How Technology Has Led The Media

(Reporter’s Notebook, 20 August 2015) that the unbrella term migrant does not fill it’s purpose when describing the horrific war unfolding in the middle east. It’s a term that both dehumanises and seperates us from them. We must realize that they arent just migrants, they are people with hope and history searching a future as anyone else. Malone also descibes that migrant deaths aren’t equal to deaths of others in media. Malone writes that the majority of the people drowning in the Mediterranean are refugees and that we rarely talk about them as people anymore, instead they are seen as

On September of 2015, the image of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi went viral. “The toddler’s lifeless body on a Turkish beach had reverberated across the globe” (Parkinson & George-Cosh, 2015). Aylan’s family had “fled the brutal civil war in their native Syria and only attempted the boat crossing after Canada denied their application of admission as refugees. The image led to an astonishing outpouring of support for Syrian refugees” (Hein & Niazi, 2016).

The western world was brought to its knees by a three year old. The three year old boy, Alan Kurdi, body was found washed up on the shores of Syria, after the refugee ship he was on with his parents capsized. A beach should be a fun place, filled with toddlers splashing in the water, not where the bodies of innocent children wash up to. An image taken showing a paramilitary police officer carrying little Alan Kurdi’s body off the beach hit the news and social media by storm. Canadians were horrified about the situation in Syria and demanded their government to take action. Half of those million refugees’ where teens and children. With an estimated over two thousand and five hundred people have drowned this summer, as more that 300 000 Syrians

Media in Society: A Brief Introduction’s chapters one, two, three, and four delve into detail about how we are able to understand and analyze the media, how we view the media as metaphors, all different ways images capture meanings, and all the various narratives that are presented by the media. Beginning with chapter one, this particular chapter discusses how we understand media in our society in various ways. It introduces the critical process to comprehend media content. This chapter also describes the diverse forms of media criticism named reflectionist, contructivist, and narrativist and how they tell stories about the media.

We are at this era where we can sit and type something out which could be accessed by anyone who is online. New media such as blogging, social media and the internet creates this possibility.

The sharing of the horrifying image across social media of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi’s dead body washed up on a beach in Turkey has brought the Syrian’s plight into the eyes of the entire world. Thousands of desperate men, women, and children make illegal and unsafe journeys across entire oceans just to get away from the ongoing conflict that is occurring in their home country. In view of the root of this horrible situation, one observes events dating back to 2011, when pro-democracy protests began throughout the country of Syria. These protests displayed the anger prevalent among the Syrian people against President Bashar Al-Assad’s authoritarian government. The attempt by President Bashar Al-Assad to suppress the numerous protests with

Syrian Child, and how the countries reacted to it. The drowining of Syrian Child appears gloomy and hopelfull at the same time. Nature has too declared the power of westerner countries or the nature just wants to realize who stands there? and europe has proved it again that they have bigger hearts and economy than others parts of the world. Hundreds of refugees got a chance to move across the borders, the way the death of small child became a source of shelter of everyone, i think everyone thanked him with the abundance of the heart yet not showed publicaly. Migrations are not always outcomed as happy and the events done of one's own accord. the faces of these migrants can easily tell. But it is for long a better way to get rid of hunger, p[overty, Taliban's threats, War and devastating political; condition of one's country. They had lost their homes in order to find now but this

The article shows the significance of the recent photo depicting a toddler who drowned while trying to flee to Greece. This photo caused feelings of moral obligations by the American people to surface, and the United States population to become concerned with the federal policy of accepting these refugees. Due to the threat of ISIS members or other hostile group members gaining access to American soil, the process for refugees to get to America is long and tedious. These homeland security issues faced by the federal government have now been countered by the continuing pressure from European Nations and the American people to aid a substantially larger amount of refugees than are currently being allowed to travel to the

The complete disregard for those in Lebanon, leads to travesties; incidentally, in the drowning of Aylan Kurdi, a young Syrian refugee attempting to escape the violence that infected his home drowned in his escape from Syria. Therefore, whenever tragedy strikes, such in the case of Aylan Kurdi, publishers such as The Wall Street Journal must take full advantage of its authority to share the story of not only the young refugee Aylan but all of the suffering refugees in Syria and Lebanon. The Syrians and the Lebanese face several complications including, the lack of support from their governments to nonexistent human rights, and total neglect from the world concerning the overall well being of the refugees from the middle-east. Through Aylan’s tragic attempt at escape, the public has awoken to the cries of countless refugees in Syria seeking

The images of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who drowned while his family were trying to reach the Greek island of Kos sent shock waves around the world and inspired a collective call to action. Immediately, advocacy groups took to social media to generate awareness and support for the plight of asylum seekers. Subsequently, the hashtag #refugeeswelcome circulated on social media together with a number of online petitions that urged world leaders to adopt a more humane policy towards asylum seekers (Getup 2015; Rajan, A 2015). This is an

“The Drowned Boy”, Aylan kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian refugee boy, died at the shores of Greek islands of Kos when trying to escape from the land of chaos with expectation of a life; a life of free of fear. This happens in Europe, but the picture of his corpse opened the eyes of world and revealed the comprehensive agony of being a refugee. The refugee issue has received significant attention in the past through scholarly books and the medias. In their book Calculated Kindness- Refugees and America’s Half- Open Door,1945 to Present, Gil Loeschier and John A. Scanlan describe about the

“Healthy body image is not something that you 're going to learn from fashion magazines,” (Shapiro) said Erin Heatherton, a Victoria Secret’s model since 2008. Media influence has increased considerably over the past three decades, whether it’s been through television, social media, or tabloids. The number of televisions has also increased in America since the 1950’s and most American have access to a television. Consequently, the images and attitudes are portrayed to the viewers. The seemingly “perfect” actors and actresses presented on television become the goals the viewers want achieve. Why is this goal unachievable? Due to the fact the seemingly perfect models have a team of make-up artist, hairdressers, and personal trainers. The media wrongly redefines healthy body image. According to Heatherton, who was raked number 15 of 25 sexiest models in 2013 agrees that healthy body image is not something one learns from media. Although, Victoria Secret’s Angles contribute to the skewed definition of “healthy” she recognizes its fault. Magazines are photoshopped-- digitally altered, to create flawless images that attract consumers for financial gain. Media has altered the “healthy” body, increased eating disorders, and placed an injurious importance on appearance.

On September of 2015, the image of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi went viral. “The toddler’s lifeless body on a Turkish beach had reverberated across the globe” (Parkinson & George-Cosh, 2015). Aylan’s family had “fled the brutal civil war in their native Syria and only attempted the boat crossing after Canada denied their application of admission as refugees. The image led to an astonishing outpouring of support for Syrian refugees” (Hein & Niazi, 2016). President accepted 10,000 Syrian refugees.” (Hein & Niazi, 2016). But “In the US, the governors of 31 of 50 states issued orders to prevent the resettlement of Syrian refugees and by a vote of 289 to 137 the US House of Representatives approved legislation to ban the admissions of all Syrian and Iraqi refugees” (Hein & Niazi, 2016).

Media plays a big role in society these days. Whether it be letting society know what is going on the in the world today or something as simple as updates on current life on social media. The media's role in society not only delivers information of the world but also brings people together through common interests or general talks. In Brian Knappenberger's documentary: Nobody Speak: Trials of Free Press it is seen how media effect lives and how there is a much stronger meaning to what media stands for in society and why media needs to take its stand when it comes to people who want to devour them.

It can change opinions because they have access to people and this gives it a lot of strength. This strength can either be used constructively by educating the people or it can be used destructively by misleading the innocent people. Power of the media can transform the whole society especially in the developing countries it can be used as a 'weapon of mass destruction'. But I think the most important use of media is to educate the people about the basic human rights. The dilemma of the developing countries is that people are not fully aware of their basic rights and if they know, they don't know about what to do and where to go. They don't know their collective strength. Even they don't know how to protest and what is the importance of