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Cultural Impacts of Imported Media

resist imported media is over and is replaced by an interest in the hybridity or interstitiality of contemporary cultures (2001). ...

Gender Roles and the Influences of Politics and the Media

makes an impression on kids today, whether its what they think they should look like or the qualities they associate with women an...

Sexual Images of Women in the Media

to satisfy the demand of their target market. Each of these magazines will appeal to a different sections of the female populati...

Media Consumption, Identification, and Identity

individual identifies with the material, it may to some extent relate to identity, but it is the process of identification that is...

How the Media Reflects Violence in Society

benefit of such shows as Ricki Lake, Maury Povich, Montel Williams, Jenny Jones or Jerry Springer is to corrupt the fragile balanc...

A Four Cities' Analysis

spread of the educational levels is not representative of the general population levels. In terms of the Black Africans only 21% h...

Perceived Threats, Overreaction, and Doctrine of Chemical Warfare Defense

to the reality of the threat. The government and the military must make every effort to develop a more rational approach regarding...

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 ...

Modernism and Poststructuralism

(2003) of CNN claims: " "The New York Times" plagiarism scandal still in the headlines and still causing shockwaves in journalism ...

Network Society Development

internet culture hpw information is obtained used, disseminated and then disposed of. 2. Media Usage As this is an essay that i...

Sex Crimes and the Media

justification than because of their color. However, law enforcement officials are not the only ones who misconstrue reality and p...

Consumer Behavior and the Luxury Fashion Industry

is not possible to write a paper that is based on error. I will, therefore, make a case for ego needs and drop in the possibility ...

Press Freedom and Libel

they protested against the Iraq war at the beginning of 2003, when Iraqis did not have that right. However, common sense would dic...

Bill McKibben, Ben Bagdikian, and Michael Parenti Critiquing the Contemporary Media

how much they are influenced by "everyday" media without really knowing it. Within the realm of entertainment programs such as "fa...

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...

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...

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...

Intercultural Communications and Media Coverage of Political Events

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

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...

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...

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...