Chapter eleven discusses the way we define what news means today and how news is made. In order to define what is newsworthy, seven factors must be looked at. These consist of impact, timeliness, prominence, proximity, the bizarre conflict, and the currency. The more categories the news story fits into, the more newsworthy it is. Not only does it depend on the seven factors, but it also depends on how truthful or significant the stories of the events are in order for it to be presented in the media and define as good news.
Another thing the book discusses is the media being an important source of political information by the time we are teenagers. If a person does not obtain un-bias information then he/she can’t make un-bias politically related decisions. According to the Agenda Setting Model, the media do influence society on the way we should and shouldn’t think.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Media & Social Culture
The way we perceive the world has to do with our culture and the media. I feel that what we see on TV or ads influence the way we think or believe. I’m not saying the media should take the full fault since we are our own person, but it does manipulate us.
In class we discussed how the media puts out certain topics for us to be concern with or what we should talk about at the time. For example, when the media made a huge deal on the tragic of Hurricane Katrina, people were so sad that they started to volunteer and helped out the victims of Hurricane Katrina. As soon, as the media stopped talking about it people started to forget about it as well. Even to this day, the Hurricane Katrina victims still don'tt have a lot of their belongings and homes. The point of this example is to explain that the media does help influence on how we see the world.
In class we discussed how the media puts out certain topics for us to be concern with or what we should talk about at the time. For example, when the media made a huge deal on the tragic of Hurricane Katrina, people were so sad that they started to volunteer and helped out the victims of Hurricane Katrina. As soon, as the media stopped talking about it people started to forget about it as well. Even to this day, the Hurricane Katrina victims still don'tt have a lot of their belongings and homes. The point of this example is to explain that the media does help influence on how we see the world.
Essay Mills
When reading the Essay Mills article, I was not surprised at all. There are lazy people out there that are willing to do whatever it takes to get an assignment done even if it risks jeopardizing their future. The company that writes papers and sells it to whoever wants to purchase it is appalling to me. Can’t they get in trouble for doing this? But then again, they are not the ones plagiarizing, the students are.
In my marketing class, a student had mention how his roommate last semester handed in his friend’s paper to a professor thinking he/she would not realized it wasn’t his. Well, the theory of the roommate was wrong; the professor remembered the previous paper of his friend. Both students were kicked out of the University of Whitewater for plagiarizing. Students who plagiarize do not realize people have ways on finding out if papers are being plagiarized or not. In the long run they are not hurting anyone else except themselves.
In my marketing class, a student had mention how his roommate last semester handed in his friend’s paper to a professor thinking he/she would not realized it wasn’t his. Well, the theory of the roommate was wrong; the professor remembered the previous paper of his friend. Both students were kicked out of the University of Whitewater for plagiarizing. Students who plagiarize do not realize people have ways on finding out if papers are being plagiarized or not. In the long run they are not hurting anyone else except themselves.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Beauty
“The square-jawed man can get any female he desires and thus would not stay around as a parent; the less square-jawed man gets the promise of sex and care in return of sticking around to help with the kids!”
I found this statement to be funny, maybe most girls see square-jawed men desirable, but this is absolutely incorrect for me. When it comes to defining beauty in other cultures and in the United States, we all have different viewpoints of the word beauty. In our society, an ideal woman is tall, slender, long hair, perfect white teeth, and has a nice skin complexion. When you look at movies or ads you normally see these types of women representing the media.
Women here are pressured everyday to fix or change something about their looks. Make-up and plastic surgeries are the two things that most women feel they need in order to look like the models seen on TV or ads. In some cultures, some may find American women to be ridiculous and that they do too much to try and look beautiful. For example in my Vietnamese culture, women there do not like tanning, they find it to be dirty looking. They also find women with a lot of make-up trashy. A Vietnamese woman is all about the natural look with a light skin complexion as opposed to a tan one. So depending on where you’re from or what your culture is, everyone will have a different perspective on the word beauty.
I found this statement to be funny, maybe most girls see square-jawed men desirable, but this is absolutely incorrect for me. When it comes to defining beauty in other cultures and in the United States, we all have different viewpoints of the word beauty. In our society, an ideal woman is tall, slender, long hair, perfect white teeth, and has a nice skin complexion. When you look at movies or ads you normally see these types of women representing the media.
Women here are pressured everyday to fix or change something about their looks. Make-up and plastic surgeries are the two things that most women feel they need in order to look like the models seen on TV or ads. In some cultures, some may find American women to be ridiculous and that they do too much to try and look beautiful. For example in my Vietnamese culture, women there do not like tanning, they find it to be dirty looking. They also find women with a lot of make-up trashy. A Vietnamese woman is all about the natural look with a light skin complexion as opposed to a tan one. So depending on where you’re from or what your culture is, everyone will have a different perspective on the word beauty.
Monday, February 23, 2009
New York Post Chimp Cartoon
When seeing this image, “Wow” was my first reaction. By observing it, I got really aggravated knowing at the fact that there are still ignorant people out there. People need to realize the world we live in today is not the same like back in the 1800s or early 1900s. The comic misrepresented our president very badly!
The Chimp Cartoon has no positive messages and is very offensive to look at. By showing a monkey that supposedly resembles African Americans who’s being gunned down by two Caucasian police officers is very disturbing. I feel that this image resembles President Obama who has the power of our country and the “White Males” mission is to take him down! The person who created this comic should be punch in the face!!!! He needs to get over at the fact that Obama Barack, who’s not white, is the president of the United States! No matter how much of a positive impact President Obama has done for our country, people will still make racial remarks or are out to attack him.
I find President Obama to be very inspiring. He always has his head up even if vulgar and racial remarks are being made about him. He stands strong by ignoring them and doing whatever it takes to better our country.
The Chimp Cartoon has no positive messages and is very offensive to look at. By showing a monkey that supposedly resembles African Americans who’s being gunned down by two Caucasian police officers is very disturbing. I feel that this image resembles President Obama who has the power of our country and the “White Males” mission is to take him down! The person who created this comic should be punch in the face!!!! He needs to get over at the fact that Obama Barack, who’s not white, is the president of the United States! No matter how much of a positive impact President Obama has done for our country, people will still make racial remarks or are out to attack him.
I find President Obama to be very inspiring. He always has his head up even if vulgar and racial remarks are being made about him. He stands strong by ignoring them and doing whatever it takes to better our country.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Modernization, Modernism, and Post Modernism
The social evolutionism theories talks about the idea of modernization dealing with the evolutionary model. It explains how each culture was evolved from barbarism reaching to its levels of growth and people. The citizens living in the modern states are considered to be wealthier and more authoritative as well as having a higher standard of living. The proponents of modernization perspective view the Western society to be very modern. To them it doesn’t matter if people have the same standard of living as the Western society, they will always see it as an inferior.
Modernism deals with a variety of cultural movements involving in the changes of Western culture in the late 19th and early 20th century. Modernism is the testing and destruction of a human understanding and experience of life. It also plays role in the movements in art, architecture, songs, writing, and etc.
"After the modernist movement" is the understanding of the word postmodernism. The word modern is associated with something dealing in the present. Therefore, the movements of modernism and the postmodernism reaction are known to be set of perspectives which are cultural and logical facts.
Modernism deals with a variety of cultural movements involving in the changes of Western culture in the late 19th and early 20th century. Modernism is the testing and destruction of a human understanding and experience of life. It also plays role in the movements in art, architecture, songs, writing, and etc.
"After the modernist movement" is the understanding of the word postmodernism. The word modern is associated with something dealing in the present. Therefore, the movements of modernism and the postmodernism reaction are known to be set of perspectives which are cultural and logical facts.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Special Gift From Kenya to America
"The Maasai, a community that holds cattle sacred, is broadly unfamiliar to residents of Manhattan. And cows may not mean a lot to many ordinary Americans. But it is the ultimate gift one can get from this community. "
With the society that we live in today, I feel that we as Americans do not appreciate the life we have here and the things given to us. When comparing to other countries, we are lucky to live in a country that has many opportunities to help us make it in this world. When the Maasai community gave us cows, most of us may find it to be ludicrous since we see cows as a provider for milk and meat, but we need to look at it in a different perspective. To the Maasai community it means so much more than just an animal you eat. We should be appreciative and thankful for receiving the gift from Kenya, at least we know we have their support. No one is making Kenya sympathize or hand us gifts, they are doing it because they want to show the Americans that they care and are sorry for our losses. I just feel our society is unappreciative and it’s all about money, looks, and luxurious things. It’s sad to say that our country is kind of "F up."
With the society that we live in today, I feel that we as Americans do not appreciate the life we have here and the things given to us. When comparing to other countries, we are lucky to live in a country that has many opportunities to help us make it in this world. When the Maasai community gave us cows, most of us may find it to be ludicrous since we see cows as a provider for milk and meat, but we need to look at it in a different perspective. To the Maasai community it means so much more than just an animal you eat. We should be appreciative and thankful for receiving the gift from Kenya, at least we know we have their support. No one is making Kenya sympathize or hand us gifts, they are doing it because they want to show the Americans that they care and are sorry for our losses. I just feel our society is unappreciative and it’s all about money, looks, and luxurious things. It’s sad to say that our country is kind of "F up."
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