Dealing with Strangers in Strange Lands The book‚ A Land so Strange‚ tells of an expedition of 300 men‚ women‚ and enslaved Africans who set sail from Spain in 1528 under the leadership of Pánfilo de Narváez with the dream of settling Florida. Yet‚ a hurricane‚ lost ships‚ navigational errors‚ leadership follies‚ and challenges from Indians well capable of holding off would-be European conquest added up to a colossal disaster. Expedition members ended up wandering along the Gulf Coast before
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The Mass Media 1. Functions i. Information Function ii. Surveillance Function iii. The Social Function - Entertainment - Socialisation iv. Commercial Function v. Political function 2. Key types i. Traditional Media - Print (newspapers‚ magazines‚ billboards‚ books) - Electronic Media (radio‚ television‚ film) ii. New Media - web-based and mobile technologies (the Internet‚ social media‚ etc) 3
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Social media What is social media? Every day more and more people are interested in what social media actually is and how does it work. This growing interest can be explained by the fact that Internet has started to conquer the world - each passing day the number of Internet users is growing. So what social media is? According to authors of The Social Media Bible Lon Safko and David K. Brave‚ Social media is about enabling conversation. It is also about the ways that this conversation can be prompted
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Media is everywhere; it has become a part of our daily life. The media plays a dominant role in the learning process. Its impact is vast in shaping the life of an individual. Media has the potential to shape personalities‚ change the way we perceive and understand the world and our immediate reality. In the last 50 years the media influence has grown with the advance of technology‚ first there was the telegraph‚ then the radio‚ the newspaper‚ magazines‚ television and now the internet. We live
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everyone is connected to some type of media whether they realize it or not. Media goes far beyond the typical computers‚ television‚ radio‚ or newspapers. In fact‚ media spans from photography and video gaming to cars‚ planes‚ busses and washing machines and vacuums. When challenged to deprive myself from media for 8 straight hours‚ my first thought was that it was going to be impossible. Although it was hard at first to completely cut myself off of what was so predominant in my life‚ it was in fact
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Count Camillo Benso Di Cavour Count Camillo Benso has done so many remarkable things in his lifetime. His life started when he joined the Turin Military Academy when he was 10 years old. Joining the Army when he was 17 showed me that he wanted to fight his way through the world. Even though he resigned from the army 4 years later because of boredom‚ he also left because he didn’t like the way the government was leading them into battle. Benso travelled around the world where he saw the places
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Mass Media Influences The mass media has a huge influence on everyone in society. The mass media reaches large number of the public. Generally‚ the big influences on us come from either the newspaper‚ television‚ radio or also the internet. The main purpose of the Mass Media is to provide us with information‚ entertainment and advertisement. Unfortunately we do live in a society that depends on communication so we look to these sources to get our information. Media influence has grown exponentially
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The emergence of new media has had a tremendous impact on the way we communicate What we used to consider as new media has today evolved into what we call social media Websites such as Facebook and Twitter‚ as well as text messaging and Skype‚ have enabled people to connect from distant locations at a speed unimaginable to generations passed These innovations in social communication are fundamentally changing the way businesses and governments operate‚ but they are also impacting our personal lives
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We Are All One People It was a beautiful fall day and all was well with the world. I should say it was all well in my world. I soon would find that all was not well with the world as a whole. I work with a large mental health corporation and was in Louisville‚ Kentucky‚ September 11‚ 2001‚ at a conference. This was a day that we would all remember‚ but especially me. This was the day I would find out that "we are all one people". I had gone to the Fall Seasonal for the Department of Mental Health
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In the last 50 years the media influence has grown exponentially with the advance of technology‚ first there was the telegraph‚ then the radio‚ the newspaper‚ magazines‚ television and now the internet. We live in a society that depends on information and communication to keep moving in the right direction and do our daily activities like work‚ entertainment‚ health care‚ education‚ personal relationships‚ traveling and anything else that we have to do. A common person in the city usually wakes
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