Copyright and Freedom of Expression Debate

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Sean Elsworthy Copyright has been put in place to provide a fair opportunity for artists to freely express their creations whilst having their works compensated for and protected. While copyright does provide an incentive for free expression it is also a hindrance as it supresses potential artists from expressing their point of view and challenging already established works making it less an “engine for ...

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Multimedia Applications for Educational Purposes

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Multimedia Applications for Educational Purposes Tan Ai Fen   ABSTRACT Multimedia is a combination of text, graphic, animation, audio, and video which are everything we can see and hear in our daily life (Vaughan, 2006). Multimedia applications can be used in many areas, for example like educations, businesses, homes and public places. This paper surveys the multimedia applications for educational purposes. There are six ...

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Impact of Media on Indigenous Cultures

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KSENIA LIESSAY CRITICALLY DISCUSS HOW MEDIA IMPACTS INDEGENOUS COMMUNITIES Indigenous people groups over the world have been influenced by the presentation of innovations from remote societies for many years. Some have not incredibly changed their lifestyles, while others have totally changed identities toward oneself, whole social orders and perspectives. Current innovations, particularly telecommunication and PC advances, permit indigenous gatherings to take an interest in ...

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Mass Media for Environmental Awareness

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Perspective of pollution and use of mass media in environmental awareness for The Upper Lake: A case study Introduction South Asia, home to over one-fifth of the world’s population, is facing a growing water crisis. This region is in the grip of continuing flood and drought cycles, dictating the need for a long-term strategy for management of its water resources. Big and small water bodies, in ...

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History and Impact of Social Media

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SOCIAL MEDIA Introduction It can be define as,“Social media is to the way of communication between different communities in which they share , produce and exchange thoughts , opinion through networks. It is define as a group of internet based application that build on the ideological and technological foundations of web 2 and that allow the creation and exchange of user generated content.” Most of us ...

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Adoption of New Media in 1990s

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Interviews with chosen age groups about their media experience during the period of adoption of new media in 1990s Referring to the origins of the radical changes in the development of the media and the social and political life of the country as a whole, related to the transition of the reform of the Soviet system, it should be noted that the transition of Russian journalism ...

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Approaches to Development Communication

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Introduction Development Communication is based on one-way flow of information for the purpose of disseminating information and messages to induce change. Its main intentions can be divided into two different types of applications: (1) communication to inform and (2) communication to persuade. Development Communication uses method of investigation in which a problem is first identified and observations, experiments, or other relevant data are then ...

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Radio as a Medium of Mass Communication

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LESSON 1 RADIO AS A MEDIUM OF MASS COMMUNICATION IN TODAY’S CONTEXT Introduction Communicators use several media to transmit a message (a thought, idea, opinion, and attitude) to the readers, listeners and or viewers. These media: film, print, broadcasting, are used differently by people for various purposes. Each mass medium has its own distinct nature and characteristics. For example, print medium (newspapers, magazines, ...

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Female Sexualization in Magazines

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Over the past three decades, contemporary women’s magazines have significantly increased their sexual content, offering frank advice about sex and relationships (Kim & Ward, 2004). The message it sends across is prizing sexually assertive women. Thus, it gives the readers instructions on aggressive ways to attract men and to be able to fulfill their own sexual desires (Durham, 1996). One particular magazine is Cosmopolitan magazine which ...

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Young People's Following Social Media Trends

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  NAME CHAN KAH YIN HAR VICKY KUA CHEE SIN LAW LAI FUN LEONG YUET FENN WONG MANN YEE   RESEARCH TOPIC ...

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Privacy Issues in Social Networking and Social Media

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Sophie Muthen Privacy is becoming increasingly irrelevant in the context of social networking sites and social media. Discuss. Nowadays sharing personal information on social networking sites (SNS) has become a social norm, users feel comfortable about sharing their private life online but the issues of privacy online still remains. Martin Zuckerberg stated himself in 2010 that users of SNS have now become more open, ...

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Role of the Media on Socioeconomic Development of Education

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Role of media in socio, economic development: Media and education When we talk about ‘Media education’, the first and foremost important question which strikes our mind is what is media? The word ‘media’ is the plural form of ‘medium’, which refers to any channel or source through which a message is sent. The term media became popular in the late 1920s when several sources of ...

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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

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MASS COLLABORATION CHANGES EVERYTHING? --A Book Report on Wikinomics Executive Summary Tapscott, D. & Williams, A.D. (2008) introduced a new concept of Wikinomics in the book WIKINOMICS: HOW MASS COLLABORATION CHANGES EVERYTHING. It was proposed that in the contemporary world, any individual or commercial enterprises cannot realize fast and sustainable innovation on its own. Collaboration with consumers, suppliers and business partners, as well as collaboration within ...

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Role and Responsibility of Media in Shaping Death Penalty

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Introduction: Nothing has received more praise and abuse than Death penalty. As a global controversial issue, Death penalty has been discussed for centuries. From the definition of the death penalty, it is obvious that the punishment is brutal and inhuman for people who commit a severe crime simply because Death penalty deprives a human’s right of living on this earth. Since the peaceful lives are expected ...

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Effects of IPods on Childhood | Annotated Bibliography

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Are iPads healthy or poisonous apples in early childhood? Have we ever thought there was too much technology at early years? In the past few years, technology has developed rapidly. Electronic devices have been applied everywhere. Since the launch of iPad in 2010, it has become increasingly popular in early-years learning. Nowadays in early age, children are more accessible to the iPad devices than ever before. ...

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Parallels of 1984 to Today

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Andrew West   Q: George Orwell’s novel 1984 describes a dystopian future in which the government controls its citizens through the use of constant surveillance. What parallels can be drawn from this novel and the use of surveillance with our culture today? A: George Orwell's “1984” which was first published in 1949 is a fictional novel that shows what the world would be ...

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Amendments of Public Entertainments and Meetings Act (PMA)

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To whom it may concern, As a dutiful Singaporean citizen who is deeply concerned with the tidings of our local arts industry, I am writing in to exhort the Media Development Authority (MDA) to review the proposed amendments of the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act (PEMA) that was released on May 12th 2014. I also refer to Ms. Corrie Tan’s article titled, “Art of Censorship in ...

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Content Diversity in Metro Online and Citizen Journalists

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CHAPTER 4 – FINDINGS/ANALYSIS DATA Analysis of content diversity in Metro Online Broadcast and Citizen Journalists Malaysia This section analyse the news content that is collected according to the time frame that drawn from January 2015 to May 2015 in order to identify the pattern and frequency of content diversity that portray in Metro Online Broadcast and Citizen Journalists Malaysia. The categorization was divided ...

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Effect of Social Media on the Umbrella Movement

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Wong Wing Man   Would the Umbrella Movement have occurred if social media platforms did not exist? Introduction In response to the NPCSC decision regarding the Chief Executive electoral reform of HKSAR on 31 August 2014, two student-led groups the Scholarism and Hong Kong Federation of Students began boycotting class and protesting outside the government headquarters in Admiralty since late September. Benny ...

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Influences on TV Idents

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Kira Richards   Television idents are an important feature of television channels, they are created toentice, remind and provoke a sense offamiliarity for the audience, this is done by making the appeal specifically to the its target audience. Each TV Ident includes the logo of the channel and sometimes may feature a continuity announcer. In this essay I will be discussing how marketing, branding, ...

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Does the Media Frame Social Reality?

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Critically assess the proposition that the media ‘frames’ social reality. Introduction Roughly developing processes in modern society touch all aspects of life. In the end, it highlights the importance of the development of public consciousness of people, their communication, interaction and relationship at all levels of activities. In our time, such thing as mass media renders huge psychological influence on consciousness of the person all over ...

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Reinforcement of Stereotypes in Television and Media

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Since the invention of television, racial, culture and ethnic stereotypes have been used to explain unknown cultures and ethnicities to those consuming content from this medium. Stereotypes on television were also used to gain new viewers whose ideals aligned with what was being presented in the programming as well keep viewers who may have been turned onto the show because of the stereotypes shown fit their ...

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Role of Social Media in Egyptian Revolution

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Andi Maloku [“The Role and Impact of Social Media as a Tool for Mobilization during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011”] Table of Contents (Jump to) Introduction Literature Review Background of Revolution Mobilization Theories Use of Social Media in Egypt We are all Khaleed Said Asmaa Mafhouz Use of ...

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Coverage of Child Rights Issues in Pakistani Print Media

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Chapter 2 Literature Review A literature review is an evaluative report of information found in the literature related to the selected area of study. It is a process of reading, analyzing, evaluating, and summarizing scholarly materials about a specific topic. The results of a literature review may be compiled in a report or they may serve as part of a research article, thesis, or grant proposal.(Hart,1998) ...

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Privacy Issues in Electronic Media

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The beginning of the 21st century was dominated by extraordinary development of electronic media. Electronic Media encompasses all aspects of digital video production for traditional broadcast and cable television, as well as for distribution formats such as CD, DVD and the Internet (Kutztown, No Date). Electronic medias are used in all over the world. At once electronic medias’ were luxury items but in the modern world ...

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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s)   This lesson deals with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MDGs are derived from earlier development targets. The MDG’s originated from the United Nations Millennium Declaration, was the main outcome of the Millennium Summit. The Declaration asserted that every individual has dignity; therefore, the right to freedom, equality, a basic standard of living. MDG’s emphasized the role of developed countries in ...

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Use of the ‘mise-en-scene’ in TV Shows and Movies

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The use of the ‘Mise-en-Scene’ in TV shows and Movies during the last 15 years: A Semiotic Comparison The mise-en-scene has been a huge part of film and television throughout the last century and it has vastly improved during the last fifteen years. TV series such as AMC’s the ‘The Walking Dead’ (2010-) and HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ (2011-) have created a cinematic universe, that can ...

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Analysis of News Reports

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INTISAR SAIF SALIM AL HASHMI   Hard News – Court Drops Murder Charges against Mubarak STAGE ONE Introduction Hard news is a term often used by media practitioner or journalists to refer to the fast-paced information that is worth appearing on the newspaper front, usually a headline. This does not mean it is a controversial one, with topics of interest like business, political uprising, ...

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Photojournalism Analysis of Hong Kong Protest

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Mohammad Aqdas Qasem   Photojournalism and Organizational Analysis of Hong Kong Protest Photojournalism is an ideology that many journalists now use to manipulate pictures to tell a story in a specific way (Schwartz 223). Photojournalism is used as “a medium that ‘captures’ news” and they “must insist on the objectivity of their pictures at the same time they attempt to demonstrate the mastery of ...

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Reporter's Privilege Examples

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Rahim Aziz Sajwani Fahad Faruqui   In United States of America the reporter’s privilege is provided to protect reporter from being compelled to testify the information provided by the source or the source itself. The reporter’s privilege is guaranteed by U.S constitution and statutory law. Reporter’s privilege has nothing to do with confidential communication but it grants the disclosure of information through news media. ...

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Chinese Media Power and Control

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SHI SHANGYUN Abstract Taking Chinese media power and control as the research objective and project title. This research paper analyzes the Chinese media status quo in modernization society and the relationship between government and media in China. Then the Chinese media development trend and the Chinese people’s idea of media are discussed in this paper. Chapter 1: Introduction Type of project : research paper ...

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Proposal for Reality Show

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Melody gear Logline: Thirty simple Australians battle for a chance to get a recording deal with one of the world’s leading music production houses, Sony music. Pitch: Genre: reality Target audience: teens/adults/family Thirty adults are picked from the entire country through auditions. The adults are picked based on their competition to sing and perform to a live audience. Three professional musicians from different genres ...

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BBC Adaptation to Convergence

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Examine and evaluate how one media organisation has adapted to convergence: BBC. Across the media, many media organizations have responded and adapted to convergence through welcoming multi-media platforms to help with spreading their content. In this essay I will be discussing how the BBC has adapted to convergence and the outcome of it all. What is convergence? Convergence is when different of forms of media platforms ...

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Future of Bangladeshi Print Media

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Future of Bangladeshi Print Media: Strategy of Survival of Two Highest circulated print Media in Bangladesh Aritra Ankan Mitra   Introduction This paper tries to find out the challenges and the strategies to retain or hold the position of the most circulated print media in Bangladesh which is, known as Prothom Alo and The Daily Star after the online era became popular in Bangladesh. They ...

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Media Ethics for Online and Social Media

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ETHICS for ethical media practices in the context of Online and Social Media   Introduction The Online and Social Media constitute the major component of the life of people in terms of news, information exchange, gathering information, banking, shopping etc., Unlike the traditional media, in spite of restrictions is the usage of Online media well within the stipulated regulations and ethical? Does interacting in ...

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Presence of Women on Social Media

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Women Empowerment and presence of women in Social media Women empowerment has emerged out as one of the most popular topic discussed worldwide. After the start of women’s movement, the question of emancipation of woman came to the fore. Though in India there was no such separate movement concerning distinguished rights of a woman, instead the Indian women fought for themselves under the various forms ...

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Why Has Reality TV Become Popular?

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Reality TV is a phenomenon that has now been the norm for a number of years. What is the reason reality TV has become so popular and what are the negative effects on young audiences? Discuss the differences between reality TV in America and/or other western countries and reality TV in the Middle East. The bug word of my first research question is REALITY PROGRAMS. The ...

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Social Consequences of New Media

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Identify the most consequential features of ‘new media’ and assess how and why sociological theory and concepts deal with these. Abstract This essay establishes the background of new media technologies within the context of their historical development. The argument is then addressed towards the largest social consequences tial outcomes of new technologies as through analysis of the augmentation and facilitation of social communities and online interest ...

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Regulation of the Media in the UAE

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Introduction Anyone gaze for an overall depiction of freedom of appearance and the press since the Arab Awakening that started in 2011 may desire to interpret my topicalarticle published in Jadaliyya. The analysis scrutinize the moves taken in Arab countries since the disturbances around the region–particularly the permissible actions taken by governments. The consequence is rather disheartening, predominantly from the country’s that haven’t yet seen any ...

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Gender Representation in Advertisements

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GENDER REPRESENTATION IN COMMERCIALS Imagine a commercial where a half naked man is bringing a beer bottle to a woman while pouring it all over himself; Imagine a commercial where a loving husband cooks dinner while his wife is watching the television on the sofa. Just imagine. Something does not seem right? That is because society is used to certain types of commercials; ones where women are playing the ...

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Magic Bullet Theory Analysis

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ODUSOTE OLUTOSIN O. ABSTRACT The theory of Magic bullet concept will be critically examine in this paper and its relevance to recent civilization. Historically this theory is an old media communication emanated since 1930’s assessment, which is recently challenged based on its relevance and scholar’s opinion along with the critics, assumptions and application which lead ...

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Acceptance of Violence in TV and Media

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The development of technology such as television, internet and radio, has led us to an important understanding of the surroundings in which we live in, surroundings which are mostly represented by the media, to an audience. As members of this media audience we are being constantly flooded with the notion of crime and violence by the use of technology. The notion of news is travelling very ...

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Effect of Violent Television on Young People and Children

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Violent Television Affect Children and Adolescent’s Behaviors INTRODUCTION According to Sujala S.Nair and P.E Thomas (2012)”Violent can be defined as something which is intended to hurt or kill or it can be just physical or emotional force and energy.”Television program has a big influence in our life. The violent act in the television program can be a powerful influence in the children and adolescent’s behavior. This ...

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Effect of the Media on Consumers

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Do consumers shape media spaces or do they shape consumers. Discuss this notion alongside the concept of mobile lives. Introduction Nowadays, media spaces play an increasingly important role in shaping consumers in the digital age with the rapid development of media and advanced science and technology. This paper includes an exploration of how media space shape consumers in a modern way of life which is called ...

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Traditional and New Approaches of Media Effect

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Widhia Kurnia Sukmono   How do you think the media affect us? Critically evaluate debates on media effects and traditional and new approaches to media effect theories. With reference to one particular case study, provide you considered assessment of how the media influence, and affect, us. It has been widely accepted by the public that the media is capable of Influencing societies on a ...

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Impact of Media in Shaping Perceptions and Policies

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The Information Age has seen a transformation in the nature of war. The emerging trend is towards low intensity conflicts and proxy war waged between states and non-state actors. Information Warfare, Information Operations and Psychological Operations have come to dominate the battle space. Besides military dominance, warring sides aim to create positive perception to gain international support and public acceptance towards their strategic ...

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Annotated Bibliography: Portrayal of Women in the Media

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Literature Review The last 20 years has been a steady increase in the number of women professionals, although most common in the media business, politics and the economy continues to rely on men as experts in. Mostly Women portrayal news stories about accidents, natural disasters, or domestic violence instead of their professional capabilities or proficiency. Women in politics are similarly sidelined. Canadian journalist Jenn Goddu analyzed ...

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Audience Studies in Media

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The study of the audience has been very important in the media studies, since the power of the media in relation to the media audience could form how the society would work, what the public opinion would be and what political ideals would dominate. That is why the relationship of the audience and the media has been studies by scholars and academics since a very long ...

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Trends in Innovative Technology

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Guide To Creative Industries Khalid Khan Digital Arts Kk356 What are creative industries? The creative industry refers to those that have their own individual skills and talent. The creative industry has the potential to create jobs for certain individuals and to create wealth for the economic through the development, production and exploitation of intellectual property (law). The way this has been achieved is through the development ...

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Freedom of Speech in Saudi Arabia

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Twitter is one of those social media that has revolutionized the way of sending thoughts to the whole of the world. It has rapidly changed the way of communicating with the people living at any place of the world. Its importance cannot be denied in any case. There are billions of people that are well aware from this medium. They have maintained their accounts in it ...

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Portrayal of Terrorism in Film

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Luke Costen Terrorism and the mutual influentially of the British film industry, the genre of satire Terrorism is an exceedingly ambivalent topic and one that becomes particularly ambiguous when attempting to define. When trying to comprehend the motivations of a specific terrorist organisation, one must start by considering the context of the acts of terrorism, by exploring ‘the historical, social, economic, ethnic ...

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Impact of Digital Technologies on the Creative Industries

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Anna Bonello Discuss the impact of digital technologies on the creative industries, with special focus on one sector. Give at least two example   The worldwide blast of digital technologies has had an impact on creativity, innovation and business models found in the creative industries. On the contrary of the 20th century which was known for mass-consumption, the 21st century is highly likely to ...

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Impact of New Media Technology on International Law

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To what extent can it be argued that new media technologies have impacted on the structure of international news? The concept of globalization has changed the way or perhaps the structure of international news and represents a key component in the media transformation. It implies that the new media technologies plays an important role in enhancing globalization by allowing mass flowing of information between countries and ...

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Produsage and Participatory Culture

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M024610021 – Grégoire Lesene Second Response Essay for The Audience in Media and Communications course Produsage: Towards a Broader Framework for User-Led Content Creation – Axel Bruns Summary: In Produsage: Towards a Broader Framework for User-Led Content Creation, Dr. Axel Bruns defines the concept of produsage, coined by the scholar himself after the terms “production” and “usage” (Wikipedia), so as to characterize today’s user ...

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Strategies for Nation Building

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CHAPTER THREE INTRODUCTION 2.1 Defining nation The term nation is hard to define. Therefore various scholars have come up with different definitions of the term nation. Karlsson (2009) sees a nation as a birthmark. A nation can be described as an idea searching for a reality which a minority often violently forced upon a majority with standardization as a goal and with an iron glove as ...

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Portrayal of Arabs and Muslims in Hollywood

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Zeinab Kobeissi   Over the years, pre and post 9/11, many people have noticed that Hollywood tends to dehumanize Arabs and Muslims. In most western movies, Arab and Muslim characters are subjected to racial and ethnic stereotyping and have continued to be the center of vilification for the entertainment industry in the states. The mass media has depicted Arab and Muslim stereotypes in a ...

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Policies for War Reporting in the Media

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PART V : THE WAY AHEAD “Smart generals understand all too well that wars can be won on the world’s television screens as well as on the battlefield”. - Alvin and Heidi Toffler in “War and Anti War”. Media Policy Enumerate National Information and Media Policies. The government must enumerate national information and media policies and the aspect of defence coverage, in peacetime, conventional and ...

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Effect of Social Media on Travelling

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Social media and how it changes the world. Introduction. The definition of social media is a websites or an application that enable user to create and share content or to participate in social networking. there are platforms for social medias such as Facebook , Twitter , Youtube, Tumblr , Instagram , Schoology and etc. One of the function for Facebook is that one can post a ...

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Effect of Love Stories on Real Life

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Okikioluwa Akinbiyi Akindele How do love stories (in the media) affect our understanding of romance in real life? Romance is something that exists all around us. It can be said that many of us grew up with hearing epic love stories such as Cinderella, Snow White and the likes. Romantic movies have played a significant role in the entertainment industry. According to a recent ...

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Themes of American Culture

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John Pollina   Today I will be a guest speaker at an elemtary school in China to discuss some themes of American culture. I will examine a particular American film, television show, and lastly a genre of music that depicts the aspects of American culture. The movie Rocky, the television series The Sopranos, and rap music all represent various ideas of American culture that ...

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Role of Mass Media in Earthquakes

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Lai Yuen Yau Choi Kiu Lok Kelly Chu Wing Yan Chu Lok Yin Law Shun Hei Introduction As we humans are living on Earth, natural disasters like earthquake are seemingly inevitable. We can only make our greatest possible effort to minimize the loss in human lives and properties brought by the disaster. According to Haddow & Haddow (2008),“Communication is core to the success of ...

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Development of Radio in African Countries

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Chris Cazalet Essay: The Development of radio in African countries, including South Africa   Radio is the most important medium in Africa. Its Flexibility, low costs, and oral character meet Africa’s situation very well. It remains the top medium in terms of the number of people that it reaches (Mytton). Radio is the fundamental mass-medium in Africa as it holds the widest reach and ...

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Impact of Abusive Language in Hollywood Movies on Youth

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Research Question: Q. Does the abusive language in Hollywood movies change the speech/language behavior in the youth of Lahore? Rationale: The aim of this research is to examine the impact of abusive language used in Hollywood movies on youth of Lahore. This research is new to us because the trend of watching English movies among the youngsters has increased. And due to this they are effecting ...

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Pros and Cons of Creative Labour

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Assignment question: Critically evaluate the concept of creative labour. Is it good or bad for workers and society? For the last 20-30 years the information, communication technology, media and services and industries have become the most essential and demanded things in the modern world. They bring people new opportunities, which can simplify people’s needs and wants. I believe this Charles Landry claimed : suggests “that the ...

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Comparative Coverage of Women Issues in Elite Press

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Comparative Coverage of women Issues in Elite Press of Pakistan, India & Bangladesh Key Words: Mass Media, Print Media, portrayal, Women, Issues, treatment, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Elite Press, Visual, Textual, Analysis Introduction We are living in the twenty-first century and it is a heart-throbbing fact that still most of the sections of our society do not realize the importance of women in the socio-economic fabric. It ...

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Analysis of Public Celebrity Apologies in America

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Devin Black Julia Tofantšuk Their circumstances and effects via analyzing specific cases Introduction Recently, I have become aware of a trend that has been sweeping across America – the celebrity apology, or precisely, the non-apology. I think I have always been aware of the constant apologies made by celebrities, but it has only been in the past year when I have actually paid attention to the ...

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Development of TV Pilot Promotion

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Alexander Kjellstad Media Evaluation Pre-Production My task is to create a script of a pilot episode of a new television programme, and also create a double-page spread promoting this pilot. My script must follow the same technical aspects of those seen in professional ones, so for this I am going to use the BBC script template for a drama. First of all, after doing ...

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Role of New Media in Reporting Emergencies in Nigeria

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Glory Ajabiowe   The Role of New Media in Reporting Emergencies in Nigeria. (A Case Study of Ebola Virus) CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Emergency communication is known for its immediate communication with stakeholders and its ability to change at a moment’s notice. Social media is also an evolving field. The use of social media is growing at an exponential rate. Since their introduction, ...

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News Management of Influenza Outbreak

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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2.0 NEWS MANAGEMENT The media is facing increasing pressure and demands from the public for timely and varied news stories in diverse angles. Media agencies are seeking above all to be the one-stop conduit of information for their audiences and the understanding of these pressures and angles can help organizations to not only cope with media attention but to also turn it to ...

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Regulation of Advertising in the UAE

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Contents (Jump to) Introduction Cases of regulation in the United Arab Emirates Top exercise in compliance Advertising Standards in UAE Aims Standards in association to advertisements Conclusion Bibliography Introduction With numerous advertising messages contending for the responsiveness of the potential customers, it might be appropriate to determine that there is enormous pressure on both advertisers and advertising agencies to make sure that their advertisements are the ...

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Representation of Power in Marvel's Daredevil

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Kimmy Huynh How are the characters in Marvel’s “Daredevil” Netflix series portrayed as powerful? Introduction The portrayal of power in fictional media often reflects connotations and assumptions made in the real world. By using the theoretical framework of semiology to analyse how Marvel’s Daredevil constructs the notion of power, an insight into what elements audiences see as power and how media creators materialise power ...

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Drug Promotion in the Media

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THE GHANAIAN MEDIA AND CONSUMER PROTECTION: THE CASE OF THE (TRADITIONAL) MEDICINE INDUSTRY The issue of consumer protection has been widely discussed in many countries across the world and especially in the advanced countries. In recent times, this discussion has diffused into developing countries, especially in Africa and most particularly in Ghana. Also, the media’s integrity and ethics of Journalism has been extensively debated. The subject ...

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Positive and Negative Effects of Television on Children

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TELEVISION: ITS EFFECTS AMONG CHILDREN IN TERMS OF EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL DISCOURSE IMPELIDO, DEANMARK G. Outline Watching television has many positive and negative effects on the behavior among children. Positive effects include, while negative effects includes violence, behave aggressively and their emotional aspects affected. The Effects of Television Positive Effects Negative Effects Violence Behave aggressively Emotional Aspects affected ...

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Media System and Press Regulation of Philippines

10 Oct 2017

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According to Raul Pertierra (2012), Philippine media is one of the oldest and having the most freedom in Asia. The “freest in Asia”, this is what Philippine called itself as and it means the media system are full with protection of press freedom which result Philippine as libertarian in media system. (Bisikleta productions, 2009) The aggressive character and lack of respects of its leading journalists is ...

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Pacific Rim (2013) Summary and Analysis

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In selecting a film, and subsequently the company behind it for an interrogation of industry workings, a more recent film would be the obvious choice for a justification in the relevance of research. However with a production process spanning seven years and no precursor or existing franchise to support it, Pacific Rim (2013), as a singular film with no preexisting fan base, would make a logical ...

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Effects of Media on Public Discourse

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MICHAEL GANIDEKAM DO SOCIAL MEDIA ENCOURAGE OR DETRACT FROM MEANINGFUL PUBLIC DISCOURSE? When one is asked a question on “What is the greatest power evident in this 21st Century?” answers and thoughts will cut across recent powerful countries like the US or China, or other great transnational businesses. But that really depends on the person’s perception on how he/she defines power. Anything that has the ...

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Negative Effects of Media on Youth: Causal Effect Analysis

10 Oct 2017

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Natasha Nguyen   Why is it difficult to show that media causes harm to young people? Introduction The impact of the media on young people has long been an issue, with concern that younger audiences are negatively influenced by media. Effects research has been used to determine whether media causes harm on young people. However, media effects research has its difficulties in generating viable results. This ...

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Analysis Essay

10 Oct 2017

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  Student’s name Wang Liang With reference to one or two episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer studied in class, explain how the series encourages the viewer to question assumptions about high and low culture and/or television as a form of popular culture. You may wish to consider issues of genre, authorship and gender. ...

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Difference Between Telecommunication and Mass Media

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What are the main differences between telecommunications (point-to-point) and mass media (one-to-many)? Compare the two using examples. Telecommunications and mass media are distinguished from one another by a variety of technical, infrastructural, and interactive differences. This essay will, broadly, outline and describe these differences. One of the first points to make, however, is that both forms have their own prehistories and heritage in earlier forms of ...

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Cultural Imperialism Theory Analysis

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What is the ‘cultural imperialism’ thesis and how valid is it today? Discuss with reference to relevant theory and examples. The best way to understand what cultural imperialism is, is by analysing its difference from the traditional modes of imperialism. This theory has been developed through a long line of historical events, especially ones that developed around the relationship of the west with the rest of ...

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Social Media Impact on Fast Food Chain (KFC)

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Uuse   Table of Contents (Jump to) 1. Introduction 1.1 Research aim 1.2 Research Questions 1.3 Research objective 2. Literature review 2.1 Social media 2.2 Impact of social media 2.3 Fast food chain 3. Research methodology 3.1 Research design 3.2 Population and Sampling method 3.3 Data collection 3.4 Reliability and validity 3.5 Ethical consideration 3.6 Data analysis 3.7 Research limitation 4. Anticipated findings 1. ...

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Strategies for Social Change and their Results

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Introduction Social change as per Grant (2014) description is a concept that’s more elusive in today’s modern society. Furthermore, it has aspects that are inevitable, yet its dependant on the various individuals forms of actions. As such, change has been embraced in today’s society, yet some certain aspects within us tend to resist such change. Political campaigns, movements within the social domains, and strategies within the ...

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Gender Analysis of Sports Presenters

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CHAPTER 5 DISCUSSION The mindset of public towards the gender roles in sports Based on the findings in Chapter 4, the mindset of public in Kuala Lumpur towards the gender roles in sports is more open-minded in general. This means that the public in Kuala Lumpur believed that sports are not only males’ roles but it could be belonged to females too. However, there is only ...

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Feminine Hygiene Products Advertising Analysis

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Fulya Felicity Türkmen Perceptions on the Idealized Image of Women in TV Ads Revisited: The Example of Sanitary Napkin Advertisements Introduction and Methods This study has two parts: The first part gave me a perspective and understanding about how to read and evaluate an advertisement. In this way, I could determine some criteria to decode the linguistic and non linguistic components of the sanitary napkin ...

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Role of Edutaintment for Safe Motherhood Education

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THE PRACTICE OF SAFE MOTHERHOOD: CAN EDUTAINMENT BE THE WAY FORWARD? INTRODUCTION The Safe Motherhood concept was delivered worldwide to bring about reduction in maternal mortality. This concept has been successful to some extent but it has been discovered that Nigeria is yet to meet its 75% target of curbing mortality by year 2015 to its lowest ebb. Despite the Safe Motherhood initiative in Nigeria, pregnant ...

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Role of Femininity in Film

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Throughout this essay I will be examining the role of femininity in Hollywood film and world cinema in particular Bollywood, I will also asses female stereotypes within film and how they differ throughout the years especially from the 1930’s such as films like ‘Gone With the Wind’ to the 1980’s with films such as ‘Terminator’. In addition I will demonstrate that there are also different racial ...

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Effects of Sexualisation of Culture on the Media

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“Raunch culture isn’t about opening our minds to the possibilities and mysteries of sexuality. It’s about endlessly reiterating one particular – and particularly commercial – shorthand for sexiness” (Levy 2006: 30). With reference to your own examples, discuss the sexualisation of culture and its effects on media production. When we look at examples of how the sexualisation of culture, in particular women, has risen over the ...

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Planning a Game Show

10 Oct 2017

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Title: All About Women Genre : Television Game Show Logline: It is all about eight women with lack of confidence go on a trip to learning a lot of skills from playing games to reinvent themselves, from an ugly duckling to the white swan. Objectives The main objective of this show is to change people’s behaviour to makeover themselves to be more confident in their life. ...

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Analysis of 2010 Old Spice Campaign

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Introduction This essay aims to analyse the 2010 Old Spice Campaign which began with the release of the “Man Your Man Could Smell Like” commercial and finishing with the interactive “Response” campaign. The first part of the essay will explain about the brand Old Spice and the stiff competition it faced which resulted in Old Spice having to change their brand image. The second part of ...

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Portrayal of Women in Media

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Are We Seeing Increased Sexualization of Women in Media? Feminists argue that popular media contributes to coerciveness and sexual assault toward women as seen by the dominant presence of violence against women in all forms of media (Linz & Malamuth, 1993). Adolescents have been resorting to popular entertainment for information about sex, drugs, alcohol and violence (Kaiser Family Foundation, 1999). Their preference for the more popular ...

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Social Impact of Communication Technology

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INTRODUCTION New communication technologies have become a phenomenon of the modern age. It is used by millions of people worldwide, and significantly influences their way of living and communicating with one another. Rogers (1986) defined several social impacts which have emerged through extensive usage of new communication technologies. Information overload and knowledge gap are examined in this paper as two possible social impacts of new communication ...

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Media Comparison: Egypt and Hong Kong

10 Oct 2017

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Wenting 1 Questions 3 Select any specific aspect(s) of mass media in one of the following four countries – Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea –, and compare it/them with another country of your choice. Discuss the similarities and/or differences between the two countries. Specific aspect(s) can be: media system, media history, media control/ regulation, media content, media policy, new media etc. Introduction The media ...

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Media Content Analysis of Maria Miller Resignation

10 Oct 2017

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Zina Christofi Critical Evaluation Essay on Maria Miller’s resignation as the Culture Secretary In this essay the author will analyze the story of the resignation of Maria Miller as Culture Secretary in the 9th of April 2014. The author will see in depth the different approach over this story, between online websites and printed newspapers. Also, the essay will investigate how this story has ...

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Democracy, Journalism And Society

10 Oct 2017

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  Ooi Fang Yin   Democracy is defined, basically as government in which the supreme power is vested in the people. Democracy is a very challenging form for politicians and it can be exercised by the people (Becker & Raveloson). According to U.S president Abraham Lincoln (1865), he once stated that “government of the people, by ...

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Development of Reality TV Genre

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How are reality TV shows constructed and how do they challenge ideas about the television audience? Everyone has to have come across a reality television show, at least once while watching television, since the genre has become one of the most popular genres of television programming in our contemporary society and keeps on becoming more and more enjoyed by people worldwide. Ever since this, considerably new, ...

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How Photographic Depictions of Children have Changed

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Jade Leslie With reference to the work of Higonnet and Holland, show how photographic depictions of children have changed over the last century. What are the strengths of photography as a medium for capturing the essence of childhood? Intro Photographic images provide us with a snapshot of the past and present, they hold past moment’s static for us to view even though they no ...

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Community Radio Stations in Rural or Developing Areas

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In recent times, media has prioritised the use of mass communications, where the rural areas receive information from their nearby capital cities. The minor community has always been overlooked. Community radio is the form of radio that emphasises on a community, allowing its members to plan, produce, perform and make the use of media to make their voices heard and existence sensed. The members of the ...

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Times of India Internship Report

10 Oct 2017

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An INTERNSHIP REPORT on Market conceptualizing, Space Selling and Market Research Name of the Organisation: TIMES OF INDIA (TIMES GROUP) Internship guide in the organisation:   Introduction I was interning with the “TIMES GROUP” in Lucknow from 10th February to 1st April 2014 . It has been a wonderful experience of the corporate world. Basically, I was associated with the Marketing Department which was “TIMES RESPONSE”,at initial ...

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Role of Social Media in Developing Awareness

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Part A: Use of social media Social media plays an important role in awareness creation. It provides the best mode of communication to many organizations in the present world. It involves the use of social networks such as Televisions, face book, websites among other broadcasting techniques. Social media build an idea environment for interaction where people can meet and share their idea. Communication in the social ...

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Reality Television and Audience Interaction

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RESEARCH PROPOSAL How viewers interact and engage with reality shows through voting Research aim and significance This study examines voting – a feature of interaction and engagement of audience with reality television. The study aims to investigate which factors influencing on television viewers’ decision to vote and also provide an exploration on their psychological side which may be vital for understanding their interactive behaviors. In the ...

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