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for conveying important ideas, knowledge, and skills that influence both commercial and political-engaged forms of pop culture in the society. East Asia, especially japan has rich cultural and in the recent past, they have incorporated this in the mainstream media as a way of promoting the contemporary cultures. The East Asian countries highly regard their culture and as such, they have made it an important aspect of their modern day technology. Thus, they have incorporated these cultural…

filter; Size and Concentration of Ownership, states that mainstream media firms are incredible large, controlled by wealthy people, and are benefited by big profit organizations (Robinson, J). This filter relates to the issue in Ferguson because most of the media that covered Michael Brown’s shooting was censored to have the viewer’s only have access certain stories. The second filter, Advertisers, states that advertisers have authority over mainstream media (Robinson, J). This means that…

What is PRFM actually doing by facilitating the formation of Netizen Photo PRFM Community? Does PRFM still function as mass media, since conventional theories do not say that mass media need to be a community moderator like what PRFM is doing? According to Patria, from the beginning PRFM always prefer to be a medium amongst people so it could make significant social changes. PRFM already considered that the one-way practice as the conventional mass media do is no longer effective to make…

There is no argument that women in the mainstream media have been portrayed as sexualized objects for decades in an attempt for advertisement; sexualizing women has been a successful business tactic that guarantees attention and profit. As technology develops over time, it also creates more opportunities to exploit women for personal gain. In this day and age, nobody accessing the media more than today’s adolescents. A 2013 study reported that 81% of American teenagers use social media sites,…

Nowadays, the mainstream media’s representations of women are objectifying. A trend that is developing in mass media today is the objectification of women in society. There is strong focus on women as sexual objects rather than women, specifically in advertising, magazines, music videos, films and television. Sexualized images of the female body in the mass media become the object for the pleasure of men and an instrument for marketing. Objectification of women represented by sexualized images…

Though women are universally exploited by the media, North American advertisements depict women differently based on race. Women of colour are more sexualized in the society based on their bodies; they have historically been stereotyped as having bigger butts, hips, breast, and lips. They are often captured in graphic positions such as with their legs open, posing on all fours or in an aggressive manner that conversely extends a deviant solicitation of their body, and, therefore, are…

It may not come as any surprise that society is greatly influenced by present-day social media such as Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. Celebrities have mass amounts of followers; they put their daily lives on the Internet for us to all see, and we all catch onto the latest fads. This is not a new concept, however. For as long as one could imagine, that is how long members of society have been influenced by pop culture. Through the examination of three approaches, the Functionalist, the…

people will select their own experiences in regards to their popularity and how they impact eventually on the social interactions and how this promotes economic means (Bodley, 2008; Cultural Survival, 2014; Acharya & Anshu, 2008). This is how the mainstream media has operated, by injecting the kind of global consumption that is associated with popular ideas. The media fraternity therefore have had limited opportunities to enlarge their own topics. However these topics are not inclusive of the…

Popular culture is a necessity nowadays because if people do not follow the trends in the society, they might be marginalized from the mainstream culture and it would be difficult for them to reconnect with others. Although there is no accurate definition to describe what popular culture is, it is seen as a form of communication that has a connection with the mainstream culture which subdivides into mass culture and folklore and folk culture (Buhmann, Hellmueller, & Bosshart, 2015). Similarly,…

This paper looks into the hegemony embedded within a globally relevant socio- cultural context, and how it is inversely connected to the political- economic structures. It takes into consideration the prevailing dominant psychological structures embedded within the electronic systems of internet whilst accessing information, media and content on a global scale. What are the dominant psychological structures affecting societies worldwide? How is the reality constructed? What is the relation of…