contribute information as a “journalist”. Therefore‚ the “subject” of social media’s has changed from traditional journalists to all the users. The following discussion will be based on this clarification. 1. Social Media Functions Self-expression: In the context of social media‚ self-expression has been enhanced to the main and fundamental function for mass individual users. Facebook and Twitter users have identified their top 3 activities: “comments on daily activities”‚ “upload and share
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MEDIA INFLUENCE “A person with a poor self image will deny anything good for themselves. They are unable to enjoy healthy relationships with their lovers‚ spouse‚ other family members or children‚ as they allow their internal insecurities to take better of them.” Throughout every phase of our lives‚ from childhood to adult‚ our appearance is judged and critiqued. The way we perceive is compared to those of our peers. Most girls are rated pretty‚ ugly‚ plain‚ or just plain average. Media influence
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The body type portrayed in advertising as the ideal is possessed naturally by only five percent of females. Forty seven percent of girls in 5th-12th grade reported wanting to lose weight because of magazine pictures. Sixty nine percent of girls in 5th-12th grade reported that magazine pictures influenced their idea of a perfect body shape. Females are more than twice as likely as men to be portrayed as sexual objects (which means turning women into objects for sexual pleasure) during prime time commercials
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genres‚ themes‚ language‚ and voice. For example‚ the voices of Toni Morrison‚ whose voice were very powerful and appreciated in many ways as she wrote a very inspiring book call “The Bluest Eye.” In a book it talks about both racism and beauty are portrayed in a number of ways. This story illustrates many of the racial concerns which were immense issues in the 1970’s which is when this book was written‚ however not as much
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1 Burgess ENC1101 25 March 2014 Mass Media “What the mass media offers is not popular art‚ but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food‚ forgotten‚ and replaced by a new dish”(Auden). Mass media plays a huge role in American society today. Whether mass media has any direct correlation to the violence we see today is up for discussion. The only data which shows a clear relationship between mass media and aggressive behavior occurs when the impression of aggression
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Media messaging has a negative effect on body image. In a recent study of fifth grade girls‚ the majority said that they were unhappy with their body image after watching a Britney Spears music video. If only one school of fifth grade girls thought this‚ could the rest of the middle school to high school students think the same? In modern day America‚ almost all icons on television‚ in movies‚ and also in the music industry‚ are all very skinny and well built. "It’s partly because fashion‚ film and
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Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user (audience) to access the content. This is in contrast to static media (mainly print media)‚ which today are most often created electronically‚ but don’t require electronics to be accessed by the end-user in the printed form. The primary electronic media sources familiar to the general public are better known asvideo recordings‚ audio recordings‚ multimedia presentations‚ slide presentations‚ CD-ROM and online content
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Objectification of women in India "You can tell the condition of a Nation by looking at the status of its Women." Jawaharlal Nehru‚ Leader of India’s Independence movement‚ and India’s first Prime Minister. According to a global poll conducted by Thomson Reuters‚ India is the "fourth most dangerous country" in the world for women and the worst country for women among the G20 countries. Today’s India offers a lot of opportunities to women‚ with women having a voice in everyday life‚ the business
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The classic definition of “media audience” is people who consume the media‚ in the past‚ they are readers who reading newspapers or magazines‚ and listeners who listening to the radio. Nowadays‚ media audience can be viewers who watching television program of users who surfing on the internet. And there are two views of “media audience”‚ on the one hand‚ some discourses note that audience is passive‚ which means media dominant audience reactions and feelings. On the other hand‚ more researchers believe
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meaning can be communicated through a process of reading. Stereotypes are very common in visual literacy as they help readers understand what the image is trying to communicate. Beauty and the Geek is one of the many examples of stereotypes in the media. The clip that I am about to play for you shows what the program is about and how it stereotypes a vast majority of the world’s population. (A YouTube clip from Beauty and the Geek Australia -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzFZc-Y1tAA&list=PL6034D2FA52B7A0A7&index=3&feature=plpp_video
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