ARTICLE COMPARISON
In February of 2014, Australian television personality, Charlotte Dawson committed suicide and the story was explored in media. Amy Harris presented the “Tragic End to TV Beauty’s Life of Drama”, published by The Advertiser on the 23/2/14 and “Charlotte Dawson: ’We Miss Her Terribly’” was written online for the Otago Daily Times, with an unpublished author name, on the 25/2/14. The Advertiser displayed an informative text compared to the Otago Daily Times article which was seen as a persuasive piece. Audience, purpose, context, form and language are communicated in the contrasting articles.
The target audience of The Advertiser is those situated in South Australia as it is a tabloid publication based in Adelaide. The
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Amy Harris presented specific background information on Dawson’s life prior to her suicide as she was not well known in Adelaide, and the ‘highs and lows’ segment was also informative, providing succinct details on her life experiences.
The Advertiser and the Otago Times Daily are written within somewhat different contexts. With celebrity culture having a large importance within our society, knowing that Dawson was only known in some world regions, Amy Harris assumed the target audience to be uneducated of Dawson’s life experiences. In The Advertiser life experiences were presented sporadically throughout describing her “battling depression”, “living a life full of contradictions” and becoming an “anti-bullying advocate”. In comparison, the Otago Daily Times gave little to no background knowledge to readers as she was brought up in New Zealand and her story is already in context. Also in recent years, celebrity suicide has not been uncommon. According to the website ”NWO Insider ”, the celebrities, Lee Thomson Young (September 2013), Corey Monteith (July 2013), Mindy McCready (February 2013), Mark Balelo (February 2013) and Gia Allemand (August 2013) all committed suicide in the last year highlighting the prevalence of suicide and how common it is in current society and therefore it is not unusual for this to occur. Mental health is also described within context in both articles. The Advertiser comments on Dawson being in a “very bad shape emotionally” as
Australian TV shows have changed rapidly over the years. The decades that will be discussed in this presentation include the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s and the 2000’s. Australian TV has influenced many changes in our society; some of these included fashion trends, hobbies, job courses, the food we eat, our opinions on things and, the way that we view ourselves and others. Some social issues have arisen over the years include the negative effects on our youth due to television watching.
Consumers are aware of the impact of media on community behaviour as a whole. A conducted survey shows careless media reporting can trigger suicidal behaviour to consumers. The study concludes that the influence of suicide reporting may not be limited to harmful effects; instead, coverage of positive coping in adverse situations, like media reports about suicidal ideation, can have protective effects (Niederkrotenthaler T et al 2010). When grunge icon Kurt Cobain of Nirvana committed suicide with a shotgun to his head, it created an explosion for copycat suicides. After a month following his death, 18 suicides were recorded in Seattle including 28 year old obvious copycat who have just attended a candle light vigil a few days after Cobain’s body was found (Klass T 1996).
Imagine that you are the creator of the Paul Hogan ‘Shrimp on the barbie’ ad. Evaluate the effectiveness of this ad in exploring a ‘realistic representation of Australia.
In Tania Modleski’s “The Search for Tomorrow in Today’s Soap Operas” she introduces that the rare appearance and function of soap opera in two ways. The first being the viewer’s ability to occupy the text’s recommendation of the viewers position of ‘the good mother’, and the second using the stereotype ‘villainess’ to displace one’s own bottled up anger and powerlessness. I will analyze these two functions by using Modleski’s perspectives on the positions of soap operas, how a new genre of reality television programs that are featured today function in a similar way.
A standard feature article or personality profile, to be declared as a riveting one, should be written in a style of fiction, patched with pictures and characterized with quotes from the exclusive interview. But given a “death of a celebrity” situation, what could be the new measures in producing a cordial article that can both celebrate and mourn the death of the person?
Suicide is a sensitive topic for most people, and in the GQ article “Are You Sure You Want To Quit The World”, Nadya Labi creates a strong ethos as she writes a nonfiction article about an online predator who preyed on people going on suicide chat sites. In the article Nadya writes about how a man named William Melchert-Dinkel under the online pseudonym Li Dao would go on suicide chat rooms and do his best to convince people to go through with their suicidal thoughts and hang themselves, and Celia Blay, with the help of another woman Kat Lowe, do what they can to hunt him down. In doing this she creates a nonfiction piece the manifests itself as typical hero and rival story, a story in which the hero, protagonist, or good-doer attempts to stop the villain, rival, antagonist or wrong doer from whatever harm they with to inflict. Even more specifically, Labi piece can be read as a detective story, in which the hero goes through trials and research in order to hunt down a criminal whose identity is often initially unknown.
Adelaide achieved many things but it all started with taking the first step. Before Adelaide’s public life began, there was a terrible tragedy that had struck which pushed Adelaide to helping other women. Unfortunately, her youngest son who was only
In media relations, fashion reporter Erin Cunningham in “Our Photoshopping Disorder” and editor Serena Elavia in, “The Collective Conscience of reality television.” Cunningham, and Elavia write articles on what is the most talked about in today's society. Media and reality television may seem different, but in these articles both writers are showing the ugly truth on just how similar they are. Cunningham and Elavia agreed on similar points, in both stories the general agreement of public views, poor behavior that has to show for each, and the facts and potential health issues that are occurring will be the main topics that both authors agree and explain their opinions and supported with facts.
The context of production and the context of consumption are the two dimensions that are relevant to the reason the message is being communicated. The fact that the only information about the writer of the article is a first name at the bottom of the page signifies that who wrote the article is not significant, but who owns it may be. Inquisitr, the media outlet producing the representation, is a news website whose goal is to publish the latest trending news and to ensure that readers “never miss the internet’s hottest stories.” According to the available audience demographics, the most popular section that readers browse is the celebrity and entertainment section and the site’s target audience is women, people with some college education, and people who work from home. Evidently, Inquisitr is built and branded as a site for the every day internet user. As a result, substantial, quality news is not the priority, but rather quick and compelling articles that have the potential to go viral. The story of Harold Henthorn and the death of his wife then is not written as the tragedy that it is, or even as a legal recount of the case, but as a brief, flashy murder mystery story that intrigues and engrosses the reader. Production and consumption of a representation, therefore, are not independent, but tightly linked in a way that creates the general
Neil Postman writes, Amusing Ourselves to Death to address a television-based epistemology pollutes public communication and its surrounding landscape, not that it pollutes everything. The book was produced in 1984 in a time where television was an emerging epidemic and other forms of communication that today have taken flight, didn’t exist. It is directed to people who have let television drag them away from their Focus and attention to comprehend as they have lost the ability to bring forth your own knowledge and find meaning. Postman’s purpose to spread the word of this discourse and inform them of how much society is being set back due to the over indulging of television
Noel Murray, a writer in TheWeek.com, published a nonfiction article on February 15, 2017 called, “TV’s Callous Neglect of Working - Class America”. Murray wrote this article to convey the fact that television series now don’t exemplify the realness of how most people live. To exhibit his views he uses a powerful structure, metaphors and oxymorons. Murray’s reveal that television does no unite us as one since the shows don’t even display the real daily life one may live. Murray establishes a informal tone for young adults watching television.
In the article, “Dear Media: When You Cover Death by Suicide, do it Thoughtfully”, Melissa Batchelor Warnke confronts the media and their insensitive coverage of suicide. She brings forward the fact that most of the headlines for articles about Chester Bennington’s death were “deeply flawed”, “inconsiderate”, and “dangerous” when bringing this subject forth to readers. This is, clearly, intended to shed light on the mistakes he media is making in covering sensitive topics like this. She presents a challenging and assertive tone, directed at the audience of journalists and publishers in media, who make these mistakes.
The advertisement is for Sisley about "Fashion junkie" the Copywriter is Sandy Sang, the advertisement has been published in June 2007. The advertisement shows of two models looking like they are inhaling drugs as the model on the right the body language looks like she is in the case of drugged. Those models who are addicted to the Sisley clothing, but there is a part showed there is a real drug on the credit card. In my opinion, advertisement is the important way to promote products and attract customers I think it is a breach of the literature, scandal brand like Sisley, and trifle advertisement for what are they doing !, to the extent that these are making adult and teenagers showed this type of advertisement though they will make teenagers
I think celebrity culture the world over infects vulnerable families with a sense of one 's public image being equivalent to one 's worth. In my family, it began with my show-star great-grandmother, and was handed down, as with that dictionary, that sense of fashioning a persona that not only shields you but is your best self. I think this fear is cultivated if one’s inner life is too quiet. And is why secrecy poisons the fragile filaments of love. Why I still have to check myself when I spend too much time gazing into a mirror and flexing as my father once did.
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