Using material from the Item and elsewhere, assess the view that media imperialism threatens ‘the cultural identities of many countries’. Media imperialism is the view that news is dominated by the West; as the media is linked to politics because of the benefits of capitalism, the effects of the media is threatening cultural identities with this same lifestyle which theorists such as Marxists disagree with. How media imperialism is threatening, what it is doing to threaten cultural identities and the effects of it need to be looked at to assess this matter properly. First of all it is how the Media imperialism is threatening cultural identities in other countries that is important to assess. The dominance and power of the west is affecting cultures.
Using powerful language, Jack Solomon stresses that advertisers do not persuade us, but they manipulate us into buying what they're offering. They don't offer us product information, but they exercise "behavior modification" : "Pleasing to our subconscious emotions, rather than our conscious intelligences, ads are designed to exploit the discontentments by the American dream, and also the constant desire for social success and the material rewards that accompany it” page 530. Advertisements say a lot about different people and what ideas are important at the time. In America, society is obsessed with status. Therefore, status symbols are very important.
This paper discusses the significant impact of technology on human beings’ life. B. The Body of the Essay- use your sources to outline the major parts of your essay 1. Topic Sentence: Although social networks have been shaped to serve and to facilitate the social interactions between societies, it turned out that it is certainly destroying one’s economic, social, personal life. Supporting Details: a.
Manipulation of media is of course one of the main factors. Nowadays, we know all too well how easily it is for media corporations to support one political agenda or another by twisting facts and feeding false information. Consumerism, supported and viralized by media, also carries a message which tends to separate those who consume a certain kind of product from those who do not, stating that the former are happier than the latter. This exercises certain social pressure among consumerist individuals who may somehow see their social status affected and thus feel left out. As a result, the key for the survival of individuality lies in how conformist the people are ready and willing to become.
This is ultimately caused an illusion of autonomy where the masses or the ‘have not’s were excluded because of their economic situation. The media taken as a whole relay interpretive frameworks in harmony with the interests of the dominant classes, and media audiences, while sometimes negotiating and contesting these frameworks. Therefor, Marxist view was that the media (consisted of only the upper class) dictated to society what they need to know and think. This caused false representation of the truth and the happenings of society at the time that caused the media to be selective
Assess the view that the news is a social construction. (33 marks) There are many sociological ideas that contribute to our understanding to whether or not the news is a social construction. The news may be seen as a ‘window on the world’ to some, however, others would argue that the news in not objective, and instead it only reflects ideas of the power elite. McQuail argues that the news is socially manufactured product that has been through a selective process, made by what he calls gatekeepers. This is the idea that journalists and editors control what is considered newsworthy, and consequently what appears in the news.
Cognitive restructuring techniques commonly center on producing a confident self-image, encouraging constructive social interactions, and removing thought deformations (mistakes in reasonableness or points of view). However, regardless of their shared goals, diverse approaches apply to some extent, different actions and ways to achieve their purpose (CTU Online, 2012, pg.1). The primary theory behind cognitive restructuring is that an individual’s reactions and conduct can be significantly influenced by something they believe. If an individual could intentionally alter the habit of what they say to themselves, and what depictions they portray to themselves, then they could render themselves more content or nicer or more constructive or could achieve one of numerous other beneficial adjustments; simply stated, that by correcting our way of reasoning, we can constructively change how we feel and how we take action (Strayhorn, 2003). The cognitive restructuring theory would facilitate Tom in learning to control his anger by learning how to change his way of thoughts, thus changing how he permits events to control his
Abstract Mass media is the path to communicating information to the public. The influence in which large corporations and media business owners have over what the public hears, sees or reads and how they should feel about it, is true power. Thanks to mass media, today’s society no longer view’s children as a piece of property to be sold, slave labor or a weaker individual that can easily be mistreated or sexually manipulated for their own personal gain. Mass media has done more than change society’s outlook on child abuse and neglect but has also been a huge impact on funding efforts, awareness of abuse and the success of prevention programs. The Effects of Media on Child Abuse and Neglect He who controls the media controls the minds of the people.
In our economy today, I do not believe that people should be judged based on their color, race, creed, and etc., but they should be judge by their abilities.. That was the original purpose of Affirmative action. In my opinion I believe that those who fight for affirmative action are partially responsible for draining our society by taking the easy way. There are many who break the chain and work hard. There are many who take advantage of the system, even in my own culture. They use excuses to dis-empower themselves instead of empowering themselves to reach for something better.
Capitalism brought about the industrialisation of modern society, this idea is favoured by Marxists but postmodernists argue that society is not as simple as this. Postmodernism has emerged since the 1970s, in a postmodern society we are defined by what we consume society is not simply one thing but an unstable, fragmented, media saturated global village where image and reality are indistinguishable. Foucault argues that there are no objective criteria that we can use to prove whether a theory is true or false and if we cannot guarantee if knowledge is correct we cannot use it to improve society this view is known as anti foundationalism. Anti foundationalism is based on two key concepts, the enlightenment of achieving progress through true scientific knowledge and any all embracing theory that claims to have the absolute truth about how to create a better society such as Marxism however it is a meta- narrative and is just someone’s version of reality and it is not necessarily the truth so there is no need to accept the claims that the theory makes Postmodernists a reject meta narratives such as Marxism because they have helped create oppressive totalitarian states that have impose their version of the truth on people for example the former soviet union in Russia. Because they believe that all accounts of reality are equally valid so we should therefore recognise and celebrate diversity rather than imposing one