...regular 6 o’clock news anymore. Mediums such as instant messaging, Facebook, Instagram, twitter, and blog sites just to name a few are taking over the job of the news reporters and journalist. Even shows like TMZ give more updates on what’s going on from entertainers to politics in the White House. It’s like each person in a sense shares a role as a gatekeeper because a person can choose what they want to post on their Facebook page or Twitter quotes about their stances on different subjects. People can actually photoshop their friends, family members, stars, and important political figures and make things seem as though they are real when they are not. The days of solely relying on your local news station are gone. Most of the time social media knows about events or breaking newsworthy information first because of the ability of digital cameras, cell phone cameras, and the ability to upload in a split second with a touch of a finger is all it takes for information to go viral. The ethical concerns that go along with the shifting of the gatekeeper are questions that arise of what’s real and what’s not real. Who’s lying and who’s not lying? What’s to believe and what’s not to believe? Everyone who posts a story tells it differently and before you know it, you have so many different stories told about one news event creating a lot of confusion about what’s really going on. Deception plays a big part especially in tabloids; they spread a lot of rumors. The question is...
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...Effects of Mass Media There have been great developments in the evolution of mass media during the last century. Media is no longer on how it used to be. In the beginning days it was all about verbs and nouns, and now it has spread to television all the way through magazines. Many people under estimate the power of mass media. Today is the main source of mass media evolution. Each new development, had a strong influence on today's American cultures. How does this affect American media culture, what does it mean and how has it affected our everyday lives? What are the major developments? The Major Developments The major developments in the evolution of mass media during the last century were substantial, compared to those in the past. Beginning in the early 1900s newspapers and magazines where the main sources of mass media. Around the middle era around the 1940s, the radius of hiding his source to reach the various masses of people. During these times it was people that often tuned in to the radio to get. Information regards to retail stores and especially on accounts of the current war at hand. It was in the 1950s that a new so-called television became the main source of resources for mass media. The television was a culmination of the radio and newspaper and people embraced it. And in 1962 the launch of satellites give access to worldwide news. Even as of today, it has exploded with forms of different ways to evolve communication. These new developments...
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...Evolution of Mass Media Evolution of Mass Media Communication is the creation of symbols used systematically to express knowledge and value. This information is in the form of Morse code, various languages, movies, art, and computer codes or mass media. There have been great developments in mass media over the last century. These are the advancement of the print, electronic, and digital eras, which now comprise our modern day media. These three eras have influenced American culture and its business, while introducing groundbreaking forms of mass communication (Campbell, 2015, p. 6). The Print Era Before the creation of the printing press, the production and reproduction of books and other reading materials, was by hand, making the item scarce and high priced. Considered a luxury due to its price, reading material was mostly owned by the privileged. In the early 1900’s newspapers, magazines, books, and word of mouth were the main source for obtaining the news or any informative piece of informative material. During the Civil War, people relied on newspapers for information. The emergence of the printing press allowed for many people to have access to printed materials at an affordable price. It also merged the three elements for mass-market innovation. First, the use of machine duplication substituted the tiresome technique in which clerk’s hand-copied scripts. Second, the quick and simple reproduction of the identical book could occur in vast quantities...
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...Before the invention of new media, traditional media was largely a capital intensive business, reserved for those with power and access to multi-billion dollar presses and expensive physical distribution systems, costly audio-visual recording and government liscensing (Chia, 2011). Not only has new media disrupted the old conventional model by reducing the barrier of entry to extraordinarily low levels, it has also challenged the commercial model that funds traditional news media gathering and adversely gained tremendous recognition as an essential platform for information dissemination and acquisition (Koh, Lim, Ng, Detenber and Cenite, 10/08/2005). As one of the most wired nations in the world, the Singapore media industry sees audiences and advertisers alike, moving away from traditional media towards digital media (Choo, 12/08/2013); where news from myriad sources is available free of charge and where advertisers have a wide range of options for reaching consumers, including cost-effective online advertising and online retailing. In Singapore, traditional news media are primarily represented by two companies, one owned by Temasek (MediaCorp), one of the state’s sovereign-wealth funds, and the other (Singapore Press Holdings) that is government-centric through close monitoring and regulation. Now forced to compete with a vast spectrum of new publishers such as WikiLeaks, giant news aggregators like Yahoo, MsN and Google News as well as millions of bloggers of whom are...
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...EvoThe evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again. Simon Mainwaring (2011). For several decades music could only be heard by either buying a single or an album from the local record shop, listening to the radio or going to watch a live gig. There was a time that it would be a special occasion to take your Vinyl or CD home and play it through a sound system. Those days seem so very long ago now. In more recent years, through the evolution and growth of iTunes, YouTube and technology in general, there are many new ways of listening to music. Thanks to modern technology, we now listen to music on a verity of different platforms such as our computers/laptops, phones, iPods and even home gaming devices. We can now listen to music 'on-the-go' and that means we aren't confined into listening to music in certain circumstances - i.e., sitting in front of a CD player. We listen to music how, where and whenever we want to. Over the past decade, this has become normality and is how the majority of the world listens to music, proving extremely popular to millions of people. In 1999, ‘ Sean Parker’ and ‘Shawn Fanning’, two 18-year-old college students, changed the music industry forever with their file-sharing...
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...Hepatitis A, is caused by the consumption of either food or water contaminated by feces. HAV is the common name of the infectious agent that causes hepatitis. It is commonly known by the obvious name Hepatitis. There are three forms of Hepatitis, A, B, and C. The version that is spread through food and water however is Hepatitis A. It is an RNA virus classified as a picornavirus. The infection is spread through food and water, by contamination usually related to feces of some sort. Food handlers, who come in contact with feces, don’t properly sanitize, then handle your food, can spread it that way. Ice, contaminated shellfish, again, harvested from sewage-contaminated waters, or in some cases, contaminated fruit has also been known to carry the virus as well. It is often shed in the fecal matter of infected people, then, again, not properly sanitizing, then handling food, causes the spread to continue. The clinical symptoms, are typically asymptomatic, or may range in a mild illness lasting 1-2 weeks, to even a severely disabling illness lasting several months. Clinical symptoms include, an abrupt onset of a fever, malaise, dark colored urine, anorexia, nausea, abdominal discomfort, followed by several days, or even weeks of jaundice as well. Age can play a factor in how long the symptoms last, worse in younger, less severe in older people, and can also affect how serious the effects are as well. The incubation period is roughly 28 days. The treatment unfortunately, is supportive...
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...EVOLUTION AND MEDIA NATURALNESS: A LOOK AT E-COMMUNICATION THROUGH A DARWINIAN THEORETICAL LENS Ned Kock Lehigh University/Temple University Bethlehem, PA/Philadelphia, PA USA nfk2@Lehigh.edu Abstract Modern theories of human evolution converge on the belief that our brain has been designed to cope with problems that occurred intermittently in our evolutionary past. Evidence suggests that, during over 99 percent of the evolutionary process leading to the emergence of our species, our ancestors communicated in a synchronous and colocated manner, and employing facial expressions, body language, and oral speech (what we refer to here, generally, as “face-to-face” communication). Thus, it is plausible to assume that many of the evolutionary adaptations our brain has undergone in connection with communication have been directed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of face-to-face communication, which begs the question: What happens when we selectively suppress face-to-face communication elements (e.g., colocation, the ability to employ/observe facial expressions) through e-communication technologies? This paper tries to provide an answer to this question by developing a hypothesis, called the media naturalness hypothesis, which builds on modern human evolution theory. The media naturalness hypothesis argues that, other things being equal, a decrease in the degree of naturalness of a communication medium (or its degree of similarity to the face-to-face ...
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...What were the major developments in the evolution of mass media during the 20th century? During the 20th century the latest printing and color printer was development. Back in days newspapers were hand pressed or hand written. Americans were introduced to the internet and mobile phones. Cell phones has improved each year and with new and improved technology. And publishing technology and use of satellite vastly during the 20th century. Television has really improved during the 20 century because they was only black and white at one point in time and they shaped like a square. Televisions today are flat and is increasing in size and people are buying them. You are now able to connect your television to the internet and watch movies without buying them. Another major development is the way people are able to buy books. With some technology being introduced to today’s society you can now buy books on a device called a kindle that lets you buy books and read them. Banking services and the way you pay your bills is another development for a lot of people who work late or don’t have a car. The new way of classroom learning are nothing like it used to be. Students can now earn a degree outside of a classroom and still become successful. The time to be informed is getting shorter and people want to know what is going on as soon as possible and social media has really played a major part in...
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...In the early 1900’s newspapers and magazines were the main source of obtaining information. Newspapers were mainly local news and obtained social news such as who was recently married and who had social gatherings. People were also a main source of news. Neighbors would talk at social gathering and around town to inform what was going on in the local area. With the development of the radio in the 1940’s national news was spread much quicker. The families would gather around the radio to listen to the President of the United States and keep updated on the war. Newspapers was still a popular form of obtaining news local and nationally. By the 1950’s television was invented and became very popular. Families would gather around the television to watch major events such as the first man to walk on the moon. The television gave Americans access to worldwide news. Newspapers and the radio were still used as a source of information. The development of the television started major progress. In 1962 the first satellite was launch into space. This started continues progress with items such as mobile phones and computers. Computers were complicated in the early developments but progressed as time went on. Business used computers to which were big and bulky but helped businessmen keep more accurate data and obtain information quicker. By the 1980’s most schools had computers which gave students access to the internet. Presently most home have computers in their homes and are able...
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...Unified Communication Platforms Paulette Lewis IT/200 March 7, 2016 Ezam Mohammed The differences of Unified Communication Platforms, Features, Functionally Softphone: A softphone ( software telephone) is an application program that enables voice over internet protocol ( VOIP) telephone calls from computing devices in the enterprise, softphone are sometimes referred as a soft clients, Most softphones applications work in conjunction with a headset and microphone a specialized VOIP phone ( sometimes called a hard phone) or by using a device called an analog telephone adaptor ( such as magic jack) Which enables VOIP calling from a standard telephone handset although softphones are most often associated with mobile or home users office workers are also choosing to use softphone as a convenient replacement for tradional desk phones. This can be problematic for network administrators because the traffic generated by softphones has the potential to flood a network. In many cases the network management system can’t differentiate traffic generated by a softphone from traffic generaged by other. Software applications to complicate things, sometimes IP phones use the same protocols as softphones and compete with each other for bandwidth. VOIP: Vonage is a voice over internet ( VOIP) services provider that offers inexpensive flat rates plans within the United States and Canada as well as low...
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...Personality As we all know, everyone is not the same. We might be equal or similar when it comes to shape and other remarks but we do not think the same, act or do the same things. Everyone has a mind of their own. How can we describe this? What makes us unique? Personality is the best way to describe how we differ from each other. “Personality is defined as an individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving” (Don H. Hockenbury 2014). There are different theories when it comes to personality. They can be grouped into four major theories which are: The psychoanalytic, humanistic, social cognitive, and trait perspectives. Each theory emphasizes on a specific perspective of an individual’s personality. Psychologists use personality theory to identify the basic perspectives. “A personal theory is an attempt to describe and explain how people are similar, how they are different, and why every individual is unique” (Don H. Hockenbury 2014). To understand better how personality can be evaluated or measure is important to know the definition for each perspective. The psychoanalytic perspective emphasizes the importance of unconscious processes and the influence of early childhood experience. In this perspective childhood experiences have a lot to do; anything done during childhood can affect future personality. The humanistic perspective represents an optimistic look at human nature, emphasizing the self and the fulfillment of a person’s...
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... electrical, and digital. In terms of print media books are durable and contain a large amount of information. Books are expensive to produce. As for newspapers they are cheaper and can be made quickly. In the 1800 hundreds the newspaper faced a new threat called penny press. These papers were cheaper than the regular newspapers. The penny press also printed more of murder and scandal rather than of the political news of the day. Another form of mass media is the radio. Radio was not that expensive less than television and more available. Radio gave the people the opportunity to listen to a live event at the same time. Specifically the radio was made for advertising. Radio accessed a large audience. Radio also made listening in the privacy of one's own home to be pleasure seeking and curious. With radio one can listen to a story and imagine in one's own head how the story plays out, thus creating imagination. Television is another form of mass media. The television was invented in 1923. Broadcast television was the most dominant form of mass media. By 1946 more than 17,000 televisions existed. There were at the time only three major networks, they controlled more than 90% of the news programs. By the 1960s television televised the conflict of the Vietnam war. The telegraph is part of the mass media seen also. Any part of information received via radio, television, newspaper, and Internet have been considered to be mass media. In today's society more people tend to receive...
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...With each scientific finding, there are always misconceptions surrounding it. Mainly, the media might portray the finding in an uneducated way. For evolution, certain measures have to be taken when writing about it in classroom textbook. Because of decreasing state support and increasing political factionalism, writers have a harder time composing a textbook that presents adequate scientific material. In Padian’s article about the misrepresentations of evolution in textbooks and the media, he not only talks about the process, but also about how to address scientific research and statements. It is overwhelming for writers to keep up with new research that contradicts traditional material or if it will be changed in a couple of months. It is...
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...Effects of Mass Media HUM/186 March 18, 2012 Rhonda Glasper Effects of Mass Media Mass media are the cultural industries- the channels of communication- that produce and distribute songs, novels, TV shows, newspapers, movies, videos games Internet services, and other cultural products to large number of people (campbell, p. 6, 2012). Over the last century there have been some major developments in the evolution of mass media. In the early 1900’s there was only newspapers and magazines there was no competition for the media market. With today’s technology we can now communicate with each other weather it is here on Earth or in Space. According to “Evolution of Mass Media" (2009-2010), “At the beginning of the century, the media consisted mainly of newspapers and various periodicals. Newspapers and magazines dominated the media in the second decade of the 20th century. In 1900, there was no radio, television or internet; newspapers dominated the media market, with virtually no competition. Today, using available technology, such as the internet, we can communicate with one another anywhere on Earth, or Space, instantly” (The 1900's). In the 40’s radio was introduced and became the dominate form of media. In the 50’s television came into play and dominated the media industry in 1950. Radio and print now had competition with television which provided the sound and picture all together. According to “Evolution of Mass Media" (2009-2010), “In 1962...
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...more closely with suppliers and partners, and better meet the needs and expectations of their clients. Classified by market relationship, there are there models: business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and consumer-to-consumer (C2C). As a small company providing consultancy services in life science, the best sales strategy for Evolution Bioscience is E-business. However, this company does not make full use of its official website and several social media accounts to develop its business. This article describes Evolution Bioscience existing strengths and failing in using digital platforms such as its website and social media accounts first, and then, using SWOT and business models to analyse the company’s internal situation and via analysing the main social media to choose the suitable social media. Finally, according to the business models analysis, a recommendation mainly refers to B2B development is performed. Current situation of Evolution Bioscience EXISTING STRENGTHS As Jukes and Zilling presented in 2012, the most important for a company in E-business age is establish an official website. Evolution Bioscience has established its official website, which is http://www.evolution- bio.com/. In this official website, we will find that it has clear layout, and the details of the company features. Web site design has six elements: objectives, content, visual design, structure and navigation, interactivity and functionality and overall experience...
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