Essays on Media And Culture

Being in the 21st century, social media can be described as the platform which enables human relationships through technology, in other words, it is the media for social interaction between people (UNESCO IITE, 2019). From certain researches, it is found that in 2019, there will be an estimated of around 2.77 billion social media users worldwide, compared to 2.46 billion in 2017 (Statista, 2019). Since 2000, social media is involved in the field of teaching where new learning techniques are…...

Media is the most common source of information that people rely on when it comes to getting information and news of what is trending. On the other side it is also a main source of information that emphasizes the opinions and emotions about a certain issue which deprives people from getting true facts. What to think and what not to, what to trust and what not to, who to believe and who to not to, are all controlled by the…...

In the last century television, film and video came to dominate the mass mediated world and increasingly continues to do so today with an abundance of entertainment being brought into the homes of millions of people globally provided by the culture industry. A popular and traditional view of mass media audiences sees them as passive 'culture dopes', a phrase used by Stuart Hall (Notes on Deconstructing 'the Popular' 1981) describing the audience as passive consumers of whatever media is placed…...

I have always known that advertisements were toxic to a woman's self-image, but I was unaware of how it affected other parts of a woman's life. Killing Us Softly 4, a film in which Dr. Jean Kilbourne discusses the media's depiction of women, really opened my eyes to how the media affects factors other than body image. Eating disorders, violence, colorism, the perpetuation of rape culture, and the oversexualizing of women and girls are just a few of the infinite…...

Hades can be found across multiple forms of media and pop culture in modern society. One popular form when the god is seen is in film. Some relatively recent and popular films where the god makes an appearance are Clash of the Titans (2010) and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Theif (2010). For me, my interest and love for Greek and Roman mythology started with the Percy Jackson books and movies. The series was the first ever series…...

Psychoanalysis is the science of the unconscious functions of the mind and personality. The theories originate from Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud. He discovered these as a treatment for health problems and also as a way to understanding more about your mind. In this essay I am going to discuss how these theories discovered many years ago have contributed to popular culture and media. Sigmund Freud divided the soul into the conscious and the unconscious. The conscious is the part of…...

Media has evolved constantly in the last century. There is a new source or outlet of media being invented. Our nation has moved from newspapers and radio broadcasts to internet and cell phones to receive the news of the day. Radio and newspapers are losing popularity as quick as it gained popularity in the beginning. People can now be updated with news stories and global news on the go. There is no longer the need to flip through a paper…...

“Authentic” is a double-edged sword. Discuss this statement using at least 2 indigenous media examples. How can something be a double-edged sword? How can something be harmful and at the same time helpful? We are currently living in the 21st century; there have been many lives that lived on this earth before us. These lives have done a lot of work that have got us to where we are today. This being said it is so hard to think of…...

Mass media has the capability to influence people to think based on the media concepts that have been presented to them. In thousands of images that people see on media sources everyday, the strong recall of each image leave marks on the minds of the viewers or readers which often lead to the conclusion that mass media is the influential and powerful tool to deliver messages to the mainstream. From entertainment to business purposes, media plays a very important role…...

In the last 50 years or so technology had contributed to the exponential growth of the mass media where what started out with the telegraph was subsequently followed by the radio, the newspaper, magazines, television and the new arrival the Internet. The outcome of all these subsequent introductions had made society to be dependant on information and communication for all the major steps they are taking and areas such as work, health care, education, interpersonal relationships, leisure time such as…...