Media Access Control

Twitter Tyrant Sticks and stones may break my bones, but social media is ruthless. Our culture is built on a spectrum of extremes, and once we possess some sort of advancement in technology, it is all too often taken into the wrong hands and mistreated. Because of the recent capability to freely express what is going through the mind, teenagers are able to fearlessly type words that would never come out of their mouths. There are many things to blame for this, including the decline of social…

Cyberbullying. Richards et. al. (2015) indicates that cyberbullying is prevalent among social media used by adolescents. Cyberbullying is the deliberate use of technology to communicate false, embarrassing and hostile information about someone (Zhang et. al., 2014). The effects of cyberbullying can be suicide, anxiety and depression. Two studies conducted in Australia and Singapore linked excessive internet use and cyberbullying to suicide (Richards et. al ,2015; O 'Keeffe& Clarke-Pearson,2011).…

political rallies, and other events has spread rapidly through the use of videos from personal phones and social media. The immediate on-line reaction to the lenient sentence for Brock Turner the former Yale athlete convicted of rape is just one example of this emerging ability for personal participation in more global…

subconsciously immersed into the constantly growing world of technology, with the internet, social media and global connectivity. This emergence of new media and technology has profound effects on society and individuals. Thus, bringing forth the theory of ‘the Culture Industry’ and its relevance today. The culture industry argument was developed by Adorno and Horkheimer and focuses on the effects of capitalist mass media and cultural commodities on society, and whether its effects are still…

has provided for the fast spread of news and information through the gateway of media. With open access for anybody, and often unfiltered information available to all ages, our early generations are getting tastes of reality, sometimes earlier than they can handle or even process. Though there are plenty of positive and encouraging pathways led by the media, according to an article published by Psychology Today, media studies show that bad news far outweighs good news by as much as seventeen…

comes from social media; from Hollywood and the creators of these lovely outlets. Social media has skyrocketed in the late 2000’s thanks to a huge advancement in technology. While I enjoy Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram, I can also admit that it is the root for most of our problems. Social media has opened a door to unlimited access of communication to every corner of the world. In the beginning, intentions for social media were good, but quickly turned bad. Thanks to social media all teenagers…

Looking at mass media from his perspective, it is a method of creating mass consciousness by projecting rape culture to the public. Social dominance and cultural control is achieved through corporations that display the sexualization of women on a daily basis through the media. Pornography isn’t necessarily a form of mass media, but it people can access it with the same level of ease as they can the media. As a result, boys from a young age are instilled with…

News Media plays an immensely important role in todays society. News is available at virtually everybody’s disposal in a Modern society, from the local paper to switching on a TV. The influence the media has on the world is something that cannot be ignored. This means media organisations and journalists have a crucial responsibility in what they write and put out into the public domain. In the world of Journalism, Gatekeeping and News Values hold a very important role. Gatekeeping is the process…

Governments in a dystopia control citizens with media. Media can have a good influence or a bad influence on a society depending on what type of media they have and how much of that media the government wants them to see. In F451 , the parlor walls keep Mildred from realizing what is going on around her and even causing her to not even remember overdosing on sleeping pills. In “The Smartphone Is Eventually Going to Die, and Then Things Are Going to Get Really Crazy” by Matt Weinberger, he…

Media has become the “fourth pillar of the government” in Turkey, ever since the first private media outlets emerged in the 1980s (Çaglar & Çakar-Mengü, 2009). The lack of laws to limit the monopolization and acquiring the competition in relation to media companies, made it easier for influential and wealthy individuals to create media cartels in Turkey. Unlike other profit driven businesses, media that has been created or acquired to maximize profits in non-media related sectors is likely to…