Essays on Media

Introduction

Islam is a well renowned religion of today’s world that originated in Makah in 7th century as God’s revelations were brought down on Prophet Muhammad. It was his preaching methods; kindness, patience, tolerance, courage and faith in God, that he gained immense popularity far and wide and gained staunch support of his followers. Quran (2: 256) has a clear verdict for all Muslims; “Let there be no compulsion in religion” (Abd, al-ʻĀṭī 1975). This single Ayat clearly explains the basis of spread of Islam, i.e., Islam is not a forceful religion. Today, Islam is presented as a ...

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Media

The world constantly changes, from one’s daily activities, to the events happening around them. Sometimes, people tend to find themselves out of the loop because they cannot follow the changes happening around them. However, they do not need to do heavy research to return them back to the growing changes happening in the country or in the globe as an immediate source is available to them. This source is seen in a variety of mediums, from paper to visual, they call it media. The term “media” is the plural form of the word “medium”, noted as a source or method ...

The role of media in Israel-Hezbollah War (2006)

Whereas the war between Israel and Hezbollah intensified in Lebanon and Israel in the summer of 2006, it was apparent that media reporting had commenced to play an imperative role in influencing the eventual conclusion of this war. It appeared apparent that news coverage affected the itinerary of the clash. And it rapidly became apparent that Hezbollah would benefit from the manipulation of the media. A close assessment of the role of the media throughout the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon can be attributed to Journalists taking part in ...

Johnson & Johnson has gained relevant experience in the field of public relations, given that the group of companies was founded over thirty years ago; it definitely had a role in the evolution of public relations. Indeed, J&J has been held aloft in the PR world for nearly 30 years as the torch-bearer of the “right way’ to handle a crisis (Yaxley, 2010). Its public relations personnel, strategies, implementation process and assessment have matured over the years. Johnson & Johnson is a holding company which majorly deals in pharmaceutical products which are under constant scrutiny due to issues of quality ...

A [a] The term, ‘big bro is watching over you,’ is synonymous to being followed and scrutinized for whatever a person does. From mobile phones to web browsers to satellite tracking, just about anything and everything is ‘bugged’ to watch a person’s move. Most of these close scrutiny apparatus is used by government and paparazzi to gather information on foreign and local agents and celebrities. Phone tapping is a very common means to investigate people in high offices and the U.S spying espionage concerning the NSA which Edward Snowden revealed to the world is once such instance where the ...

Just as people in eighteenth century England had a source of news and variety of other subjects in The Spectator, modern day people have a ready source of information in the vastness of the internet. In this medium, the common person can find whatever information they may like, whether it is sports, gossip, entertainment, politics, games, religion and more. However, The Spectator reads like a very specific internet source. If a person were to identify the contemporary version of this periodical, they would undoubtedly name social media sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, based on their variety of subjects, diversity of writes, and ...

Introduction

It was not very long back when we needed to plug a cable every time we wanted to use the Internet. However, with the emergence of wireless networking or Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), we can create an Internet connection without a cable, as per our convenience. With the use of this wireless technology, we can access the Internet on various devices, such as mobile phones and tablets, with great ease.

The best thing about Wi-Fi is that it helps you access Internet from anywhere and everywhere. Be it a coffee shop, a hotel room, an airport or any other place, you can get ...

Since the tragic events of Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, the issue of gun control has resurfaced as a hot issue needing to be addressed by a government able to make changes that could mitigate the chance of a repeat tragedy. Gun control is an issue with a powerful lobby of support and also citizens that fall polarized on either side of the issue. As a result, in the news coverage of the current state of the issue, with the latest update being gun measures failing the senate by a margin of six votes, different media outlets while reporting on the same ...

Internet censorship is definitely one of the most controversial topics not only in America, but in the whole world. We are all aware that a significant group of people, perhaps even some of us today are of the view that this practice should be passed into law. Being of a contrary view, I most certainly understand most of the reasons put across in support of such unilateral measures. I however, remain steady in my opinion that internet censoring should and must never be legalized. Perhaps, that a few of us, if not all, are of the same opinion also. Anyway, please allow ...

In the chapter, ‘will the revolution be cybercast?’ Reed outlines the way the protests by the world trade organization workers originated from through the integration of technology. The internet contributed significantly in connecting other parts of the world to the main protests. Not only was the internet significant in mobilizing protesters and educating them on nonviolent protests, it contributed in making Seattle known to the world. Activists acknowledged and promoted the use of internet messaging to transmit messages and updates concerning the protests to their friends. Submission of blueprints and strategic plans occurred flawlessly via email messages transmitted through ...

This article introduces the idea of feature bloat that has been adopted by many manufacturers. Many products that were produced in the past were mostly single minded. This means that devices such as cameras were only intended for taking photographs. However, manufacturers have embarked on the production of complex products that have many features in them. For example, phones today have the capacity to make call, internet connection, mp3 players, and GPS navigation among other features. Rust et al (2006) explain that there are various reasons that have motivated manufacturers to adopt this strategy. First of all, manufacturers aim ...

Ethics entail the acceptable standards and principles that guide behaviors of individuals or groups in society. Ethics have continued to prevail in diverse spheres of human life with the aim of establishing the right conduct while maintaining an equitable balance between various players in society. The media is one of the areas that ethics have been adopted to ensure that dispersion of information avoids manipulation, lies and conflict with the law. Media ethics have continued to espouse principles of accuracy, truthfulness, impartiality, objectivity, public accountability, and fairness. All these principles are enforced by set code of practices that have ...

In my research for the final assignment, I only used Google search engine to look for information regarding my topic which is ‘Bio-inspired adhesive’. I did not use any other databases or search engines. In my initial search, I used terms such as ‘recent news in tecchnology’ but it wasn’t successful. I knew my searches were not working because I couldn’t find a single article that will match what I had in mind. Instead of specific technological advancement or scientific event, what I was ...

Response to Michelle Lagos’ Post

The post was highly commendable given the extensive depth of the comments that delve into people being seen as voluntary oppressors. Likewise, the selection of support through other sources provided validations to the contentions. One strongly agrees with the assertions that diverse forms of media, particularly through the television, allegedly put people into submissive trance to accept the information being proposed. Television shows were noted to insulate viewers from harsh realities of life and provide an effective escape to reality. In addition, the proliferation of surveillance systems and applications in various sectors compromise the privacy and confidentiality of the ...

The use of social media in epidemiological studies remains an area that is viewed with skepticism. Epidemiologists often track disease trends following tip-offs and concerns gathered from traditional channels of information (Garrity, 2011). In this study, the researcher will use social media as a tool for gathering information about the eating and exercise patterns of the participants. The researcher will track the updates and photos put up by the participants on Face Book.

The inclusion of social media as a source of data is hinged on the following reasons: social media attracts millions of young people across the world. With ...

The text that I choose to analyze is headlined “Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr”. It is the famous and historical speech of Robert F. Kennedy, a well-known democratic politician from New York, and it was conveyed on the 4th of April in 1968. It is clear that the opening sentences of the speech display that the author is going to give out some news ...

Summary and Response Practice #2

In “Why We Love TV’s Anti-Heroes,” Stephen Garrett argues that the actual nature of the hero has changed over the past few decades, and as a result the protagonists that we embrace are largely different as well. Arguing that “the heroes of today are radically different from those of two or three decades ago [and that t]hey have evolved to represent a radically changed world,” (Garrett, p. 319) Garrett claims that empathy is more important than respect when it comes to choosing a hero to emulate. Consider the highly popular program House, M.D. Thirty years ago, the hero of the ...

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Drought- resistant:

- Looking at practical aspects for a higher capacity of creating a working environment. - Achieving a positive impact on global acceptance of genetically modified seeds. - Helping poor farmers to grow crops and feed their local markets.

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Untapped markets:

Untapped markets provide several opportunities to Monsanto. The company needs to enlarge the company’s product portfolio by capitalizing on the untapped markets. Another important strategy could be by enhancing the company’s diversification. Expanding market share and the overall returns would also allow the company to expand. The expected growth along with ...

A. Major Issue and Focus

- Interesting issue of web content management about Using Social Media Tools to Connect to Customers to Support the Libraries

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BULLET 1: I find the way libraries use social media an interesting topic for this presentation. I will cover most of the major issues surrounding the use of social media by libraries to connect to their customers to support libraries I have defined briefly in this presentation my audience, which will be the library management.

B. Context and Audience Descriptions

- Evaluate Australian state libraries’ use of social media technology ...

Communication

- BBC News about Gender Role “Japanese Astronaut changes gender roles; her husband is back to home to look after his daughter.” This news is published by BBC in the topic on gender roles. The four women are orbiting the earth on the international space station. Among the four, one is the Japanese astronaut, and her space flight questions the gender roles between men and women. Mrs. Naoka Yamazaki is the second Japanese women astronaut in the space; her husband gave back his job to look after his seven- year old daughter Yuki, and his husband wants to ...

Introduction

Public Relations (PR) is the field which helps today’s complex society to bridge diverse outlooks and build mutual understanding with the goal of quicker decision-making and effective functioning. PR is applied to a wide range of institutions such as corporate ions, trade unions, voluntary associations, government agencies, hospitals, schools, churches and colleges. PR is the practice through which these institutions create effective relationships with different publics or audiences such as employees, communities, shareholders, customers, and other institutions. My interest is in use of emerging technologies such as social media in media relation functions of PR. In recent years, institutions ...

In a modern world people are drowning in the large volumes of data. Thousands of papers and researches are being published every day to support or refute some kind of statement. Is smoking associated with lung cancer? Did educational reform increase the efficiency of education system? Is the new medicine a better way of illness treatment? All these kinds of questions are trying to be answered by statistical analysis which often includes flaws and fallacies. Some institutions manipulate the statistics intentionally, while others fail to provide society with a reliable result because of a poor knowledge of statistical techniques.

According to Andrew ...

Identity Politics in the Visible World: Race, Anonymity, and Human Rights

The name Noam Galai is more than just a buzzword in all debates and topics related to privacy, secrecy, digital data and social media in the contemporary world. Rachel Kadish, who is a cousin to Noam Galai, tells the heartbreaking story of how his supposedly shy cousin becomes a victim of the greatest vice in the world internet today – theft of digital property. In her article "Who Is This Man and Why He is screaming?” Kadish narrates how the now international picture of her cousin robbed him of his privacy and the right to consent. Galai, who posted his controversial picture on ...

Butler, J. (1991) asserts in her article entitled “To Theorize as a Lesbian” that sexuality is self-determined. A person she said who is a lesbian or gay need not to declare to the world by going “out” of the closet and disclose to the world his or her totality as a person. She added that the one who discloses his or her sexuality may be the last to reflect on the real meaning of sexuality. Butler continued by saying that sexuality is not stagnant. She asserts that nobody in this world has the right to set standard indicators of being a lesbian as ...

The Walgreen Company Profile and Objective:

Walgreens is a pharmacy-led health, wellbeing and beauty enterprise. It was first established in 1901, the company has grown into the nation’s largest reputation chain through matchless customer service and nationwide store network. Walgreens is distributing its products and services to the all nooks and ...

Bill, Carmody. “The End of E-mail as a Mass Marketing Tool”. Business Week. March 24, 2014. Web. April 21, 2014. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-24/the-end-of-email-as-a-mass-marketing-tool Marketing: The processes, set of institutions or activities for creating, delivering, communicating and trading offerings with value for partners, clients, customers and society at large.

Mass Marketing: developing promotions and products to attract large group of people.

The article takes a futuristic outlook on the marketing practice and analyses the declining relevance of e-mails as mass marketing tools. According to the article, in 2013 alone, marketers spent about $113 Billion on e-mail mass marketing initiatives alone. However, going forward, automated mass marketers that depend on e-mailing technology will be doomed. ...

1. Who were the investigators and what was the aim of the study? The study was conducted to determine the relationship between media exposure and language development in children below two years. The investigators of the study include, Frederick J. Zimmerman, PHD, Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH, and Andrew N. Meltzoff, PHD. The investigators of the study are from the Child Health Institute of the University of Washington. 2. Who were the children in the study? The parents of children between 2 to 24 months were interviewed about their children as well as parent demographics. In ...

Netflix is an American company, a supplier of films and TV series based on streaming media. Founded in 1997. The headquarters is located in Los Gatos, California. The firm has more than 40 million customers in 41 countries (2013)

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Netflix originally engaged to rent movies to a DVD-ROM, using the business model DVD by mail only in the US. This business model works as long as not "blow up" online video market. Therefore, Hastings (CEO) decided to invest heavily in streaming video.

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Unlike traditional providers of broadcasting and cable television, company Netflix offers its subscribers unlimited access to premium-rate content without ...

Introduction

Bluetooth is a technology that enables short-range wireless communication between two or more electronic devices. The devices can thus transfer and synchronize data wirelessly amongst one another. Bluetooth works without cords or cables and is very convenient for transferring data amongst devices. The best part about this technology is that it is very simple and secure to use.

Bluetooth is an economic wireless solution for both data as well as voice for short distance. It is intended to create PAN (Personal Area Network). It works in stationary as well as mobile environments. It is dynamically configurable and does not ...

Consciously or subconsciously, children tend to imitate behaviors, by inculcating to their own personalities features “borrowed” from the ones they identify as models. Such models can be their parents or relatives, either characters they see on TV or on video games. Children’s exposure to violent TV programs or video games may influence their behavior and personalities, making children more aggressive.

Watching violent programs on TV on a regular basis may create the idea for children that violence is a normal behavior and attitude and a viable solution for solving problems (“Children and TV Violence”). Moreover, because childhood represents a sensitive period, ...

Design a PR plan for your arts program.I would be interested in creating a virtual arts exhibition where I would choose three paintings explaining their significance for art lovers in general. The marketing plan would include the publication of a press release to describe the various elements of the exhibition in question and how it may be used to attract newer audiences. The target market for this exhibition is the younger generation who may be attracted to such paintings accordingly. These are the exhibits for the art exhibition and their descriptions which are also an essential part of the marketing plan. The ...

Video Games and Desensitization

Video Games and Desensitization Video Game is an electronic game played by means of images on a video screen and often emphasizing fast action (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). Video games and the associated industry and bloomed and blossomed over the last few decades due to advent in technology and proportional increase in their demand particularly among the young, both males and females. According to the latest stats by Entertainment Software Rating Board, almost 67 percent of US households play video games and the average games spends around eight hours a week playing video games (2010). Moreover, the industry made a staggering and astounding ...

In their research paper, Bobkowski and Pearce analyze data to discuss how people share their religious beliefs on social networks. The data was gathered from 2007, when MySpace was still a popular social network and a lot of young adults and adolescents were a part of it, but data gathered from Facebook has the most significance because Facebook is currently the most popular social network in the world. The study also measured the quantity of self-disclosure online, and one of the hypotheses stated that people who have stronger religious beliefs and practice will engage in more religious disclosure online. Other hypotheses suggested ...

How Photographs Influence What People Believe

How Photographs Influence What People Believe People have many ways that they examine information to decide whether it is factual. Talking to others, doing experiments, looking at pictures, reading, and doing research are just a few ways that people form ideas about the surrounding world. Most people are familiar with the phrase, “seeing is believing,” which suggests that visual confirmation is a good way to establish whether something is true or false. It is easy to imagine how this works, because using the evidence of what is seen in order to make decisions is an essential part of life for ...

Arguably, media are one of the influential factors in the world today. Globalization and technological advancement have upgraded the way information and data is stored and passed. Media encompasses more than only news; this is because it can be used for various reasons, which include advocacy, public announcement, as well as entertainment. In Egypt media helped in gathering people before the protests. In fact, Egyptians used media to gather the entire populace of protesters at the same place and time. In general perspective, media can be used to reach very many people, making it one of the most influential ...

Introduction

Being a successful businessman is more of a skill than a talent. For some, it can be both but oftentimes; the business administrator’s experience can be one of the major qualities that could spell the difference between a successful and a failing business venture. In fact, it is not so uncommon to see widely talented, skilled, and even experienced businessmen fail in their ventures. Creating a business may be a bliss but the part where a person has to manage it successfully and turn it into an empire and make the enterprise strong for a certain number of times is what is more important and naturally harder. Given ...

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DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENT

The world is currently described as having shifted from an analogue to digital era. This is because technology has been embraced in every aspect of life and of the business cycle (Hocine, 2011). As a firm especially during these times of recession, where aggregate sales and profit are bound to drastically reduce it is good to drop the old methods and adopt new ones.

Digital advertisement is advertising of products via the social media; however there is a twist to it. This is after a research was conducted and it proofed that 87% of all teenagers owns a smart ...

Introduction

The use of internet particularly social media has become the part of the modern social life as it has made interaction easier thus bringing people close than ever before. In addition to daily interactions between families and friends, the Arab spring revolution in 2010 onwards saw the role of social media shift to a different dimension of mobilizing groups of people in achieving political changes for democracy. This is evident by the gradual increase in number of Facebook and Twitter subscribers in January 2011 in Egypt the subsequent use of You Tube in informing the world on the ongoing mass ...

- Key points in Business Week Articles on Outsourcing & Impact on China Broadcasting Industry

There are several points that are identified in the Business Week articles on outsourcing. In the Rise of India article, the points raised are that outsourcing is considered as an opportunity for the jobless recovery in the tech and services between India and America.

However, the outsourcing has raised the jobless rate among US software engineers that have increased 4.6% in the 3 years. The report by Bureau of Labor statistics has recorded unemployment of IT professionals is 234,000. The outsourcing is a ...

Data and information plays a significant role in the manner that any country is run. When citizens of a country have enough information, they are able to make informed decisions as opposed to working with information that is imposed towards them by the government. In Saudi Arabia, the government censors lots of information that could trickle down to the majority of the citizens. The authority that is responsible for the censoring of the information is the Saudi communications commission. The information that is censored is regulated by the decisions made by the council of ministers. One of the main reason that ...

Communication is the process of linking people to attain certain objectives. The Communication is the focal point on how the individuals create meanings within and across a variety of framework, civilizations, means and medium. Communication is a process used to timely and properly exchange information between a sender and receiver to achieve the desired goal (Youssef, 2005).

The communication feature is different and social scientists, humanists and cultural studies research into the field. Scientific discoveries and technological inventions during the 19th century laid the foundations that would eventually lead to mass electronic media (Steinberg, 2007). There are three styles of communication ...

In the contemporary era, the majority of adolescents are pleased about the ease, time-efficiency and handiness offered by the new technologies, especially Internet. Almost every child and youngster who has accessibility to Internet uses social media and social networking sites. According to a research, “93% of teens ages 12-17 go online” (Lenhart et. al 2010). Although Internet has many advantages, it cannot be denied that “there is also a dark side to the internet and that social media has undoubtedly been used by some as a platform for cybercrime and cyber bullying, which is a particular risk for teenagers” (O’ Keefe and Clarke-Pearson ...

The connectivity and technological advancement in media industry facilitate a faster transmission of the news, updating people on the happenings all over the world. The problem with media today is being bias within their reporting. The level of their engineered consent varies from one media network to the other leaving the audience to decide the broadcasting network of their choice the media tend to be most unfair while reporting news on issues that require society approval, like politics.

An example of the recent media bias, is when the armed men allegedly from Russian military forces entered the Crimea region ...

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This presentation focuses on one of the episodes of the Andy Griffith Show, a renowned TV classic. The show ran on television from 1960 until 1968 thereby producing a total of 249 episodes. Andy Griffith performed the role of a widowed sheriff in a small community. The fictional setting is in Mayberry in North Carolina. Andy’s life is made difficult by an incompetent deputy named Barney Fife, a housekeeper and spinster aunt named Aunt Bee and Opie, a precocious son.

Andy Griffith was among the greatest performers in the history of television. He was well recognized for his portrayal of the ...

Impact of the online movement

The virtual world continuously changes the landscape of society today. It has made the world more borderless were messages can be disseminated to people from across the globe in a span of seconds. Most of the time, social networks such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and many other online sites are used for leisure and communicating, but the power of these social networks goes beyond simply connecting people. Social networks are also used to promulgate advocacies and campaigns because of their ability to tap wider audiences.

In some countries, social networks are used as a medium to gain support from the public. ...

Since its emergence, social media has always been a key element for marketing, communications and strong customer support. Social media has supported almost every medium professional in the marketing landscape. Numerous articles on social media have been published so far. This paper aims to summarize the article / planning guide ‘Social Media Initiative’ by describing the issue and synthesizing what has been learnt from it. Furthermore, the paper will also highlight, why social media is important for accountants, regulators or businesses.

Every organization, enterprise, business, institution is now seeking help of social media for one purpose or another (Sweeney & Craig, ...

Analysis of local/regional Media (UAE and GCC Countries)

Introduction

The countries within the Middle East as well as the United Arab Emirates entails one of the most culturally and politically intricate regions across the globe. This is characterized by the rich and diverse cultural history that drives the modern day Middle East into struggling to balance the challenges of western culture and the modernization with traditional and religious values. The challenges occur as a result of the diversity within the region where the media plays a crucial in portraying the issues within the society and politics. The coverage of significant issues such as conflicts between Palestine and Israel ...

It is clear from the preceded discussions and illustrations that the technological advancement has resulted to a great change in the political communications system. However, new media is only a means to an end. It cannot create a backlash against government where none previously existed (Megalogenis, 2010). Essentially, modern media does not fabricate information but instead it serves as a platform to disseminate what already exists. Unlike, the traditional media where individuals relied on edited information, new media platforms such as twitter give people autonomy to share information with the highest degree of originality. For example, citizens in the US share information concerning ...

Introduction

The nursing profession has experienced unendurable nursing shortage over the last years. Shortage of nurse does not only compromise the quality of patients’ health care but also has detrimental effects on the nurses themselves due to high patient-to –nurse ratios. For instance, the shortage of nurses leads to job burnout due to increased workloads and frustrations among the nursing staff. In addition, nursing the shortage leads to increased workloads and longer working hours that are the main cause of job dissatisfaction that eventually increases the turnover of nurse (Wyte-Lake et al., 2013). The purpose of this paper is to ...

Introduction and Topic of Discussion Chosen

The topic of discussing that I have chosen to expand on is ‘Using Multimedia to Engage Learners’ that is found in Chapter eleven. The chapter discusses a wide range of media elements that can be engaged at different levels when it comes to educating learners. Most of the media elements discussed in this chapter are common to most individuals including the students thus they are conversant with them. These elements form part of the larger multimedia objects that include texts messages, video recordings, models, audio visuals and to some extent real objects that helps students to undertake demonstrative learning. This ...

When communication is intended to reach a large number of anonymous and diverse audiences with a strategy and purpose, mass communication happens. The channels or medium of mass communication are evolving and increasing year by year and its history may be as old as human existence. Tom-tom could be an ancient mass communication tool. The channels or media of mass communication include newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television, film, sound recordings and the Internet. My colleagues Mitchell, J and Perry M have recently made a presentation on the evolution and future of Books and Internet respectively. The presentations covered the evolution, significance, place ...

As a child, I spend a lot of time in my bedroom where I would play with my young brother at times sleeping comfortably and others times jumping up and down on the beds with him. We used to have fanciful moments that still linger in my memory clearly, as they occurred. When a try to revisit the room now, it dawns on me that there was more that I just used to see. There was a large table which I did not fully understand its use in that place. However, I remember that at times I would enter the room with my ...

Introduction

Mass media remain one of the single most influential facilities in the society today. The media cultivates certain matters into people’s normal lives to the extent that most people have become indoctrinated by different media facilities. In all spheres of life, the media continues to be the most trusted element (Baran, 2009). People would rather have information factual or otherwise, without interrogating the essence of the information provided. Mass media models people’s perceptions and way of life either positively or negatively. As information hub, the media provides information on different fronts. From political to ...

The Spiral of Silence was a theory created by Dr. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, a German political analyst in 1974. The theory is based on the public opinion; as Neumann suggests, people are more confident in voicing out their opinions if they know that their own opinion matches the opinion of the majority. In some cases, if the opinions bare quite different than that of the majority, people refuse to voice out their opinions and remain silent (Donsbach, Salmon and Tsfati, 2014).

Those people who belong to the minority are afraid to voice out their views for the fear of being socially isolated ...

Public opinion about national or international crises, concerning political, economic or health issues, is often shaped accurately or inaccurately by the news media. The recent Ebola epidemic affecting West African countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea among others is a case in point. In his recent article “Six Reasons to Panic,” published in The Weekly Standard, Jonathan Last observes that perhaps the panic alert portrayed in the media should not be taken lightly.1 He cites six reasons to support his assertion. These reasons are summarized below.

The first reason the author cites is that knowledge of how ...

Introduction

In the article “Children’s obesity in the united states and the actions of the media”, the American children are identified to be severely hit by obesity. Specifically 32% of children between the ages of 2-19 years are affected. The sickness in the United States is a concern due to its nature of easy to observe but hard to treat. To curb the exponential growth, the media and the government are working together to ensure that these rates go down. Body mass index is used to help stakeholders understand the situation. The collaboration is aimed at sensitizing parent so that ...

Introduction

Understanding self- identity in ‘selphie’ portrait photography looks at the influence of social media on the way people take mobile phone pictures connected to editing a new identity as portrayed in the photographs shared on Internet social networks. The amazing popularity of phone camera (see Figure 1) technology, photography, and the number of self-portraits finally appearing on Internet social networks continues creating a phenomenon. The effect looks at how social networks influence how people take selphie (Oxforddictionaries.com, 2014) photographs and edit them. Comparisons of film and digital photography linking to self-identity show a connection ...

The primary objectives and aims of this paper include the examination of various articles on the present state of B2B business. The articles examined provide information regarding the ins and outs of the enterprise. The advice and practices discussed in the articles and consequently this paper are paramount to this course considering that people with the requisite experience write them. Experience is known and famously praised as the best teacher, however, learning from other peoples’ experiences prevents an individual from having to fail in order to learn. As such, the articles also have some of the best practices in ...

Social media presents an exemplary tool through which Le Vignoble can increase its customer reach and extend its exposure to the market. Social media provides several avenues through which Le Vignoble cannot only make its existence known to people all across the world but also expose the public to its products and services and explain why they are superior to those of competitors. A niche with the customer will be created.

On an overall scale, the use of social media by the company will bring about several key benefits.

The gaining of traffic - The company already has a website. Just like the social media sites, the website is mainly intended to expand the people’s exposure ...