Essays on Media Industry

Equality between females and males cannot be attained using legal channels only. How people, cultures, and societies perceive gender and equality can make an immense difference. The aspect means that individuals must start believing and behaving as if women and men are equal. The attitudes towards equality and females are shaped in various ways. They can arise from personal experiences, social values, or people’s upbringings. Two essential contributors of stereotypes and attitudes are culture and popular media. This paper examines popular media particularly print media to identify how women are represented as well as their presence or absence ...

Executive Summary

South Korea is one of the vibrant democracies and leading economies in Asia. The country is heavily populated, and the majority of the citizens show active involvement in both the new and traditional media. It is essential to mention that the South Korean constitution protects and promotes the freedom of the media, and this explains why the country is one of the media-rich countries in the world. The South Korean press and mass media enjoy the freedom of expression. In essence, the South Korean communication system is vast. There are multiple national television networks and radio stations, telephone facilities, ...

Introduction

Globalization and the media industry are closely related in that both connect with each other in terms of information delivery and development. Globalization plays a significant role in preserving the culture of different societies. However, this may prove difficult as media content is playing a significant role in influencing social life of the viewers. With this being part of the press, it is gaining popularity all over the world such that even countries like China that have been strict in representing their culture in addition to creating competitiveness of their media content locally and globally having to restructure their ...

Network is a film that Sidney Lumet produced in 1976. Specifically, the film addresses some of the challenges affecting the media industry as well as economic structures relating to new broadcasting in America (Network). The film illustrates the fact that powerful networks are jostling for a share of the broadcasting space as well as the related revenues. Additionally, the film portrays the intrigues that unfold in a field where ratings take the center stage. An impressive element of the film is the dialogues between the different characters. Furthermore, Network depicts impressive vocabularies covering intense subject matters such as religious ...

Media innovation

Introduction Innovation in the simplest definition can be viewed as a new idea, product or a method of performing a specific task. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines innovation as the “act or process of introducing new ideas, devices or methods (Merriam-webster.com, 2016). Innovation is the use of improved resolutions for countering new challenges, untended needs or fulfilling the already established markets better. One of the most important market that human race has delved in is the acquiring of information. Despite decades of improvement in the communication sector, the need for doing more to satisfy the informational needs of the population ...

Executive Summary

Facebook is a company and an online social networking service that is based in Menlo Park, California. It first was launched in 2004 by its founder, Mark Zuckerberg along with some of his classmates in Harvard University. The initial membership of the site was limited to Harvard University students, and then spread among ivy league students, and later on to the rest of the world (Carlson, 2010). The number of views to the site reached 1 trillion in 2011, and became the world’s second-greatest accessed site after Google (Fernandes, 2011). The analyses performed in this paper resulted in ...

One of, if not the most, important products of the media industry is the dissemination of content. However, every time a piece of content is disseminated or published, the author of that content is subject to potential liabilities. One of the most common liabilities is defamation. Defamation, is largely defined by state law. However, most definitions of defamation are generally the same. Accordingly, defamation, in essence, refers to the dissemination or publication of false information to another that injures or harms the reputation of a person, groups or organization (Solove, et al., 159). More specifically, defamation requires the occurrence ...

Professionals working within the media occupation face ethical issues within their work environment. When such professions have the ability to explain any situation, the ethical values involved, principals involved, then they can make rational choices of what is good and bad (Moir 18). Using the guidelines that philosophers have suggested, professionals can make ethical choices that are justifiable morally. This essay is a focus on reaching an ethical decision in a media industry using the Potter box model. It analyses issues that emerge in making decisions in the corporate world; in particular, whether to print an interview carried out ...

The mass media plays an important role in the current society. The information transmitted via media has a huge influence on people's perceptions and decisions and for that matter, it can be seen as the eyes of our society (Champagne 2). Although there are strict guidelines and a code of ethics that governs media reporting, today's media is full of self-aggrandizement and greed (Champagne 2). There is stiff competition in the media industry. There are so many options an audience can choose from, and with increasing competition, every media house has to roll up its sleeves and use every ...

Dear Ms. XY:

I hope you are doing well, my name is XXX and I have been asked to write about a report about the United States media coverage on China. The latter purpose is the report about the CNN - one of the major United States news sources on reports on China. The source was used to make an analysis of the quality of the reporting on the topic. The articles are showing the overall presentation of Chinese culture, history, society and norms through the reporting of Chinese media. I will present that the United States news channels and newspaper report ...