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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...

Methods of Qualitative Research

data, the use of the objective viewpoint in the development of qualitative methods suggests the balance between differing perspect...

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...

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...

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...

Eating Disorders and the Patriarchy

In five pages this paper examines eating disorder increases and the role of the social patriarchy, particularly the mass media. T...

How Mass Media Shapes Society

This paper discusses Marshall Mcluhan's statement that, the medium is the message. The author examines the relevance of this stat...

JonBenet Ramsey Murder and its Media Portrayal

In ten pages this paper examines how JonBenet Ramsey's murder was depicted by the media in a discussion of journalistic ethics. N...

Contemporary Genres of Music

In six pages this paper discusses modern music in a contrast and comparison of different genres and also discusses how these genre...

The Impact of E-Commerce on the Entertainment Industry

something Online (n.d.). About 40 percent of others research the product Online but buy it in a store (Zolzer, n.d.). The majority...

Pros and Cons of E-Commerce for SME's

and for many companies these will be higher than initially planned due to hidden or unexpected costs, such as increased fees for t...

Media Convergence and the Computer

et al, 2003). In regards to issue that the computers convergence with television as a media tool is often considered the most infl...

Interactive Media and Audio of the Future

does bring to light some of the inherent problems with computer-enhanced learning. One of the potential problems that expe...

Educational Software and Interactive Multimedia

The use of educational software enables truly student-led education, ensuring the student masters one concept before progressing t...

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...

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...

Globalization and Orientalism

anything which did not fit into that perspective was either ignored or discarded as being atypical. From the Western point of view...

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....

Harpers Ferry Raid by John Brown

role played by the media and the impact that this event the historical event needs to be considered. John Brown was born in 1800 ...

New Media Technologies and Their Cultural Implications

currently exists does not give content providers absolute control over how users use their material, but it can place some prohibi...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...