Mass hysteria

Tabloidization The term “tabloidization” is rooted from the word “tabloid,” which is commonly referred to as a newspaper smaller than the broadsheet. However, in its context, it concerns the style and presentation of news. The “tabloid style” is consistently seen by critics as inferior, appealing to basic instincts and consumer demand for sensationalism (Bird, 2009). ‘Tabloidization’ is the direct result of commercialized media, most often seen to be the pressures of advertisers to reach large…

The what, who and how of our media has taken many different forms in our society as time and technology has progressed. In the last decade or so media has had its most significant changes to its inner and outer workings. From its conception media has been in the favor of the ruling class in this media in this case, journalism has operated in the favor of politicians in the 18th and 19th century. With the invention of the printing press the appearance of the newspaper allowed information and news…

The phenomena of social responsibility by media sector is to protect and preserve the journalistic and democratic ideals such as conducting truthful, trustworthy, comprehensive, safeguarding individual privacy and distinguishing between ideals and commercial objectives (Commission on Freedom of the Press, 1947;Peterson, 1956). Nowadays the public is more aware and monitors the transparency and criticizes the journalistic content when requires or even sometimes participates in the process as well…

In life we generally tend to copy things. From deciding what electronic gadget to use, what to wear, what kind of car to drive, we are all in one way or another influenced by the media (social and commercial). Depending on the weight the media gives to a certain issue, its just normal to find ourselves pick a few aspects and tend to imitate them especially if they attract much attention (Hammond, n.d.). This can be disadvantageous if we start copycatting crimes and other vices due to the much…

Being body shamed is unfortunately normal these days, it is usually done in social media, where in people would tell someone that they are either “too fat or too skinny”, and would even call them nastier names that is completely unnecessary. Celebrities often get body-shamed, simply because people expect them to be perfect, unfortunately, normal people get body-shamed as well, and it is getting younger and younger. A mom shared a touching story about how her 5-year-old daughter was called…

There is already a tremendous amount of people in this world that hold power. Whether it be physical or positional, power can change a person, especially in the way they think. Power makes these people have a mindset in which powerless people are inferior to them. Due to this mindset, people with power think that they can do whatever they want as long as it doesn’t affect themselves. This developed selfishness, ignorance, and impulsiveness that branches out from their feeling of superiority over…

1. Background A lot of people, still confusing about how important advertising for a product. In general, advertising is the art of arresting the humans intelligent just long enough to get money from it. On the other hand, the purpose of advertising is persuading customer to buy the product such as, and create customer desire. Lets pick one of the famous brand in Singapore which is Old Chang Kee. Briefly, Old Chang kee started their business in 1956 and founded by Hainan’s immigrant which is…

1.0 FAVOURITE BRAND 1.1 Introduction Nowadays, there are many cosmetics brand that place their product in market and keeping growth days to days in order continuously get attention from the eye of customers towards their brand especially women. But, cosmetics are not easy product to sell because it is a product that no one really need. So, it is important to know the nature of the product and understand why women purchase cosmetics. For me, why women would spend money on cosmetics because most…

Does one’s culture inform the way one views others and the world? Yes it does. In many articles it showed how different one's culture could be to another person, and how it affects how they view the world. Some of those articles are Indian Father's Plea, My mothers pieced quilts, HAPA, Everyday use, and Where worlds collide. People's culture changes how they view the world outside of their own. In the article, My Mother Pieced Quilts by Teresa Palomo Acosta, It says “Into our past, into…

Credibility: What Moore is Lacking in Capitalism: A Love Story A documentary is a film used to report some form of reality. This film genre is associated with the unaltered truth and as a result people often believe what they watch is fact, portrayed in a way for them to see all sides of a controversy where they can forge an opinion for themselves. However, Capitalism: A Love Story does not follow that structure. Moore believes that capitalism is a flawed system and incorporates his opinions…