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  • Important Mass Media As Tv
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    The paper explores how dangerous such an important mass media as TV can be, if too many power is concentrated in just a few hands, and how our perception of reality can be manipulated by the selection and manipulation of information presented on TV. Table of Contents Introduction... p. 3 1. The development of television... p. 42. Globalisation of the TV market and its effects... p. 53. How legislation can influence the quality of journalism... p. 64. How television can be abused... p. 85. Rupert...
  • American Media Corporations
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    In America, the media holds a powerful and effective position in politicizing and socializing the general populace. The main political function of the media is to inform and analyze while being accountable. However the question of whether the media produces a pluralist democracy, or fosters a one dimensional society still remains unanswered. Many contemporary philosophers conclude that the media does contribute to both, some even postulate other drawbacks, for instance they posit that the media ...
  • World Of Television
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    The Commercialism of Television To look into the mind of a television addict, we must look at the big picture First we recognize the voluntary slavery that makes up the majority of modern life. A I see it, people get up early, put on work clothes, and work like machines for the rest of the day getting no satisfaction from their repetitive day-jobs. Then come home around seven oclock to their families who have already had dinner, and the kids already getting in bed. By that time there is almost n...
  • Commercial Television
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    After watching television and flipping though ads and articles in several magazines, the stereotyping of men and women is so apparent but at the same time society is so blind to it. In society parents teach their children gender role at a very early age. Gender role refers to the attitudes, behavior, and activities that are socially defined as appropriate for each sex learned through the socialization process (Lips, 1993). Males are traditionally expected to show aggressiveness and toughness, an...
  • Way
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    I turned on the television today, to watch the news and to hopefully find something to react to. Among the dozens of stories on murder, rape, thievery, and general all-around nastiness, there was nothing in particular that really struck me. Now, I could have written about the Manila Film Festival and the lousiness of most of the entries, or about Nida Blanca's slaying and all the media hype which surrounded it (when in truth, shit much worse than that happens every day, to more undeserving peopl...
  • Equal Media Access
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    ... is to be avoided. The media itself is partially responsible for social division so it seems ironic to suggest that the media itself could alleviate social boundaries. In the United States, especially, it could almost be argued that the media incites racism. News reports, along with shows like "Cops" and the cleverly titled "World's Scariest Police Chases" constantly show a high percentage of crimes committed by Black and Hispanic people. And since 9/11 anybody of Middle Eastern extraction se...
  • American Literature The South Regional
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    Journal Entry: Regional American Literature & the South Regional American Literature seems to deal with specific areas and their culture. Culture has evolved throughout the years. Using the South as an example, its culture was clearly defined before the Civil War. The South was comprised mostly of slaves working hard picking cotton until their fingers bled for no pay, white supremacist slave owners quick to bludgeon at the slightest sign of insurgence and the rest of the populace unsure of which...
  • Media Effects
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    I used to watch a really nice TV program every weekend. It is a youth-oriented show if my memory serves me right. Although I cannot remember the whole story any more, something we may call "a mere make believe" left an indelible mark in my memory. This is how it goes. Two of the many characters in the show were best of friends. They shared their secrets to one another, fought for each other, and cared for one another. Well of course that's within the idea of the scriptwriter and the instructions...
  • Media Displays Males
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    This paper got a 3.2 In my RHT 160 College Class... Here it is Everyone's life is affected by social construction. This is the belief that knowledge is determined by society, and in turn (knowledge) is formed by the individuals that belong to the society. When an individual thinks of a doctor, lawyer, priest, engineer, or manager they usually picture males. While nurses, teachers, and housewives (emphasis on wives) are purely female professions in our society. This is social constructionist thou...
  • Woman Power Player In The Media
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    What event began the emergence of women as true players in the media Was it Sherry Lansings appointment to President of 20th Century Fox in 1980, becoming the first woman to head a studio Was it Cathleen Black in 1979 becoming the first woman publisher of a weekly consumer magazine, New York Or did the real power for women in the media come later with Geraldine Laybourne reinventing childrens television on Nickelodeon or Judy McGrath sending MTV into 265.8 million households all over the world D...
  • Television And Radio
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    Has EITHER The Television OR The Radio Had Any Decisive 'influence' On Everyday Life During The Last Media are channels through which information is transmitted. The media includes: television, radio, films, videos, computers, books, and magazines. Janowitz (1968) states that: "mass communications comprise the institutions and techniques by which specialized groups employ technological devices (press, radio, television, radio, films, etc.) to disseminate symbolic content to large, heterogenous, ...
  • Male Body Image
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    The effects of the media today influence society. Standards of beauty, body The media predetermines all shape and size. The ideal body image for women is projected in magazines and television as thin, glowing skin, piercing eyes and the list of perfection goes on. Men are not dis cluded from this issue. For years the focus has been on women but in recently a light has been shown on the man's perspective of how they are also being victimized. They also are expected to be trim and tall with muscle...
  • America Through The Invention Of The Television
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    Man lives in a world erected by the stories that he hears, sees and tells. These stories and their messages socialize people into roles of gender, age, class, vocation, and lifestyle. Stories of the American society weave the seamless web of its cultural environment, cultivating most of what people think, what they do, and how they conduct their affairs. This has become an important issue to consider when often what people think, what they do in life situations, and how they generally behave and...
  • Entertaining Novel
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    Reading for Enjoyment: A Personal Assessment In today's society, a decreasing number of teens chose to read solely for enjoyment. A limited number of students read on their own at all, because many simply have never understood the benefits of reading over the various alternate forms of entertainment, such as television and film. These other means of entertaining oneself are often abused, as I have found through personal experience. They ultimately divert people from discovering the pleasures of ...
  • African Americans In Interracial Partnerships
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    African Americans in Interracial Partnerships: A Rhetorical Criticism "Like it or not, mass media influences our views of what is possible. If the media does not provide positive images of Black-Latino partnerships, Black kids who do not have Latino friends are less likely to see themselves making Latino friends" (ColorQ, 2002). Now that the African American is just beginning to be properly represented on television, people must now look at their representation as partners of people of different...
  • Samples Of Commercials And Magazines
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    "We don't need Afghan-style burqas to disappear as women. We disappear in reverse-by revamping and revealing our bodies to meet externally imposed visions of female beauty". Robin Gerber Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women-and their body parts-sell everything from food to cars. Popular film and television actresses are becoming younger, taller and thinner. Some have even been known to faint on the set from lack of food. Women's magazines are full of articles urging that if they can jus...
  • Mass Media Communication
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    Mass media communication is relevant in peoples' lives today, and caters to all age groups from young to old. Almost everyone in the United States of America, even the world, participate in the technological highway that has been rapidly advancing since the time of the light bulb. Mass, personal, and telecommunications are very apparent in my everyday life. Whether I am working out at the gym, working towards an education at school, relaxing at home, or driving to New Jersey on the weekend, I am...

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