Gray’s Article, discussing the term, Media Literacy, is defined as “one’s understanding of the medium, what one knows or expects of its structure, genre, and tropes, and how one has been trained to make sense of its messages, style, and rhetoric.” He comments on how media companies such as advertising, film, television, and other mass […]
Muddled Reality in Photography
In the article by Coonfield & Huxford, News Images as Lived Images: Media Ritual, Cultural Performance, and Public Trauma, they bring up two important ways photojournalists have an influence on media consumers. 1) Photojournalist have the ability to convey a message through their photographs that is biased through their composition rather than objective. (like journalism ethics […]
America’s Cultural Imperialism Abroad
The American Dream is no longer just a domestic one. It is now, more than ever, spreading its influence to foreign media outlets everywhere. Beyond Canada and England, American media including but not limited to television, film, and technology are being absorbed by other countries and into their culture. Specifically, our television shows, which are translated into […]
Media Literacy in Television
According to Joshua Meyrowitz, there are three ways to describe media literacy and the concept we mean by media; content literacy, media grammar literacy, and medium literacy. Content literacy is the way we interpret and decide we need information presented to us by the media. Media grammar literacy provokes the need to understand every part of […]