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Communications Media -- Media Culture
Stories Covered
Meet the Press June 24, 2012 (NBC)
The mainstream news program, Meet the Press June 24, 2012 (NBC), focused primarily on some of the different views about the most important needs of the nation between Republicans and Democrats. More specifically, the moderator raised the issues of racial profiling laws in various states, immigration policy reform, the potential consequences of a pending Supreme Court decision on President Obama's Affordable Care Act that has been the source of so much conflict in political circles since the first months of the current presidential administration. Other topics of discussion included the national budget in connection with the need to generate revenue, the current conflict over the "Fast and Furious" debacle and the bizarre allegations leveled against the U.S. Attorney General, and predictions about the different challenges faced by the respective presidential campaigns of President Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.
Democracy Now June 22, 2012
The independent/non-commercial newscast, Democracy Now June 22, 2012 (Democracynow.com) covered the announcement...
It also covered the controversy in Bolivia in connection with the U.N. speech of the Bolivian president about regional ecological responsibility, and the status of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The feature story of the newscast was that of Anthony Graves, interviewed in connection with his release from the death row in Texas after 18 years of incarceration including 10 years of solitary confinement. That particular story was presented as both an issue of criminal justice reform (in that it detailed the tragedy of erroneous conviction and imprisonment) and also as an issue of human interest (in that it highlights the inhumane conditions in which death inmates are routinely held). Former inmate Graves testified emotionally before Congress about the degradation and loss of any sense of individualism on death row in Texas.
Other stories covered by the non-commercial newscast included the current conflict in Egypt in connection with the national elections results, President Obama's recent speech imploring American college students to participate in the political debate surrounding the imminent expiration of federal tuition funding, and a recent Supreme Court decision invalidating the sentencing discrepancy between criminal sentences for crack cocaine and powdered cocaine.
The broadcast also…
Another way that media literacy messages are suppressed is by having them changed. When this happens, the message is not received as intended. The recipient of the message does not learn as much about media literacy as he or she should. This disrupts the ability of the recipient to understand and be critical of the media to which he or she is exposed. Beyond the cognitive dispositions, there is emotional disruption
These shows depict diverse expressions of sexuality and relationships within the gay and lesbian communities, but they also tend to overgeneralize. Bisexuality is hardly treated at all, because it does not fit into neatly defined categories like "gay" and "straight." Occasionally this theme is discussed in films and television, as with one episode of Six Feet Under. Stereotypes can constrain real-life behavior as film and television offer visual cues for
Twitter, if anything, prevents information overload to its users, giving them a limit to the information posted, but at the same time (and ideally), succinctly capturing the thoughts of the user for that particular time. "What are you doing?" is just a catalyst, a platform from which users can take on to 'launch' and begin their throught process, and come up with an interesting, informative, and/or thought-provoking tweet. Twitter and
Media Audiences Marxist media theorists discuss the media in terms of their role as 'ideological apparatuses'. Explain the key notions behind this research, paying particular attention to the concept of hegemony and the media's role within it. What is 'hegemony', and why is it important to audience studies? Marxist theorists emphasizes on the role of mass media in reproduction of status quo, however there is no school of thought regarding his theories.
28, No. 4, 603-625 (2006) Sage Publications. Aeron Davis states that the work in writing "Media Effects and the Question of the Rational Audience: "... offers evidence for an alternative perspective on the media effects debate. Early work on media influence, be it conservative or critical, assumed a causal link between mass media and mass behavior. In contrast, decades of effects and audience research has established the inadequacy of this
media consumption and subsequent behaviour? Profiling the criminal behavior of rampage perpetrators is one of the main areas of focus in the social science research community. Gender, mental health issues, social exclusion, genetic susceptibility or predisposition, and ultimately, violent media, are most of the factors that guide researchers in the field, seeking to develop broader frameworks of understanding rampage violence. Over the past three decades, 78 cases of public mass