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whether it is real life or on television. The primary concern of course is televisions effects on children as they are malleable a...

this was a publication where many different items of news described the events of a recent period and were run end to end(Smith, 1...

this encompasses cartoons and comics, sports, soap operas and films through to snuff videos. The portrayal of violence n cartoons ...

Republicans when it comes to voting and election time (Enda, 2002). Just as interesting, however, was that Bushs predecessor, Pres...

the self-perception and health care of young girls. Hogan notes, with some validity, that media education is important: if the med...

our place in that world. In many ways it could be said that we are being lulled into a sense of complacency by the glowing light ...

out above its competitors. There is no law in the land that can prohibit advertisers from portraying their products in the most a...

lose weight for genetic reasons and that of course they would be thin if it were possible. Similarly, homosexuals claim that their...

The use of educational software enables truly student-led education, ensuring the student masters one concept before progressing t...

currently exists does not give content providers absolute control over how users use their material, but it can place some prohibi...

(Anonymous, 1997), thereby deciding which social and political issues are worthy of attention and establishing an unnatural promin...

In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...

There are those who believe that advertising can actually be beneficial in promoting health and nutrition; after all, television e...

perspective. The free press in the United States is predicated upon the notion of freedom of information, that nothing should be w...

culture may be seen as the culture of ordinary people, but has a basis in history, Strinati (1995), argues that this is usually se...

a concept created by Andrew Weil, MD (2004). He claims that it refers to the best of both worlds and an integration of alternativ...

does is to expose the media for what it is, which is an opportunistic and often inaccurate and inept body of reporters that is onl...

but there was also a corresponding increase in the secularisation and commercialisation of the rituals surrounding death. In the 1...

They find escape in the medias presentation of the celebrities and it seems that in times of political and global chaos they want ...

were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...

of priests are true servants of God and their parishioners but, as is always typical with the media, sensationalism sells. Therefo...

influence of the television news programs on the American public and on our understanding of political, social and international i...

areas has become considerable. As de Cauter (2001) notes,...

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

many of the present expectations associated with the various controls. This level of recognition helps with the interaction, as le...

government, constituting an educated elite while the rest of society was expected merely to follow and obey. Democracy is founded...

four hour per day programming incorporates all sorts of fare all the time. It is because of this trend, and the trend to ignore th...

to a public that wants sound bites, simple stories, sensationalism and ideas that are not too complex. It does appear that news me...

data, the use of the objective viewpoint in the development of qualitative methods suggests the balance between differing perspect...

paper, we will explore four web sites to determine exactly what promotional strategies are used - and how/if these strategies can ...