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20 Oct 2009
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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...

12 Aug 2009
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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,...

29 Nov 2009
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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...

20 May 2009
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Problems facing the radio, TV, and print media

Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism

[Some News Shows are] much like the story of the vendor outside the bullfight selling “Hot Meat Pies”. A customer bought one and bit into it - and found nothing but cold dough.“There must be some mistake,” the customer complained, pointing to the sign. “No, senor,”...

03 Sep 2009
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The situation of media in Canada

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The issue of foreign ownership of broadcasting is a contentious one as there are interests on both sides of the debate with reasonable arguments to their effect. Recently a competition review panel urged that Canada loosen the restrictions it currently has on foreign control of media if it...

09 Jan 2009
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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...

28 Aug 2009
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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...

05 Mar 2009
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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...

24 Mar 2009
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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...

02 Jun 2009
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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...

03 Jul 2009
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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...

12 Nov 2009
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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...

15 Jan 2009
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Women and media

Essay - 3 pages - Journalism

As women worldwide fight for that equal chance in the newsroom or boardroom, others are building their own media to make their voices heard. Critical questions are being raised: Will women's equal participation change the nature of journalism? Is women's news fundamentally...

12 May 2009
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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...

02 Jun 2009
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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...

09 Jan 2009
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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...

13 Nov 2009
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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...

14 Jul 2009
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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...

13 Nov 2009
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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...

22 Jul 2009
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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...

21 Jun 2009
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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...

20 Mar 2009
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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...

19 Jan 2009
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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...

20 Jan 2009
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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...

12 Mar 2009
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The phenomenon of fandom: Refuting the view that consumers of mass media culture are passive cultural dopes?

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

In the last century television, film and video came to dominate the mass mediated world and increasingly continues to do so today with an abundance of entertainment being brought into the homes of millions of people globally provided by the culture industry. A popular and traditional view of mass...

20 May 2009
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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...

02 Jul 2008
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Blissful thinking: Advertising aspirations for a modern media mindset

Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

You drop off your children at school and drive as fast as possible to work because you got off to a late start, and you know it is going to be a hectic day. When you arrive at work, your boss heaps work onto you, pleasantly unaware of the type of day you are having. You end up staying at work...

30 Jul 2008
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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....

10 Jul 2008
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Latinos and media graduate assessment

Essay - 4 pages - Journalism

The portrayal of Latinos in general market media has been historically stereotypical and at times nonexistent, but groups and individuals have made important strides in promoting diversity and equality at a time that is possibly more important than ever. Latino representation in...

13 Jul 2008
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Latinos and media

Essay - 4 pages - Journalism

Latino-oriented media is a term that is becoming increasingly important to our constantly evolving nation and is one that must be correctly understood and utilized to succeed in the landscape of future business. The growing Latino population in America is slowly becoming an area of...