YouTube can be a great source of information for kids, but sometimes it can be bad for children. YouTube can be bad in many ways. YouTube has had many incidents where they should have taken action, but instead did nothing, which made the situations even worse. For example, in February of this year YouTube’s algorithms boosted conspiracy theory videos accusing the victims of the Parkland, Florida shooting as crisis actors. A crisis actor is someone who pretends to be injured during a stressful situation
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audiences, including traditional and social media, reaching out to news outlets, and hosting panel and public forum events. The success of their media efforts is measured by social media likes, retweets, shares, and views as well as analytics on the actual website. Brookings uses Google analytics, and their analytic software tools can monitor how many people visit the site, how long they stay on, and even how far they scroll. They also monitor success through media hits, how many articles written are written
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The 2004 article by Sara S. Hodson,“In Secret Kept, In Silence Sealed: Privacy in the Papers of Authors and Celebrities,” was the basis for my case study. Hodson’s article discussed issues archivists and curators encountered with trying to conceal the personal papers of authors and celebrities from the curious public. In the world of entertainment, human beings are engrossed in the lives of high-profile celebrities. The case study brings to life, the issues of weight of papers through providing real-life
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Media and Body Image Arsema Russom Instructor: Tyler Frederick SSCI2900U: Research Methods How does the media affect the way women see their body? Theory: The media shows how a woman’s body is supposed to be through magazine, billboards and commercial ads. The way the women’s body is displayed in the media influence how women see their body and shapes their idea on how the perfect body looks like. The concern is that the media is influencing women to see their body in certain way and
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investigated how the media influenced not only the people of the United States but also the government itself. The documentary stated that high ranking officials somehow led the country to believe that there was a link between 9-11 and Saddam Hussein, and used the press to lead Americans into believing that everything that was being said was true, even though there was no cold hard evidence. For example, the media reported that Saddam Hussein actually had weapons of mass destruction underneath
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James athow How advertising affects kids Thesis statement:Advertising affects kids in ways I never could have imagined. Some advertising companies go to great lengths to make kids want to buy their products. One of the ways that some companies lure kids in is insane. In the video the myth of choice (the video for 2.7) shows that They will use kids psychological aspect of their brain by having experts come into meetings and help them by using what colors,images,and shapes that kids
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“Creativity without strategy is art, creativity with strategy is called advertising.” Jef Richards. People pay good money for a good advertisement. One that promotes the product effectively, while also connecting to people through some way. In this class we have talked about a couple techniques that companies use to make their product stand out from the rest. Advertising is everything. It's the first thing people see, its the way that they hear about the company, and it's the thing that helps make
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Persuasion and propaganda work together to guide society. When thinking about Foss’s idea of persuasion she states, “In the traditional model, change is defined as a shift in the audience in the direction requested by the rhetor, who then has gained some measure of power and control over the audience” (Foss & Griffin 6). This means that any form of rhetoric is designed to change societies thinking and push thinking to a common belief. This is much like propaganda in the fact that propaganda's main
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with daily exercise routines. It's rare to see ads with average/plus sized women. Instead, models have perfect skin and are extremely skinny; it is rare to see imperfect women. And it is those unrealistic images and commercials that we see in the media, and corporations that contribute to the desire of many women to be skinny and perfectly toned which eventually leads to a lack of self-worth. Today, as the United States becomes prosperous, and is shifting to a state of intemperance, rates of obesity
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Apple’s famous 1984 advertisement speaks to the population because it follows the same type of format as the Daisy advertisement we watched earlier in class. They paint a colorless futuristic dystopia. In Apple’s case, it’s a colorless totalitarian government that snuffs out the idea of individualism. The viewer can identify this by the lack of color used to portray the populus, as well as every hallway and corridor being filled with TV screens and sound systems playing the same brainwashing message
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