Media Access Control

society has influenced the way that I put personal information on the internet. I personally have access to social media but have chosen to distance myself from Facebook and Twitter. In my opinion, the world of social media has gotten out of control. We live in a world that exploits women in the media, on television shows, and in movies. There are negative and positive concepts that you can gain form media. My identity as a woman has been a matter of playing the role that was created by…

Canada is in a unique media situation. Eighty-five percent of Canadians live within 200 miles of the American border and most share the same language (Skinner, Gasher, (2005). And since the population is so small compared to the States, it makes it very easy for them to come in and influence Canadian media. There are factors, some controlled by the government and some not, that help regulate and control the foreign influence and keep the interests of Canadians in mind. Mass media in Canada has…

New Zealand troops have spent more time in Afghanistan then both World War One and World War Two Combined, despite this, mainstream media coverage of the war has been limited, and one-sided, government reports have relied on embedded journalism and the NZDF methods of public relations (PR), have been responsible for the upkeep of the military’s positive, peacekeeping, reconstructed, ‘kiwi’ image. While this was not untrue, it can not be considered truthful. The NZDF maintains strong connections…

at when the media starts to affect young girls sense of self and body image and how we can prevent or lessen the influence of unhealthy and detrimental notions of an unattainable perfect or ideal body. Besides looking at the beginnings of these influences, I would like to access how the unhealthy media obsession on thinness continues to affect women’s self-esteem in adulthood as well. One source I found intriguing and important in possibly preventing the negative influence of media is a…

Social media has exploded in popularity over the past few decades. Today, the average person will access a social media source everyday and possibly multiple times everyday. With this growing popularity, public safety officials such as the police force are finding it to be advantageous to have a presence in social media. As a 21st century law enforcement organization, I believe that it is a wise decision on the part of the police to have a social media page. Having this presence on,social media…

Digital media and social media have changed the way we receive the news. Instead of a few television stations or newspaper companies, there are thousands of outlets to receive the news. With more and more ways to get the news, there naturally must be more people involved in reporting and interpreting the news. This paper will discuss how digital media and social media have diluted the power that ‘old media’, such as television, radio, and newspapers, once had in reporting the news, which has led…

exact, control what you see in the media? According to Edward Greenberg and Benjamin Page in The Struggle of Democracy, they state that the corporations that privately controlled media include “Disney, CBS, News corp., and Time Warner” (164). To be exact, these companies control a big percentage of what Americans read, listen to, and watch on television. Some of these companies are surprisingly names that you would not expect to see, who would have thought that Disney had any time of control…

Political-economic paradigms are useful in analysis of a contemporary media arrangement and the role of media in political practices, both in a New Zealand context. In doing this some key issues are illuminated; the state of democratic process in New Zealand and how it is compromised or facilitated, the role of technology in politics, social values that are perpetuated through mainstream media, the significance of advertising and ultimately the relevance of understanding a variety of differing…

using technology to help gain profit. As consumers, we are constantly using some type of technology in our everyday routine. We access social media to keep in touch with our friends, we use Google to search for information, and media which influences our decision making and points of view. When college students use an ID card they are using technology as a social control. They must have the card to eat in the cafeteria or to enter the gym on campus. Employees commuting to their work may take a…

In the article “The cultural logic of media convergences,” Henry Jenkins argues that the meaning of media convergence cannot be simply defined as a development of technology that combines different types of media into one platform, and it is a process that created by media audiences’ desire for more entertainment and the cooperation among many media industries for fulfilling those audiences’ behavior. For a further understanding of convergence, Jenkins believes that it is a shift of culture that…