Media studies

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…

When you hear the word “social media” what do you think of? Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, even Snapchat is what I would imagine. I am sure we can all admit that we have one or even all of these that were named. While Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat are easy ways to communicate with friends and family, few stop to consider the implications its usage may have for them in the future, or the hidden dangers of having an account. Besides the effect of your eligibility for employment that…

Social Media: How does it affect Our Mental Health? While social media is one of the things that has been enabled by the new technology of this era, it has given us a means of communication to others around the world and a huge influence on our generation, but there are pros and cons of when it comes to our mental health. Social media is something that everyone in this generation is attached to. We, as in my generation, feel the need to either if its recording and keeping…

Stefanie Sierra LCD 144W Bilingual Language Play used in Social media Introduction The topic of bilingual language play used in social media in particular Spanish. Especially when social media uses memes that are shared within a few minutes and are spread like wildfires. Social media has become a place in which the human population interacts by posting pictures and sharing their experiences and expressing their feelings. Memes are just way to show humor. As a bilingual speaker, in which…

consumers of media are passive and media can be used to alter and manipulate audiences. The U&G approach on the other hand believes that audiences are active participants who choose certain media outlets because they fulfill certain needs and gratifications. The theory has been widely applied to study why users or media consumers select certain media channels rather than others. Research on the needs, uses and gratification obtained from television, radio, the internet and more recently social…

ABSTRACT Valentine’s Day celebration in India has been much debated and covered by the media in the last couple of years. In the year 2009, far right Hindu activist from Sri Ram Sena to Bajrang Dal were involved in beating up unmarried couples and blackening their faces, as mark of shame for celebrating Valentine’s Day. They claimed that the festival was a “western practice” and promotes “lust not love”. Following this other Anti- Valentine’s Day groups also expressed their views and this led to…

Division I Media Guides: The Battle for Equity was only Temporarily Won. Journal Of Issues In Intercollegiate Athletics, 61-21. 2. Two major themes emerge from myriad studies of media coverage of female athletes at all levels across media over the past thirty-five years of sport research. These include the idea that female athletes are underrepresented in terms of amount of coverage compared to male athletes and that female athletes are most often portrayed in…

era is accepted as the technology era and the mass media is so effective one of it, being exposed to these stimuli seems a quite normal thing for people. How can be said that the people can stay away from these stimuli when the outdoor advertisements are seen at least by thirty-five people in a day unconsciously? Another question can be asked like this: If people assume that they are exposed to these stimuli which are coming from the mass media, do these people get influenced by the messages…

Gil de Zúñiga, H., Jung, N., & Valenzuela, S. (2012). Social media use for news and individuals' social capital, civic engagement and political participation. Journal of Computer‐Mediated Communication, 17(3), 319-336. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of Social Networking Sites use on citizen’s political participation and social capital accumulation. The authors developed a survey that was emailed to a random sample of American adults. The authors used Ordinary Least…

through the media and how it’s portrayed. No matter how unrealistic it may be to achieve, thinness and fitness are valued as the media depicts that the ideal female bodies are those of models and actresses. Social media, influenced by the consumer and capitalist society, has illustrated an underlying message that unless a woman is slim, she is not healthy, desirable, or confident and therefore will not go far in the social world. Writer Allen Ginsberg once said; “Whoever controls the media— the…