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Respect and Senior Citizens

In six pages this paper discusses ageism and various issues that include media and social depiction of senior citizens. Seven sou...

School Library Media Centers and Copyright Law Considerations

copy machines notifying faculty and students of copyright provisions have been just one of the precautions that have been taken (C...

Media Violence and its Impact

In six pages this paper assesses the impact of media violence with the recent spate of school shootings among the topics discussed...

Voting Behavior and the Influence of the Media

route. He notes that the "balance of coverage provided by the media is only worth worrying about if the media are influential" (R...

Censoring TV

In 6 pages this paper examines television censorship in a consideration of media watchdogs, parental controls, v chips, and rating...

Advertising and Creativity

impossible is now easy to achieve. Creativity, and changes in creative forces, is important to be recognized and understood. It i...

Winning the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election

In six pages this paper discusses the role of the media in shaping public perceptions regarding the 2000 presidential election and...

Media Images of Gender and Race

are not given the same fair treatment by the media as others routinely receive. Regardless of the color of ones skin or the sound...

Democracy and Media Globalization

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

Paul Thaler's Take on the O.J. Simpson Trial, The Spectacle

in some respects hypocritical. He speaks about the evils of the industry but does not specifically point out what evils were media...

Turner's Theory and the Use of Text in Film as Interactive Social Practice

the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...

Promotional Analysis of Harry Potter Books and Films

in a British field weeks before the books release (msn, 2004). Both of the above hits are sandwiched in between the ads...

Should Comcast Buy Disney?

to increase market share they will have to make acquisitions. Increasing market share in the same market also indicates horizontal...

Iraq War and Coverage by the Media

sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...

Media Role, Urbanization, and Community

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...