This week’s reading raised some interesting and eye opening points on how consumers of media digest the information and images presented to them. Meyrowitz suggests to us that there is much more to be considered than the physical, straight forward content given.In order to practice media literacy, it is vital that we be able to […]
Media Grammar in Newspapers
Everybody interprets, understands, sees, and reads what perspective they desire to see, however each individual does it a different way. Today, media is a big part of how people portray things. As the result of this, certain media outlets only want viewers to see one perspective– their perspective. This results in getting people to think […]
Media Grammar and Film: How Themes Can Be Both Seen and Heard
How media is perceived has everything to do with how it is interpreted. In his thought piece on the three primary modes of media literacy, Joshua Meyrowitz highlights how the language of media can be manipulated for a specific purpose. These ways of manipulating a particular media language can vary greatly or not at all […]
Media Grammar & Agenda Setting in Newspapers
Human beings are inherently subjective. Because of this, all the supposedly objective coverage of news events is, in fact, biased in some way. Even newspapers, which are sometimes thought to be an objective source of news, are biased in what they emphasize or don’t. Production variables in newspapers include typeface, font size, the use of italics/bold, and […]
Media and Money
Media plays a major roll in our political economy. Our daily decisions are sometimes based from the influences of media. You wake up; brush your teeth with toothpaste you most likely bought because of excessive exposure to commercials or advertisements for that toothpaste brand. That’s only the beginning; the rest of your day consists of […]
Ads Everywhere…
In the article by Deery the reader gets an insight into the world of advertising and how it has become prominent within the culture we live in. Ads are everywhere, and Deery mentions how advertising has become integrated the actual programming with product placement. An issue that many viewers have problems with due to the […]
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
An issue that has troubled the media industry for a long time is the barriers to entry that are presented by large cinema circuits for films to make an appearance in theaters. Currently there are only five major cinema circuits that show movies in the US (there are more than five but these are the […]
When Ad’s Attack
http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/facebookads.gif Over the years, Facebook has become a prominent platform within the Advertising industry. Recently, Facebook produced a report that claimed the site (due to advertising) was responsible for $227 billion in global economic impact and had created 4.5 million jobs (Albergotti). While some economists question the reality of the numbers, they cannot argue […]
Media is Power
A political economic issue that is concerning me in today’s world is the control of ideologies and media. This issue is becoming very serious because media corporations are trying to spread ideas and take control of the flow of information. Controlling the media will lead to more power, money and how they influence society. For example, […]