Media Essays

The author states that with the sudden rise in popularity of reality television shows, many business moguls have ventured into this industry which has given American television channels a lot of shows to choose from; and many of these channels are showing shows which literally lack value either politically or scientifically.

Myth can serve to precipitate fear, uphold the status quo, and guide and serve as a road map towards cultural beliefs and practices.  In the following discussion the works of Roland Barthes, about wrestling as a sport with mythical meanings will be analyzed with the aim of ascertaining how myth affects cultures and whole societies.

In addition the paper will also focus on Future of the Media Industry in India, it will highlight the Different types Of Media in India which includes the Print media, radio, electronic, outdoor and Television. India’s foreign direct investment will also be assessed and finally a conclusion will be given inline with the findings.

Ray Surette states that "…media trials are crucial in the social construction of crime-and-justice reality…Not surprisingly, media trails involve cases that contain the same elements popular in entertainment programming - human interest laced with mystery, sex, bizarre circumstances, and famous or powerful people.

The Internet has revolutionized the way we handle information and business across the national frontiers. Besides, the Internet has, in fact, silently and steadily abetted the process of globalization by arbitraging a new platform for rapid and instantaneous sharing of new in written, audio and video media.

The human emotions were wrenched by account after account of the horror from survivors and rescue teams, some online editions carrying video and radio streaming bites. Other editions offered photographs taken by the victims with their cell phones. Still reeling from the ‘9/11’ attacks, American online newspaper editions.

The economy and government processes are stable within the country, also the procedures left by the founding fathers are strong enough to maintain themselves.  In other places upon the earth, the public opinion is much more misinformed and without access and freedom to see forms of living in other countries or places.  In this case, the media bias is directly controlled by the government, whereas it shows a comfortable economic situation.

Media house management should acquaint themselves with key functions of media management such as ethics and law in broadcasting, technology and engineering, station promotion and identification, and production and creativity. Others include sales principles, advertising and pricing, the structure of a radio or TV station, and broadcast programming.

 On the other hand, when we will point out the gaps in the policy of the campaigner the voter will have two choices either don’t vote for the person with incomplete policy or stop contemplating on the issue; the most likely former would be the choice of the voter. In both cases, we will be assisting in the decision making of the public and providing guidance.

Through the television information on sports, current good or bad happenings air at the comfort of our homes. Information on the weather enables people to plan for events before they happen. The television is a good source of entertainment accessed at a cheap price and at the convenience of others.

There are positive as well as negative media campaigns which virtually come up as advertising, and these are well characterized mostly in the messages used. Messages in advertising come in many forms like indirect messages, dark and strong messages, funny and sexual messages, also depending upon the target. However, creativity is seen as having more impact than the message in a campaign.

Magazines not only have informed but also have provided entertainment and recreation to countless isolated families during times when these pleasures were few and far between (Biagi 31). The most popular magazines used for analysis are the following ones: The Weekend Australian Magazine, Girlfriend, WHO. 

The author states that the United States is considered a country with a violence problem. The homicide rate among males 15 to 24 years old in the United States is 10 times higher than in Canada, 15 times higher than in Australia, and 28 times higher than in France or in Germany.

The radio has long been noted as the first ever invention in technology that opened the door gates to modern systems of communication that riches far and wide. This revolution created a sense of hope among the many enthusiasts of modern communication that possible inventions in the said field of modern human connection could still be pursued.

Media characteristics differ in every country due to culture and beliefs as well as the bases that the society has established in terms of how media is defined and how it should function.  In the Philippines, the views and perspectives of how media operates and is viewed by the public are usually based on how media is done in the west.

Living in the 21st century prompted people to engage in several new activities. With the advancement of technology in the mass media, everything is as easy as counting one, two and three. The television is the most popular kind of mass media and is considered a common medium amongst the American youth.

The nature of presenting one’s self to others has caused too much stress on the lives of many talented people before internet connections and social sites have not been introduced to human society. Many talented and skilled individuals didn't know how they would be able to showcase what they want the people to see about them and what they have to offer to the world.

The number of hours a day that preschoolers spend watching tv is directly linked to an increase in body fat later in childhood. TV viewing leads to reduced physical activity and lower metabolic rates and exposes children to advertisements for high-calorie foods. Children are the group of society who are affected by the advertisement the most.

The author states that children typically walk a finer line than adults in the course of separating highly glamorized television and video-game exploits from real life. Children of grammar-school age typically witness far more callous media violence than any one individual might normally experience over a lifetime.

The author states that advertisement is the “paid form of a nonpersonal message communicated through the various media by industry, business firms, nonprofit organizations, or individuals. Advertising is persuasive and informational and is designed to influence the purchasing behavior and/or thought patterns of the audience.

The author of the paper provides some historical facts concerning the process of information exchange. It is stressed that the newspaper is a product of man’s innovativeness and the desire to improve the life by finding a way other than tales and stories to communicate and record the events to other members of the society.

The author states that the main problem is that some teenagers become really obsessed to have good body shapes and if they are thinner to look at, the better in their eyes. The role of media in this process is so important because it becomes an interactive medium and an effective tool of propaganda and popularization of the ‘ideal slim body.

The author states that violence has lead to deaths in teens ranging from age 15 to age 24 and the leading cause of death is car accidents due to drug and alcohol abuse. “The second and third leading causes of death for males aged 15 to 19 are suicide and homicide, which are the third and fourth leading causes of death for females of the same age group.

We are discussing the mass media and how it affects the thoughts and lives of masses, the origin of mass media in the early 20th century, the work of Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and political analyst and Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher and writer and how they viewed the mass media and conventional interpretations of reality.

The author states that this casts doubt on status relationships in given locations. Historically, locally dominant groups have been able to discriminate against those who have been regarded as inferior. Escaping physical constraints enables new partnerships to be developed. All commercial activities are done using e-commerce.

The author states that in the first article the percentage usage of objective predicates is higher compared to the second article. Some of the objective predicates used in the first article are excited, enjoyed, etc. The author of the first article to describe her emotional feelings at different situational points used these words.

The author states that television shows are texts that people often come in contact with, and ultimately they carry with them certain ideologies that they promulgate through storylines and images. Two popular and critically acclaimed shows will be the subject of this paper. “Ugly Betty” is an Emmy Award-winning television show.

Print media advertising has retained its hold and reach in the world of business and efficient marketing as print media continues to advance its scope on a much wider market, develop innovation and resume its accomplishment in the field of theoretical research. Studies conducted in this area of marketing, for instance, have encompassed other areas such as psychology and linguistics.

Televisions, radios, and newspapers are types of media. It heavily influences us in our daily lives. We are informed about the latest findings of sciences, daily news about our surroundings, and a lot more. Movies are one of the products of this industry. It reflects human encounters in life; it may be about our daily dramas in life which include murder.             

This paper will analyze how the media or TV channels fulfill its independent role as an instrument for public speaking and representing the public. Using a few examples and theories, this paper will examine the ideas related to media and the public globe plus the current media’s supporting structure that makes it powerless of sustaining a proper self-ruled society.

The author describes and analyzes four different print advertising campaigns of Chanel, Procter and Gamble, Oral B and Canon. Advertising requires the employment of wit and creativity in the part of the marketer. In order to do these, advertisements are embedded with a subtext, an underlying which is not stated directly.

The television and radio broadcasters also need to fulfill certain requirements, laid down by the communications regulator Ofcom. All the television and radio stations of the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) have a public service remit. Even private companies are obliged to give public service programming as they are mostly viewed freely anywhere in the UK.

 This media reaction paper is based on the news article which appeared in “Lake County News-Sun”, titled “Whether or not 'Girlfriends' gets a ninth season, Mara Brock Akil has a game plan” by Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn on 12-11-2007. It is about the fate of the long-running sitcom ‘Girlfriends’ in its 8th season on CW, which is the 2nd most popular sitcom among the black audience. 

People are adjusting to all the innovations and changes instantly and readily. The appetite for newer ways of getting information and entertainment is increasing. The young are being fed infotainment instead of information and entertainment separately. It is an expression of interactive creativity in technologies like communication. 

The whole array of persuasion techniques is used, especially on the World Wide Web and in email messages known as ‘spam’, which means unnecessary or useless information, normally blocked by the most powerful mailers, yet a certain number of such messages penetrates into the users’ electronic mailboxes and computers.  

This is only one method of putting McLuhan’s assertion to test.  The very moment when one gets up from the crowd in a TV kiosk saying that this media package is not my dish for the day, the Canadian theorist’s premise wobbles.  It seems to be a classic example of hasty generalization or, how could the man who pronounced the ever true aphorism ‘medium is the message’ crack of hot and cool media at a time when technology was changing apace?

The author states that politicians are often made or broken depending on their stance on such matters as the assault weapons ban and prayer in public schools. Recent news coverage of prominent newspaper reporters being jailed for refusing to reveal their sources during criminal investigations has captured the attention of the nation.

The author outlines the development of advertisement and its techniques through times. The new information age has contributed the ad industry with its new channels, gleaming with pop-up messages and e-mail alerts; the mobile phones with the SMS messages and the net savvy gadgets that download the entertainment along with the ad promos.

Our knowledge of the universe is structured, and we are not capable to open these predetermined structures which constrict our reality. The Matrix is not a myth because everything expressed by Wachowski has been discovered thousands of years ago. Wachowski brothers just collected and extracted this knowledge modernizing it for a wide audience.

The penal code can be used to imprison journalists for "violating public morality" and "damaging national interest." There is a huge list of oppression by the government and backed by the fundamentalist religious leaders against the press but the fight for freedom of the press is on at a never-ending process and all these sacrifices are sure to come good at some point in time. 

The author states that during times of war the risks facing the media become greater than usual and are therefore the time when accurate and professional reporting becomes most paramount. Occasionally, a reporter may be unlucky when covering violent skirmishes and as a result, may lose his or her voice.

Even though the TV is still on an entire evening, people are busy talking on the phone or surfing the internet, which makes the exact figures difficult to arrive at. In 2007, 16-24-year-olds remained glued to their TV sets for about 150 minutes a day which is ten minutes less than five years ago (Wray, 2008).

The paper discovers the media, popular pleasures and fashion. After finishing an introductory course to women studies, at twenty-three, my reading material became Marie-Claire. After attaining the feminist gaze, I found out that the first three magazines which I used to read portrayed women as a homogenous group of simple-minded.

In their professional live out and cultures, in their systems of associations with other political and social foundations, media corporations across the globe are emerging more and more alike. The fact of homogenization in world media corporations was first highlighted as an intellectual issue in the cultural royalist literature of the 1960s and 1970s.

The author states that throughout its seven-year run on NBC, “The West Wing” maintained an example of addressing the diverse issues that face both Americans, as well as the rest of the world on a day-to-day basis. The creators used their weekly episodes to draw attention to the varying levels of human nature and human problems.

Reportedly, the term “media” is defined by the Australian Oxford Dictionary as “mass communications”, especially newspapers and broadcasting, regarded collectively. More specifically, the media is made up of the mass circulation press, the cinema, radio, television and recently, the Internet.

The author states that the countries in which they reside play a major role since it has a great influence on their liking and way of life. The place in which they reside contributes a major part to their lifestyle. The people in the U.K, U.S, and other European countries have a different taste and their outlook on television programs is different.

The author of the paper states that it is usually specified in terms of the target audience, reach, and frequency. The target audience is often defined by demographics, product usage, and psychographics. Reach refers to the unduplicated proportion of an audience that is exposed to a media schedule.

The issue is that the European Union have precised that the advertising of tobacco should not be allowed. Opposition is against the advertisements trying to portray smoking as safe or as a representation of masculinity. They do not do any good except for giving misleading claims and leaving a bad impact on the young and pure minds youth.

Dimensions of human behavior have changed with the passage of time. The best demarcation of this change is best reflected in the popular culture and particularly in the parameters of the advertising world. Advertising relies on characters to sell products. It can well be stated that human behavior is altered by stimuli outside the mind.