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Spotting fake news “How To Spot Fake News “ by Eugene Kliey and Lori Robinson, is an article based on ways to distinguish between real viral news stories and ones that are fabricated .Social media has always been the main gateway for fake news stories and as Kiely and Robinson put it “ Bogus stories can reach more people more quickly via social media”. News seems to travels faster online then on paper, and many people seem to believe everything they see rather than pay attention to the details…

The mass media and state (and other powerful institutions) play a crucial role in the construction of national identity in a contemporary society through the cultural practices. Morley and Robins write that the construction and emergence of national identities can’t be understood without reference to the role of communication technologies. These technologies give people “a space of identification” (Morley & Robins, 1995, pp. 67-69) basically, with the rise of communication technologies, the mass…

Photojournalists are viewers to the world around them, they see people in danger and in pain by just showing up to work. Getting involved isn’t only good for just journalists and their focuses. It can also be good for journalism as a whole and for the public (Jacobitz). Although, there will at times be some situations that can’t be controlled, there are always ways in which help can be given, it’s just what you take advantage of as an opening. Since photojournalists are in the position of being…

Designers and what they produce play a large role in our lives. Because they have the ability to affect the society, environment, cultures, and many other aspects through advertisements. The effects of advertisements can be so harmful sometimes. So, a professional designer must be careful and follow certain rules or ethics. Design have many codes of ethics toward clients, other designers, public, society, and the environment. Each code of ethics is really important and a professional designer…

Agenda Setting theory was developed by Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw. According to Griffin (2011), McCombs and Shaw believe that the mass media have the ability to transfer the salience of items on their news agendas to the public agenda. This theory refers to mass communications effects which hold that news media, through the editorial selection process, transmit to the public the salience of political objects, which affects the relative importance of these objects to the public. (Kaid &…

(Labre, 2005) Harrison conducted a study of elementary school boys and girls and discovered that for the boys, “television exposure was positively correlated with a stereotypical and prejudicial tendency to assume a fat girl will be lazy, greedy, and have no friends”. (2000). Children are also more inclined…

Society is in the midst of a great media revolution, thus it may be considered as a “Mediated” one, with media offering most of its commodities to the public, which in turn is embraced by them. Media has utilized itself in various ways in order to entice, inform, offer convenience, be needed, and ultimately be a key player in the lives of people. Possessing the two key traits of easy accessibility and instant provision of almost any information, media has encompassed not only the people’s…

Agenda-setting theory is when the media concentrates on certain issues or subjects, and the public will perceive these issues or subjects as more significant than others. It is believed that although mass media is not successful in directly telling us what to think, they are increasingly triumphant in telling us what to think about. The mediums that usually “set the agenda” are print and broadcast media (such as newspapers, television programs, and magazines). However, could social media also be…

The study “Newspaper Coverage of the Niger Delta Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Government and Privately Owned Newspapers in Nigeria” was motivated by the need to check crises in the country as well as proffer solution to resolving the crisis in the Niger Delta region especially as the crisis had taken a rather horrendous dimension in recent years. The media have been said to be at the fore front of the crisis, either escalating or helping to resolve the crisis. The purpose of the study was…

1. Introduction Digital imaging technology, the shift from chemical darkroom into the digital era, along with technological convergence, has had a great impact on photojournalistic practices and routines since the 1980s (Fadel, 2010). This shift has created new realms of challenges for photojournalists; photo manipulation is one such challenge. Despite its existence since the emergence of photography, it has always been a matter of fierce debate and concern, especially after the massive…