Democracy, globalization and emerging/declining media
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
An important question, right now, according to a recent Globe and Mail article, as well as chatter heard recently while riding the grid-lock streets listening to a taxi driver's radio, is if daily newspapers collapse, is this a sign that democracy is in trouble? Is the increasingly globalized...
China and the Western media
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It's an open secret that the western media will always reflect in negative light what is regarded as unfriendly or threatening by the Western world. It appears that China finds itself in this position. But while it's true that China's media sources are routinely censored and...
Africa and the western media
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Getting the masses in the United States to be concerned about combating global poverty is a difficult task. Generally speaking, we tend to be in denial about the social problems in our own country, preferring to fantasize about the lives of celebrities, and give very little thought to the social...
Media and violence
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Today's media is without question the single most powerful collective group in the entire world. The media shapes how individuals think, view the world, learn, feel, and behave. And this is not in a small controlled environment; the media is a global force. The debate in...
The impact of mainstream media in various fields
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The mainstream media claims to be free and independent, objective and neutral. A closer look suggests that they too often behave like the lapdogs of plutocracy. The major new media or press consisting of newspapers, magazines, radio, films and television, are an inherent component...
Ambiguity of the term "objectivity" in the media
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The importance of the concept of objectivity in the media is well attested. Since the beginning of the newspaper press in the early nineteenth Century in the United States and in Europe, rising democracy in the Society has produced various economic, political and technological factors...
Actimel Advertising and Media's
Market study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays, working on a discipline like advertising is not an easy task to achieve. Advertisers have to be more and more attentive to the competition which is very large, even in the business to business market. They have to do the difference, in a world where advertising bludgeoning is on every...
Media censorship
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Children and teenagers like to be entertained. They like to run and play outside, play video games, read books, write in diaries, listen to music, and especially watch television. There are all sorts of different content on the TV that young people are exposed to; whether it is sports, cartoons,...
Media criticism and theory
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The concept of auteurism has been around for more than half a century, and has been used as a tool for studying both film, and the people behind these films. But in 1971, this concept was applied to the field of music by Dave Laing: The musical equivalent of the metteur en sc?ne is the performer...
What role does the media play in the political process?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Since its beginning, about five decades ago, the mass media have been intertwined with political processes of every type, ranging from coverage of major political events and institutions to effects on campaigns and elections. In our liberal democracies, the media are central for the...
The role of media in modern society and business
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It has been said that “…mainstream media have evolved into the defining characteristic of contemporary culture and society.” This essay will discuss how the media construct social reality and are themselves socially constructed and will argue in favor of this...
Patriarchal ideology, gender and media
Thesis - 5 pages - Philosophy
In a study carried out in the mid-70s, B. Miles (1975: pg.un) found that the proportion of men and women in situation comedies was nearly similar. However, the author points out that ‘the gender roles and the humor could still be traditional and sexist'. Thus, what we need to study in order...
A critical evaluation of media censorship in the US
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
This essay will discuss and analyze the media and censorship of the media in the United States. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press…” (United...
Review of Mark Allan Peterson's "Anthropology and Mass communication: Media and myth in the new millennium"
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The study of anthropology is an interesting one, as it is the study of humanity, but it also has roots in the natural sciences and the humanities. Students of anthropology gain experience through ethnographic investigation, meaning that that use fieldwork to gather information about human...
Media, messages and styles used by Indian marketing communicators of films
Thesis - 17 pages - Services marketing
India is the world's largest producer of films by volume - producing almost a thousand films annually. However, revenue-wise, it accounts for only 1 percent of global film industry revenues. The Indian film industry comprises of a cluster of regional film industries, like Hindi, Telugu,...
The power over and of the media
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Today we live in an “Age of Information”. The emergence of the internet and the development of media technologies has not only increased the availability of information, but also the speed at which it is distributed. The combination of high-speed and widespread access to...
The school library media program
Thesis - 3 pages - Educational studies
The school library media program encompasses all the resources and activities through which the library media staff translates the mission into reality. A variety of models exists for the successful program. The activities and resources included in the library media program...
A study on media planning
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Media planning consists of the series of decisions made to answer the question for advertisers: “What are the best means of delivering advertisements to prospective purchasers of my brand or service? Some specific questions that a media planner attempts to answer are: How...
Asking questions about the popular sphere, media and democracy.
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
An important question, right now, according to a recent Globe and Mail article, as well as chatter heard recently while riding the grid-lock streets listening to a taxi driver's radio, is if daily newspapers collapse, is this a sign that democracy is in trouble? Perusing the numerous blogs of...
A comparative analysis of nation state media access as a global welfare dilemma
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
One can define media as communication vehicles designed for mass transmission - including newspapers, magazines, television and radio. This definition allows for media to include such entities as K-12 schools, internet blogs. However, this paper will focus on the four media...
Evaluation of print media as a medium of advertising with respect to consumers and advertisers
Dissertation - 46 pages - Services marketing
The topic Evaluation of print media as a medium of advertising with respect to consumers and advertisers is one of the best topics, which focuses on the print media sector as one of the means of providing services to the society that carries the idea or message of the marketer to...
Integrid Media Pvt Ltd
Dissertation - 45 pages - Management
Integrid Media is the creation of a team of media professionals with the experience of having worked in diverse areas of the media business in India. The pooling together of the talents of the key team members, who have founded Integrid Media, has created a formidable...
What are the most efficient media and related strategies used by companies to target children?
Essay - 20 pages - Services marketing
This dissertation is about children and companies and as the title suggests it, we want to find out which the main media that companies use to target children are and what strategies they develop related to those media. The first part of this dissertation will be focused on a...
Does uninspired media coverage cause uninspired crime?
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Once upon a time, cave man hunted and gathered while cave woman looked after cave kids and cave kitchen. Life was a struggle. Survival was the only goal. Then came, not too soon after, trains, cars, welfare, television, the microwave, celebrity big brother and so on. For most of us, survival is...
Communication media
Presentation - 93 pages - Computer science
This presentation deals with transmition media used for communication and also types of cables used.It determines which is the best type of cable to be used for transmition during communication and also deals with different types of transmition media used in networking.Defines the...
Modern media and the future of advertising
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
“In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie; there's only the expedient exaggeration (Lehman, 1959).” This famous line, uttered by Cary Grant in the Hitchcock classic North by Northwest, represents a common creed among practitioners within the field of advertising....
How the mass media influences the global community
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Over the course of the last three decades, notable changes have taken place in the context of international discourse. Although many of these changes have occurred as the natural result of the evolution of individual countries, overall changes in the international community have been spurred by...
Book review of America's right turn: From Nixon to Clinton and a book review of America's right turn: How conservatives used the new and alternative media to gain power.
Essay - 6 pages - Medieval history
The book is a logical presentation of the historical development of the Republican's success in campaigning for wedge issues. Wedge issues have been instrumental in the campaign of Republican's since wedge issues like gay marriage, illegal immigrants, abortion are very appealing to the emotions...
The media's impact on women's body image
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Mass media has a powerful impact on almost very aspect of social discourse. Mass media has been noted to shape opinion and culture in a myriad of ways. Despite this realization, however, one does not need to look far to see that the dynamic interaction that takes place between the...
The entire context of hip-hop culture is not as stereotypical as what is portrayed in the popular media.
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Over the course of the last three decades, the stratification of society has increased notably. In addition to segregating individuals by gender, age and race society has identified a number of new subcultures that are now an integral part of social discourse. While the development of subcultures...
