Broadcasting

For the past weeks I have been monitoring and recording three different days of my own media consumption. Media to me personally is computer use, cell phone use for entertainment other than phone calls and reading the paper. Basically, being involved or cut off from what is happening around me at the time. I started my journey by doing my no media day first. I did not use the internet on this day nor did I check the school website in 24 hours. I work unusual hours at work between 11pm and 7:30am…

ccording to Ferrell & Hartline (2014), “advertising is a paid announcement viewed through media such as television, radio, magazines and newspapers” (182). Television advertising can be expensive so companies are using more magazines, radios, and the internet to promote their products (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). The advisement should capture the attention of the audience, be interesting, be desirable, and the action to purchase the product (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). Amalgamated Inc. would…

Charter Communications is a medium that offers cable, telephone, and internet services. In regards to print, It should target in particular adult males more than any other demographic. Because, this group more than likely reads the paper more than anyone else. But, there are advantages and disadvantages to advertising on newspapers and magazines. First, Magazines would boost interaction from women and the company would get additional revenue for the number of subscriptions sold. These two…

On any given day the average American is bombarded with hundreds of advertisements. These can be found on massive billboards while driving, on the internet, on television, and on just about every other medium. Advertisements aim to cause their audience to go out and do one thing or another, whether that be to buy a product or join a cause. Either way, all of these companies and groups who produce advertisements, tend to rely heavily upon the rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos, and logos, to…

Media is seen everywhere and everyday, but it does not show everything. In George Orwell’s 1984, the media is used to spread propaganda for the Party, the main government in the novel. Media censorship and selectivity are used in favor of the government as part of propaganda. Today, the media is more influential than ever. Governments around the world still currently use techniques of propaganda with the media to establish a sense of authority. George Orwell uses propaganda through the media to…

The reading for this week declared accurate data of how the media (newspapers articles and television stations) can control and manipulate salience and how it impacts the general public on immigration as a whole. I did appreciate the article speaking of the reasons why the media uses only certain data or stories to release. The media has studied Americans and knows what will encourage them to watch the news or read their articles. The news media is the gatekeeper to what the public hears…

XI, The black shoes: Bitterfield 1935. A mother is peeling potatoes while the daughter is doing her homework in a working-class flat. The daughter ask the mother if she could have two pfennings for the week. This way she can make the trip to the country because her teacher said Hitler wants the town people to get closer with the farmers. The mother does not have the money but said she will try. The daughter starts to help her peel potatoes when she ask her if she has to wear the old black shoes…

Problems in the world are presented through television. Before the invention of newspapers and other media, information was spread through the word of mouth and later in written forms. When television was invented, communication became visible and information was being spread instantaneously. However, electronic media is reshaping the culture in which we live today by televising serious issues into a form of entertainment. Neil Postman, the author of his 1985 Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public…

Information Box or Idiot Box How television was used, and its purpose for the world? Having probably surpassed the hopes and dreams of its creators, the television has made a huge impact on the lives of billions of people. The “boob tube” or “idiot box” was initially used to help advertisers sell their products; however, it has become a means of rapidly informing the world of current events and other forms of entertainment. Widespread panic that took place in 2009 as the June 12th switch from…

(1948-1960) In the tracing of the social and historical connections of the genre many authors consider “Candid Camera” as the first reality show. Emerging as a Radio show , in 1948 this show gets its TV version followed by great popularity. The show illustrates situations in which ordinary people are found in unordinary situations with comic outcomes (E.g. Woman asks help for her car, when passersby learns that the car has no engine). The hidden cameras from many angles follow the actions, and…