Essays on Media and Communication

Being the fourth pillar of democracy, the media has always been exercising it’s right of freedom and expression under the Article 19 (a) of the Indian Constitution. In this country, the media has been an agent of revolution in the colonial era and a massive…

In July 2012 Americans spent over 121 billion minutes on social media (Are Social Networking Sites Good). Researchers suggest that using social media becomes a risk to adolescents more often than most adults realize (O’Keefe, Clarke-Pearson). Social networking has many detriments to society, because it…

Social networks are a major part of the contemporary world. It is no doubt that they have firmly integrated into our society in the past decade and brought along many benefits. Today we are granted immediate access to endless amounts of information shared through social…

This paper tries to analyze the construction of gender on social media. The study will try to highlight the gender rules and stereotypes portrayal of gender roles in media and social media websites. Many women are exploited and used as objects to sell and endorse…

Many factors can contribute to a negative impact on body image. But the media seems to play a huge role in the image most of us have or want to have. So much emphasis is put on being perfect and looking a certain way that…

Arguably, technology is one of the human beings’ greatest achievements and this is not without its perks and convinces in our society. Research shows that approximately 4.68 billion people own a cell phone and the number is expected to rise to 4.78 billion by the…

Society is trapped in two worlds, one, endless war of ego and competition. A world where media validation rules our lives; while the other, trying to build everyone together yet breaking oneself in the process. To seek approval from Social Media followers promotes unrealistic beauty…

 In January 2019 at the inauguration of Brazil’s new far-right President, Jair Bolsonaro, a crowd of his supporters began a chant. A chant not of Bolsonaro’s name nor his party, but the names of social media platforms–“Facebook, Facebook, Facebook!” and “WhatsApp, WhatsApp, WhatsApp!” (Beauchamp, 2019)….

The perpetual identity crisis women in today’s society are overcome by derives from a concept known as social comparison theory which elucidates, the drive individuals have to “evaluate their progress and standing on various aspects of their lives and, in the absence of objective standards…

Growing up in a social media-filled society, I have learned the ins and outs of what it means to have your entire social existence on display for the world. With an increase in the amount of social media apps and new technological devices finding someone…