PART A I am going to choose the first scenario, where I am the news director of a local TV station. The roll of news media in delivering the news to the public is giving the public accurate news quickly. I would choose to make the closing of city parks three days a week as my lead story. It is more relevant to the viewers, and it affects them directly. I know the death of a celebrity would get bigger ratings, but the city closing city parks three days a week affects my viewers more. Therefore
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COMM 3673 Test #2 Study Guide, Fall 2015 Media/Society, Ch. 6: Social Inequality & Media Representation · Comparing Media Content and the “Real World”: four issues raised by this comparison (pp. 188-189) o First – literature in media and cultural studies reminds us that representation are not reality, even if media readers or audiences may sometimes be tempted to judge them as such. § Representations are the result of process of selection that invariably mean that certain aspects
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Today’s media is unlike any other before; it just keeps growing bigger and better. There is so much information and so many different ways to acquire the information on anything that one would want to know. There is television, newspapers, magazines, internet, and many more. The only question that draws to my mind is; with everything that is available is it hurting our children and adolescents? Today’s media may not be the only reason for today’s children acting more violent, their obsession with
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The Effects of Social Media on College Students Qingya Wang Johnson & Wales University - Providence, qaw733@jwu.edu Wei Chen Johnson & Wales University - Providence Yu Liang Johnson & Wales University - Providence, yul118@jwu.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/mba_student Part of the Education Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Repository Citation Wang, Qingya; Chen, Wei; and Liang, Yu, "The Effects of Social Media on College
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The Effects of Social Media on College Students Qingya Wang Johnson & Wales University - Providence, qaw733@jwu.edu Wei Chen Johnson & Wales University - Providence Yu Liang Johnson & Wales University - Providence, yul118@jwu.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/mba_student Part of the Education Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Repository Citation Wang, Qingya; Chen, Wei; and Liang, Yu, "The Effects of Social Media on College
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Bhoomi Patel MKTG 3050 Dr. K 11/2/2015 Chapter 17 Advertising and Public Relations Media types: (Page ) 1) Newspaper: the most common and old way of advertising is the newspaper. This is a short term media for advertising. Newspaper covers most of the markets news. However, newspaper can be expensive media because it costs printing and delivery expenses. Most of the people in India, read the newspaper while having the breakfast early in the morning
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The Social Media Effect by Aryn LipNicki (link: http://arynlipnicki.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-social-media-effect) Personal Satisfaction - the largest negative effect of social media is the fact that studies have shown that Facebook actually makes us less satisfied with our own lives. The cause for this seems to be that we have a tendency to share only positive things in our life on social media, but not the negatives. As a result, we present a utopian picture of our lives to the outside world
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THE CONTAGION EFFECT Contagion refers to a situation whereby individuals and groups prone to violence copycat the crimes popularized by the mass media. Theories The contagion theories have been rejected and forwarded in matters pertaining to terrorism and the effects of mass media. Some scholars have denied a relationship that could be termed as cause-effect. There has been literature that has implicated the media as responsible for the effect of contagion when it has come to terrorism violence
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1. Children, adolescents, and the Internet: A new field of inquiry in developmental psychology. Greenfield, Patricia; Yan, Zheng Developmental Psychology, Vol 42(3), May 2006, 391-394. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.3.391 Special Section: Children, Adolescents, and the Internet. http://www.cdmc.ucla.edu/PG_Media_biblio_files/gy-2006_1.pdf In this article Greenfield and Yan survey the new field of inquiry to understand how today’s generation i.e. children and adolescents live in a complex universe
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Executive Summary Social media, online social networking service, has been existed for a long time. In that time, people use social media as an effective way to expand our social circle. People who use these sites form a social network, which provides a very strong and powerful way to connect, share interests, and keep in touch with others across the miles. However, as “the valuation of Facebook raised in a significant way, settling at figures in excess of $80 billion just after the company’s developer
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