Alfred Marshall

The purpose of media is an important part of its eventual delivery, often impacting manner and intensity of the creators’ attempts to manipulate the emotions and inclinations of their audience. In an academic work, for example, the purpose is to convince a scholarly audience that a specific argument is true. However, in more mainstream works, such as novels - or even commercially produced cinema - the intention is to entertain rather than inform, with education either sidelined or unintentional…

The world is filled with technology. There is instant access to internet, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and a plethora of other social media, as well as instant communication to almost anyone through texting, FaceTime, email, and more. Word and information travels fast. The media constantly surround society and it is often hard to escape it. As a result, the messages being sent out by the media are powerful. The mass media proves to be an influential stronghold over society; the impacts…

Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he successfully argued several cases before the Supreme Court. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Marshall graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1933. He established a private legal practice in…

Media Framing The framing theory was first introduced by Goffman in 1974. The conceptual framework suggested the frame would influence the audience to interpret information (Goffman 1974). The media provide a frame to journalists reporting the information or a news (Goffman 1974). Social frameworks and natural frameworks create influences on how the data are interpreted in communication (Goffman 1974). Scheufele (1999) has argued that framing as a media effect. The public’s perception of an…

There have been abundant definitions of what media framing is, but Entman’s classic definition probably best points out the two most important ideas involved: “selection” and “salience” (Entman 1993, p.52). In essence, media framing is a process of selecting information from raw news and making it more salient (Entman 1993); this process is usually influenced by the ideological or political stance of the media company (Pan, 2008). To avoid biases resulted from this process, analyzing media…

As we all know, mass media has completely consumed the world around us. In seconds, any one of us can gain access to information through print media sources such as magazines and newspapers or online media sources such as online news articles, TV, commercials, and film. The aging of adults is just one of the many topics that are portrayed in the media today. The information that we read and the images that we see can tend to shift our own opinions about the way people are thought about and…

The Medium and Conveying Intelligence Postman begins his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, showing how the world may not have fallen into the “Big Brother” type dystopia that George Orwell warned of, but we had fallen into another. Postman describes the dystopia originally created by Aldous Huxley where there are “technologies that undo capacities to think,” something that could very well be said about the people of today. The television and internet have dulled people to the point where they…

-The Power of Media- As many of us may know, the media affects us all in one way or another. Whether it is through social media, watching the news on television, or reading the morning newspaper. American Politics Today (2015) defines mass media as, “Sources that provide information to the average citizen, such as newspapers, television networks, radio stations, podcasts, and websites” (Bianco & Canon, p. 238). For many us, media is an outlet to access and gain knowledge about current events.…

The internet has been around for decades now and almost half a century in the form of an idea for many more. The purpose and function of the internet is also debated regarding how it is used. The internet is seen by some as merely a tool for use. While others see as their livelihood as demonstrated by e-businesses they trade solely through the internet. This essay will examine a question that encompasses the purpose and function. The idea of whether or not the internet is a new medium is both…

In “The Playboy Interview” Marshall McLuhan says: “all media…are extension of man that cause deep and lasting changes in him and transform his environment”. The media represents a major and primary form of communication. It has a more negative impact on humankind than a positive one because it causes people to become more distant and divides societies. That division leads to more serious issues, such as discrimination, amongst people. The media, or social media to be more specific, is a key…