Kris Marshall

exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man’s consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the cosmos” (McLuhan 1969). In a 1969 interview for Playboy Magazine, media theorist Marshall McLuhan dreamt of a world where man was capable of individual thought, yet still linked seamlessly to the rest of the world through the media. This notion of a virtual community that breaks down the borders of time and space is what…

Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2nd, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland and died on January 24th, 1993 in Bethesda, Maryland. He was an American attorney who was appointed as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1967. He was the first African-American to have the position & served for 24 years, until 1991. Marshall studied law at Howard University. As counsel to the NAACP, he used the judiciary to promote equality for African Americans. He won the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954,…

In today’s society, many people learn more from the media and technology than any other source. The media provides us with the message, and media is also considered the messenger because of the way it feeds the public information. Over 1 billion people in the world use the internet and the media can send out messages through this. The 2011 American documentary, Miss representation, is a film based on how women are portrayed by the public, and it is not a positive one. The film discusses how the…

Much has been written about the pervasiveness of the media in our everyday lives—from television shows, to ads on the sides of buses, to friend’s posts on Facebook, we are constantly being exposed to the media in all its forms. As such, it is no wonder that the information and images shown in the media have such large impacts on our understanding of the world around us. This profound influence which the media has on our beliefs can be dangerous, however, when the information being spread is…

Mean Girls For my second Journal, I have chosen to examine what role media has in portraying the ideas of sociological ideas. For my example, I have chosen to analyze the movie Mean Girls. This movie sets a good example of how socialization comes into play from the media. There are many sociological terms that can be applied from the movie. The reading that best represents all these examples is from the the reading called “Constructing Differences”. This reading examined the ideas of what…

Within “The Medium is the Massage” scholar Marshall McLuhan proactively examines the future of the media landscape. Within the specific passage, pages 92 to 95 (beginning at the word “amateur”), and in the book as a whole, McLuhan conveys the theme of progress, giving his perspectives on the ways in which it manifests itself. The author does so through the literary devises of anecdote, giving real life examples of his perspective on progress and parallelism through diction and syntax, showing…

The Worlds Secret Leader Over the years mass media has taken over the world. All of the different forms of mass media such as social media, the internet, cell phones, televisions, etc. have had a great impact on this generation. Some people may believe that mass media has only affected the world positively, which in some ways mass media has benefited society; however the different forms of mass media have created more difficulties and harm to this generation. The media is exceptionally powerful…

The ‘notion of “sex” is defined as biological differences between male and female while “gender”, also known as “sex roles”, refer to certain behaviours and characteristic attributed to each sex that was a social construction.’ (Carter 2011, p.22) Basically indicating that sex is biologically driven while gender dictates how the society should act and behave as a man or woman with the elements of ideologies such as patriarchy and capitalism. However, the distinctions between the two terms are…

Shannon Vargas Effects of Mass Media HUM/186 September 15, 2015 Ms. Allyson Wells Effects of Mass Media Our culture is molded and influenced by mass media. From the ancient times of story tellers, tribal leaders and elders to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, communication and the flow of information has been vital to developing civilizations. The major developments in mass media are oral and written presentation, printing, electronics and digital programming. Technology changed the models of…

The representations of masculinity and femininity portrayed by Thornton and her supporting cast in the previous two chapters, though telling of the expectations of behavior, need to be placed in the context of the contemporary public media. The extent to which the media sought to downplay any implications of transgressive behavior will be determined in light of the expected reading audience. Additionally, this section will examine the changing nature of the media industry during the 1830s and of…