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Let's look at where the best places are to find scholarly articles about the 2016 election. There are three tiers of research that can be considered scholarly for the purpose of general research....
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Strategic amplification is a technique that refers to magnifying a small detail or story in media in a way that makes it appear more significant than it actually is and distorts the perception of...
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The mass media affect our perception of reality because, in a very real sense, they create our reality. For most of us, much of the rest of the world exists only through the mass media. The...
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In general, the media cover political campaigns with a major emphasis on the “horse race” aspect of those campaigns. Mass media outlets tend to like to focus on competition because that is...
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There are two main effects of citizen journalism on the formal, established print forms of mass communication. The first involves the increased competition for an audience. For literally...
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The mass media can influence to be for or against something because it is the main way in which we find out about anything that is going on in our world. The way that the media presents topics to...
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Mass Media messages are designed to do several things, including getting the attention of the viewer, explaining something quickly, and leave an impression of desire. Since these messages must be...
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The mass media act as an enforcer of social values in many ways. One way in which they do this is by showing the consequences of breaking certain rules. For example, there is the show “Teen Mom”...
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One way to approach this question is to suggest that images and accounts of the war in Iraq, many of which emphasized chaos and disorder, did not lead to concerted calls to end the war. In fact,...
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Radio has a vast appeal and it is available nearly everywhere -- work, car, home, shopping. One could almost state that radio is the background soundtrack to our lives. We listen to radio, but we...
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A nation’s political philosophy can have a tremendous impact on the nature of its media system. The most obvious example of this is the difference between the media in a true democracy such as the...
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There exists a relatively new subdiscipline within the study of psychology called "media psychology." With the explosion in information technologies over the past 30 years, especially the...
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Perhaps the most important factor that can influence how a person perceives information from the media is education. This can be education in general, but it can also be education that is specific...
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I assume that you are asking about a possible system in which someone would decide which facts the media would be allowed to access and which it would not be. This might be a system that would...
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It seems very likely that the quality of news gathering would diminish if newspapers were no longer in existence. TV news has a very difficult time being as serious as newspapers are and internet...
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There is not one way in which media functions in society. Therefore, let me give you a few perspectives. First, mass media is a main source of advertising. The media tries to sell things to...
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It is hard to cite instances that we can know for sure are examples of media discrimination against people of a given race. Often, people of a given race will feel that they are being...
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I personally do not watch reality television, and television in general, very often. However, on the rare occasions where I do watch reality television, I like to watch shows related to business...
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This is a great question. Perhaps the best place to start is to underline the word, "mass." In other words, mass media is aiming at as many people as possible. So, selectivity of population is not...
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The media affect foreign policy in the United States largely by shaping public opinion. Media coverage of the Vietnam War, for example, played a major role in public disillusionment with the...
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There are several major differences between the ethics of new media and older mass media. The majority of the differences stem from older media having professionally trained staff writers and...
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This article is an example of a news magazine article. News Magazines provide additional information on timely current events. In this case, the article focuses on the investigation and...
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The mass media plays a number of roles in American political campaigns. Let us look at three of them. First, they help to report and to analyze the issues that come up in the election campaign....
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Much of what this statement says is true. Much of what is said in the media is definitely affected by the political points of view of the journalists and commentators. This is nothing new in...
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There are several major areas in which governments are involved with the transnational aspects of new and mass media. One area is censorship. Many countries, including China, Saudi Arabia, and...
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First of all, we must realize that this question assumes that the mainstream media is capable of causing us to simply believe what they say. This is not necessarily the case. There are many...
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It is, of course, not possible to know for sure what will happen in the future. We can only speculate. My own speculation is that blogs and other services would be able to replace traditional...