...Neuroscience’s Coverage in the Media Eric Racine’s article, “Contemporary neuroscience in the media”, he questions how neuroscience is depicted in print media, particularly on the tone, accuracy, and the discussions they create. He hoped the data the study would produce would help the science community understand the media and publics’ point of view on mental health and ethics. There was a surge in popularity of understanding the brain in the nineties, and Racine’s expected the study would reflect the upsurge in print. The method used included keyword searches on news articles to find the articles themselves that covered neuroscience, and then coding them for specific divisions of neuroscience to see what they cover. Overall it was found that coverage of neuroscience was generally positive and more focused on how it would impact the reader’s understanding...
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...years have seen tremendous strides for women in terms of social change. However, there is a disconnect between what is happening in our culture and what is reflected in mainstream news media. With the influx of more female participation in youth, high school, college, and professional sports, it can rightfully be assumed that coverage would also increase. This, however, is false. Over time, women’s athletics have received less time on screen because of the overwhelming number of men’s sports and the disinterest in women’s sports all together. When broadcasted, the overall attitude and tone toward the female athletes and the program are poor. This differs drastically from those of men’s sports. The media coverage of women’s sports media, the enthusiasm, and overall attitude toward these athletic...
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...Media Coverage of Global Warming in America Ashley Palac ENG/220 December 7, 2015 Paul Korzeniowski Media Coverage of Global Warming in America Global warming is a widely accepted theory in the scientific community today, both here in America as well as internationally. However, thanks in part to selective media coverage, opinions on the matter still vary widely in the general population. The average American has a number of ways and means of receiving information available to them, including the 24-hour cable news channels that have become popular in recent years. In order to achieve and maintain regular viewership and ratings, the content of these cable news channels, specifically Fox News and CNN, has become increasingly one-sided. As a result, the general public has taken varying stances on the issue, thanks in part to the media’s use of one-sided broadcasts and biased sources and interview guests. The Biased Media Fox News has always claimed to be a balanced source for news. At the same time, “Fox News was originally conceived as an antidote to what many conservatives see as a liberal bias in the mainstream media.” (Feldman, Maibach, Roser-Renouf, & Leiserowitz, 2012, page 5, para. 4) The whole basis for the channel’s creation was to present the American public with a source of conservative news. Because of this, Fox News broadcasters were more likely to be dismissive of the idea of global warming being real as that is a common conservative or...
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...When people look around it is not hard to recognize how much of an influence sports has on the world. It can be seen in ads, merchandise, television, articles, and radio. In these ads women are a exposed (in a positive manner) to the public as strong and sexy human beings, but have people wondered how much television representation female athletes actually get. Female athletes receive about 6-8 percent of media coverage ("Q and A: Media Coverage of Women's Sports," 2011), which is outrageously a small amount of media coverage. There are a numerous about of athletes that are female, who dominate their sports, that could compete or beat the male athletes. In September of 2015 ESPN (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) conducted a...
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...Media Coverage of the Army By 16 November 2005 SGM Olson Group M15 Media Coverage of the Army The American public has come to know the United States Soldier and the army through the influence of the media. The American people have formulated a certain trust and support for the American Soldier at war, because of stories told by the media. This trust and support is evident as more than half the American public is against the war in Iraq and the global war on terrorism. The Soldier and the army now become in the middle of a public opinion war because of views, stories and perceptions from the media. At the same time, the media has disrespected the American Soldier by describing American fatalities in the war as milestones. The Soldier and the army must change public opinion, and rise up with an over whelming public relations campaign telling their side of the story. The media is quick to report a head line of “American Soldier shoots Iraqi civilian”. The story reveals only a statement from the dead Iraqi’s wife who said “an American shot my husband”. All the public has seen is the head line and one side of the story. The public instantly forms perceptions against the American army. The Soldier and the army automatically become the bad guys, public opinion sways against the army, and the Soldier is under investigation. Two days later an investigation concluded that the Soldier was innocent. The...
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...Evaluating Media Coverage My first online video story was on CNN and it covered the “Lockerbie Bomber Dies in Tripoli”. The length of this video was around 3:22 and I found this story playing on people’s emotions. What it showed (which was terrible) was a man convicted of bombing a airline flight back in 1988(Pan Am, flight 103), which killed all 270 people on board. The Lockerbie bomber was given 27 years but only served about eight years, because of prostate cancer. They interviewed the passengers family’s and they expressed how they thought about his early release. This was a good way to get an emotional response in the audience/public. However, they did bring up some interesting points like the fact that Libya threatened Britain in a statement that if the bomber died in a Scottish jail, there would be dire consequences. Of course, when asked about this, this was denied. People in Scotland were interviewed and many thought that he was being used as a “scapegoat” so to speak. Even the possibility that he may have even been a Libyan Intelligence Agent was mentioned but that was never proven, even in the trial. My second online news video was with Fox News about the continuing story about baby Lisa and the newest updates. It had the parents and their attorney at the news station being interviewed, as well as flash backs with the same reporter from the beginning. This interview lasted 10:27 which is quite a bit longer then the first video but then again, we are talking about...
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...Media Ethics JMC 361 8 June 2010 Juvenile Media Coverage What we have here is a child, a child in the face and in mind. Children are not completely responsible for their own behavior. Where were the Jonesboro teachers? Did they notice any extreme behavior? Did Mr. Scott? Could this have been prevented with more guidance or behavior modification? Here stands a child who committed a deadly crime, defined by the media before he has had time to define himself. Here stands a child incapable of signing a check; here stands a child whom can’t drive a car, whom clearly can’t think for himself. Here stands a child whom requires a parental guardian at all times. Here stands a child, just barely. The prestige of an organization should never be sacrificed because of one story or case. If the prestige of The Chicago Tribune, whom named the children, partly relies on their ethical portrayal of unethical events, then it is just that which they must uphold. Whether the story is told with names or faces, if told well, the story will provoke the same feelings. Completely unnecessary is the rambling off of names of children whom just not long ago learned to write their full name, perhaps in cursive. The bottom-line is the tragedy that happen in Jonesboro could happen anywhere. Upon the breaking news of the initial crime, it is absolutely not beneficial to identify anyone by name, child or not. These names just allow for further prejudices to exist. In addition, protecting...
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...respected and heavily televised Final Four. The Final Four is the last game for each remaining team before the National Championship game, where the two deserving teams are matched up against each other. This series of competition creates a rich supply of content for sports media networks to influence viewer’s values and attitudes. Networks have become increasingly knowledgeable and schematic in using sport entertainment as a way to promote their ideologies, values, commercialization and interpretations of sport. Studies have found that people turn to sports in the media for entertainment. The different forms of media are evolving and moving in a more prevalent direction than they have been in the past. With the explosive growth of internet users in the past decade, media companies have created a domain where they can input their interpretations of sporting events and coverage. These domains have become dominated by the 18-34-year-old demographic (Kian, Mondello & Vincent 2009) who use websites such as ESPN, the most widely used website for obtaining sports related news (Lefton, 2006 as cited in Battenfield, Redmond & Ridinger 2014), and Sports Illustrated to read about upcoming games, watch live coverage, or get the low down on games that have already happened. These online sport websites are visited more frequently by males (62%) than females (38%) (Loechner, 2005 as cited in Battenfield et al. 2014) but that gap is slowly dwindling. Opportunities for women to participate...
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...9/11 Media Coverage The attacks that took place on September 11, 2001 were one of the biggest tragedies in the history of the United States. It is reported that in these attacks 2,996 people were killed and there was at least $10 billion dollars in property and infrastructure damage. As soon as the attacks took place, media coverage began. Everyone was shocked at what had just happened and no one could believe that the United States was under attack. Media coverage of this event lasted for months and months. One interesting media coverage article about the 9/11 attacks is the New York Times article How Accurate Are Memories of 9/11? by Ingfei Chen which I read a few years ago. This article has stayed in the back of my mind because it presents an interesting issue that has to do with the President of the United States and 9/11 that not many of us are familiar with. The main concern of this article is the fact that President George W. Bush’s stories on how he heard the news about the 9/11 attacks are inconsistent. In his first version, Bush claims that he was outside a classroom in a school when he saw on TV that a plane hit the tower. In his second version, Bush claims that it was Karl Rove, his senior adviser, who broke the news to him by saying there was an accident involving a plane. Finally, Bush gave a third version of his story, where he claims to have seen the plane fly into the tower on a TV set. Three different versions of such a tragic event? So which version is...
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...conflict—generally one that favors Israel. Al Jazeera, the most popular Arab news channel, seems objective for the most part, but occasionally Palestinian favoritism can be seen. Haaretz newspaper, the most read Israeli newspaper in English, seems to be neutral, but also anti-Hamas on this debate; however, it does acknowledge good aspects of the Palestinian side. All of this is apparent through the wording used in the articles, the various sources of each news channel’s information, and the amount of opinions versus fact based information included in each article. The United States is a proud supporter of Israel and has been ever since Israel declared statehood. As seen in history, Israel has had full U.S. support not only militarily, but through the media also. The CNN and Fox articles are both about how the Palestine is treated, or should be treated by the United States. The Fox article discusses how the U.S. Ambassador, Susan Rice, in the UN General Assembly objected to the acceptance of the name “State of Palestine” for the Palestinian territories within Israel. The language used in the article is a clear indication that Fox news is pro-Israel. For example, towards the end of the article, the author talks about the Israeli Ambassador’s support for peace...
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...GEICO Policy Number: 4200-69-08-26 We agree with you as follows: Family Automobile Policy Amendment Multi-Risk Physical Damage Coverage New York Definitions SECTION III PHYSICAL DAMAGE COVERAGES For the purpose of this amendment, the following special definitions apply with respect to mechanical breakdown only: Section III is amended to provide Multi-Risk Physical Damage Coverages. This includes: 4. "Loss" means physical damage due only to mechanical breakdown caused other than by 1. 2. 3. comprehensive; collision; and mechanical breakdown protection. 6. This amendment is subject to all policy conditions and definitions except as specifically modified below. "Owned auto" means any vehicle described in this policy for which a specific premium charge indicates there is coverage. "Owned auto" does not mean: Collision or Comprehensive loss as defined in the Policy. Mechanical Breakdown a) a newly acquired vehicle; or b) a replacement vehicle; or We will pay for loss caused other than by collision or under the comprehensive coverage due to the mechanical breakdown of the owned auto. A $250 deductible shall apply to each loss due to a mechanical breakdown, except for vehicles still covered under the manufacturer's basic factory warranty, where the deductible shall be $100. Losses from mechanical breakdown shall not be accumulated to reach the deductible. 10. c) a temporary substitute auto. "Mechanical breakdown" means the failure of any original or replacement...
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...A Unified Theory of Software Testing This paper presents a theory, or model, for analyzing and understanding software test techniques. It starts by developing a theory for describing analytical test techniques, such as equivalence classes, pair-wise coverage and state modeling. It then develops the theory to cover other, more heuristic test techniques. This theory states that all testing techniques are composed of a modeling schemata, one or more coverage objectives, a dispersal strategy and a theory of error. All testing techniques address a fundamental problem of testing: vastly more tests are conceivable than you could possibly run. Each technique therefore consists of a method for modeling the software in a way that allows a coverage measure to be specified and achieved and a dispersal strategy that allows this to done efficiently. Testing theory has traditionally focused on the issue of coverage and the different ways to think of it (Kaner, 101 methods for code coverage). The obverse concept is dispersal, or a method for identifying and reducing tests that are "redundant". Take, for example, the pair-wise coverage technique. This technique is often applicable when the interaction of several independent inputs or configuration parameters create more combinations than is practical to test. Suppose you have an application that supports each of the following components: DATABASE Oracle DB2 SQLServer WEB SERVER IIS Apache Netscape APP SERVER WebSphere ...
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...Sales Presentations | Instructions: For each of the 10 Sales Presentation Apply It! activities in this worksheet: Complete your response for the Apply It! activity you are working on. Go to the corresponding activity section below. Follow the steps for that activity. Enter your answers in the space provided for that activity. Save the changes you make to this worksheet before submitting. Submit your saved worksheet to your facilitator. Return to the Apply It! activity in the course (or click the Submit Sales Presentation button) . Click the link that corresponds to the activity you completed. Follow the instructions on the Submit Sales Presentation page to upload and submit your saved worksheet. | Module 1 Lesson 2: identify allstate & agency value & benefits - (activity 1 of 10) | Steps Locate and print the following documents from the Agency Process Library. (Hint: You will find these resources and more when you click the “The Sales Process – Care Sell Quote Close” link available in the “Acquisition” section.) The Allstate Competitive Advantage job aid The Six Questions Reference Sheet Discuss with your Agency Owner or Office Manager the values and benefits they would like you to promote about the agency and about Allstate. Document the top two values and benefits to promote about the agency and about Allstate. Submit your answers to your facilitator (see Instructions box above)...
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...Communication Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2011, pp. 246Á251 (Re)conceptualizing Intercultural Communication in a Networked Society Damien Smith Pfister & Jordan Soliz We offer four theses about how intercultural communication is altered in a digitally networked era. Digital media shape intercultural communication by (1) producing new public fora capable of (2) hosting rich, multimodal ‘‘spaces’’ of contact on (3) a scale of many-to-many communication that (4) challenges traditional modes of representation. Keywords: Digital Media; Intercultural Communication; 2009 Iran Protests; Networked Communication As internetworked media technologies gradually diffused throughout the world, they have often been sparks for intercultural dialogue. Internet websites enabled web-savvy organizations, like the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, to circulate their views throughout the 1990s. The power of citizens to communicate directly with each other through digital media was not fully apparent until late 2002, when the pseudonymous Salam Pax began reporting through his blog what life was like for Iraqis in the run-up to the 2003 combat operations. Since then, citizens have relied on the tools of digital media to coordinate protests internally and communicate with outside audiences in a number of colorful revolutions: Rose (Georgia, 2003), Orange (Ukraine, 2004Á2005), Saffron (Burma, 2007), Green (Iran, 2009), and Jasmine (Tunisia, 2011). In January 2011, Egyptian citizens, mobilizing...
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...Madhusudhanan Rahul Manthapuram Jessika Basnet KC Course: ESL writing Professor: Margaret Anne Shaw DATE: May 9th, 2015 Abstract Electronic communication had revised a lot from last decade, which is helping individual to do work in easy and comfortable manner to complete their task in time and they can also send huge data for person to person within seconds from any point of the world is also time saving and helping to get instant communication and saving time by clear conversation through emails other than phone conversation, this is possible because of maintaining ample coverage in all over the world, there is also economical advantage of this electronic communication which is cheap and liable to every person helped to stay connected to people in all over the world, whereas this kind of positive reasons helped to increase video calling, mobile, e-mails, tele-conferencing and social media. Many Multi-National companies are accessing data from employee related to different localities in all over the world with the help of electronic communication helping to improve employment around the globe named as outsourcing employment and increasing global economy, in some places electronic communication is playing major between politician and people. Although electronic communication has many benefits its effecting face to face conversations in society leading to communication gaps between person to person. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION CHANGED HUMAN LIFE In the modern generation...
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