Public service announcement

Public service announcements (PSAs) are a vital tool to disseminate information to the general public on critical issues. PSAs are generally provided by non-profit organizations and are used for mass media outlets. The benefit of using PSAs is their ability to efficiently and repeatedly penetrate a large target audience (Bator & Cialdini, 2000). But, however enticing the promise of a great return on investment may be, there are always challenges with measuring a PSAs efficacy. This review attempts to examine the components of PSAs and how different components may increase or decrease its efficacy. Research by Zhao, Strasser, Cappella, Lerman and Fishbein (2011) states that the strength of the argument presented has a significant result on…

Public service announcement (PSA) is a message in the public interest spread by the media without charge. They are to spread a message and raise awareness, changing public attitudes and behavior towards a social issue in the community. PSA’s are a great opportunity for nonprofit groups to communicate messages through the media. They send positive messages and have credible information. Some of the topics which I will be analyzing for public service announcement are, health and safety,…

Drugs can relate to all six components of health. Abusing drugs can physically take a toll on your body. Making skin age quicker, teeth rot and become yellow, and can most of all drain your energy. Drugs can produce mood swings and make you antisocial and depressed, which will affect your mental, spiritual, and social health aspects. Environmentally, you will be less motivated to go outside and be apart of the world. This being said, after experiencing a ‘high’ sensation, you will end up…

This Public Service Announcement (PSA) from Montana meth project, shows a picture of a girl on a lawn, with a random guy on top of her, all alone, with a transparent look on her face as if she is out of this world. On top of the PSA is the text “15 bucks for sex isn’t normal. But on meth it is.” This text is obvious of what meth does to you. On the far right is a white box with the text reading: “meth not even once.” The thesis for this PSA is: reducing meth use. The purpose of the PSA is to…

Essay about PSA (Public Service Announcement) According to CARE’s website, it is said CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty, which especially focuses on working alongside poor women. Even though the world has been changed a lot, people gradually find more problems need to solve, like poor women’s right. “I am powerful” is such an advertisement made by CARE to address and to make people take the responsibility for fixing this problem. Using "seeds" as the implication…

Public Service Announcement Hello everyone that is listening today, this is 99.9 radio and we are on commercial break to discuss a public service announcement. Today we are going to be talking about the health risk of drug use, precisely about the drug crystal meth. It is a drug that is flooding America and leaving people addicted, homeless, and killing people by the thousands. There are many dangers of doing this drug because it is homemade with household chemicals. It is very important to…

Class #10 (Lab during class #9) Readings: None listed in the outline (PSA Presentation day!) Today we had all of our Public Service Announcement assignments present in class. Some were videos, slideshows and poems. Over all, it was very interesting to see and learn about all of the different trauma related fields, theories, facts and activities. I think that everyone brought forward a creative presentation, making their PSA their very own. I truly enjoyed this class and think that it followed…

Driving Maria’s Message public service announcement begins with Dom Tiberi, Maria’s father, describing the general details of Maria’s accident and why he, and Erie Insurance, have partnered together to bring Maria’s Message to the forefront. Using a statistic on how many teenagers have taking pledge to help prevent distracted driving accidents high lightening the importance of spreading the Maria’s Message (Erie Insurance, 2014, 0:00-1:08). The public service announcement continues with Terri…

in 1988 the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Health Communication launched the U.S Designated Driver Campaign in collaboration with leading TV networks and Hollywood studios. They sought to demonstrate how a new social concept the “designated driver”, could be rapidly diffused through American society via mass communication, like a Public Service Announcement. The campaign broke new ground when the Hollywood creative community agreed to depict the use of designated drivers in…

I opted to conduct my rhetorical analysis and evaluation on the Emergency Preparedness poster from the Ad Council. The print ad or poster in question shows a town that a tornado has ripped through, with markers showing where members of a hypothetical family are located. The message of this particular ad piece is quite simple, in the event of a serious emergency; know where your family is. This in itself speaks to a need in all of us to be connected to our loved ones, especially in a time of…