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A new age of public expression has emerged with the invention of social media and web blogs. This transformation of the manner in which people are able to openly speak with others across the world either publically or privately. Allowing individuals to give their perspective on certain issues occurring in the world are important to educated the public with a different perception. Positive change for the future of the world occurs through discussion, even online. However, there is a downside to…

On June 13, 1942, 6 month after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an "Executive Order 9182 Establishing the Office of War Information.” In the document, he created “The Office of War Information” to “Formulate and carry out, through the use of press, radio, motion picture, and other facilities, information programs designed to facilitate the development of an informed and intelligent understanding, at home and abroad, of the status and progress of the war effort and…

Headquarters Special unit was comprised of three primary denial and deception elements; Visual Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Radio; Communications Intelligence (COMINT) Sonic, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) or the beginning of the Measurement and Signatures Intelligence (MASINT). Deception can be employed to mislead an opponent about the deceivers military, primary material, capabilities, deception in this particular context is also a convenient opportunity to demonstrate some of the potential…

). Being thin is portrayed in the media as the ideal body and in return holds negative opinion of being overweight. In addition, Van Vonderen and Kinnally also utilized a saying by Triplett to better illustrate his ideas and stated that “being overweight is seen as a stigma, and considered to be a condition that the individual can prevent” (Van Vonderen and Kinnally). Not all of us have the ability to control our weight issues. There are diagnosed medical cases that no matter how much one works…

Is Wikipedia a mass medium Wikipedia has become a major source of information for many individual. While there are mixed opinions about the credibility of Wikipedia as a source of reliable information, people do see the value in Wikipedia. Wikipedia has become a source of information for many individual at different capacities. In one example, Thelwall and Kayvan (2015) tell us that both academics and students make use of Wikipedia. While Wikipedia is used “extensively” by higher educators and…

Advertisement and Public Relations are two forms of media that deal with targeting the audience attention and feeding them the idea imagery of whatever brand they are representing. Each communication method has its own avenues of delivering a message to the consumer 's eye rather it is through a press release or commercial time. However, these methods of media have been a part of the continuing cycle of prejudice like behavior that has been corrupting the mass media arena for as long as one can…

Advertising companies have been known to use a variety of approaches to connect with a desired audience. These paid announcements, being quite informed on the irrational behavior of the public, utilize an array of cunning practices to garner customer loyalty. Coca-Cola, Apple, and McDonald 's are among many that exploit the explosive power of public relations. Some stunning examples of these culture-wounding practices include: altering emotional states by creating ties to a product through…

Being in a standpoint of having to decide while if you should deceive or not could be a very complex situation. Especially when you want to protect a loved one from getting hurt. But the thing is should covering the truth with dishonesty and lies be the best decision to protect that special person? Should deceiving be more important than your integrity and values? Is lying even the best solution or is their never a well justified reason of lying? At times you feel that their is no more options…

This paper will prove that there are certain issues in society that need to be addressed and made public especially, because people are being exploited and devalued by big successful companies. An analyses will be made of two images in which culture jam takes place- one of the images involve Fair and Lovely and the other involves Nike. I will unpack hegemonic discourses in society and the ways they are reconfigured through culture jamming to present counterhegemonic discourses. Before going…

Over the years, the media has served an important role in delivering people the news of the world. People everywhere rely on it to provide helpful and accurate information, but what if the media didn’t provide helpful and accurate information and instead provided people with misinformation or “fake news”? In recent years, the media has opted to provide its followers with interesting fake news rather than report the not so exciting real news. How big of a deal is fake news, is this fake news…