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MEDIA WORLD & CULTURE
The Media World in Today's Culture
The Media World and Today's Culture
The Media World and Today's Culture
The media is the most indispensable medium that most urbanized and developing countries have adapted to accessing first hand and vital information. It is also in the branch category of the most growing industries in today's global economy. However, the industry is faced with controversies from other sectors such as culture and politics. Implications of the social media and media personalties have always been at the limelight, especially with how the youth and children perceive what they see and hear from the media. It is therefore, necessitated to review how the current global culture allows for the continuity of the world of media.
Reading Discussions
According to Kaya and Cakmur, media has been a centre-stage in Turkey die to the linkage it has to politics. Turkish media is perceived as a medium to which similarity of political virtue corresponds to the elements broadcasted. Under this notion, its media has strictly been under the watch of what is documented from the media. Kaya and Cakmur assert that the Turkish government has considered the centrality of social issues. As...
However, this never allowed for the mitigation of political parallelism. The Turkish private media undertook the opportunity to attack the country's political arena. However, the government took the incentive in the early 1990 to media control but culturally, the division that its media industry is central to political strife and competition (Kaya and Cakmur 2010).
The media has undergone tremendous transformation in Greece, Turkey, and Latin America. This transformation has been largely influenced by the emergence of free markets. Before the 1980s, these countries media world was state-owned and controlled. These economies at that time were centralized and the military had great influence on the media. However, free market economy has seen an emergence of privately owned TV stations and newspapers. This democratization of media has been perceived to spearhead changes in oppressive legal structures that were present during the era of monopolies by the state. However, the lack of these states to curb commercialization of the media led to tabloid reporting by journalism while the real issues, referred simply to as "hard" news, was disregarded by media houses. As a result, the media…
Media Worlds These four readings were written between 1944 and 1955, and to a certain extent represent an outmoded era of media criticism. This does not mean these studies are obsolete, but it does mean that they must be considered in light of the current sea-change that is taking place in media overall -- most notably with the Internet, but also with the effect that the Internet is having upon other
Media Worlds According to Erika Engstrom: "because there are no legal rules for the wedding as a social event itself, wedding media such as found in The Knot's offerings provide informal, though structured, instruction (etiquette) to women regarding the correct way weddings should be conducted. In this sense, the uniform weddings portrayed and described in detail in such media, in the form of easily accessible magazines and etiquette books, television programs,
ZIEGLER Media Worlds "Exploring sites of memory:" the Kennedy assassination According to Barbie Zelizer's review article entitled "Exploring sites of memory," "public history emerges simultaneously from the commonplace and mundane, the eccentric and comic, the background of the everyday, and the splendor of life on high" (Zelizer 1999:202). There is a collective memory that shapes our individual memory, and vice versa. While Ziegler's review is applied to a book on recent French history,
MEDIA & GLOBAL POLITICS Culture Shirky's piece is about the potential for media to change the course of government and politics across the world. He writes of ways that specifically the technology of social media has the power and/or potential for political activism and social change. The 21st century has seen an increase in the frequency and the efficiency of grassroots activism and social movements around the world, due in great part
Parallels in Journalism Studies Culture Chapter 11 by Coleman et al. is primarily concerned with the importance and methods of agenda setting in mass media, communication, and journalism studies. Agenda setting is a set that should come very early on in the production process of media for critical reasons. Without an agenda, the media lacks direction. Without an agenda, it is nearly impossible to judge or evaluate the success of a
New Media and Politics Digital media has been extremely instrumental in the organization and expression of political protest. This case study will examine the impact of digital media and social networking and the importance it plays in contemporary political movements. Citizen Journalism In the work entitled "New Media and Development Communication," stated is that modern mobile phones "…are transforming civilians into journalists." Columbia University, ITU Report, 2005, p.1) The report states that