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    Sexism In Media

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    The media act as a vehicle to promote countless messages and ideologies everyday, but in a media world where patriarchal values still reign high, there is a major issue of sexism at hand. Women are under represented in virtually all aspects of media, news media specifically. In a 2015 report on the status of women in the media, it is stated that “in evening broadcast news, women are on-camera 32 percent of the time; in print news, women report 37 percent of the stories; on the Internet, women…

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    Media Desensitization

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    Television and other media can have positive effects, however most of the attention is focused on the negative effects (2011, p.251). Generally, media content influences the way we behave, the way we think and the way we react emotionally (2011, p.258). Researchers have shown that there are some commonalities in the ways we react to various mediated content (2011, p.258). We take behavioral cues from the media and apply them to our own lives that can influence our behavior negatively or…

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    Media Manipulation

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    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…

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    Media Changes In America

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    While we see media every day in our own lives, media has been there since the first colonies of America but a lot has changed since then. Media can generally be defined as a means of communication that reaches or influences a large or wide audience. Although media is something that we experience every day and most likely something we do ourselves, it has been around for a much longer time than people think. One of the first forms of media in America was the Publik Occurrence newspaper in 1690.…

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    Perfection In The Media

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    unrealistic due to the media. What we see in the media is an illusion. These perfect pictures are not real. The videos and images are tampered with technology such as photoshop and surgical advances to fix imperfections giving us a false unattainable image of perfection for the everyday women. A perfectly crafted portrait of what a woman should look like for all to see, the need to be beautiful and the need to fulfill this idea of perfection is the dark truth of the media. Although some argue…

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    Media And President

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    The relationship between the media and the president has evolved throughout American history. The Framers of the Constitution intended for there to not be a relationship between the presidency and the press because of fear of the rise of a demagogue, now the modern president and media share a symbiotic relationship. Many believe that the media objectively reports news and informs the people about the presidency. This couldn’t be further from the truth, today the media has lost its credibility…

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    Mcluhan Media

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    The concept of media becoming an extension of our body, is described as follows by McLuhan "The idea that media do not bring the world to us, but rather permit us to experience the world with a scope and depth otherwise impossible." (Pg. 245) I began to interpret that quote in a variety of different ways. First, I thought about how it corresponds with how a large part of society relies on media so heavily, almost as if it was a part of them. It has become second nature to have media in our lives…

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    Stereotypes In The Media

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    Globally there are about 2.25 men to 1 female that is shown in the media. This gender ratio proportion worsen in third world companies (Huffington Post). Over the past few decades, no action was taken upon this tragedy. The media is a huge, if not the leading, influence on people of all ages. Every person is labelled with a stereotype no matter how young, old, race, gender, etc. The stereotypes they portray can stick with a person forever. These stereotypes affect they way a person interacts…

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    Media Convergence

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    professional careers in media, the first field that comes into mind is journalism. However, due to the popularization of social media as a communicative tool, a new category of media professionalism has been shaped. Michelle Phan is just one example of a social networking mogul with an incredibly large media presence. A quick search of her name indicates just how successful she has become through the power of social media. Throughout her career, she has been heavily influenced by media…

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    Digital Media Dependency

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    increase of digital media usage over the last decade, the ability to selectively consume specific content has become prominently popular within society. In order to study the growth of online resources and its added effects on mass media, theorists and scholars have applied the Uses and Gratification theory, (once only used for News Papers, Radio and Television) to the new media platform which is the World Wide Web. Various ‘Uses and Gratification’ (U&G) studies surrounding media use provide…

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