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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...

George W. Bush's Inability to Find WMDs and Portrayal by the Media

certain degree of sympathy with Iraq and its leaders, regardless of how barbarian those leaders have proven themselves time and ti...

Assessment Questions Regarding Culture and Communication

the idea of a connection to a separate item while iconic items are those that are recognizable and perhaps universal (2002). In ...

Media, Marketing, Customers, Public Relations, and Marketing Questions

that got more than five million responses" (Aaker, 1996; p. 240). 2. Explain why selling private brands often enables large retail...

A Globalization View

governments (405). For example, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on September 11, 2001 caused "s...

'News' and What it Means

radio station or television station (and most of them own all three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed ...

TV, New Media, and Audience Engagement

yet learned to manipulate the public by means of psychological strategy; indeed, it has not been all that long since marketing cam...

Media and US Military's Relationship

Vietnam continues to this day. By the time the Grenada and Panama invasions rolled around, the military instituted a complete med...

Case Study of Dad's Pet Care Company

Care, 2004). The product line has expanded from dog biscuits to a variety of different types of dog and cat foods (Dads Pet Care, ...

Urban Legend or Zeitgeist Myths

still believe that they will get cancer by overuse of their cell phones. By and large, this is not a bad urban legend in that it m...

Sexuality and Differing Gender Perceptions

Womens magazines are not the only entity attempting to homogenize the male/female experience, however. Numerous...

Criminal Profiler Job Description

"an unrealistic career goal for most people without prior experience" (OConnor, 2003). Academic requirements include an undergrad...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

US and Mass Media

slant the truth in order to cater to their sponsors. Of course, the studios got around this by having their news anchors hawk ware...

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 ...

Louis Liebovich's The Press and the Modern Presidency

and the Executive Branch for the worse. To support his arguments, Liebovich offers a discussion of the relationship between these...

Jenkins' and Massumi's Look at Popular Culture

let the media do what it wants. Another question looms large. How does politics invade the culture? It seems that today, politics ...

Culture, Media, and Structuralism

General Linguistics" (published after his death of two of his students) discussed the development of the term "structuralism" and ...

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 ...