George Marshall

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McGraw-Hill, 1964. Reviewed by Kayla M. Piper, Pittsburg State University, KS. Medium Is the Message, a part of the book Understanding Media, is a critical evaluation and interpretation of Media Ecology, a communications theory. Marshall McLuhan particularly focuses on the idea that the medium is the message. He presents the idea that instead of the content of the medium being the message, it is actually the effect that it creates…

The Pardon of Sheriff Arpaio: Understanding the Impact of the Media on People’s Views The media in the United States plays an important factor in shaping people’s views on controversial issues such as immigration, police brutality, race relations, among numerous other issues that unfold daily. The power the media has can feed the emotional and political climate of the country, fueling the flames of hatred or calming the fear and anxiety of a country’s people. In this essay, I will examine how…

The Entertainment Industry plays a huge role in our culture and society today. It is a tool that can be used to inform, voice opinions, and promote products using hidden advertising and product placement. The entertainment industry is very powerful and influential to its audiences. One obligation that the entertainment industry has failed to provide is the politically correct portrayal of minority actors. It is argued that the dominate race in the entertainment industry is white actors, which…

Success Kid In the age of ever changing technology and media forms, one must be constantly searching for what makes new platforms different from the rest. Long ago, oral traditions dominated the way ideas were spread. Eventually, written records surged to dominate the way individuals communicate, which opened an avenue where people could interact with each other without being face to face. This phenomenon, while extremely beneficial, introduced the notion of the control of text. The author of…

Mass and social media have their effects in the socio-political life of any nation. Understanding the phenomenon of mass mobilization and socialization has its big part in the political sciences. Mass mobilization emerged with the modern industrial era, this technique to mobilize the masses to a certain political agenda or set of goals was used in its most port to serve political and business goals. Mass media tends to achieve a successful and direct communication between the authorities and the…

These protests are interesting as they reflect a new motion that the media had set in action. A whole different attitude had emerged among the youth. This new attitude was highly critical and people began valuing their freedom of opinion. They demanded attention for the public voice and civil rights. Many protests against the war had been held all over the world which eventually became the US final draw. It was clear that the war could no longer continue with so many objections from the…

Media discourse represents culturally and socially common meaning. It indicates to a public form of interaction that happen through a broadcast platform, whether spoken or written, in which the discourse is oriented to a non-present reader, listener or viewer. Furthermore, media discourses have intense positive and negative effects on the receiver. Therefore, the influence of media on beliefs, opinions, and ideologies has to be carefully studied through media discourse analysis (Matheson, 2005,…

Future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948. He grew up in the small African-American community of Pin Point, Georgia, with his older sister Emma Mae and younger brother Myers Lee. His father disappeared early on in his life, and the family divided even further when he was 9 years old. Clarence Thomas has been a judge for 25 years, and during that time he was quoted as saying, “Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” This quote relates to Thomas…

In society, an action of an individual or group often has a consequence that not only affects them, but others in society as well. Through action, society is able to progress and mend to the people’s ever changing beliefs and values. No one in history is remembered for what they did not do, but rather what they did do and how it affected society. For example, Harriet Tubman and the NAACP went down in history for their work in improving the lives of African-Americans and fighting to change the…

Should it not matter to how much media can affect our personal life? The media is a number of applications that correlate to social networking and well-being of a person. Media effects the lives of many people through the thought of wanting the same reflection they see. Media has a huge impact on our society worldwide. Sociological aspects fall into the topic of how that media effect one’s life mentally, physically, and emotionally. Many times media has a debauch on one’s life. The way…