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storytellers’ who have a passion for news and politics, and be ‘advocates for free expression’ who aren’t easily offended” (Ingram,1). Although Spiegel makes all executive decisions, there is a large team behind him to allow the company to thrive. As for journalism, Snapchat has news sources at their disposal. This is because most news sources need the Snapchat audience to stay relevant, while Spiegel decides who stays on the app. If a company is unable to keep up with Snapchat 's demands or the…

Habermas notes that newspapers were initially commercial sheets that dissemin- ated “news” (i.e. what was novel and contemporary), but then were transformed into instruments of political debate under the pressures of the American and French Revolutions and the organization of political groups to revolutionize society. Yet newspapers also fell prey to commercial imperatives and often put profit and busi- ness interests above political opinion, selling advertising…

Propaganda is a powerful communication tool used by both; the Government or Enterprises. It is usually defined as the purposeful dissemination of political, ideological ideas or opinion. With the aim to influence the public at large in certain way, one can infer that most information is certainly not impartial. George Orwell is known as a novelist, essayist and critic. As the author of books like “Homage to Catalonia”(1938), “Animal Farm”(1945) and “Nineteen Eighty-Four”(1949), Orwell created…

Know how media has an impact on our society nowadays, how media underestimates people’s mentalities, why they tend to use a variety of methods of fabrication to deliver the wrong message to the world, as well as why sometimes the truth is not being revealed to us. 1) What is the impact of media on our society nowadays? 2) Do all media channels and websites tell the truth in today’s world? If not, why do they hide the truth? 3) What kind of misinformation do media spread? 4) Do media ac 5)…

Spotting fake news “How To Spot Fake News “ by Eugene Kliey and Lori Robinson, is an article based on ways to distinguish between real viral news stories and ones that are fabricated .Social media has always been the main gateway for fake news stories and as Kiely and Robinson put it “ Bogus stories can reach more people more quickly via social media”. News seems to travels faster online then on paper, and many people seem to believe everything they see rather than pay attention to the details…

The mass media and state (and other powerful institutions) play a crucial role in the construction of national identity in a contemporary society through the cultural practices. Morley and Robins write that the construction and emergence of national identities can’t be understood without reference to the role of communication technologies. These technologies give people “a space of identification” (Morley & Robins, 1995, pp. 67-69) basically, with the rise of communication technologies, the mass…

Photojournalists are viewers to the world around them, they see people in danger and in pain by just showing up to work. Getting involved isn’t only good for just journalists and their focuses. It can also be good for journalism as a whole and for the public (Jacobitz). Although, there will at times be some situations that can’t be controlled, there are always ways in which help can be given, it’s just what you take advantage of as an opening. Since photojournalists are in the position of being…

Designers and what they produce play a large role in our lives. Because they have the ability to affect the society, environment, cultures, and many other aspects through advertisements. The effects of advertisements can be so harmful sometimes. So, a professional designer must be careful and follow certain rules or ethics. Design have many codes of ethics toward clients, other designers, public, society, and the environment. Each code of ethics is really important and a professional designer…

Agenda Setting theory was developed by Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw. According to Griffin (2011), McCombs and Shaw believe that the mass media have the ability to transfer the salience of items on their news agendas to the public agenda. This theory refers to mass communications effects which hold that news media, through the editorial selection process, transmit to the public the salience of political objects, which affects the relative importance of these objects to the public. (Kaid &…

In today’s society, media is widely used in almost everything we do and most of the time, we are affected by what is given to us, in one way or another. What is mass media? It is technology that is expected to reach a mass audience, like the newspapers you read, the latest Twitter post or the video online that went viral, all these are examples of mass media in our lives. And it is also because of all these, that our beliefs and values have changed over time. Mass media has been known to have…