(4 marks) Suggest three practical and/or organisational factors that “play a part in shaping [the] output” of media organisations (Item 3A, line 12). (6 marks) Identify and briefly explain two criticisms of the “manipulative model” of mass media output (Item 3A, line 1). (8 marks) Examine reasons why the mass media may exert only a limited influence over their audiences. (20 marks) Using material from Item 3B and elsewhere, assess sociological explanations of the ways in which the mass media portray gender and social class. (20 marks) END OF…
How do you think the media influences people's views on political ideas and events? How do you think the impact of the media has changed over time with the invention of television and the Internet? I believe they have a huge influence on people’s views on political ideas. Reason being, I feel…
at least two examples of different influences by media, technology, or public policy on you, your family, or community…
Where would society be without mass media? How would our society evolve with electronic communication? These are important questions. They demand investigation into how our world functions on a daily basis. The answers to these questions tell us how we think, act and feel every day. Without mass media and without mass communication, society would look much different. Every generation had its own leap in technology which dramatically changed the course of human existence. With each technological leap, communication and mass media evolved with it. When broadcast radio became mainstream, households across America gained access to live news and entertainment. When computers became the main source of filing and storing information, government, media, and the general public had a new resource for communication. As technology grew, so did society’s demand and with each new image, debate, journal entry or story, came a new challenge for the media industry. Media and society have a symbiotic relationship. There is the idea that media drives society’s conversation. Can it also be true that society drives the media?…
The quality of global news coverage has decreased in the past ten years. Even the quantity of reported global crises has gone down. The issue in Darfur has been ongoing since 2003. Though global issues tend to be complex and may not have a foreseeable end or solution, they should not be ignored. More importantly, they should be reported accurately. Defining news is difficult. Deciding what news America would or wouldn’t prefer is difficult. Americans deserve access to whatever news interests them – whether that is the “greatest humanitarian crisis of the twenty-first century” in Darfur or the death of pop singer Michael Jackson (Christians). Is it not any reporter’s goal to truly enlighten its readers especially on such a controversial issue? Underlying this case is the principal of social justice that is often ignored. Is the news media at fault for not always providing “sufficient interpretations?” Or are they ethically sound only addressing little about the topic’s dynamic dimensions or even steering clear of complex conflicts altogether? In order to decide if news coverage in Darfur, for example, is ethically correct steps need to be considered. Defining the situation, addressing values, principles and loyalties will reveal what action news reporters should be taking. Utilizing the Potter Box to analyze the issue in Darfur proves that the issue is not presented in terms of justice but rather in the sensation of violence. I believe that social justice is the ethical principle behind this issue that the news media overlooks too easily, and reporters on this crisis should act on that principle.…
October 12, 2002 would become a decisive turning point for foreign and domestic politics in Indonesia. On that day, the lives of over two hundred and two people were claimed after three bombs were denoted simultaneously in Bali and one in Sulawesi. This act of violence was to become the most devastating act of terrorism on Indonesian soil. The Bali bombing can be viewed as the most devastating act of terrorism not only because the bombing was the first attack against the country, but also because the attack itself can be viewed within the typical framework of the ~{!.~}revolt against the West~{!/~} as Bellamy (2005) has argued.…
I have always been fond of media of all kinds – TV, magazines, radio etc. When I think back on my life, many of my memories do include an element of media. It is as if everything that I have done can either be related to a song, a TV show that I saw or an article that I read.…
paradigm” (Gitlin, 1978), more powerful, yet subtle effects, such as social control, manufacturing of consent, and reluctance to challenge the status quo, are unable to be studied; so they are ignored.…
Mass communication has always been a cause for debate. Over the years considerable resources have been used to establish the effects of this communication. Since the rising popularity of television from the 1950s onwards, the concern for the effects of entertainment media on the population has grown in unison. This has often been focused on the effect on teenagers and the young, centralised around violence and more recently on sexualisation and body image. This essay will review the research of Cecilia von Feilitzen’s 1994 chapter Media violence; four research perspectives. Feilitzen aimed to show how the problems with effects research have been redefined over the years and determine the reason that so much importance is given to effects research; “media violence itself, culture, the audience, or the power relations in society.” Feilitzen claimed that since the 1980s it has become unreasonable to talk about there being only one perspective within media violence research and this has been discussed by many scholars and found to be true in most cases, as will be shown throughout this essay.…
This study is to analyze “Exposure to private TV channels political talk shows and viewers perception regarding political parties”. The basic purpose of this study is to find out the influence of private TV channels political programs on viewers’ perceptions regarding political parties. The framework of this research is based on the set of two main theories i-e Cultivation theory and Uses and Gratification. These theories are disused below in relation with present study in brief.…
In recent years, Deterrence has become more important than diplomacy. Diplomacy is always the first approach that countries take to resolve conflicts because it is much less devastating than starting a full-scale military conflict. However, given that terrorism is on the rise in the region and that Singapore has been singled out as a target, there is a need to demonstrate military strength in order to deter potential aggressors. Terrorist activities have the potential to cause widespread panic and devastation to Singapore’s economy and society. Since terrorists are driven by strong ideological beliefs, no amount of…
One of the effects of terrorism is that it causes negative effect to the society that can lead to social disharmony of the society. The effect of terrorism act also affects the society, from freedom of religious expression to physical and political control over a region. During the Nazi Germany era, the Jews cannot practice their religion freely because the Nazi’s army has limited the practice of religion. Terrorism harms societies in all parts of the world. According to Pius Odiaka,writer of the “palpable fear pervading world”, stated in the Guardian Newspaper, Friday, in July 29th 2005, that no place in the world have been left without terrorism (Azeez ,2002).As we can see, the terrorism have given all people to become agile and the humanity also will fade away because of his act.…
Ahmed, N. (2007). State, society and terrorism: A case study of Pakistan after September 11. Department of International…
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Pakistan Police MagazineDefining the meaning of Terrorism is not as simple today as this word appears to be. Once it was defined as “an organized system of intimidation or the practice of using violence to obtain political demands”. But in this present world it has become a complex phenomenon where terrorists are using different tactics of terrorism and different types of terrorist activities like suicide bombing, mass murders, burglaries, arson, kidnapping or hijacking and torture of the worst order. And there are always some limited causes behind all such kinds of terrorism which encompass Religious imposition, Social imbalances, political denials, ethnic emotions and economic dispossessions and deprivations. Such are certain major reasons of Terrorism in any part or country of this universe and likewise is in Pakistan.…