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The keyword Media is tagged in the following 13 articles.

February 21, 2012 - 1434 words | Communication Studies » Globalization
“Most of us are surrounded by communication channels and tools that keep us constantly connected to sources of information and people in our communities” (Thurlow, Lengel, & Tomic, 2004, p.83). The current communication channel claiming responsibility... Read Article »
October 24, 2011 - 4371 words | Women's Studies » Women's Studies
Since the early 20th century, the feminist movement has made enormous strides to improve the status of female athletes. Prior to the movement’s achievements, female athletes had to play in much poorer facilities, under different rules, and with stricter dress... Read Article »
September 19, 2011 - 8603 words | Sociology » Media
Today, approximately 50% of the world, over three billion people, lives on less than $2.50 U.S. dollars a day. Despite poverty’s wide reaching affects, little research has been conducted that compares the framing of international and domestic poverty in United... Read Article »
July 5, 2011 - 4296 words | Sociology » American Media
American culture is saturated with messages propagated by mass Media. What was originally created for encouraging consumerism is now being promoted to a society that is being consumed by the messages themselves. Mass Media is especially harmful to women because it... Read Article »
September 8, 2010 - 7096 words | Political Science » George W. Bush Presidency
George W. Bush’s relationship with the New York Times got off to a rocky start. At a campaign event in early September of 2000, Bush, unaware that his microphone was on, leaned in towards running mate Dick Cheney and said, “There's Adam Clymer - major league... Read Article »
March 11, 2010 - 10365 words | Journalism » Social Media
Twitter. Facebook. Digg. MySpace. LinkedIn. The list of social Media tools could probably run on for paragraphs, and today’s technology changes so rapidly that many industries, including corporations and news Media, can barely keep up. In the traditional world... Read Article »
February 17, 2010 - 7114 words | Psychology » Online Communities
It is estimated that in North America, alone, there are currently 251 million people who use the internet (Miniwats Marketing Group, 2009).  Individuals utilize the internet for many reasons, including information, social connections, and entertainment (Shaw &... Read Article »
January 26, 2010 - 2669 words | Communication Studies » Television
In 1961, nearly a decade after the “Golden Age” of television had passed, commercial television was still changing the American lifestyle, from living rooms to bars. It was then that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Newton Minow declared that... Read Article »
January 20, 2010 - 1576 words | Communication Studies » Women's Issues
Mass Media is perhaps the most powerful tool in the world for creating, changing or perpetuating society’s ideas about an issue or group of people. It works both overtly and subconsciously: deciding which issues are important, how to frame those issues, who to... Read Article »
January 5, 2010 - 2468 words | History » September 11th
In the imMediate aftermath of September 11th, the reaction of the French Media was one of passionate empathy. The September 12th headline of Le Monde reads simply “Nous sommes tous Américains” (We are all Americans).[1] Yet as early as September... Read Article »
November 29, 2009 - 4305 words | History » Pope Pius Xii
Over the last few decades there has been an overflow of publications and discussions regarding Pope Pius XII in realtion to the Holocaust and World War II. Originally stemming from Rolf Hochuth’s “The Deputy,” the controversy was reignited more recently... Read Article »
November 9, 2009 - 1627 words | Communication Studies » Media Wars
News is more likely to be reported if meets one of the following characterisitics: It concerns elite personalities;  It is negative; It is recent; Or it is surprising (Fiske 96). The story of the Bush Administration’s “regrouping” attempt after... Read Article »
October 22, 2009 - 1947 words | Political Science » The Media
“News is something someone wants suppressed,” British newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe once said. “Everything else is just advertising.” This point is especially true in war journalism where every story, be it a heart-warming depiction of troops... Read Article »