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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...

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 ...

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...

Media Studies and Theory

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

Connection Between Mass Media Theory and Audience Research

example, when viewing the film Levity, the end demonstrates the reflection of the boy as the train leaves the station. The intent...

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 ...

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...

Mass Media, Melting Pot, Sustainable Growth, and Overpopulation Questions Answered

(Anonymous, 1997), thereby deciding which social and political issues are worthy of attention and establishing an unnatural promin...

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...

Health Issues, Diet, and the Media

There are those who believe that advertising can actually be beneficial in promoting health and nutrition; after all, television e...

Russia's Authoritarian Media

perspective. The free press in the United States is predicated upon the notion of freedom of information, that nothing should be w...

Social Divisions Reflected and Reinforced by Representation of the Mass Media

culture may be seen as the culture of ordinary people, but has a basis in history, Strinati (1995), argues that this is usually se...

How Racism in the Criminal Justice System and Media is Reflected in Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...

Methods of Qualitative Research

data, the use of the objective viewpoint in the development of qualitative methods suggests the balance between differing perspect...

Media News 'Dumbing Down' as a Result of Commercialism

to a public that wants sound bites, simple stories, sensationalism and ideas that are not too complex. It does appear that news me...

Media Coverage and the Consumption of Alcohol

alcohol as a positively valued activity (Snyder, et al, 2000). In other words, drinking, as it is portrayed in ads for wine, liquo...

Children and the Effects of Media Violence

four hour per day programming incorporates all sorts of fare all the time. It is because of this trend, and the trend to ignore th...

Criticla Questions in Modern Society

government, constituting an educated elite while the rest of society was expected merely to follow and obey. Democracy is founded...

A Prototype for a Media Player

many of the present expectations associated with the various controls. This level of recognition helps with the interaction, as le...

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...

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,...

Prejudice Against Catholics in Television and Film

of priests are true servants of God and their parishioners but, as is always typical with the media, sensationalism sells. Therefo...

Media Messages Content Analysis

influence of the television news programs on the American public and on our understanding of political, social and international i...

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 ...