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TV, Films, and Violence

In six pages this paper discusses how children should be protected from the onslaught of media violence with various studies also ...

Overview of Important Sociological Theories

In eight pages sociological theories by Becker, Marx, and Weber are discussed in terms of how they relate to issues including soci...

Culture, Media, and Structuralism

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

Public Space and the Media

seems to think, were sorely left out of the equation when Marx had developed his theories. Frighteningly enough, Habermas foretol...

Egypt and Autonomy in Journalism

to less freedom of the press a significant degree of muscle. The law effectively divides journalistic efforts into national and o...

The Sopranos First Episode Analyzed

from the contrasts that are presented in every episode. Episode One The first episode of the first year of the series is an exce...

Tobacco Wars and Marketing

of gray in this matter. Motorcycles are for example are more dangerous than automobiles but are sold and advertised anyway. McDona...

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...

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...

Why 'The Culture of Fear' Remains Alive and Well in the U.S. and Australia

States. Regardless of the fact that the U.S. is generally depicted as such a violent and dangerous nation, one has to remember tha...

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...

Modernism and Poststructuralism

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

Oppenheim's Media Violence and Television

to conform to these, or to rebel against them. Thoman (2003) makes the point that the American Psychological Associations survey i...

Research Report 'Taking the Plunge 2000; Sink or Swim' Reviewed

including the document entitled "taking the Plunge" which was the organisations own research undertaken two years earlier in 1998....

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...

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, ...

Communications Theory and Media Change

but which are also "cumulative and significant" (Chandler, 1995). According to cultivation theory analysts, television viewing p...

Haas Dyson/Writing Superheroes

to explaining how children make use of semiotic resources is how this body of research relates the purposes played by oral languag...

Media Stereotyping of Race and Gender

freedom that I am today had I not begun to oppose that gendered notion of learning that suggests that politics is the realm of mal...

Social theory and Mass Media

media was in response to meeting the needs of the individual, creating a mode by which information could be conveyed to address pe...

Social Work Examination of Postsecondary Binge Drinking

2003). In fact, researchers have indicated that historically black colleges have about half the percentage of students participat...

Effects Of Violence In Media

affect the viewer (Lavers, 2002). In other words, the viewer has little or no emotional reaction to the violent acts they are view...

SMEs and Banking in Saudi Arabia

The subject is broad, but the levels of SMEs in the country is still relativity low, despite making yup the majority of private en...

Balance Score-card Use in SMEs

for the customers that the new products need to be developed (Gumbus and Lussier, 2006). Other metrics were used, such as quality....

TECHNOLOGY AND THE INFLUENCE ON MASS MEDIA

that mass media, by its very nature, is media that involves the masses. Mass communication theory, at its very core, involves the ...

Global Marketing Strategy; With Specific Attention on the Automotive Industry

new buyers. It is also notable that the firms which have had the greatest drops are those with the weakest marketing, whol...

The Social Issue of Desensitization to Violence as a Result of Media Exposure

view of the systems and factors that impact the development of the mind. The philosophical premise was linked to the assessment of...

Tasks for a Citizenship Course

the main source of conflict in the future will be cultural. The idea is based on the concept that in the future the main clashes w...

Marketing Orientation and SME’s

is one that seeks not only to provide for customer needs, but to exceed those expectations so the customer wishes to repeat the pu...