media

Examples of media in the following topics:

• Mass Media and Technology

  • The term media comes from Latin meaning, "middle," suggesting that the media's function is to connect people.
  • Media bias refers the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media.
  • This approach theoretically allows diverse views to appear in the media.
  • The apparent bias of media is not always specifically political in nature.
  • The news media tend to appeal to a specific audience.

• Propaganda and the Mass Media

  • Mass media can be employed to manipulate populations to further the power elite's agenda.
  • Herman and Noam Chomsky to explain how propaganda and systemic biases function in mass media.
  • These two models—the propaganda and the "power elite" conceptualization—evidence how mass media can be used to reinforce the powerful's positions of power and interests.
  • During the Gulf War (1990), the media's failure to report on Saddam Hussein's peace offers guided the public to look more favorably on the U.S. government's actions.
  • Evaluate the impact of mass media as propaganda, particularly in terms of the "power elite"

• The Role of the Media

  • Media can influence politics by what they say, but also by what they don't say.
  • Gatekeeping occurs at all levels of the media structure, from a reporter deciding which sources are included in a story to editors deciding which stories are printed or covered, and includes media outlet owners and even advertisers.
  • Media are often referred to as synonymous with mass media or news media, but may refer to a single medium used to communicate any data for any purpose.
  • Media of the United States consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based Web sites.
  • Gatekeeping occurs at all levels of the media structure, from a reporter deciding which sources are included in a story to editors deciding which stories are printed or covered, and includes media outlet owners and even advertisers.

• Gender Messages in Mass Media

  • In mass media, women tend to have less significant roles than men, and are often portrayed in stereotypical roles, such as wives or mothers.
  • Gender socialization occurs through four major agents: family, education, peer groups, and mass media.
  • The music video for "Pimp," a song by 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, and G-Unit, demonstrates how harmful gender messages can be disseminated through mass media.
  • The music video for "PIMP," a song by 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, and G-Unit, demonstrates how gender messages are disseminated through mass media.
  • Discuss the types of gender socialization people get from viewing various types of media

• Panic

  • These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur and some moral panics have historically been fueled by religious missions, governmental campaigns, and scientific mobilizing against minority groups that used media outlets to further their claims), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
  • The term was coined by Stanley Cohen in 1972 to describe media coverage of Mods and Rockers in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.

• Documents

  • Typically, sociological research on documents falls under the cross-disciplinary purview of media studies, which encompasses all research dealing with television, books, magazines, pamphlets, or any other human-recorded data.
  • Regardless of the specific media being studied, they are referred to as texts.
  • Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences, and communication studies.

• Socialization and Human Sexuality

  • ., from society), especially from religion, law, and the media.
  • The rest of this section seeks to explore how socializing agents impress sexual norms into their members by looking at three primary agents of socialization: religion, the law, and the media.
  • The media is one final example of a cultural program through which individuals encounter normative discourses of sexuality.
  • Pornography presents another way in which individuals are socialized towards particular sexual practices through the media.
  • Examine the various ways in which a person is sexually socialized, specifically through religion, law, and the media

• Gatekeeping

  • Outside of media organizations, individuals can also act as gatekeepers, deciding what information to include in an email or in a blog, for example.
  • Originally focused on the mass media with its few-to-masses dynamic, theories of gatekeeping also now include the workings of face-to-face communication and the many-to-many dynamic now easily available via the Internet.
  • Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication that may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.

• Rumors

  • Media and particular cultural-historical conditions may facilitate a rumor's diffusion.
  • In 2006, Jayson Harsin introduced the concept of the "rumor bomb" to describe the widespread phenomenon of rumoresque communication in contemporary relations between media and politics, especially within the complex convergence of multiple forms of media, from cell phones and internet, to radio, TV, and print.

• Resource Mobilization Approach

  • Resources are understood here to include: knowledge, money, media, labor, solidarity, legitimacy, and internal and external support from a power elite.
  • the form of the resources shapes the activities of the movement (e.g., access to a TV station will result in the extensive use TV media)