Host Discourse

The evolution of television content is currently steadily moving towards reality television shows. The shift from interest in fiction drama series to reality shows has turned the regular television viewers into addicted voyeurs. There have been diverse views on the effect of reality television shows ranging from support to criticism. George Will, in his article “Reality television: oxymoron” believes that reality television is making ordinary people degenerate morally and act stupid in the effort to please a disinterested audience. Reality TV shows are relying heavily on building extraordinary characters or events out of the norm and attract the attention of the audience. Kellner argues that the audience is enticed by “media constructs

This community has great potentials that are part of the discourse community. For instance, people from the hotel industry have common goals, they work for the purpose to improve their selves, their knowledge and be able to provide a better information about the hotel to the customer. They are require to learn and know more about their company , its history and chain if any; these common goals lead the employee to perform and develop a better job to acquire a higher level position. As a linguistic John Swales says, “Discourse community will lead us to be more knowable about our career and to have a better perspective of our desire goals”. By saying so we can be more informed about our career and we can determine if that is want we want or if we can follow a different career or goal.

The discourse community that I'm going to talk about and that shaped my identity is my youth group discourse community. The audience for this would be anyone who wants to know about my experiences with this discourse community. I believe that the audience would be interested in this because they would like to know more about this discourse community and how it forms the different identities in it. The purpose I am hoping to get out is for my discourse community to be explained in this essay and to show what my discourse community is all about. My discourse community is called Jobs Daughters International. It has many social values and has influenced my identity in many ways. The social values that it has is just teaching the skills that are formed and brought out in the discourse community.

The spread of television has affected American households universally, which started in the 1940s but has continued to make a dramatic surge. There is a trend at that is being captured across televisions in households everywhere. Politics, reality television, social media and public information is being broadcast from household to household. Television has in a way become a mode of how we think and interact with each other. Television is starting to leave that bubble where it was strictly entertainment, now television is becoming a source of what we must believe. The consumer demand for television as spiked dramatically, in the way we view ourselves and perceive others in the world around us is through a television screen. Although we are

Education may be the mold of our future, but the mold behind education is teachers. Behind all intelligent students lays a common factor, teachers. This paper will be focused on the discourse community which lays within the walls of James Bowie Elementary in Richardson, Texas. From interviews and observations to external research, I have been able to find and understand the most important aspect of this chosen community, communication. Communication is a vital role in this community because not only is it the way that they communicate with their peers, but when teachers communicate with each other they are showing their students how to do it. To begin, I brainstormed about my knowledge of this community. From the time I was a child to now,

The conversation of assimilation into a discourse community has been a long standing presence in academic conversation. Especially if a religious community is given the title of a discourse community. Typical methods of assimilating new members into a desired religion usually standout. For example, representatives of a religious organization go door to door to give out information about the religion is common practice, it a simply direct. Daniel Olson states in his research that smaller religious groups find more committed members through leaving and joining the group, compared to larger religious groups (359). Although Rahsaan Maxwell and Erik Bleich uses Muslims as his topic, presents relatable assimilation reasoning that Muslims who were

What is a discourse community? According to John Swales, a respected written communication analyst, a discourse community is described as a group of people that have the same goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. In addition, “A discourse operates within conventions defined by communities, be they academic disciplines or social groups” (Swales, 119). This is not be confused with a speech community, “a community sharing knowledge of rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech” (Swales 121). In determining whether or not a group is a discourse community, there are several certain rules, rather a list of criteria, in which

I resonated with Diana Kendall’s, “Framing Class, Vicarious Living and Consumption” article. This author’s choice of language had a huge impact on me. It helped convey the message of the article in a much smoother way. The media has people thinking they can be rich and famous like the people in the television shows. With her language and choice of words, she was able to eloquently portray that TV shows make us feel as if we need to have what the celebrities have, so we buy into what they sell and we feel like we are living a life just like theirs. Living like this only makes us acquire debt, because we are spending money we do not have in prevalence. It does the exact opposite we will only end up being poor and not reach the same status as

The idea of organization and interaction among people comes from a long time ago. It has been seeing so many organizations, groups and associations being created around world with the purpose of bringing together people, who share similar ideas, perspectives and interests. Not different from other places around the world, in University of Oklahoma- Norman Campus, there is a religious group called Nations United – life group, composing mainly by international students.. People might think that the unique goal of this group is encouraging them to grow deeper in their relationship with God, but there are so others goals such as meeting new people and places, encouraging and building relationships between it's members, and having fun. The members need to interact and be informed about meetings and events so genre of writing such as social medias and website are used to provide these information. This paper

Many people watching television, usually, want to mimic the people they watch. They can argue against what is said on television or agree. Some people just want to copy famous people so that they can feel like them. The news and other television stations “frame” social classes and famous people in many ways to spin their lives, making it very interesting to watch. Diana Kendall explores how media “frames” social classes and the people they show on television and other media forms.

The article “Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumptions” by Diana Kendall sparks the idea that social inequality may be a product of our media-driven society, but is media really to blame or is it a scapegoat in order to leave any personable responsibility out of the picture? Kendall writes “the media do not simply mirror society; rather, they help to shape it and to create cultural perceptions” (315). Although this statement holds validity, one could argue that it may be the other way around. Maybe it’s society that influences media, which in turn causes media to market for us in a more relatable fashion, for the main goal of media is to advertise to a relatable audience. There is no denying that media holds the high ground

Discourse Communities are everywhere but we just don 't realize them. You 're even part of a few on a daily basis. The definition of a discourse community that was provided in the “Discourse Community,” article by Schmidt and Kopple states, “ it 's a group of people who share a ways to claim, organize, communicate, and evaluate meanings”. Basically it’s where two or more people concentrate their attention on the same issue or idea. For example, a place where you work is a discourse community. All of the people working there have a similar style of communicating, thinking, evaluating issues, and lastly the methods they use while they 're working.

Palmer asserts the negative aspects of the popular television show “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” which claims to benefits lives on the participants' lives but this is a lie. There are many unsavory aspects shown through the need to generate television revenue through rating and marketing, production process and looking at the consequences that post-filming events that negatively affect the lives of show participants. The lack of corporate sponsorship also runs into a problem by asking money where it would come from due to lack of sponsorship. When sponsorship is low this leads to low production values for the TV show, which severely hinders the show's appeal, longevity or appeal to a mass audience, which leads to problems of lacking of searching

In the Ouellette and Hay reading, they talk about makeover television and how it has “achieved a visible role in the new circuitry of citizenship formation afforded by reality entertainment, and that “programs designed for these purposes are used to “amplify the government of everyday life” (p. 472). Having read this, I believe that the former television show, The Swan, is a good example of this, as all it does is promote/advertise the preferred and desired representation of women based on present societal norms. By doing this, they believe that these types of programs are taking advantage of the “cultural power of television” to press certain behaviors and norms into ordinary people while also teaching them how to perform these behaviors on

For close to a decade, the ethics behind the existence of reality TV have been questioned. While there are ardent viewers of reality TV, researchers and other scholars disapprove them, and claim that the world would have been in a better place. Reality TV shows, especially in America, are extremely profitable to media owners, and this has increased their popularity in the recent years. The main target audience for these shows are teenagers and women, who spend a lot of time discussing about them, even hours after the shows. Most of the reality shows in America and other parts of the world have common ideas. The most fundamental aspect of most reality TV shows is that they display people who go through embarrassing, painful and humiliating ordeals. This is what the reality shows expect their audiences to be entertained, and presumably laugh at the situations the people go through. For this reason and many more, it has been found that they are more detrimental than entertaining to the society, and therefore, the world would be in a better place without them (Pozner 89-91).