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Women's Self Image in the Modern Media, 2008.
A research proposal to analyze the negativity of women's self image in the modern media.
895 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 21.95
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This paper presents a research proposal to evaluate the current problem of self-image for women in the United States through negative representation found in the modern media. The paper discusses how media distorts and creates bodily manipulations and then relates that, by evaluating the facts and research done to learn how the media accomplishes this, one can realize how to correct and combat negative self-images within women's communities and organizational groups on media literacy.
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Introduction and Rationale
Working Hypothesis
Research Strategy: The Problem and Various Solutions
Conclusion
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"Certainly with media manipulating posing negative images of women that define a way for women to be socially seduced, media literacy is one major solution to helping women discover realistic ways for learning about their bodies. By teaching women through discussion groups, support groups, and other feminist orientated awareness groups to understand how the media is distorting woman's images, there can be a lesser feeling of objectification in how women view themselves. This form of media literacy can help women to view their bodies outside of the patriarchal construct of society that views women as sex objects only to be gazed or looked upon (Ware para.12). Certainly, this can provide a great deal of insight into preventing the exploitation of women's bodies by corporate male executives in the media industry that wish to create women as objects of male desire. By advocating organizations and other groups to prevent this type of negative image, media literacy can be an important avenue for solving this societal problem."
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Socialism in the Modern Media, 2006.
This paper compares and contrasts democratic socialism and revolutionary socialism in the context of the modern media.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 24.95
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This political study analyzes the major difference in ideology in relation to democratic socialism and revolutionary socialism within the media. By examining two articles on the current labor issues involving United States immigration, these two differing ideologies provide information as to what political stance these organizations take in the media. The writer points out that democratic socialism is an ideology that relies heavily on the premise of non-violent governmental process in changing the way governments control the economy through labor representation. In essence, democratic socialism and revolutionary socialism are defined in an analysis of two articles within the modern media.
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"In this manner, the differences for revolutionary socialism and democratic socialism are apparent, as these articles show similar, yet different ways to approach the current problem of immigrant workers in America. While Bacon would demand that a socialist government represent the worker and his plight for immigrant status; Chacon would likely demand that a worker revolution be the solution that for ending low wage, racial, and political issues surrounding the debate. "
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Convergence and Concentration in Modern Media, 2006.
A media study examining the basis of media convergence in relation to how the current War in Iraq is being covered by American news agencies.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, £ 61.95
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This paper explains that the basis for micro-marketing through website interaction and blogging help bring about a greater diversity in how advertising can be accomplished with media markets. The basis for a post-modern global community has been the driving force allowing for more community interaction and diversity. This form of advertising works within new modes of information that depend more on people and multi-cultural ways of communication, rather than the automaton of TV commercials and newspaper ads.
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"By realizing the depth and scope of the American military industrial complex, links can be made to the news agencies that support this agenda in journalistic reporting. In many ways, the use of pro-war propaganda is used to help news agencies to work adjacently within the government in supporting a biased form norm in news reporting."
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Marshall McLuhan and the Media, 2006.
This paper examines the views and opinions of author Marshall McLuhan regarding the modern media and its impact on humanity.
1,553 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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This paper analyzes the predictions and views of media guru Marshall McLuhan, who argued that all forms of media exert a compelling influence on humanity and society and not necessarily for the benefit of man. In one of his more well-known books, "The Medium is the Massage," McLuhan contends that people consume both medium and message as a total experience. The writer of this paper details the rapidly advancing technologies of the 21st century while examining their impact on humanity and society. This paper discusses the views of McLuhan, one of the founders of media ecology, who voiced his concerns that the media, especially television, brought the brutalities of war into our living rooms, while making the viewer numb to the negative happenings of the world. The author had many strong opinions regarding modern forms of media and communication, such as the telephone. McLuhan was concerned that phones made it possible for people to talk with one another without actually being together. This paper also delves into the various predictions and concerns McLuhan had regarding the emergence of electronic media, in which the author often stated that man's dependence on electronic forms of media would eventually spell the end of humanity as it it now known.
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"Of more concern, technology continues to expand the gap between the haves and have-nots. According to the International Telecommunication Union, 90 percent of Internet users come from industrialized countries and only 25 percent of people in developing countries have Internet access. A computer in Bangladesh costs eight years the country's annual salary. Similarly, in the United States, for example, technology, especially the Internet, is a class issue. Compare the number of the technology budget and wired PCs and laptops in the suburbs to that of the inner-cities and other poorer areas of the country. Information is power, and the power is located in similar pockets as the money."
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Shakespeare from a Modern Viewpoint, 2003.
This paper argues that, in modern times, the works of William Shakespeare must be reinterpreted through modern media such as the films.
3,575 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 23 sources, MLA, £ 68.95
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This paper explains that the energy of Shakespeare?s words can only be realized in modern terms -- in our language, in our time and with our ideals. This paper uses many examples from the movies: John Madden's ?Shakespeare in Love?, Al Pacino?s ?Looking for Richard?, Stuart Canterbury?s ?A Midsummer Night?s Cream?, Spike Lee?s ?Bamboozled?, and Baz Luhrmann?s ?William Shakespeare?s Romeo + Juliet?. The author concludes that actors have the power to bring the dead back to life and especially to determine how future generations will view Shakespeare.
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"Al Pacino?s "Looking for Richard "is a patchwork of movie, educational film, Bardolatry, and documentary into adapting, directing and acting Shakespeare, specifically "Richard III". Pacino along with actor/director Frederick Kimble and an all-star cast takes us on a journey or a ?quest? as Kimble puts it, to fulfill a personal dream of Pacino?s to ?communicate a Shakespeare that is about how we feel and think today?. Immediately Pacino has conveyed that he is bringing the Bard to our society and so is not just presenting an adaptation of Richard III but a ?meditation on what Shakespeare means at the end of the twentieth century?."
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The Philosophical Rhetoric of Right and Wrong, 2008.
An analysis of cultural bias versus objectivity for journalism within the modern media according to Aristotle and Plato.
2,742 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 57.95
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The aim of this paper is to bring forth the views of Aristotle and Plato to analyze the current issues of bias and objectivity that exist within the cultural construct of journalism and the modern media. By evaluating the issues of rhetoric as put forth by Plato and Aristotle, the paper shows how one can realize the often-tainted perspective for truth within the institutional nationalism and capitalism of modern media corporations.
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"The philosophy of Plato is far more abstract than that of Aristotle, since it focuses more on the forms of higher understanding and the greater good. The term rhetoric was often not a complimentary word for Plato, as he often saw language and knowledge being used on a relativistic basis for the well being of those that sought to profit from non-virtuous political or social means. Often the lack of uniformity in defining what is the "greater good" in society is difficult, since the intellectual virtue discussed by Aristotle can often provide an abstract and often unrealistic set of ethical guidelines. "
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Social Deviance, 2006.
This paper uses personal experiences to highlight the effects of the modern media on violence in American families.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 24.95
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This paper analyzes the psychological effects of the modern media on domestic violence. By analyzing certain aspects of how media violence trains men to abuse women and their children, one can realize how film, news coverage and other varieties of violent repetition and propaganda infiltrate its way into the American family. The author relates that by seeing the affects of media violence first hand in his/her cousin's family, he/she feels there is a connection between violence and the media in relation to domestic violence. The author discusses how his/her personal experiences help to realize the dangers of modern media, as violence definitely takes a strong center stage in American families.
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Terrorism and the Media, 2002.
An analysis of the relationship between the media and terrorism through literary review.
2,379 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 50.95
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This paper examines how contemporary terrorism relies heavily on the media and how the modern media has much to offer the terrorist organization. It discusses how media coverage is used not only to convey the terrorist's objectives and political messages, but also to intimidate larger populations and how the media provides a relatively inexpensive and efficient method of relaying their goals. It examines the role of terrorism in the media from five different perspectives through a literature review. Brigitte Nacos, in "Accomplice or Witness? The Media's Role in Terrorism" gives a thorough and insightful view of the role of the modern media in terrorist activities, with a major focus on the Internet. In "Terror TV", Scott Stossel looks at the effect of 24-hour coverage of terrorism on television. Janet Fine's "Arabian Knight Woos West" is a fascinating study of Al-Jezeera, the first Arabic independent news channel in the Middle East, which gained a widespread audience after the events of September 11th. In "Spin Laden", Philip Taylor looks at the ability of Osama bin Laden and other terrorists to manipulate the media in order to take advantage of widespread anti-American feelings around the world. Lance Morrow's "The Gleam of a Pearl" looks at the real-life costs of terrorist coverage, through the tragic death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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"Terrorist activities are often shocking, brutal, and in complete honesty, make for perfect news stories. Dramatic stories tend to get a great deal of coverage, often to the detriment of other issues. Nacos notes that early evening television broadcasts of ABC, NBC, and CBS carried 2,273 stories on terrorism from 1981 to 1986. This coverage far exceeded the combined coverage of crime, unemployment, poverty, and race issues. Further, she notes that terrorism coverage continued to climb as all-news cable channels created competition for the major news channels. It is certainly likely that the coverage of terrorist issues has skyrocketed since the bombings of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th."
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Mass Media and Society, 2002.
This paper examines the author's feelings about the media and its negative affects on modern society.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, £ 61.95
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This paper argues that the modern mass media has played a significant role in shaping modern society. It has altered the power structure of modern society by redefining, largely through the influence of advertising - the keystone of mass media - the citizen into a consumer. This paper is convincingly written and provides excellent insight into the various subtle sales methods used by advertisers in all forms of media: television, radio, movies, and magazines. When popular media culture is viewed as a socializing force, as opposed to the more benign interpretation of it as an "objective" medium devoid of ideological or political content, one may get some appreciation of the potential of its totalizing power to insert messages into various media.
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Mythology and Science Fiction, 2002.
A look at the influence of technology and modern media on modern mythology.
1,101 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 26.95
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This paper examines how science fiction challenges our concepts of belief, faith, and religion because it wantonly contests our comfortable notions of what is and what could become reality. It demonstrates how, out of all of what science fiction has to offer, nothing captures this more than the speculation of extraterrestrial culture and life in space. It discusses how science fiction is the grey area between religion and science that gives us something to believe in beyond what we are told to take as the ?gospel?. It shows how we are allowed to imagine the possibilities and find comfort in these concepts, ideas, and stories developed by science fiction authors like Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov.
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"We theorize on the meaning of life and death, which incorporate themselves into our discussions on extraterrestrial life. Religious doctrines basically say that the heavens are God?s place, although science has shown us the galaxies, stars and planets that dwell in the heavens. We place our faith in science to uncover vaccines and cures for terminal illnesses and diseases like AIDS, cancer, cholera, and dysentery. We are not as pious as our ancestors were in the Middle Ages, because we believe in science, yet, we still pray and believe in the traditions of our own religious beliefs. Perhaps if only for the reason that we do not entirely trust science to hold all the answers, or maybe, just maybe, we believe that religion and science are both right."
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Mass Media and Communication, 2002.
Examines the views of Walter Benjamin and George Orwell on the role of the mass media in modern society.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 42.95
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This paper provides responses to two essay questions. The first essay concerns Walter Benjamin's concept of "mechanical reproduction" and then critically examines the role of video and mass media in contemporary culture. The second essay is a response to George Orwell's "1984" and provides contemporary parallels between Orwell's fiction and modern-day social anxieties in-relation to media influences.
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Telecommunications In Saudi Arabia: Access & Freedom Of Speech, 1996.
Explores the development of modern communication capacities in Saudi Arabia. Considers both the Saudi government's desire to control access to & egress of information & the underground use of modern communication media to evade that control.
4,500 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 16 sources, £ 93.95
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"The basic purpose of this paper is to explore the development of the global communication capacity within Saudi Arabia. The study includes the Internet and the World Wide Web, and the way in which the government has sought to control both access to information and egress of information.
The Problem
The statement of the problem depends upon whose perspective is chosen to understand this issue. The fundamental problem with the Internet for authorities in the Middle East and elsewhere is the issue of uncontrolled information. For Saudi Arabia, the problem..."
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Rhetorical Analysis of 'Media, Communication, Culture', 2007.
This paper looks at the work 'Media, Communication, Culture' by James Lull and discusses modern communication's impact on society.
2,089 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 45.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that in today's world, the mass media has an impact in almost all we do as people. The writer notes that media affects everything from what clothes we wear to what television programs we watch. The writer discusses that James Lull, in his book 'Media, Communication, Culture' explains how media interacts and affects the communication among people and how culture changes with advances in media and technology. The writer concludes that 'Media, Communication, and Culture' informs an audience of how the mass media and modern forms of communication have affected the development of culture and the ways of society. Further, the writer maintains that James Lull uses a distinctive style and a logical structure in order to properly educate his audience about the influence mass media has on today's world.
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"Within each chapter, he inserts an article on a real life example of events where mass media, human communication, and culture were involved and had an effect. Such events as the Chinese student rebellion at Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal in the mid-1990's are included along with explanations of how media, communication, and culture had an effect on these historical events. Along with modern events, Lull includes historical changes in media and communication to emphasize his argument that mass media and technological advances have had major effects on societies across the world. His structure also allows for any member of his audience to follow and understand what he puts forth. Lull avoids implication and instead tells the audience what he wants them to know to avoid letting them infer it on their own. An informed audience will also understand an author's purpose more readily than an audience which inferred the author's intentions. Lull also tends to end discussions by putting more emphasis on his own ideas and support of others that follows what he believes about media, communication, and culture."
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The Mass-Media Pygmalion, 2006.
This paper studies the complex relationship between consumers and the mass media. Do we create the media, or does the media create us?
1,208 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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The author studies the give and take relationship between the media and our society to determine which is the cause and which is the effect. The author continues by showing a connection between the main icons of Western culture and the effects of the media. The fast food industry is highlighted and the author shows the great effects it has had on our trends and ideals, with conformity a notable outcome. After studying the diverse effects of our fast food culture today, the author concludes that only a corrupt society can allow the mass media such power.
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"In the Classical Greco-Roman era, it was believed that Pygmalion, a sculptor, brought Galatea to life. However, today it seems to be a more common belief that Galatea creates Pygmalion. The question of whether members of our society create the media, or if the media influences members of the society to such a degree that it essentially creates the society, is a prominent one in the study of modern anthropology. Pop culture artifacts reveal a great deal about the modern society, including social trends, values, ideals, and more. The relationship between consumers and the mass media is a complex one that may not be simple enough to evaluate as a directional give-and-take diagram. There are many issues relating to social responsibility and the often clashing pursuits of individual wealth and greater good that come to play when discussing popular media, culture, and society."
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