Adult Media Literacy A review of the research literature on behalf of Ofcom By Sonia Livingstone Elizabeth Van Couvering Nancy Thumim Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 7710 Fax:+44 (0) 20 7955 7248 E-mail: s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk Ofcom Adult media literacy Preface Ofcom is the independent regulator for the UK communications industry. As part of Ofcom’s work to promote media
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Social Media has had one of the greatest impacts on the twenty- first century. Websites such as Facebook and Twitter make it possible for people to contact family and friends across the globe at no cost. This has opened a brand new way for people of all ages to communicate with loved ones, meet new people, and express themselves freely and openly. While there are risks involving this new technology they can easily be avoided. Social media has gained a false reputation as a place for scams, fraud
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The Psychology of Panic Research paper on Academic Writing Skills First semester – A.Y. 2012-2013 Kevin and Friends Antonio, KevinArlante, Gil AngeloJorge, CamilleLeonardo, LaarniePascual, Shenine LevinaSalcines, Denz JovelleSantos, Arrianne | The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel written by Herbert George Wells in 1895-97 and was published in 1898. It is about the adventure of an unnamed protagonist as he ventures in London while the Martian are invading the Earth. The setting
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When G. Stanley Hall first introduced adolescence as its own age group, he changed the way that society would view girlhood. In Hall’s publication, Adolescence, he characterized this age group of being between the ages of 14 to 24 and exhibiting attention and risk-seeking behaviors, especially when it came to discovering your sexuality. Adolescents would go through what he described as “storm and stress” and would be in this state of unstableness until they found a middle ground as aged closer to
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Social Advertising Social media exists in the context of communities that are built of people who develop and nurture relationships by creating, co-creating, sharing, commenting, and engaging in content (Tuten, 2008). Advertising on such social platform is what accounts to social advertisement. Most of these communities are made up by our sponsors, believers, assistants, coaches, cheerleaders, and friends. Advertising has always been a means of mass communication with a great persuasive force
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UNITED STATES SPORTS ACADEMY Crisis Communications A Class Paper Submitted for SAM 551 Public Relations in Sports Professor: Dr. Tim Newman Timothy J Hawkins Daphne, Alabama March 19, 2013 PR professionals don't anticipate crises, rather they, take the opportunity just as athletes, to "train and prepare" for a crisis and the ensuing need for a communication strategy. Well at least some do. The scandal at Penn State University shows not all are prepared for a crisis when
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private interest has on a bias media message. Inherently, drawing the connection with a biased media and what effect it has on presidential candidates running for office in the United States of America. Being done so by looking at examples of media playing a factor on past presidential candidates. Through examination of past and current events of media effecting presidential candidates, the goal is to draw a connection making it clear that private interest creates a biased media effecting presidential candidates
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Softly 3, Jean kilbourne has given an interesting perspective in portraying to us what it means to be a woman according to the image we see in the media. She makes the argument that although it appears that women in this day and era have acquired power, it is a false sense of achievement and very short lived. She has dissected and discussed how the media and advertising companies have evolved in the last 20 years. Advertising is more a part of our lives today than it has ever been. In fact, advertising
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Pogatchnik, S. (2009). Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote. Retrieved May 12, 2009, from http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090512/ap_on_hi_te/eu_ireland_wikipedia_ hoaxer DUBLIN - When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news. His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked
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Michael Williams, a reporter for WPTV, says, “Objectivity is not passivity, nor is it stupidity”. Objectivity in media, specifically in journalism, has been the golden standard of news stories since the beginning of time. The meaning of objectivity in media, however, has been lost in translation. Nowadays, objectivity has been altered to fit many different definitions, frequently ones that include not having an opinion, or those that include the stale cliché “there are two sides to the story”. There
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