What Is A Single Voice: Fact Or Fiction?

In an era of global technology, instant news, infomercials, electronic town meetings, and “Made for TV Documentaries,” the borderlines between news and analysis, news and entertainment, news and fiction are constantly shifting.

I have chosen the movie Signs to do my worldview analysis on. First, I will discuss the worldviews that the main characters in the movie have. I will then answer the question of if the characters were true to their worldviews. I will also discuss the obstacles that the main characters faced that deterred the character or characters from living out their worldview. Lastly, I will describe mental, emotional, or spiritual reactions I had to the movie as well as explain if I agree or disagree with the worldview present in the movie.

Denzel Washington once said, “If you don’t read the newspaper you’re uninformed, if you do read it you’re misinformed.” The difference between print news and electronic news is astounding. Overall, I must agree with Sam Jacob’s argument stating that electronic news will eventually overrun print news, and that print news doesn’t fully state everything that everyone needs to know. Dealing with rhetorical appeals, I feel that Sam Jacobs leans more on pathos than using logos and ethos to appeal to the audience. He states a lot about the hurricane and how it affected people and uses that to say that electronic print news covered more of it because you can have a multitude of news outlets covering the same story, each saying something different, but as an overall stating the same idea. A direct quote from his essay talks of the contribution that the citizens made saying, “Armed with cell phones and laptops, regular citizens relayed critical news updates in a rapidly developing crisis, often before traditional journalists were even on the scene” (115).

Weber highlights the dual position of mass media, which operate both as transmission vectors and as actors. The philosopher argues that the emergence of media monopolies, especially in television, transformed information into “pre-formation” (Phillips, 2011, p.170). Indeed, journalists and reporters used to process raw data, analyze it, and provide their readers with more or less relevant keys to enable them to form their own enlightened outlook on the content presented. With the advent of information technologies, the focus has shifted towards less analysis and a larger volume of “news”: “Transparency here would equate with immediacy of meaning and accessibility of comprehension” (Phillips, 2011, p.163). News TV channels offer a constant loop of raw data over raw data. They provide only superficial critiques of the material that they offer to their viewers: ”as you say, not so long ago the notion of information ‘implied a process of alteration’: it was developed to take into account the inevitable aleatory effects of space and time in the transmission of data.” (Phillips, 2011, p.170). Social media has intensified the thirst for fast circulating, humongous volumes of material, which is doubly mistaken for information and transparency: “it [social media, author’s note] can stimulate the expectation that ‘then’ is

Media Analysis ‘Media’ is the plural of the word ‘medium’, which often refers to different ways of communicating with other people; if the target is a large number of people, then it is called ‘mass media’. There are many types of media, such as TV, radio, films, newspaper, Internet etc. The main purpose of media is to entertain; however they can also be used to persuade, inform, explain and advice. Media can be very powerful; therefore people are influenced and affected by them.

Clive Thompson and Neil Postman are authors who discuss specific mediums through writing. Postman writes about the television and newspaper and Thompson writes about the internet age. Both of these authors use the same approach on their respected mediums. In comparison they both have the same piece of writing. Comparing side by side, it reveals a bigger idea that the communication medium always outweigh the cons.

“The whole problem with news on television comes down to this all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on one page of a newspaper”. The average news cast is only twenty-two minutes long,and that's not nearly enough time to cover the days events.In Neil Postman’s essay “The News” Postman talks about the structure,content,and goals and results of a television news cast. The news can be compared to the theatres in terms of its structure. According to Postman, “Music takes us immediately into the realm of the symbolic, a world that is not to be taken literally.”

News has spread around through different means and has rapidly evolved in just the past few hundred years, from newspapers, to news channels, and now also through online media. The purpose of these news outlets is to inform the population on current events locally and internationally. Many people feel as if the news does a good job in captivating audiences and influencing them, but wonder if they are actually reporting the news accurately. In their article, “Pictures in Our Heads,” Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson thought the same, and made statements stating that the media does effectively influence the population and insinuating that the media does not always portray their coverage accurately; this

Question: Explain how media producers communicate a preferred reading to the audience and why alternative readings might be made.

Each article will have varying audiences, cultural and political implications, relationships with corporations or governments, and many other factors that will contribute to their portrayal of the event. Collectively, these aspects will alter the general message delivered to the reader and reflect the thoughts and opinions of each media outlet, or more specifically their manufacturers.

“How media is presented truly interferes with the way we understand text and ideas [that are] struggling to be

When there is a disaster like this, the media expects a lot of looting, lack of response to the disaster, victims in need of rescue, and even death. But if the media

1. What struck me most about the astronaut video is the way in which all the speakers agree that they had a type of cosmic, profound experience when seeing earth from the perspective of space. They refer to this as the "overview" effect, where space travelers become aware of earth and its sun as a planet and star among others in space. One person noted that the effect of this, for him, was an emotional, visceral sense of being "one" with everything. Living on earth, it is difficult to achieve this perspective in a truly profound way. I think it must be an awe-inspiring experience to see earth like this, from space, with all its interactive, dynamic systems. It must be far more profound than study could ever make it.

When attempting to convey an idea, one must choose a form of media to express that idea to his or her audience. Depending on the message, some forms of media may be more expressive or accurate than others; however, I argue that the synergetic use of language, symbolism, photography, cartoons, and actions shown in film is the most expressive form of discourse. Furthermore, I argue for a new form of media that would be even more expressive by allowing a creator to make multiple art forms and communication styles that can be presented to the reader in a format that allows for the most idea expression of any previous discourse style in the past. Since many creators’ goals are to express their idea to the audience, it has been historically demonstrated

Both traditional and new media provide information, news and messages to inform us happenings around the world (UK Essays, 2013). Regardless of if it is the newspaper, magazine or Facebook, e-magazine, all types of media are able to relay information and entertainment.