Mass Media
Affects of Mass Media on Children
Mass media can be defined as those channels of communication through which the messages are reached to a wider audience simultaneously (Kundanis, 2003, p. 5). The mass media plays a distinguishing and unique role in shaping the identity and culture of children and young people. Not only this, it also affects their relationship and liaison with family, friends, school, and community (Livingstone & Bovill, 2001).
With their entrance in adolescence, many children start on to engage in health behaviors that are hazardous and unsafe. There are six grave types of adolescent health risk behaviors that are reported to lead the youth worldwide to death and disability. Those include alcohol use, smoking, violent behavior, physical immobility, poor eating habits and sexual behaviors. These behaviors not only put the present and future physical state of adolescents on an edge but also affect their education, weaken their employment…...
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Escobar-Chaves, S.L., & Anderson, C.A. (2008). Media and Risky Behaviors. The Future of Children, 18(1), 147+. Retrieved February 2, 2012, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5027444453
Gunter, B., & McAleer, J. (1997). Children and Television. London: Routledge. Retrieved February 2, 2012, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108880528
Herrington, S.D., & Emmans, C.C. (2002, Summer). Character Education and Media Literacy-Finding Common Ground: Media Literacy and Character Education Are Two Hot Topics in Education That Have Become Closely Intertwined, Perhaps Unwittingly. Knowledge and Understanding of Media-Media Literacy-Can Be a Successful Strategy for Promoting Critical Thinking and Intelligent Decision Making about Risky Behaviors. Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology, 11, 22+. Retrieved February 2, 2012, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002486798
Kundanis, R.M. (2003). Children, Teens, Families, and Mass Media: The Millennial Generation. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Retrieved February 2, 2012, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108662257
Mass Media and Female Body Image
During te last two centuries, tere as been an unprecedented transformation of te role of females in modern society. Females are being increasingly perceived as empowered agents of teir own destiny instead of elpless, docile women. However, te legacy of females as passive objects of male desire casts a giant sadow on te female psyce and female self-confidence. Tesis: Cultural influences suc as mass media exert suc a armful influence on female body image because standardized ideals of female beauty arm te ability of individual females to find a suitable male mate and reproduce, tereby treatening te fundamental biological impulse for females to settle down and start a family.
Cultural Factors in Saping te "Ideal Body"
An Ancient Form of Mass Media: Greek Sculpture
Te very first influences on society's understanding of te body came troug, as tey do now, media. Te form of media ten were sculptures…...
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(Desai, 2011)
The conflict perspective is founded mostly on the works of Karl Marx. He believed that the distinctions between the classes and conflicts of interest created issues. This theory promulgates that society is ruled by a certain number of dominant groups and classes. It is argued that society is not truly unanimous in its value system, as debated by the functionalist mindset. The conflict view point states that this "consensus" is artificial and the "values" have been enforced upon society by the influential entities that operate in it. It questions the very foundation upon which society is built and wonders who truly is benefitting within society.
The channels of communication are usually owned by the wealthy or those that can be classified as "dominant and influential parties. Media can be used to build disagreements between variant factions residing in the community. Under this theory, it may target certain age brackets…...
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Brown, R. (2011). New Holistic Business Model. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media .
Desai, V.M. (2011). Mass Media and Massive Failures: Determining Organizational Efforts to Defend Field Legitimacy Following Crises. Academy of Management Journal .
Laswell, H. (1948). The structure and function of communication and society: The communication of ideas. New York: Institute for Religious and Social Studie.
Macnamara, J. (2003). Mass Media Effects: A Review of 50 years of Media Research. Carma International.
This was also the case in the subsequent transition, between the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age, when the first actual newspapers, representatives of the new style media appeared. With the development of the industrial revolutions, not only did people live closer together, in growing cities, but they were also becoming more concerned with the society they lived in and to become more interested in elements about their society.
Mass media in industrial societies began to reflect things of interest for the workers, while in agrarian societies, like the Southern states of the U.S., the media and newspapers still covered basic information about growing crops, for example. In industrial societies, mass media developed as a growing need for the individuals in those societies to become informed and to respond to the issues going on in the world.
In my opinion, at this point mass media turns from being a material of information…...
Mass Media and Politics
The Advantages and Disadvantages of the "New Medias" Such as the Internet and Talk adio for Democratic Governance in the U.S.
Mass medium has always functioned as the much-need link between the people and government in a democracy. The print media had been providing this link traditionally in the United States, until about 70 years ago, when President oosevelt introduced the radio medium to connect directly and instantly with scores of Americans across the nation. In the 1960s, John F. Kennedy furthered this by effectively utilizing the power of television as a visual communications medium. Today, candidates and representatives of every political affiliation are tapping the power of the Internet to communicate and interact with citizens
Steve Forbes was the first presidential candidate to proclaim his bid for office over the Internet in1999.
George W. Bush was the first presidential candidate to publish a full list of his campaigners and…...
mlaReferences
Ben Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, 6th ed. Beacon Press; 1983
Cass Sunstein Republic.com, Princeton University Press, New York, 2002
Doris Graber. Media Power in Politics, 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. 2000.
Timothy Cook. Governing With the News: the News Media as a Political Institution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1998.
Mass Media Society
ILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST: THE PRESS KING
It is always the contribution of a few good men which goes on to impact the whole of the society. The reason that these people are able to have such a profound impact is due to their endless struggle for a cause or for something in which they truly believe.
One such person has been illiam Randolph Heart, the founder of the Hearst Corporation, or "The Press King," his rise in the world of Journalism is truly remarkable. Born in 1863, and graduating from Harvard, by the end of the year 1887, illiam Hearst had become the owner of the San Francisco Examiner (illiam Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), n.d.).
His quick success and rise was partially favored by the family's wealth earned through the mining industry. However, Hearst decided to separate his path from his families and took this course. During his years in Harvard, he…...
mlaWorks Cited
Great Projects Film Company, Inc. (1999). Yellow Journalism: William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951). Retrieved December 15th, 2011, from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/crucible/bio_hearst.html
DiMauro, F.J. (n.d.). Hearst Tower - New York City. Retrieved December 15th, 2011, from Green Design Etc: (paper).pdfhttp://www.greendesignetc.net/buildings_07(pdf)/DiMauro_Frank_Hearst
Giessel, J. (n.d.). Black, White and Yellow: Journalism and Correspondents of the Spanish-American War. Retrieved December 15th, 2011, from The Spanish American War: Centennial Website: http://www.spanamwar.com/press.htm
San Francisco Examiner. (n.d.). Retrieved December 15th, 2011, from MondoTimes: http://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/5/316/839
, 2007). Looking to the future of this evolution of publicly owned mass media, the exact details are only speculative at this point, but one thing is clear- more sources will be competing for the attention and dollar of the reader, viewer, and listener, especially as technology creates new ways to spread the news of the day, or more precisely, of the nano-second, given lightning fast communication methods of the present, and future.
In conclusion, what can be seen is that the publicly owned media has changed the face of how Americans get their news, and undoubtedly will continue to do so for many years to come.
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Campbell, R; Martin, C.R.; Fabos, B. (2007) Mass Media and Culture, 6th ed. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press.
Powers, . (2005, January/February). The Massless Media: ith the Mass Media Losing Their Audience to Smaller, More Targeted Outlets, e May Be Headed for an…...
mlaWorks Cited
Campbell, R; Martin, C.R.; Fabos, B. (2007) Mass Media and Culture, 6th ed. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press.
Powers, W. (2005, January/February). The Massless Media: With the Mass Media Losing Their Audience to Smaller, More Targeted Outlets, We May Be Headed for an Era of Noisy, Contentious Press Reminiscent of the 1800s. The Atlantic Monthly, 295, 122+.
Mass Media
Mass Media Promotes Democracy
The journalistic side of the twentieth century can be defined as the struggle for democracy and an independent media against propaganda and subservience to the state. That struggle culminated during the first half of this century in the seizure of the means of communication by the demagogues of the 1930s and 1940s -- Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin -- and their Cold War reincarnation of the 1950s, Joseph McCarthy -- the ghost that still haunts U.S. journalism. (1) Modern journalism began around 1890 with the advent of a national system of communication and has had a pretty long run.
Describing Philadelphia on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Sam ass Warner observed that gossip in the taverns provided Philadelphia's basic cells of community life.... Every ward of the city had its inns and taverns and the London Coffee House served as central communication node of the entire city....…...
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Albright, Madeleine Korbel. Poland: The Role of the Press in Political Change London: Praeger Publishers, 1983.
Alger, Dean. The Media and Politics, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989, 6.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities, London: Verso Books, 1983.
Bayley, Edwin F. Joe McCarthy and the Press (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981).
Mass Media and Ontological Security
"Despite the fact that crime rates in most U.S. cities have been in steady decline for a decade, local newscasts still operate under the mantra, 'If it bleeds, it leads'." Gross, et al., 2003, p. 411.
Does the mass media threaten society's sense of ontological security more than it contributes to society's ontological security? This paper delves into and analyzes this question from the perspective of peer-reviewed, scholarly articles. From the literature available it is clear to an objective observer that indeed today's mass media presents constant and disturbing images, beyond what the community's actual social dynamics present as far as danger to individuals. And hence, the ontological security of millions of citizens is both threatened and disturbed.
Introduction
Ontological security: a stable, steady, consistent personal emotional state that results from a sense of comfort and continuity regarding the events on one's daily life. When people have confidence and…...
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Altheide, David L., 1997, 'The News Media, The Problem Frame, And The Production of Fear', The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 4, 647-668.
Altheide, David L., 2007, 'The Mass Media and Terrorism', Discourse & Communication, Vol. 1, No. 3, 287-308.
Gross, Kimberly, and Aday, Sean, 2003, 'The Scary World in Your Living Room and Neighborhood: Using Local Broadcast News, Neighborhood Crime Rates, and Personal Experience to Test Agenda Setting and Cultivation', Journal of Communication, Vol. 53, No. 3, 411-426.
Kinnvall, Catarina, 2004, 'Globalization and Religious Nationalism: Self, Identity, and the Search for Ontological Security', Political Psychology, Vol. 25, No. 5, 741-767.
The variables were in some instances, however, a bit too general and limited -- for example, in terms of social activity assessment both external and internal factors were measured, but this was too general to bring about any truly definitive results. The measurement of acculturation was also felt to be too general and did not include enough criteria and variables to be very effective. Nevertheless, the results of this survey in terms of the findings of the relationship between the media and acculturation were significant and noteworthy. It is also noteworthy that the measurement fro acculturation and the use of media was comprehensive and included a wide range of aspects, including exposure and media-related needs.
One of the significant findings from this survey was that the level of social knowledge was relatively low. The means score out a possible 10 ten points was 4.99 (yu, 1977, p. 9). Females were…...
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Beasley R., Chuang Y. And Liao C. (2008) American Music Immersion: Influencing
Factors and Its Impact on Taiwanese EFL. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 17(1).
Clement R. et al. (2005) Media Effects on Ethnic Identity Among Linguistic Majorities
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Other aspects of popular culture reflect this value as well, from the "roll-back" Wal-mart phenomenon to the speedy fabrication and marketing of most popular music, movies, and television shows. These trends also encouraged by the short attention spans of consumers. On the web, it has been shown that a particular site has less than seven seconds to load and attract the attention of the viewer before he or she moves on to the next Google result. (WebGuru) In the kitchen, this is evidenced by the prevalence of instant oatmeal, instant coffee, instant cookie dough, and other products promising instant gratification for minimal effort.
This fast-food culture has also helped to foster a removal from reality for consumers. Children do not understand that nuggets come from birds or that urgers come from cows, and most adults chose to never think about the unpleasant aspects of factory-farms and slaughterhouses having anything to…...
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Schlosser, Eric. "Fast-Food Nation: The True Cost of America's Diet." Rolling Stone Magazine. Issue 794. 3 September 1998. http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/rollingstone1.html
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Mass Media and Congressional Campaigns in U..
This is a study on the mass media principles and how they are used in congressional campaigns in the U.. It has 12 sources.
In view of the strong economic-based relationship that exists between the congressional elections and the mass media, more rigid laws need to be established in addition to a screening process for each candidate through which they all have to pass in order to represent the American people.
The media plays an important role in contemporary political activity, as it is a key communicator. This communication is supposed to serve the needs of the people as a whole and bring information to them that would serve their interests. However, such media may be the tool of politicians, as they may manipulate certain important information about themselves in order to gain popularity. Ideally, it is the media that is used to distort reality and…...
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Annenberg Public Policy Center, 2000. Media in the Home 2000.
Cohen S, Young J (eds) (1980). The Manufacture of News: Social Problems, Deviance and the Mass Media (revised). London: Constable.
Conflicting Theories of Congressional Elections. Accessed on 24-11-2003. http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:g4H8gEwwJjoJ:weber.ucsd.edu/~skernell/strategy/strategy2.pdf+theories+Congressional+campaigns+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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93 (Hispanicism), .89 (Americanism); test-retest (6weeks) .50 (H)/.79 (a). This Likert scale involves rating of 1-5, in which scale 1 represents not feeling comfortable and scale 5 indicates very comfortable at accepting the American music, TV programs and English printed media.
Analysis
This relational study incorporates statistical devices of Multiple egression Analysis to test the hypothesis. Correlations between variables will be performed as well. Each predictor derived from individual analysis represents time spent on each of these three specific media, with the criterion variable being acculturation level. Hours per viewing per day and per week with moderators such as English proficiency level, are included in each of the analysis presented.
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Journal of Communication, 39 (3), pp.…...
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Fox, S., Rainie, L., Larsen, E., Horrigan, J., Lenhart, a., Spooner, T., & Carter, C.
(2001). Wired Seniors. The Pew Internet and American Life Project. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Wired_Seniors_Report.pdf
Furlong, M.S. (1989). An electronic community for older adults: The SeniorNet network.
Journal of Communication, 39 (3), pp. 145-153.
However, this is not a reason to treat the entire religion as a terrorist organization itself. After 9/11, many Americans and media outlets have begun to treat all Muslims, and even the concept of Islam as a terrorist organization. No other controversies show this strong enough as the controversy concerning the building of the mosque near the site of 9/11. In this case, there is a lot of public outcry regarding a huge mosque that was being proposed to be built beginning in 2009. he film here highlights both media sources and individual survivors of 9/11 and how they are threatened with the presence of the mosque being so close to the site of the twin towers of the World rade Building. o many survivors it is a really emotional time still because the deaths of loved ones and friends are still very real in their minds. Yet, these…...
mlaThere are a number of things the media can do when being threatened by terrorist threats in order to stop the wave of fear the terrorists are looking to spread within American society. First, removing terrorists' access to the media will help decrease the media's relationship with spreading terror. Media outlets should refuse to print or highlight the terrorists own explanations of attacks and threats, as many terrorists often accompany threats with tapes or other sorts of verbal statements. This decreased attention will not continue to increase public fear as much, therefore not serving the terrorists on a silver platter.
Yes, there have been some radical Muslims that have taken extreme terrorist acts against the United States. However, this is not a reason to treat the entire religion as a terrorist organization itself. After 9/11, many Americans and media outlets have begun to treat all Muslims, and even the concept of Islam as a terrorist organization. No other controversies show this strong enough as the controversy concerning the building of the mosque near the site of 9/11. In this case, there is a lot of public outcry regarding a huge mosque that was being proposed to be built beginning in 2009. The film here highlights both media sources and individual survivors of 9/11 and how they are threatened with the presence of the mosque being so close to the site of the twin towers of the World Trade Building. To many survivors it is a really emotional time still because the deaths of loved ones and friends are still very real in their minds. Yet, these individuals are making the mistake of assuming all Muslims are anti-American, and even terrorists.
Many people are directly correlating Islam with the terrorists that were responsible for 9/11. Yet, this is simply not true. The terrorists who were responsible were a small fraction of fundamentalist radicals, not representatives of larger Islam itself. Those who were responsible for the extreme violence and pain that was 9/11 were not representative of the Islamic world as a whole. They were an extremist group that harbored political differences with the United States that had been building for generations. Thus, the act of terrorism was not necessarily religiously based. In this sense, blaming the religion for the act of terror would be a huge mistake. Muslims living in this country are still Americans. Therefore, they need to be able to experience the same rights to freedom of religion as other members of religious faiths do.
Racism in Media
Television news casting has a long history of perpetuating negative stereotypes of the Black community through what the news broadcasts and how it creates images that are transformed into symbols that become associated with the African-American community. Through these images, certain signs and symbols are created that later become associated with the Black community. hile attempts to make media more inclusive have marginally succeeded, failure lies in its inability to create any sort of social change but instead continues to perpetuate stereotypes.
In "Racism and the Media," Yasmin Jiwanai describes the role the media has on people's everyday lives. Jiwani writes that the media provides "us with definitions about who we are as a nation; they reinforce our values and norms; they give us concrete examples of what happens to those who transgress these norms; and most importantly, they perpetuate certain ways of seeing the world and peoples within…...
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Balkaran, Stephen. "Mass Media and Racism." The Yale Political Quarterly Vol. 21 No. 1
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Brown, Michael K. Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society. Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 2003. GoogleBooks. 3 December 2012.
In order to handle this argument, you will need to choose a side based on what you believe. If you think mass media is portraying men negatively, look for a TV show or movie where a man was portrayed in a very positive light. Sometimes these can be religious shows or other types of shows with strong moral backgrounds, but that does not have to be the case. Part of the concern with this question is that what is considered positive or negative may be different depending on who is answering the question. Because of that, consider what you view....
1. The impact of social media on shaping public opinion
2. How political polarization affects public perception and socialization
3. The role of propaganda in influencing public opinion
4. The influence of culture and cultural norms on socialization
5. The connection between public opinion and social movements
6. The role of education in shaping public opinion and socialization
7. The impact of mass media on public opinion and socialization
8. The role of peer groups in socialization and shaping public opinion
9. The influence of family dynamics on public opinion formation
10. The relationship between public opinion and government policies.
11. The effects of socialization on individual behavior and decision-making
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