Journalism

The importance of these two articles are they both discuss how public opinions are formed. J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood (2014) explored what causes people to believe in conspiracy theories with their literature Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style of Mass Opinion. The original hypothesis of Oliver and Wood (2004) was that conspiracism has less to do with political knowledge and more to do with your believe system. Several variable must be controlled in order to provide conclusive…

Imagine having worldwide fame with all the news press, photographing and videotaping every move with their eager faces, trying to ask about something personal. For some people it may be the type of lifestyle they want, although, for others it may be something that they dread. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger gave him worldwide fame due to how it was about a boy named Holden Caulfield that was distressed with society so he went on a three day adventure in New York City experiencing life on…

Theoretical part 1- The scope of study:- The scope of study is written media discourse analysis whether this discourse in news paper or magazine, and its role in the process of social communication. Media discourse according to (Van.Dijk, 1943,) is “Media discourse was semantically transparent: A meaning or a set of meanings is formed up usually By ruling groups and this is then carried to other sub-…

Social media has taken control over lives of millennials. It has changed how millennials views of social media platform. If you are like myself, and are active on social medias’ like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, you must know what Snapchat is. Nowadays, everyone has some sort of smartphone, but if you are too young to have a phone you have an Ipod, Ipad, etc to connect to the media outlets like Snapchat. Souza e Silva talks about how having a location-based application can affect how you use…

The main focus that early mass communication research has commonly looked into is what impacts media can implicate onto an audience. But as explored by Blumler (1974) through flipping the focus of study onto audience uses of media rather than media effects it has allowed a different study to be explored, which is set as the uses and gratifications research. As discussed by Rubin (1986), uses and gratification research looks into the media audience’s uses and the needs of certain media, as well…

Compared to previous times when the main intermediaries used to spread information were letters or mouths, the proliferation of social media has accelerated the spread of information dramatically and has enhanced the efficiency of the society noticeably. Although the increased exposure causes a short-term backlash in the communities such as the people who are blackmailed for money, covering the topic of the people who are blackmailed for money frequently in the media and discussing the idea…

As said by Al Franken the award winning American comedian “The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They 're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.” A strong media bias can be proven in the United States through, viewer distribution and viewers trust in different media sources, journalist ideologies, and issues focused on by the media. Biased meaning that the media reports on certain stories and events that favor their…

Hey Em! There is a point to your piece. It’s sort of like a memoir about a trip. It shows your experiences and talks about your feelings. Those are valuable in memoirs. People appreciated when you open up to them. I would include some stories though. Maybe a conversation you have had with someone local. You were talking about cultural differences and that’s another point your memoir or memory (memoir is really a collection of memories) has. The way I see one has to explore a lot as a writer to…

(1) The role of news media over the time has been mixed and different theorists have tried to explain each of these roles in their own ways. We see a clear distinction between how media could actually serve the purpose of placing checks on the society or actually aiding the entities that need to be made accountable by the very same media. As the term “fourth estate” for the news media was coined in the 18th century that recognized the role of press in the society as a fourth pillar of the…

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…