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atrocities and made them into ideas and stereotypes to insert whimsically into popular shows (such as Family Guy and Criminal Minds) and other mass media, ready to be consumed and to further distort the mindset of society. The new addition of citizen journalism also…

Everyone has their own strategies on how to start writing a major paper or even a simple response to a question. No matter what it is, there is always one way that is liked more than another. Although, what is the role that music plays in the writing process? Is it good or bad or is it neither? Even with a strict outline in one’s hand, music might squeeze its way into that outline without even being reconsidered. But, what is music? Music consists of sounds, silence, words, chorus, rhythms and…

Groupthink in Social Media Katrina Venta PSY 102 Professor Stommel April 21, 2016 Groupthink in Social Media Today in the United States — or anywhere in the world for that matter, there is great pressure on the need to be perceived a certain way by society. We live in a digital era and a generation of technological advancements — where our private lives aren’t so private anymore, and the need for approval is eating away our self-confidence and identity. We tweak things about…

In Niche News: The Politics of News Choice by Natalie Stroud investigates how people choices where they want to go for the news and the political implications that their choice ultimately entails. In spite of the conventional and true way of thinking about media utilization isolating along generational or political lines, to a great extent figures out where individuals go to find out about events. One generation has a tendency to depend on print, another on TV and still another the web, the…

Media is an ever-changing field that has an important influence on societies around the world. The media has made individuals aware of many the social problems throughout the world like poverty, drug use, crime, homelessness, racism, etc. While this may be a good tool to use, media can also affect individual’s beliefs, attitudes, tastes, politics, and way of life. In today’s contemporary society, the mass media serves as a powerful socializing agent. This is why I believe the agenda setting…

The Hong Kong protests, also known as the Umbrella Revolution, began in September 2014 when activists in Hong Kong started to protest outside the Hong Kong Government headquarters and in several major city intersections, mainly due to NPCSC’s decision of disallowing civil nominations in future elections. It has become a stunning peaceful civil disobedience movement, able to bring together thousands of protesters. Although some violent outbreaks have happened, this conflict should be mostly…

Twitter has become the largest source of news breaking media and the firsthand information for the journalists, in the conventional media. The rise of the social media such as twitter has raised fears among the journalists. As a professional practice of journalists is brought to disappear; means in recent years of dire predictions about the decline of the profession. As such, the role of the journalist is essential. His profession is changing profoundly, which does not mean it will disappear. It…

Susan Moeller of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda. The study which required Moeller’s Media Literacy class of 200 journalism students at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, to abstain from using all media for a 24 hour period. Students were asked to select one 24 hour period between the weeks of February 24- March 4, 2010 to be media-free. After their 24 hours of…

In a media world run chiefly on market model principles, the task of making sense of why these extensive mergers happened is pretty simple, at least in terms of a business stand point. Owning multiple mediums within the industry is how to reach “economics of scale” (Pavlick and McIntosh, p. 51-52), companies such as Disney for instance use synergy to rake in money from various subsets all based on the same idea. This dynamic enables the industries giants not only to reap financial merit, it also…

such as photographs a controversial to politics? Well there are two sides one Journalism could have a positive effect but it could also have a bad reputation for politics. So the argument is Journalism have an impact on politics some people would agree and some people wouldn’t. Some would argue that they are just reporters just like a messenger. To others journalism does have an effect for example the effects of journalism/ reporters…