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Media Ethics' Decline and Postmodernity

ancillary factors of our culture such as what clothing we consider most appropriate or what foods we choose to eat. Sometimes how...

Modern Media Arts and the Effects of New Digital Technology and Software

impact of digital technology and software on the media arts. The use of new technology in arts is not new, this has occurred ove...

The New York Times' Coverage of the Iraq War

on certain Republicans who had publicly questioned this policy, seemed to make clear that support for a proposed war was hardly un...

Oppenheim's Media Violence and Television

to conform to these, or to rebel against them. Thoman (2003) makes the point that the American Psychological Associations survey i...

Media and Law Enforcement

people closer to the processes of arresting suspects and investigating crime scenes than ever before (Getty, 2001). Law enforceme...

Why 'The Culture of Fear' Remains Alive and Well in the U.S. and Australia

States. Regardless of the fact that the U.S. is generally depicted as such a violent and dangerous nation, one has to remember tha...

Political Process and the Media

has to wonder how the media is influenced, or if the media influences the political processes. When one stops to consider who is ...

Press Releases, Advertising, and PR

two-fold. The lower floors of the building would be family orientated, with activities offered for the families staying in the res...

Media and Film Documentaries in China

which provided free education, pensions, and social services to the people and peasants. Instead, the self-sacrificing citizen of ...

Interactive Media and Audio of the Future

does bring to light some of the inherent problems with computer-enhanced learning. One of the potential problems that expe...

Educational Software and Interactive Multimedia

The use of educational software enables truly student-led education, ensuring the student masters one concept before progressing t...

Globalization and Orientalism

anything which did not fit into that perspective was either ignored or discarded as being atypical. From the Western point of view...

New Media Technologies and Their Cultural Implications

currently exists does not give content providers absolute control over how users use their material, but it can place some prohibi...

SARS Epidemic, Iraq War, and Lessons in Media Management

meaning information positive to the organisations goals. However, for governments, especially in countries where there is freedom ...

Online Promotional Tactics of 4 Websites

paper, we will explore four web sites to determine exactly what promotional strategies are used - and how/if these strategies can ...

Media Studies and Theory

concepts and have produced new technologies and data largely based upon past theoretical research and evaluation. Unders...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

The Impact of E-Commerce on the Entertainment Industry

something Online (n.d.). About 40 percent of others research the product Online but buy it in a store (Zolzer, n.d.). The majority...

Pros and Cons of E-Commerce for SME's

and for many companies these will be higher than initially planned due to hidden or unexpected costs, such as increased fees for t...

Media Convergence and the Computer

et al, 2003). In regards to issue that the computers convergence with television as a media tool is often considered the most infl...

Research Report 'Taking the Plunge 2000; Sink or Swim' Reviewed

including the document entitled "taking the Plunge" which was the organisations own research undertaken two years earlier in 1998....

Harpers Ferry Raid by John Brown

role played by the media and the impact that this event the historical event needs to be considered. John Brown was born in 1800 ...

Women's Freedom and the Detriment of Marriage

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

Media Role, Urbanization, and Community

areas has become considerable. As de Cauter (2001) notes,...

Medical Treatment, Complimentary Alternative Medicine

a concept created by Andrew Weil, MD (2004). He claims that it refers to the best of both worlds and an integration of alternativ...

The Culture of Fear by Glassner

does is to expose the media for what it is, which is an opportunistic and often inaccurate and inept body of reporters that is onl...

Death and Attitudes

but there was also a corresponding increase in the secularisation and commercialisation of the rituals surrounding death. In the 1...

Democracy and Media Globalization

of "players" in terms of owners and mega-merger conglomerates, such information becomes increasingly homogenized and increasingly ...

Celebrity Depiction by the Media

They find escape in the medias presentation of the celebrities and it seems that in times of political and global chaos they want ...

Persian Gulf War and Iraqi Portrayal by the Media

were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...