Distortion of Asian American Images in Media

Introduction Asians have started coming to the United States in the 1800s, and since then, the media portrayal of Asians has struggled to deliver accuracy and objectivity. Much of the Asian appearance in American films and television can be labeled as a product of racism and discrimination. A rich and...

Consequences of Statistical Errors in the COVID-19 Era

In an era of coronavirus pandemics, statistical issues are indeed sensitive, as often the finite number called a politician from the rostrum, a live TV presenter, or an influencer is due to political manipulation rather than real calculation. For example, when authorities need to close a city and restrict the...

Adolescence: Contemporary Issues and Resources

Issue Description and External Stressors With the advent of information technology (IT), and particularly Information and communications technology (ICT), the role of the Internet and especially social media has reached exponential growth. Due to the increasingly large amount of information that the Internet offers its users, the development of addition...

Concept of the Coors Light Beer Advertisement

The Coors Light beer ad was created and released in 2011. It portrays three gay men who are dancing behind the company’s logo and the slogan “Out Is Refreshing.” One of them is holding a bottle of beer in his hand while another is touching his partner’s arm. A small...

Deceptive and Misleading Advertisement

A deceptive advertisement is one that contains any deceptive information related to the object of the advertisement and/or the advertiser. Misleading advertising is an advertisement that lacks some of the essential information about the advertised product, about the conditions for its purchase or use, if the meaning of the information...

Negative Media Effects Mitigation: Parents’ Role

Considering the new media, this, on top of giving guidance to the relationships that are set up with the children with new media, “parents share and learn new information since they are also in a constantly changing atmosphere that deeply impacts the family” (Schofield, 2011, p.323). The impact does not...

Spot Fiat 500x Advert Analisys

Although automobile manufacturers ran some of the engaging and exciting commercials, The Fiat 500X has overtaken other carmakers with its humorous advertisement. The short clip shows an aged couple preparing for some intimate moments, and the man reaches for a bottle of blue pills. Unfortunately, the male actor tosses the...

Florida’s Nursing Homes Local Policy Issue

The author of this paper lives in Miami, FL, which has several local newspapers that discuss policy issues. For this assignment, they have chosen an article that was posted on the Miami Herald website on May 8. It discusses the continued failure of numerous nursing homes to comply with the...

Nike Social Media Analysis

Introduction The Internet has become an integral part of modern culture, in the depths of which emerged social networks, whose emergence was unprogrammed and spontaneous. Over time, from rather primitive communication forums, social networks have turned into an open space where users can express their thoughts without any modesty. In...

Social Media as a Type of Addiction

Using the social network as a means of communication has become popular nowadays. According to statistics, more than half of the Earth’s population uses the Internet daily, and the majority of them also spend a lot of time on social media (Clement, 2020). The video posted by TMW Media informs...

Social Stratification in the Media

The patterns of human relationships have now become one of the major subjects for scholarly discussion due to the researchers’ ambition to establish a theoretical basis for this communication. In order to achieve this, sociologists examine all the precedents to human behavior in certain settings and divide them into various...

The Influence of the Media on Government and the Public

Media as an educational source Media has strong educational power, and it is undoubtedly one of the most essential roles. Through reading news or watching TV, people receive information on what processes happen in the government, how it affects their lives and helps the general public understand complex concepts. Besides,...

The Emergence of Social Media Enhanced the Partisan Media Exposure

Introduction Mass media implies a complex process of communication concerning society as a whole that emerged from the rapid societal changes and technological advancements. The relevance of mass communication indicates that it is regarded as the “primary means of control and mobilization of the many” (McQuail 3). It has the...

Wonder Woman, Panorama and Suicide Squad: Advertisements Assessment

This paper aims to provide personal and technical reasons why I like the discussed advertisements, as well as analyze them from various important perspectives about effective advertisements and campaigns. The first advertisement under analysis is the TV spot of the Wonder Woman 1984 movie that is premiering this year on...

Journalism in the Digital Age

Introduction What makes someone a journalist and what does this profession entail? Mere ten years ago, this question would yield an exhaustively simple answer. Journalists are working professionals who generate editorial content for TV, radio, or magazines. This material is later published or broadcast to the target audience of viewers,...

New Media Impacts Assessment

The era of new media has marked significant shifts and changes in various spheres of life, including political systems. According to Margolis and Resnick, the Internet and other digital platforms have empowered the expression of will and influenced activism positively (159). Debates in the online environment often carry no less...

Social Media Marketing: Case Study

Social media is a fundamental part of contemporary consumers’ lives. They use it to read the news, communicate with friends and family, shop, and learn new information about trends in various industries. Therefore, businesses need to utilize social media channels for their profit. Such strategies as reaching new and existing...

Media Buying for an Advertising Campaign

Introduction Media and its advertising opportunities are essential components of any marketing strategy. Marketing strategies, in turn, employ advertising campaigns as tools for raising brand awareness and increasing sales of a product or service. This paper considers five constituents of media planning as well as steps for selecting a media...

Innovations in Modern Media: The Case of TV Shows

Engaging unique and creative techniques to modern media is a common aspect, and digital content developers regularly introduce new methods of attracting viewers’ attention. One of the areas in which such innovations are evident is complex TV as an industry that not only creates modern media trends but also has...

Instagram: Social Media’s Negative Impact on Society

Although social networks are a reasonably new phenomenon by historical standards, they have already become an influential part of society. The problem of how social networks affect our mental and physical state is also a crucial subject of research for scientists. Perfect staged photos with travel, rest, and just a...

Spry and His Plea about the States

Graham Spry is known as the father of Canadian broadcasting and one of the most successful activists of the 20th century. In the 1930s, about 80 percent of Canadians listened to American programs to learn recent hockey news and achievements (Basen, 2015). However, the citizens outside Toronto and Montreal did...

Understanding the Purpose of Sources

Researchers and journalists work on complex and essential topics that cannot be discussed without emotions. Even though they write serious papers, they sometimes tend to succumb to biases. For this reason, they often make excessive efforts to convince readers of their point of view. This is not always good since...

Does Social Media Use Contribute to Depression?

Social media is a relatively new concept in a modern world. It combines technology and social tendencies to enhance interaction through Internet-based gadgets and applications (Luxton, June, & Fairall, 2012). Through social media platforms, users can create and exchange their own content irrespective of time and distance. Social media consist...

On the Effectiveness of Advertising Posters

The first advertisement selected for the assignment has been produced by McDonald’s and is titled “Fall is Here” (2016). According to the review conducted by Wedel and Pieters (2008), objects that commonly attract a lot of visual attention include faces and bright or large-sized elements of design. The advertisement by...

The Misrepresentation in Media

It is hard to disagree that the media is the most important source of information. Almost all people learn about what is happening in the world via newspapers, various magazines, and TV reports. However, the major drawback is that the media is not always honest and trustworthy; hence, one has...

Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube in Activism and Revolution

Introduction The goal of social networks is the formal representation of the structure of personal relationships beyond the dyad (Webb, & Wright 2011). Social media like, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are all part of the innovative methods of communicating with a distant person using modern electronic development, each with its...

Solo Athlete Media Coverage: Michael Phelps

Media coverage is a critical aspect shaping the image of any prominent figure and determining the public attitude. With the development of new technologies and communication means, such content has become significantly more diverse. Depending on the form of media, ranging from the traditional ones to the personal communication channels,...

Social Media Activism During COVID-19

Introduction In The COVID-19 social media infodemic, Cinelli et al. (2020) address the critical dissemination of information during the coronavirus pandemic. The research is based on the immense data analysis of the most commonly used social media platforms, such as Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, and Gab. The article is available...

Electronic Media and its Effect on Children

Bullied and Battered; Minister’s verdict on devastating effect of social media on children Jim Daly, a Government minister, is concerned about the adverse impact of electronic media on children. Unfortunately, they are not carefully regulated; thus, numerous children suffer from pressure. Therefore, the government takes action to eliminate the issue...

Social Media Used as a Way to Hire or Fire an Employee

Social media has gained a hugely important role in nearly every possible facet of people’s lives, including employment and work. Thus, a new trend in HR has been created, suggesting that social media can be used to announce employment-related decisions, including hiring and firing ones (Albert, Da Silva, & Aggarwal,...

China-Philippines Conflict: Differences in News Broadcast

As of late the Philippines and China have been involved in a series of conflicts involving the Scarborough shoal located in the South China Sea (Hoffman, 2012). This has of course resulted in a considerable degree of news coverage regarding this potential flashpoint in the Pacific, however, the portrayal of...

Online Personality: An Unexpected Transformation

The realm of the online environment provides its users with an unprecedented opportunity to create a new persona that would represent them in the digital setting. As a result, a lot of people tend to change their communication manner and demeanor when participating in online discussions. I agree with the...

Future of Social Psychology: Social Media Impact

Social media is an important topic for discussion of today. It is a huge part of modern society, and it affects everyone’s everyday lives. Social media is a great way to deliver necessary information to millions of people all over the world, which is especially important in the case of...

Impact of Gender and Sexuality on Advertisement

Introduction Sex, gender, and sexuality often appear in advertisements for various products. It is so because these phenomena have a robust impact on people, and Carl’s Jr burger advertisement with Paris Hilton is a suitable example. It depicts two young and sexy women who are washing a car and eating...

Social Media and Mental Health

The twenty-first century is the era of social media, and it significantly influences the life, health, and values of everyone involved. People are now used to having online conversations and building relationships through social media. These radical changes impact mental health due to the new attitudes a person gets when...

Native Ads: Ethics of Native Advertising

Native advertising attempts to match the message or form of the site or platform on which it is carried. For instance, advertisers may write articles to promote their goods or services but utilize the same functions of articles created by the editorial staff. The author of this essay holds that...

Public Relation Influence of Media

Public Relation has been chosen as my field of study because it is the influential art that involves shaping opinions of a figure or an organization on the media. It is that challenge and ever changing affect of Public Relation that appeals to me and I look forward to the...

Psychology and Media Interconnections

When it comes to contributing towards positive social change, one of the best ways in which the media can contribute is through the promotion of varying types of ethos that enact such positive changes. What you have to understand is that an ethos is a distinct orientation an individual has...

Syrian Civil War in Media Coverage

One of the more recent global disasters that have received considerable levels of media coverage has been the civil war in Syria between the Syrian rebels and the troops still loyal to Bashar Al Assad (Wieseltier, 2012). Media coverage over this event has been rather sparse due to the sheer...

Marketing and Advertising Do Not Shape Our Lives

Despite the common opinion that marketing and advertising shape our lives, a number of specialists state the opposite theories regarding this point. Among them is David Sirulnick. David Sirulnick occupies the position of Executive Vice President for News and Production on MTV. In his interview for Barak Goodman’s project, he...

The Impact of Media and Mosques on Political Participation of the Muslim Community

Introduction Democracy, with its impact on most countries, is an issue that has raised debates in many parts of the world. Some individuals support democratic ideals, while others view democracy as the tyranny of the elite because it does not represent the interests of the majority in society and puts...

Households and Businesses: The Influence of Social Media

Over the last several decades, the world has been experiencing a lot of advancement in the field of information and technology (Randall, 2011). These developments have changed the manner in which individuals and businesses interact with each other. For instance, Web 2.0 has played a significant role in the introduction...

Psychology and Mass Communication Theories

There are several mass communication theories that try to explain various influences as well as dynamics surrounding the diverse types of mass media and their effects on the public. The cultivation theory developed by George Gerbner attempts to identify the manipulation of television on the viewers’ perception of the environment...

Role of Social Media in Emergency Preparedness

Summary of the article The article aims at outlining the role of social media in emergency preparedness. It further points out that there are other social media that may prove pivotal in communication in case of emergency. Cases present in the article support the potential of the use of social...

Digital Communication Systems and Its Impact on Democracy

Nowadays acceleration of the technological progress, resulting in the impetuous dissemination of innovations in the world introduces cardinal changes to the social aspects life, among which media takes not the last place. The aim of this essay is to analyze the role a digital communication systems play in the provision...

Analysis of the Media Coverage of a Frisco RoughRiders Team

Introduction Over the last decade, the world of media has experienced an extensive change in terms of means of disseminating information. While digital media is becoming more demanding among target customers, traditional media coverage, especially newspapers, is shrinking. Nevertheless, in sports, all media irrespective of types remain actual and obtain...

Creating Artificiality: Women in Pepsi Advertising

Abstract Women have always formed the center of attraction in television and radio commercials. Today, the internet is abuzz with advertising campaigns that do not even target them. Society believes that an ideal woman should be weak, yet attractive and without flaws. The individual should be beautiful and maintain her...

Sex in the Media: Effects on Behaviors and Relationships

The adolescents are among the groups that have much access to the media. They have access to such media as the internet, television, music, and video games among other media. These forms of media convey some sexual messages which are portrayed through dialogues, song lyrics, and images. Adolescents are at...

Multiculturalism and the Minority Media

Introduction Globalization has led to many changes which have really affected the world’s financial system. The media fraternity has not been left out of the globalization effects that threaten a diverse economy. The media is currently adversely affected by increasing competition in the industry. Due to the constant changes in...

Media Exposure: Personal Experience

On average most of my media consumption is derived primarily from the internet or from television (Strömbäck, J., & Kiousis, 2010). This consists of a variety of news channels such as CNN, BBC, etc. as well as a plethora of online sources of information such as blogs, articles, and YouTube...

The Effect of the Internet on Advertisement

Introduction The adoption of disruptive technology has revolutionized business models around the globe. The advancement of communication and information technology continues to remodel the commercial and entrepreneurial climate; marketing issues, advertisements, accounting, and even issues of transfer pricing have greatly benefited from the advancement in technology. Specifically, the contribution of...

Hall Pass: Analysis of Advertisements

The US Grant –Exquisite Weddings Autumn-Winter 2009 The advertisement that appeared in the Exquisite Weddings Magazine promoted a chain of luxury hotels. The ad only contained a picture of a hall in the hotel along with the name of the chain and contact information. The main creativity element of the...

A Surreal Downtown Scene. Analysing the Case

This graphic advertisement by Blair Bradshaw, an already famous, though reasonably new, artist at the time of this work, absolutely shows us the eclectic nature of his work. This graphic was part of the Absolut Vodka campaign and is one of the most collectable in that campaign(Anonymous). The various elements...

Aggressive Behavior Causes Media and Societal Violence

Media violence presents a risk to public health, and it contributes towards having an increased level of violence and aggression in the real world. Research indicates that fictional film and television violence lead to having short-term as well as a long-term increases in violence and aggression among the young viewers...

YouTube and Fair Use: When Viewing Is Allowed

By law, people have to respect each other’s intellectual property and use it fairly. However, with the creation of digital media, copyright issues have become more difficult to understand. At present, YouTube is a video platform that hosts a huge number of videos (Aufderheide and Jaszi, p. 139). According to...

Media versus Women Image Crisis

The media is very influential. The messages and the images transmitted by the media have a lot of impact on the lives of human being. Television, radio and internet are very powerful tools that shape how human beings make decisions and respond to issues in their environment. There are various...

Toyota Markets to Children

Pester power Pester power is the power and ability children have by consistently and repeatedly nagging without ceasing to influence their parents to purchase for them advertised or the latest fashionable items. Parents, since the late 20th century, have been taking their children’s demands seriously. In most cases, parents give...

Social Media Tools’ Impact on Sports

The impact of social media tools on sports Social media has become so popular because of its ability to reach the general population. With social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook, the message sent via them often has an impact on the general population (Wenner, 1998). The messages sometimes...

Media Impact on Adolescent Development

A wide range of studies has linked the media use with cognitive skills development as well as academic success, with a large number of comprehensive studies, in a strong way, giving out a suggestion that content is the most significant “mediating factor in the relation” (Kirkorian, et al, 2008, p.53)....

Social Media Behaviors in Asia

Problem Analysis Asia is a very diverse region with lots of nationalities and cultural traditions. In a globalized world, Asia started to play one of the major roles in shaping markets due to its immense productive powers. China, India, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and other countries pour goods and services...

Event Conception Plan Focused on Art

Introduction The task that has been laid down requires the artistic conceptualization of an event inside the vicinity of a hotel that is under the “avant-garde” idea and movement. Under such conditions, it is necessary for elegance and prestige to be the focus, making good use of ambiance, structure and...

Using YouTube as a Customer Communication Vehicle

Strategy for using YouTube for communicating with customers Social media tools such as YouTube have become essential for most organizations. In turn, organizations have turned them into management tools. YouTube has become one of the social media business communities uses in promoting their customer relationships. Management teams have learnt to...

The Role of the Media in the Propaganda of Terrorism

Terrorism The mere mention of the word terrorism is enough to attract the attention of everyone who heard it. Terrorism today draws more attention than disease, famine, poverty, and many other devastating calamities in the world. It is derived from the word terror, which is the one thing terrorists have...

Media, Society, and Public Policy

Introduction The media has a tremendous impact on the way individuals in society construct its political and economical relations. It directly influences the process of democratic participation of the public in various policies. During the last three to four decades there has been an ongoing debate regarding the role of...

The Role of Social Media in Activisms and Revolution

Introduction The role of the social media in the 21st century is of major concern to the mainstream media and social scientist alike. The social media arms people with means of connection in times of crisis. Citizens are able to engage with these tools to create awareness in the country...

Role of Interest Groups and Mass Media in Policymaking

Policymaking is a complicated and long process, which depends on many factors. In this essay, it is shown how interest groups and mass media can be involved in the process. It is also investigated if this influence is positive or negative. The influence of interest groups policymaking An interest group...

Advertisement and Target Customers

Introduction Owing to globalization that has greatly affected the world’s economy, marketers have to develop new strategies for surviving in the market. This is mainly because competition has become stiffer hence narrowing the market opportunities (Assael 45). It is therefore important for marketers to know and understand their consumer’s behavior....

Researching Children’s Advertising: Impact on Children’s Growth and Development

Abstract Children’s advertising is a type of communication aimed at persuading children into loving and purchasing some types of goods. Currently, they are extensively used to meet the increasing market in society. This paper provides detailed information on what children’s advertising entails. It also provides detailed information on the negative...

Advertising Effect on British Buying Decisions

Overview The research will be done mainly to determine the effects of advertising on United Kingdom citizen’s buying decisions. Several researches have been done but have not completely exposed the major effects advert messages have on consumer behavior in the United Kingdom. The research will survey respondents to collect appropriate...

Media Coverage on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Media coverage of the Israeli-Palestine conflict elicits mixed reactions. The West Bank barrier, for instance, is contested by both Israel and Palestine supported by their respective allies (Savigny& Marsden, p. 10). The Israeli government officially terms it “security fence” while the Palestinian authority describes it as the “Israeli apartheid wall”...

Social Media Influencing World Activism and Revolution

Social Networks – New Communication Channels Social media networks have opened new communication channels that enable people to traverse geographical boundaries and communicate with others around the world (Swenson 105). Popular social media networks such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter allow people to share ideas, multimedia messages, and form groups...

The Constitutes of Global Culture: The Role of Media in Global Culture

Nowadays the phenomenon of globalization can be described as the dominating power behind major sociological developments all around the world. From day to day global culture becomes more and more autocratic in every land; even in such lands where it can be hardly expected to happen so. The role of...

Media Coverage and Media Bias in American – Iraq War

Introduction All over the world, the media has been credited with the role of promoting democracy as well as offering unedited stories in various scenes. However, this freedom has over the years been abused by many governments who restrict what their media transmits or change the stories altogether. Amongst the...

Advertising as a Way to Manipulate the Mind of the Target Audience

Introduction Traditionally the concept of the advertisement has been governed precisely by the factors of promotion and profits. ” However, is it more than that? The dynamism in consumer preferences and the changing techniques, ob, and values of the advertiser has remodeled the concept of advertisement. Now, I believe that...

Involvement and Sports Brand Advertising

Introduction An advertisement has various elements. These elements, in the case of a print advertisement, are headline, text, body copy, subheadings, slogan, logo, image, seal and signature, etc. (Decrop 2007; Leonidou et al. 2006). This paper is to understand the differences in the advertisement elements depending on the degree of...

Advertising and Semiotics. Advertising Tools

Advertising and marketing are the traditional ways that businesses have utilized in their effort to expand their markets. They are the methods through which they communicate to their target market segments about the existence of a certain product in the market. When a product has been introduced to the market,...

Media and Violence Connection

Introduction The issue of media and the increase of violent crimes has been a contentious issue over the years leading to a number of researches trying to identify the correlation between the two. This is especially the case with regard to electronic media due to its visual power over our...

The Role of a Gender in the Media

Introduction The publication of magazines takes the gender connotation in the content and manner of presentation. As a result, magazines meant for males and females have a lot of differences both in content and manner of presentation. Gender identities take center stage in the whole process of publishing magazines. In...

Media in Middle East

Abstract Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to study the media coverage of the Kashmir war and the impact it created on the general population and the world at large. The materialization of blogging as a source of information and other Web 2.0 methods of reporting had not...

Communications and Media: Blogging and Community

The purpose of this research This research is intended to find out the role that a blog plays in the building of the community and also examine the meaningfulness of its social implications. It seeks to establish more of social and community roles as opposed to its common business activities....

Mr. Merrill “Professionalization: Fusion of Media Freedom and Responsibility”

The world of media is truly surprising and keeps on astonishing the nation every day with both evident and unpredictable things’ layouts. Although the majority of people tend to ‘swallow’ the information as it is fed to the viewers and readers, there are those who do not want to become...

The Spannerman Press and Leaflet Campaign: An Evaluation

Executive Summary Key Findings On the whole, the plumbing-services chain has shown a preference for allocating more of the local-media advertising budget to leaflets rather than to press advertising. This may seem correct since leaflets are more likely to be kept and contact information therefore easier to retrieve when the...

Use of Anonymous Sources in Journalism: Positive and Negative Outcomes

Introduction A journalist that wants their story to be believed uses at least two named sources in a story. Using just one source that is unknown to the reader, and sometimes the reporter, for the sake of sensationalism and competition is, unfortunately, becoming a common practice. Others, including responsible journalists,...

Is the Digital Effect Making us Stupid?

Introduction Over roughly five or so decades ago, not even the most far-fetched of positive idealists could have foreseen how rapidly technology, and especially in the information sector, would grow. The epitome of this growth is perhaps the Internet, a vast field of boundless information that can be accessed by...

Public Interest Presentation in Non-commercial Advertising

Introduction Advertising entails communicating ideas to a target group or population with the aim of convincing or informing. Therefore, advertising has been used by individuals or corporations to inform the public about their products and services (Mulvihill 179). Conversely, the advertising corporations or individuals have a role to play in...

Why U.S. Citizens Are Ignorant: Mass Media Analysis

Introduction Wherever you may travel in the world, citizens of different countries will always criticize one another for not being well informed about international events. These criticisms are often ill-founded, for citizens usually have a working knowledge of their own country’s news as well as that of neighboring countries with...

Public Interest/Non Profit Advertisement

Introduction Advertisements by individuals/corporations about their products are to generate more income for the business through persuasive ways. In this essay, we shall look at advertisements that target benefiting the consumers rather than the advertising body. Analysis of different advertisements Advertisement one This is an advert used to encourage the...

Elle Magazine Advertising Analysis

Introduction Whether we choose to recognize it or not, the media plays a large role in how we define ourselves as men and women, whether we are active or inactive, happy, sad, successful, attractive or a dozen other questions regarding who and what we are. These definitions come from the...

Rise of Internet and End of Mass Media Audience

Introduction Questions have been raised considering the viability of the internet as a medium of communication to the mass. This has partly been attributed to the phenomenal growth that it has had over the years and it remains to be seen how well it is going to be fair in...

A Look at MySpace

Introduction Any social network that is controlled by a certain form of technology like a website generally looks to please the users and therefore is designed for this sole purpose. Nightingale in her vivid explanation says that, “Industry players maintain an environment where they offer a degree of allegiance to...

The Media Coverage of the Palestinian-israeli Crisis

Introduction: A review of the Story The ongoing conflicts and prolonged but unsuccessful peace-making processes between Palestine and Israel have commonly been labeled as “the Palestinian-Israeli crisis”. The conflicts have been characterized by border disagreements, mutual recognitions, security threats, water rights, control over Jerusalem, fates, and legalities of the refugees...

Media and Its Impact on the Audience

Consumerism is the concept of marketing developed in the 20th century by social economists and marketing managers to encourage high consumption of commodities through intensive marketing by investing in advertisement (Stuart 88). Since they were first used, product advertisements are designed to arouse consumers’ desire. In this case, the goal...

Has the Media Changed the Response to Natural Disasters?

Summary In most cases, when a disaster strikes, the first people that tell the world about it is the media (Reyes &Jacobs, 2006, p. 444). Upon hearing of any disaster that has occurred, the media tries to obtain more information about the disaster, dispatch their reporters to the site of...

Advertisers: Family and Social Relations

Introduction Advertisers target the youth market more and more these days. The thirteen to fifteen age brackets are perhaps the most coveted group for marketers today. The main industries focusing on this age group are tobacco, alcohol, drug, food and cloth industries. The advertisements are presented through important means of...

US News Coverage on Three Major Networks: CNN, FOX and MSNBC

I consistently view news programs on three networks: CNN, FOX, and MSNBC. The one I use most often is MSNBC because I like two of the political shows and one news show on that network: Countdown with Keith Oberman, the Rachel Maddow Show and Morning Joe. I do not often...

Children’s Dwindling Health: Who Is to Blame?

The number of diseases among our children has been on the increase at an alarming rate. This is according to an article titled, “Deteriorating children’s health isn’t a mystery” by Terry Schraeder, an internist at Mt. Auburn Hospital and clinical assistant at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown...

Loss and Gain of Textual Meaning in Advertising Translation

Introduction There is always a need for good translation and therefore there is also a great demand for good translators. In order to become one there is the need to master a number of skills. A good translator is not only able to deal with and then convey textual meaning...

Policy, Ownership, Professionalism, and Technology

It is common knowledge that mass media has a strong influence on the way of thinking and behavior of people. Modern radio and television can provide the audience with any possible information about the country’s development and contribute significantly to people’s education and self-development. Most of people do not even...

Oprah Winfrey: The American Icon

Oprah Winfrey is a celebrated talk show celebrity from a humble background who has invested her time in changing the world through her show and charity works. Katherine Krohn talks about the early childhood of Oprah and what she went through living in a rural farm in Mississippi. Oprah was...

Television Network in the Struggle for Global Well-Being

Main actions of NBC ‘The More You Know’ is the broadcasting network public service group under the National Broadcasting Company. There is a large number of listeners for this service. This public service group gives more attention to the listeners who are conscious about the matters relating to the community....

Music Artists and Advertising Deals

Introduction There has been a change in terms of the attitude of artists regarding the issue of getting involved in advertising deals as a way of supplementing their income. This has been occasioned by the dwindling sale of their recorded music. During the 1960s, those artists that were involved in...

Pop Culture: Developments, Recycling and Revitalizing

Pop can be defined as the usual way of life of Americans. It refers to the popular culture that at least all Americans agree to. It is concerned with what people eat, drink, listen to , watch on TV and even what they read. Pop culture became popular to American...

Media Influence on Ideals of Beauty

Introduction American media has brought a major influence to what is considered the appropriate look for beautiful women. Standards for ideal beauty have been presented by several forms of American media among them being televisions and magazines. The newly acquired roles devalue women and also deprive them of a great...

Necessity of Studying Advertisements

Advertisements may seem very unimportant to some, but the impact they leave on every individual viewing them is magnificent. Their specialty lies in the fact that they are the reason for the transformation of thoughts, and additionally the single most influential aspect of each person’s life. But we encounter advertisements...

Marketing Mediums: Advertising Effects

In today’s business world, marketing is one of the fundamentals without which a business company would have significantly less possibilities of success in the market. There are several methods for marketers to develop new ideas and advertise new products and services. Among these methods, or advertising formats, the media plays...

Usage of Images in the Marketing Sector

Outline Images have been used by different cultures, nations, and organizations as symbols that give them an identity. The symbols are usually unique emblems that distinguish a group from the other. These symbols may have different meanings to other groups but possess a significant identity to the users. The symbols...

News in this Modern World

Introduction The word “news” is defined literally in a variety of ways as “information about important or interesting recent events especially when published or broadcasted” or “broadcast report or news” or “newly received or noteworthy information.” (Thompson 2000, p.598). It is clear that the news is something which appears attractive...

Mass Communication: Types and Aspects

Dynamics of Orality, Literacy, and Electronic Society Orality is very common in Canada when it comes to communication as it is used as the primary method of communication between parties where the spoken words are decoded by the audience. Literate communication is also another form of common communication taking place...

The Value of Blogs, Problems and Opportunities, Communication Patterns

The development of the Internet allows new possibilities of communication and interaction between people. Blogs become to play a crucial role in the everyday life of people and increase social interaction between people from different parts of the world. Blogs represent a unique communication environment with their own rules and...

TV and Newspaper Advertising Death

Failing marketing strategy The decline in advertising through traditional media is blamed on various factors. These factors are attributed to a shift in advertiser goals and consumer interests. The medium of advertising and effectiveness of a medium matters significantly in modern-day advertising. This is attributed to a lack of marketing...

Danger to Be a Journalist

When the internet was first conceived, one of the things it was deemed useful for was as a revolutionary method of easily acquiring information from sources around the world without having to leave the comfort of your home for a trip to the library. Over time, the information is added...

The Video Game Industry: Operating Margin FY 2005-2007

In the not-so-distant past video games catered to a very small market of dedicated young enthusiasts. However, from games like Mario and Pac-Man to the advanced next-generation consoles and video games that exist today, the video game industry has evolved into a global powerhouse. Subsequently, all the members of the...

Unequal International Flow in News: China

Introduction The processes of globalization, trade liberalization and the overall development of the influence of the mass media are currently modifying the whole human society turning it from a community of separate countries with their borders and laws into a single global homogeneous platform where reciprocal trade and communication between...

Technology and Its Impact on Contemporary Communication

A blog is a form of website mainly sustained and operated by an individual who makes regular commentaries and other material such as images and clips. Bloggers usually provide descriptions of events, news or comments, and observations on a subject of their interest. Blogs at times also function as online...

To What Extent Does the Production of News Reproduce Dominant Ideologies?

Even though that nowadays, the effect produced by Medias upon the process of designing socio-political policies in Western countries, still continues to be discussed within a conceptual framework of “fourth power”, there are many good reasons to believe that Medias can longer be thought of as simply one among many...

Media Industries Development Scenario

Abstract A public relations research paper which details the current scenario of electronic media and print media in the Asian countries of Australia, Malaysia and Japan. The newspapers for Malaysia, Australia and Japan are The Star, The Sun Herald and the Asahi respectively. Their online and print presence is analyzed...

Communications and Mass Media Impact on It

The world of mass media is a versatile thing full of contrasting ideas and standpoints according to the current problems or events at a local place or in the world. Many of the scholars tend to analyze and find out the approaches to the audience so that to emphasize the...

Media’s Role on Terrorism

Introduction Terrorism has been a major challenge affecting many nations all over the world. The media, on the other hand, is considered one of the factors that result in terrorism. Terrorism in respect to the media can be said to be a form of propaganda. It is a kind of...

What Is the Role of Rhetoric in Public Relations Practice?

Public relations is a unique sphere of organizational management and control which helps modern companies to create a positive reputation and a strong brand image, The process by which public relations brings about matching of buyers and sellers may be understood by assuming initially that there are complete information and...

Los Angeles and Its Historical Events

Introduction Nicknamed the City of Angels, Los angeles is one of the most popular cities in the world today. It is estimated to have a population of more than 3.8 million people. The Metropolitan area is a home of estimated thirteen million residents. L.A. county is the most populated and...

My Space and Linkedln Benefits

Introduction Myspace and LinkedIn are social networking positions that specifically target business people. LinkedIn is the biggest among other social networking tools with more than 45 million users. LinkedIn is among the most powerful networking sites and helps businesses as well as individuals who find some interest in it like...

How Do CRTC and CBC Affect Canadian Media and Culture?

How do CRTC and CBC affect Canadian Media and culture? Canadian culture lacks the presence of a truly public broadcasting network and this anthology revolves around contemporary programming and production facilities. Though the Canadian federal government in the form of media bodies like CRTC has attempted to retain Canadian culture...

Cyberpunk: Examples of the Genre

If we take a close look at particularities of scientific progress for the last thirty years, it will appear that, during the course of this time, not a single breakthrough of universal magnitude (with exception of invention of Internet) has been achieved; whereas, in time of Industrial Revolution and during...

Media Bias in Articles on Drought in Africa

The articles that are reviewed in this essay are related to droughts in Africa in 2009. The articles are about the recent discovery by scientists about the incidence of drought in the African continent which shows that the continent has a history of droughts in Africa in the Sahel region...

Why the Commercial Ads Lie? Anti-Tobacco Advertising Evaluation

Advertisements are indeed an important aspect of our life, no matter how personally we evaluate the promoted product. One could say that heshe does not believe commercials, but the statistics do not lie when they say that the sales of a particular product rose after the launch of a new...

Internet Communications and Media

Economy In today’s world people are very interested in and curious about the things related to the World Wide Web. Some times they are over-hyped about WWW in their thought and talk. The reason for that is influence of information technology and World Wide Web is precious. It is a...

Media and American Judicial System

The reference work Media and the American Courts by S L Alexander provides the reader with both the necessary historical perspective to understand the increased media coverage of the court system and access to landmark cases in which additional rights were awarded to the media. The concern over the conflict...

Media Convergence in Online Gaming Sphere

An overview of globalization and culture Globalization is a process that has been observed to influence many dimensions of the life of humans. It is also a compulsory process that transforms the contemporary human future. Sine the beginning of the 90s, humans created a new world whose most significant characteristic...

The Newspapers Place in the Media World

Newspapers have been the method by which countless generations have learned about the comings and goings, stories that affect daily lives, and important historical events unfolding in our world. Even with the advent of the internet, newspapers have not lost their importance. In fact, it has evolved into an ever...

Do These Media Affect How People Perceive Reality?

We have been raised in world where perception is key. It is the basis by which we judge everything we see, taste, or feel as being real or imagined. Everything we see and hear influences our way of thinking and method of life. Of all the existing influences in our...

Mass Communication: Term Definition

In the modern society, mass media acquire greater and greater importance with every year. The influence that mass media of different kinds have in the modern human community is difficult to overestimate as far as even the most serious political and social events are not only reported but often decided...

Lack of Humanistic Perspective and Social Responsibility

Summary of the Article The article by Dragga & Voss the lack of consideration of human life in reporting accidents in the media. The article provides that most of the reporting of accidents done in print as well as a television-based mass communication medium is impersonal and does not hold...

How Media Shapes American Society Today.

Introduction The matter of the influence of TV on American community stays a burning one due to the effects that TV has, on that society. The impacts can be regarded in the conduct of persons, both youthful and adult, who have been impacted by different images that they have seen...

The Relationship Between Youth, Lifestyle and Consumption

Introduction Young people as a special group of society have always been in the focus of attention of researchers and politicians during many years. Nowadays it is possible to talk about the beginning of the new stage of development of youth. The problems of youth are very interesting for the...

Celebrity Commercials: Pure Business Perspective

Abstract This paper takes the article in the New York Times “Nothing Sells Like Celebrity” by JULIE CRESWELL as a starting point to discuss the appearance of the celebrities in ads as a business, which is a pure commercial junction. The paper addresses many aspects of this business in terms...

The Stakeholders and Their Stakes Within the Sports Media Discussions

Discussing key issues associated with controversial discussions in sports media, it would be relevant to point out such criteria as the conflicts in values, important consequences or rights, and responsibilities among the stakeholders in the issue under consideration, where stakeholders might be represented as an entire television media service and...

Television Habituation and Adolescent Depression

Specific Aims Due to a variety of factors, adolescent depression has become a serious area of concern for both school administrators and mental health professionals. These compelling factors have to do with, first of all, a worrying prevalence of about 5% of the teenage population (Brent & Birmaher, 2002). Gun-related...

Interviews With L.A. Residents

Preface Up until recently, I was convinced that the overwhelming majority of L.A. residents are absolutely thrilled to live in the city, which is often associated with the very essence of the so-called “American dream”. Prior to conducting the following set of interviews, it would never occur to me that...

Electronic Media Impact on Children & Adolescents

Introduction In today’s world, media has been playing a detrimental part to the people’s lives. Media is a short form of the term “media of communication” that is used to refer organized means of dissemination of facts, opinions, and entertainment such as newspapers, magazines, cinema films, radio, television, and the...

Right to a Free Press in the Australian Constitution

In 1948, United Nations General Assembly adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHP). Under Article 19, it confirmed the right to free speech and declared that: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and...

Advertising and Gender Roles

Introduction There is a widely held opinion among many sociologists and psychologists that advertisement can be considered an inseparable part of our consciousness. In fact, this statement can be easily substantiated by the statistical data, provided by many researches, according to which, an average American citizen is literally hunted by...

The Daily Tribune: Advertisement, News, Collaboration

Introduction The case is about Daily Tribune, a well-established newspaper in eastern Tennessee. The newspaper’s readership is mostly in the small towns and commands a good number of readerships in the counties. The looming problem arises when the publisher of the newspaper, John Freeman announces in a meeting with the...

Importance of Testimonials Analysis

Introduction Testimonials are written or spoken statements from a public figure and sometimes from a private person, who exalt the virtue of a product. This means that a product that has been advertised using this method is highly accepted by many bearing in mind that they have a feeling of...

Poverty in New York City and Media Representation

Introduction Poverty and the widening income divide are complex and recurring issues in the United States. New York City (NYC), which is urban megapolis chosen for this paper, holds one of the highest poverty rates in the country. The poverty rate in the city is at 19.5 percent, while near-poverty...

How Media Helps Promote Terrorists’ Agenda

Terrorism is one of the social stigmas of the modern world. The rise of violent actions peculiar to the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century is associated with the instability in various regions and the clash of different states’ interests. However, there is an idea...

Permission Marketing and Intrusive Advertising

In today’s internet society, a common complaint among users is the consistent use of bulk emailing referred to as “Junk Mail” or “Spam.” Opt-in advertising campaigns, a permission-based marketing practice, though technically not considered spam, are nevertheless viewed as intrusive. Strictly speaking, permission-based email advertising refers to email from a...

Pyeongchang Ghost Town After the 2018 Olympics

The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games was the global winter multiple-sport event that took place between 9 and 25 February of 2018 in PyeongChang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea. The event was highly valuable for the host city because the Olympics has been hosted...

Modern ‘In Your Face’ Advertising Issues

Introduction With the advent of TIVO, VCR’s, and DVD’s, businesses have had a harder time reaching their potential customer base. These businesses have begun to search out new ways (or old) to reach potential customers. TIVO’s greatest sale point is that customers can tune out commercials or other types of...

Soccer and Sport as a New Medium of Communication

All form of sports has been of Ritual importance in the community especially when the character of sportsmen/women is based on social attribute. In this case, the athletes become a perfect figure who exemplify the moral value of the community and hence serves as a symbol of those values. Again,...