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 […]