYWHERE I look. All I can see is different news outlets picking sides and criticising these laws. As media consumers‚ we expect the media to give us a fair representation of the issue reported. While most news reports are quite fair‚ balanced and accurate‚ sometimes a little devil appears on the journalist’s shoulder and whispers “write
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