The text states that euphemisms and weaselers have uses but only if we are speaking, writing, listening, and reading carefully could we even distinguish prejudicial uses of these devices. It further states that photographs and other images are not claims or valid arguments but can be used to affect the reader’s decision making. They are invalid because a photograph may not state the exact truth and can be used to mislead the viewer. 3. What are some methods you might use to determine the reliability of the data you gather?
The negotiated reading is when the audience does understand the intended meaning of a media text, but still chooses to reject it. For example, Once Upon A Time is a television show which tries to reinvent and intertwine the widely known fairytales within our culture. A negotiated reading would say that the text can be understood in terms of what the intended reading is, but the text isn't entirely believable because of things such as narrative and the technical and visual codes which leaves it lacking suture. There are many factors which impact an audiences reading of a media text. The demographic of an audience is one of them.
Laura Chen 401110597 Composition and Conversation II─ Dr. Murphy RR4 23 June 2014 Is Pearl Harbor a Fiction or a Real War? Entertaining Purpose Makes Pearl Harbor Lose Historical Accuracy There are many documentaries about the historical event, Pearl Harbor attack; however, none of them is more famous and well-known than the film Pearl Harbor (2001). When watching the film Pearl Harbor, audience can be entertained with compelling story and cool visual effects which are absent in documentaries. Conversely, Pearl Harbor would be too entertaining to be historically accurate, and it brings audience the wrong concept about Pearl Harbor attack. The film production of Pearl Harbor should be responsible for this negative result, because “most
This is the communicator reward valence. It delays people’s reaction to unexpected behavior because expectancies are based on the communicator’s social norms and their exact characteristics. Violations of expectancies cause provocation and require the receiver to invite a series of rational thoughts or evaluation of the violation, as well as causing uncertainty in people’s behavior. EVT is a valuable theory because it gives a way to join behavior and reasoning. It is one
How Does 'The Wire' Take the Police Procedural Genre in A New Direction & To What Extent Does This Affect the Representation Of the United States? Representations refer to how a text shows or describes a particular group, concept, or place. Different representations are shown to us by the media depending on who the producers and the audience are. This means representations co-exist, like for example those of a place. Representations could be negative or positive.
In addition, it is a measure of responsibility and accountability for the freedom of press that is able to give counterarguments and provide a space for counterarguments regarding issues that are controversial and require a public debate so that the viewing and listening public can get a full knowledge of the issues being presented on both sides. It has always been a key rule of journalism (1), but the success is less clear, and the Fairness Doctrine has many pros and cons to this rule, and that is something that should be touched on. Another issue that will be talked about is if the Fairness Doctrine should be reintroduced or if it’s a good thing that this law doesn’t exists to the United States anymore. When the question came about to discuss the pros and con of the fairness doctrine I feel as though there was plenty of answers for this issue since I can oppose to both. I want to start off with discussing some pro arguments about the Fairness Doctrine.
The theory’s hypothesis and its core conceptions clearly express the importance of information processing and nonverbal messages. Also, this theory improves our understanding of how expectations influences conversational distance and it reveals what takes place in the minds of communicators and how they observe nonverbal performance during their conversation. EVT was originally called the “Nonverbal Expectancy Violation Theory”, but Burgoon later removed the word nonverbal because the theory now inspects issues further than the field of nonverbal communication. Proxemics is what we call the study of a person’s use of space as a special elaboration of culture and it includes the way people use space in their conversations as well as perceptions of another’s use of space. In this theory, it provides the two competing needs of a human which are personal space and affiliation.
Through this sequence of statements, it is evident that the writers are using passionate appeal to persuade readers that they sense the media impact is in fact harmful. Nonetheless, they don’t provide sufficient research to show that the body image is established sufficiently to be viewed by the group they are supposed to be
When this happens, there is an erosion of our personal uniqueness. More often than not, we subconsciously integrate ourselves into the make-believe world that the media has successfully created. Hence, I agree that whoever controls the media, controls the culture. The culture in this case, is referring to the perceptions that the public has on other
This quote happened after the India’s great struggle with British Empire, which ended in India’s independence through peaceful means led by Gandhi (Ackermann 2000). This essay will discuss if the statements above are true or not as well as talk about recent, real world examples. The main critic will be about media’s involvement & power in social movements such as through movies, music, TV and social media. In addition, there will be case studies relating to media. The portrayal of how citizens should triumph over an oppressive government and free the state from authoritarian shackles is a harshly debated topic both within academics and media.