George Marshall

It is no secret that the things we see everyday effect the way we view ourselves and the world around us. While some may see social media as a harmless playground, the underlying effects of this generations need to stay connected go way beyond what the eye can see. While social media platforms are places where people can go to share their ideas and express themselves, “Instagram is imperatively filled with half-truths and optimizations of life, yet we still use it to gauge our own”…

In 1948, Harold D Lasswell first proposed the uses and gratifications theory. Unlike many other popular theories such as cultivation theories and media system dependency theory, the Uses and Gratifications theory proposed an active audience with the power to choose specific media to satisfy specific predetermined needs. It explains the reasons why people use particular media and media researchers are more focus on what the viewer does with media rather than what the media does to the viewer. The…

Today people live in a visually intensive society and a world of spectacular and exciting images. They are bombarded with an orderly and continuously stream of visual stimulation from all manner of media every day. They see mediated images more often than they read words. We live in a digital age awash in images and texts that combine words and images (Gee, 2007)."Something is happening, we are becoming a visually mediated society. For many, understanding of the world is being accomplished not…

In a world where social normes are created and shared trough popular global media, it becomes crutial for adacemia to analise and understand the information that is shared trough those chanells. In this regard, TV shows have been a significant driving force behind a new age of global social values, as well as instrumental in perpatuating some old- not always positive- norms (??) This paper avaluates the major characteristics of characters portrayed in the TV show Game of Thrones in an effort to…

What Are the Pros and Cons of Media Censorship? The limits that have been placed in this world, as far as are placed boundaries that have always been in place on the world, as far as media, communication and entertainment are concerned, are slowly lifting away. We now have the freedom to believe, think and say what we want. However, don’t you think there are some things that should be left unsaid? This is where the question about media censorship comes in; it is when things that are allowed to…

Immigration. It's in the news. It's all around us. In fact, we are all immigrants. Immigration is, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary, "an act or instance of immigrating; specifically: travel into a country for the purpose of permanent residence there." In a nutshell, this means that immigration is the act of one moving from its home country with the intention of living in a new country. For example, currently, the United States is having trouble with immigration. In 2015 alone, 1.38…

In this day and age, mass media itself comes in many different forms. From traditional media comprising newspapers, radio and television programmes, to new media, such as blogging, forums and social medias. With various forms of media being so readily accessible to us, it is inevitable that we hear all about the discord, disputes and dilemmas in both our society and internationally. When media can sow the seeds of discord in society and/or propagate existing societal dilemmas, can we really…

The pervasiveness of media in the recent years has brought about serious discussion regarding media representations of various groups. There is no question that media affects the way its audience view a particular reality that is presented. As Molloy said, “the media has a huge opportunity and responsibility to shape culture” (1). This is evident in media’s queer representation, which has evolved over time. Gone are the days when queer characters on television and films were a rarity. Queer…

Whether we like it or not, much of the information if not all of the information that we possess and access in our everyday lives comes from the media. We use it to fill our brains with knowledge and use common sense to figure out whether the information presented is valid and contemporary. Among information that we are exposed to, a large chunk of it happens to be scientific. An example that many are familiar with is global climate change. After reading these two pieces of writing, Climate…

Media is known to be the main principle many individuals look up to in today’s society. It is the root to stay focus and grab one’s attention in order to see what is going around in the world. Legalization of marijuana would be one expectation that would be occurring today. Although it is legal in California, it is still in process for the upcoming year of 2018. I came across different views about legalizing marijuana and they both are from different perspectives such as; a liberal view and a…