Media in Austin

Kilbourne’s film Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women, Kilbourne presents the viewer with a comprehensive look at women in the media, in which she explores practices exercised in the media that defame and depower women. Kilbourne asserts that, the portrayal of women as objects in advertisements, and the morally bankrupt practice in which the media manufacture naturally unattainable beauty standards with the end goal of selling more products has a detrimental effect on the moral…

The argument the author, Alan Finder, is making on the topic of social media can be very controversial and broad. I disagree with the idea of students being fully judged by their social media accounts. Social media sites have created a virtual platform where people can express their true feelings, acknowledge the cool things they do, and post pictures of themselves or other things that help build their self-esteem. It can be considered a fun space for people of older age that has a useful…

In Brooke Gladstone’s graphic novel entitled “The Influencing Machine”, journalistic media is evaluated throughout its evolution. Due to the complexity of the subject, many different qualities of the media are explored throughout the novel; however, four main, controversial themes are always evident, and those four are the purpose, necessity, honesty, and reliability of journalistic media. After reading Gladstone’s informative graphic novel, enough information can be acquired in order to form…

Rhetorical Situation in Television A rhetorical situation is the context of a rhetorical act, made up (at a minimum) of a rhetor (a speaker or writer), an issue (or exigence), a medium (such as a speech or a written text), and an audience.( https://www.thoughtco.com/rhetorical-situation-1692061 ) The rhetorical situation is percieved multiple ways by different people. According to the authors of Everything’s an Argument, it is “ the relationship between topic, author, audience, and other…

Brennan Blue ENGL 1001 sec 82 9/13/17 Object Analysis Finale Draft Audience: ENGL 1001 Purpose: to explore the “hidden life” of your object “from all sorts of personal, philosophical, scientific, and historic angles” (Szilagyi) among others and to ultimately make an overall point about your object. Titlehttp://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/family-watching-television-together-royalty-free-image/503847027?esource=SEO_GIS_CDN_Redirect What My Blanket Means To Me Blankets can mean many…

critics such as Rita Dove, and Marie Winn, say some people prefer an online or “alternative” reality to their normal day to day lives. In Rita Dove’s article, “Loose ends,” she says that Media lets us experience a, “easier tale to tell”, because its ability to not make you think at all. Marie Winn approaches media as an addiction where very much like drug or alcohol addicts, they don’t realize they are addicted. Dove and Winn both describe in their articles examples of ways people are attached…

(Jane Mathison Fifes) "Using Facebook to Teach Rhetorical Analysis", demonstrates a strong argument on using social media sites to do a rhetorical analysis. When using style detail, Fife took advantage of many different aspects in order for her piece of writing to be presentable to a specific audience. In this case, the audience is teachers. Fife displayed a distinctive amount of appeal (Pathos, ethos, logos) in order for her to properly support her argument. The argument also shows multiple…

for their friends to see. Instagram is a form of social media that is specifically made for pictures and videos. People can also express the way they feel just by making a post about it. If someone makes a post about depression, people can make assume that they have depression on their mind. When people see that they can alert someone about it. This is a great way that proves that social media can be helpful. Even though social media can be of good use, some people can turn something…

The city of Los Angeles is one of the most well know cities in the world not just for the fame and lifestyle, but because of the cultures that have been introduced and expanded into society today. In the novel , “Jumped In What Gangs Taught Me About, Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption” by Jorja Leap, exposes us to a culture involving gangs and neighborhoods. Culture is something that is very strong and determines what we do and what we enjoy. For instance, gang members embrace their tattoos…

One of my quick writes was on September 14. In Renee Engel's book “Beauty sickness” I was assigned to read chapter 8 (Anti)Social Media and Online. This chapter was about how social media changed the way we get ready every day and we find things that we don’t like about our bodies because we want to look like ideal body and face. She mentions that “This shows how some girls decides to take pictures, but they edit them because they don’t like the way they look. Girls use several apps to edit…