Writing of the essay under this topic is quite a challenge for me. After all, as someone who was born in Serbia during the Yugoslav Wars, who was educated on stories about crimes during the World War II, and someone who is witnessing right wing…
Essays on Media and Communication
Introduction African Americans have been treated unfairly in all outlets of the media. African Americans are always given the short end of the stick and portrayed as savages and inferior to whites. This paper discusses the ways in which the media aids in the destroying…
Cases across the nation are often corrupted because the arguments are one-sided opinions claimed by prejudice perspectives. A court system’s results may not always be as accurate as they claim to be due to the evidence not being considered. Corruption in the criminal justice system…
Social networking has an extreme influence on today’s society, yet despite its huge influence, many hindrances become apparent in it which negatively affects the world. Social networking is defined as “the activity of sharing information and communicating with groups of people using the internet, especially…
Objective: In the first half of the essay I will highlight the importance of studying representation of identities in media and the influence of media in enforcing or challenging the hierarchies of social power. I will draw focus on femininity and feminist movement. My research…
Social media has lots of cons. One of the biggest main concerns is how social media aids the spread of hate groups and online bullying. Around 10,000 tweets per day contain racial slurs. Many children may endanger themselves because they do not understand the public…
The podcast “Serial” created and narrated by Sarah Koenig, was the fastest ever podcast to reach 5 million downloads and the biggest podcast in the world in 2015. The weekly podcast is Koenig’s investigation into the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and whether the…
Fallacies are often used to support arguments on an illogical contention, that can weaken one’s argument and used as an unreliable reference. Logical fallacies are seen throughout different aspects in of media, ads, radio, and television. Companies and corporations intended reasoning in using logical fallacies…
“An issue frame is ‘a central organizing idea or story line that provides meaning to an unfolding strip of events, weaving a connection among them… A frame can suggest explicitly that we should view an issue in certain terms,” Winter (2006). A framing effect occurs…
When writing an argumentative essay, it is important that one gets their point across while making sure the argument is sound and credible. An argument is meant to stir conversation and settle differences between ideas. However, when an argument contains one or multiple logical fallacies,…
Snapchat was created by three students who were on their second year of university. Their names were Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, who were students at Stanford University. They used programming applications to develop the snapchat app. The programming they used were Python, iOS,…
“Reality is distorted. If you live in a fictional world, then the fictional world becomes your reality.” – Emanuel Tanay. This statement encapsulates why media violence would play such a big part in our society these days. According to Nielsen Company, the average watch time…
Established in 2000, Bollywood Veggies is a plot of rural land settlement in the Kranji suppling regional pesticide-free staples and the home of ‘Poison Ivy’, they also have a centre for cooking and an exhibition of all their produce. Guided homestead visits aside, you can…
Social media, two words that accompany wealth, pain, and confusion all in one bubble can either lead to progression or depression in somebody’s personal life. Who knew that 20-25 years ago that the internet would exists? Who knew that in 2029 there are iPhone 10…
Fake news is not already new today it has become a rampant topic since 2017. According to Stroud, fake news or also known as hoax news, refers to the false information or propaganda published that were disguised of being authentic news. It is the spread…
