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up, an idea that is still being felt in many rape cases where women are asked if they were acting seductively, wearing revealing c...

more than provide a reflection of the times, or to subconsciously inform women and girls about their roles. In many cases, the med...

magazines and newspapers collectively determine "which items of information hold significance for society" (Tenorio, 2002), thereb...

You Being Served, all serve up their own dose of British humor and stereotypes. Each show depicts the typical frouncy old woman wh...

basis for women to be perceived within the myriad literary components, the feminist critical theory serves to create a semblance o...

million people in the world who live outside their countries of birth or citizenship (Kent, 2002; U.S. Newswire, 2002). In 1990, t...

and Cosmopolitan. While both magazines market their product to a primarily female audience, it can readily be argued that Black B...

groups have long been at the forefront of controversy with their indignation toward government and strong-arm tactics. These ordi...

Libraries need to respond to those challenges by initiating programs that will cater to the needs of present and future users, in ...

himself completely to his ambition (Roberge, 2002). This is evidenced by his decision to run for political office (Roberge, 2002)...

on the futures of children who are currently nurtured on violent images as pleasure. In an equal area of concern, owners of mass m...

highway patrolman in the pursuit. He then pulled into a Shell gas station and convenience store in Hernando County and took the lo...

made them more susceptible to aggressive cognition (Aggressive Behavior Linked to Exposure to Media Violence, 2001). Even small am...

could readily relate. His approach to comedy was like his approach to life: if you cannot laugh, you cannot live. Indeed, Berles...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

The Internet allowed individuals to access information about, and exchange ideas with, those from other cultures without being lim...

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

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