Citizen journalism

Society today is exposed to advertisements by television, radio, magazines, newspapers, and even billboards (G Barve et. al.). This exposure, however, has begun to negatively influence American society. Advertisements influence different people in society today in many different ways, and ever since television and broadcasting were brought into the American culture, it has been one of the main sources for information. However, many people do not know about the serious problems advertisements can…

CHAPTER 5 – JUNK JUDGMENTS “Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.” — Oprah Winfrey, American TV personality Judgments are a dime a dozen in life! Most of the time, you exercise judgments without even being cognizant about it. Try figuring out these following familiar statements; in all probability, you would find yourself unaware about their judgmental tones: "How I wished I was not fat, dark, and ugly!"…

In the article “The media exaggerates negative news. This distortion has consequences”(2018), the author Steven Pinker introduces to the general public why the media like to report the negative news and exaggerate it. The author states exaggeration is worse and he explains why it happened. Firstly the author describes what is negative news and he gives some examples of the negative news in history. Then he argues the negative news effects and he believes it is negative forwards to the public. In…

In “Who’s Really to Blame for Fake News: Look in the mirror, America,”(Moyers & Company, November 30, 2016) Neal Gabler suggests we have a fake news problem as the media caters to the public’s wants because people want to hear fake news and will go as far as pay for those articles. Additionally, fake news does not only rob people of the truth, but also hurts democracy. Not to mention, fake news distracts the public’s attention away from real news. This is what Gabler calls “post-truth disease”…

Gadgets and technology have robbed our children of their childhood. According to Mcdonough, children ages 2-5 spend an average of 32 hours a week in front of a TV—watching television, DVDs, DVR and videos, and using a game console (Mcdonough, 2009). Children who have a TV in their bedroom spend about 1 ½ hours more per day watching it than kids without a TV in their bedroom. Children tend to spend less time interacting with family members the more they watch TV (Umichedu, 2015). Media can have…

The presence of Mass media in our modern society is very strong, where the access to technology has become available for almost all parts of the world that enables them to stay connected with whatever is happing around them. Due to that a big majority are so dependent on this connection that even their states of mind and mentalities are directly impacted by messages, news and different information conveyed through broad communications channels. Mass media influence our activities, views, and…

Media can help, and trying to build sports channel larger as much as media do because people used to watch AFL, tennis, badminton, soccer and so on. Influence is the ability to set trends, inspire participation, and change opinions within sports this is an important and powerful things to have. Media could use TV, internet, radio, but also face book etc. and media can help to spread negative and positive impact toward globe as much as rapidly. Media can promoting sport in general and individual…

In his introduction to Permanence and Change, Hugh Dalziel Duncan wrote, “Burke demands that we become masters of many perspectives in order that we may understand one perspective” (Duncan xv). This statement does a sufficient job of explaining Kenneth Burke’s theory of dramatism to the casual observer of rhetoric. Today, it is second-nature for all 24-hour cable news channels and most people to take into account several diverse perspectives when dissecting events as trivial as celebrity…

Late-night comedy shows such as “The Daily Show” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” present viewers with a source of both entertainment and information on current political events. While the biases of the hosts and writers for these shows is reflected in the presentation of this information, their influence on public opinion is no more or less legitimate than that of other news sources such as newspapers and news channels. The people that watch these late-night shows on a regular basis…

The paper “Postmodern Representation and Commodity Spectacle in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locusts”, written by Mr. Darvay, allowed me to gain insight on a novel I had never read, and to be frank never heard of either. As I was working my way through the paper, my brain was scattered as I tried to grasp the concept that was being talked about. Although, right of the bat the sentence “compressed into one huge junkyard...commercialized society and culture” truly stood out to me. My first…