CJT 645: Proseminar in Mass Communication Theory Spring 2011 Wednesday 1:00- 3:30 p.m. 223 Grehan Building Instructor Dr. Phil Hutchison phillip.hutchison@uky.edu or uofuhutch@hotmail.com 112 Grehan Building 323-3663 (no answering machine) TH 7:30-10:30; W 12-1 or by appointment Course Description This course offers a critical overview of evolving theories and research into “media effects‚” which we will loosely define as the social impact of media exposure. In this context‚ we will
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Mass media’s influence over youth culturre -Media manipulation- The mass media shapes everything we read‚ hear and watch online. It exploits the difference between perception and reality. (can put in sg fb stats http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/singapore) Moral decay of youth Moral can be depicted as pertaining to good manner or the distinction between right or wrong behaviour. Its synonyms include righteous‚ just‚ virtuous‚ and good while decay is the gradual destruction
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Mass Media Influences The mass media has a huge influence on everyone in society. The mass media reaches large number of the public. Generally‚ the big influences on us come from either the newspaper‚ television‚ radio or also the internet. The main purpose of the Mass Media is to provide us with information‚ entertainment and advertisement. Unfortunately we do live in a society that depends on communication so we look to these sources to get our information. Media influence has grown exponentially
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• The mass media has greatly overstepped its bounds. The mass media has used its position to sway the minds of the citizens. They often present information as if it were a fact when it is simply an opinion. This has been used quite often to spread liberal propaganda. Yes LimpingMurray93 • Yes‚ the media over steps its own boundaries and stomps on the freedoms of others in its quest for higher ratings and more circulation. The mass media market is not about hard-hitting news anymore. It is about
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Beyond mass media Mass media are inherently incompatible with a participatory society because of their mass character‚ not just because of government control or corporate influence. Mass media should be abandoned and replaced by participatory media organised as networks‚ such as telephone and computer networks. Los medios de comunicación son inherentemente incompatibles con una sociedad participativa‚ debido a su carácter de masas‚ no solo por el control del gobierno o de la influencia corporativa
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The mass media has a great influence on people and especially on the younger generation. It plays an important role in shaping the opinions and positions of young people. The mass media has left inevitable effects on people‚ especially on teenagers and young generations. In this modern world‚ people find new ways to spend their leisure time and mass media is one of the alternatives for them. Mass media is used by number of people all over the world because people can easily get use of it
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5 (a) Explain the factors that influence the content of the news. The mass-manipulative model argues that the content of the mass media is largely controlled and determined by members of ruling class‚ with the object of using the mass media to maintain their control over the proletariat. The do this either by diverting them from seeing the class relations of a capitalist society for what they are‚ or by portraying any groups who challenge bourgeois control as sinister‚ dangerous and misguided
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The mass media are diversified media technologies that are intended to reach a large audience by mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place varies. Broadcast media such as radio‚ recorded music‚ film and television transmit their information electronically. Print media use a physical object such as a newspaper‚ book‚ pamphlet or comics‚[1] to distribute their information. Outdoor media is a form of mass media that comprises billboards‚ signs or placards placed
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Mass Media Nicholas Felix Hum/186 6/4/2014 Dr Epps Mass media during the last century has come at us in different ways. The use television and radio to spread the news. Than more recently it is the internet that has played a big factor in spreading news at a faster rate. Many people are easily influenced by what they see on television‚ radio or internet. The media has a way of spreading stories true or not and can be damaging if not true. One example of the media influencing people would be
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THE ROLE OF THE MASS MEDIA IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD The power of the mass media has once become so powerful that its undoubtedly significant role in the world today stays beyond any questions. It is so strong that even politics uses it as a means of governing in any country around the world. The mass media has not only political meaning but also it conveys wide knowledge concerning all possible aspects of human beings’ lives and‚ what is utterly true‚ influences on people’s points of view and
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