The Most Effective Form of Media
There are many different types of media. The media is things like:
televisions, newspapers, magazines, radio, internet, cinema, phones
and many more. Media is important because it influences people to buy
products. They are very affective and appeal to many people.
Adverts are things that show certain products and try to get you to
buy them. The purpose of adverts is to make you buy the products being
advertised so they can make a profit. Companies spend a lot of money
on adverts because if the adverts are perfect the product’s sales will
be much higher than when the product isn’t advertised. We find adverts
everywhere you find them on the television, radio and the internet.
You also get them in magazines, newspapers, football grounds and on
the players shirts. You even get them in public toilets because when
you are in there they might just catch your eye and they may interest
you.
Adverts try to persuade us to buy their products by using different
persuasive techniques. The persuasive techniques that are used are
things like: slogans and logos, pictures, layout of the advertisement,
the use of statistics and many more. Adverts also use hidden
persuaders which are like persuasive techniques, but they are
disguised. Hidden persuaders are things that are used like: addressing
the audience directly, personalising it and celebrities because if
they are using it, it will be a good product. Sex appeal and use of
striking colours are also used and if a few of these techniques are
used the advert will be a fairly good advert.
In television advertising only certain channels allow products to
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addressing the reader directly. I think this is the most effective
technique because it makes you feel as if you’re there.
Media is influential because it is in our lives every day, and it is
also very interesting. I think the best way of advertising is on
television, even though I said the Baileys advert was the best, but
this was because I did not like the L’Oral shampoo advert as much. I
think television is the best way to advertise because you get the most
techniques and cover nearly every aspect. The only aspect of
television advertising that is poor is that there is a limited time,
and you may not quiet catch the telephone number or completely read
what the small print says, so you have to wait for it to come on
again. This means that I think the most effective form of media
advertising is by television.
In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young, beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his detention in various penitentiaries, he was mentally probed and prodded by psychologist and psychoanalysts hoping to discover the root of his violent actions and sexual frustrations. Many theories arose in attempts to explain the motivational factors behind his murderous escapades. However, the strongest and most feasible of these theories came not from the psychologists, but from the man himself, "as a teenager, my buddies and I would all sneak around and watch porn. As I grew older, I became more and more interested and involved in it, [pornography] became an obsession. I got so involved in it, I wanted to incorporate [porn] into my life, but I couldn’t behave like that and maintain the success I had worked so hard for. I generated an alter-ego to fulfill my fantasies under-cover. Pornography was a means of unlocking the evil I had burried inside myself" (Leidholdt 47). Is it possible that pornography is acting as the key to unlocking the evil in more unstable minds?
Mental illness can be defined as a variety of disorders within the brain that can affect an individual’s mood, way of thinking and behaviour. These illnesses are caused by biological, psychological and sociological influences. Mental illnesses have become more prominent throughout communities while the seeking for help or a cure has appeared to become less evident. In today’s society, mental illnesses are portrayed through various media platforms in a way that causes such a stigma around the illness that it affects those who suffer almost as much as the illness itself.
There are many companies that use sex appeal in their ads today. For instance Victoria Secrets is one of the top sellers in lingerie. They show skin in every one of their ads. All of their models put on the sex appeal for all commercials and magazines. That is what helps them sell. Women look at those ads and see those girls floating on clouds like angels and feel they could feel the same if they wore that purple bra or red underwear. By showing these girls constantly looking sexy in their ads make women feel sexy just wearing them. That is the whole point of using sex in your ads. It?s amazing what a little skin can do. "In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex (Richards).
America is being overrun by a silent plague. No matter where you go, what you do, or who you are; you will find a horrendous fiend who victimizes every teenager and family no matter the social class! Who is this evil nemesis who preys on the living? To find the answer to this question, you may need to look no further than your purse or pocket. I am addressing, not only cellular devices, but all forms of media throughout the United States. Media, another term for mass communication, has been spreading like the plague thanks to new twenty-first century technology and outlets. Though media has existed for quite some time, it was never fully recognized as a possible conundrum until technology made indulgence in mass media nearly effortless. Many people have their own opinions on the matter, so it was only a matter of time before the topic became controversial! Though media has its advantages, teenagers who overuse and abuse the international medium maybe subjected to a significant amount of distraction, could face educational consequences, and can become a victim of cyber bullies, mobile threats, and additional technological dangers.
When I envision living life without Social Networking, I envision more time to think about important things, not status updates or how many likes I may get on a certain post. I see myself being satisfied with what I have, where I am, and who I am. After experiencing a fast from social media I became aware of the negative and dangerous effects it had on myself and relationships I had with others. Social networking occupied and numbed me from reality, it was a treacherous resting place. Life is more than getting a certain amount of likes or having a certain amount of followers. As defined: social networking is the use of dedicated websites and applications to communicate informally with users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself. The definition sounds innocent, but what it doesn’t include is the addiction it brings that holds you captive without being aware.
The Effects of Media on the Public's Opinion Mass media - have you ever taken the time to consider two articles about the same thing? Some may be more bias against a group or idea, while others keep a strict, non bias view. The way the media portrays events may change or even corrupt people's thoughts on certain public matters. This paper will dissect four articles on the Woodstock riots and show the relationships and differences between them. On a Sunday night, near the closing song of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, there were a few bonfires were reported. The firefighters, feeling they were under control, let these bonfires burn. Then Limp Bizkit came on, another hard-core band. In their song Breakstuff, the audience climbed a television camera tower and began ripping equipment and other electrical devices off of them. After Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, another hard-core band, played hard-core music that could have easily incited violence. When the smoke cleared away Monday afternoon, not only were thirty-seven people arrested, out of a countless number; there was also hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damaged equipment. In the articles, They Must Have Run Out of Drugs and
Media Effects on governing the mass media has played a major role in American politics since the formation of our country. So much so that it has been called by many, "the fourth branch of government." Originally, media power was only vested in the papers, but today radio and television are the more prominent forms of news. Since the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, presidents have used the media to spread their views to their constituents. FDR brought us the fireside chats in one of which he requested the American people to put their money back into the banks and get our economy moving again. The media informed the nation of Richard Nixon's less then honorable means of governing and the media brought the Vietnam War to our living rooms every evening. There are even those who believe that the media chooses our presidents by deciding whether to air the good or bad things they dig up on the presidential candidates. There are two major ways the mass media affects the public. These are agenda setting and priming. Agenda setting is the way the media dictates the salience of contemporary issues. An experiment performed by Iyengar et al in 1980 showed that media does effect how important an issue is to the public. In this experiment, Iyengar showed three different groups news clippings weighted on the side of specific issues, then showed a fourth control group undoctored news. He tested these subjects before and after the showings and found that in all but one issue, the subjects had moved in the hypothesized direction. This last issue was inflation and he concluded that people just could not think this issue was more important then they already did. Agenda setting effect is important to the government, especially the president, because it leads to priming.
Some of my skills in media include: identifying different media conventions such as colour and fonts, identifying the purpose and the main message of a piece of media and identifying the purpose of a media.
Violence in the media has been a growing problem ever since the emergence of mass media. One wonders however, how violence has become so prominent in our culture, more so than other countries. More minors are being involved in heinous crimes such as murders and armed robberies. Even play on the school ground is getting rougher. There are many factors that play into the increasing violence, such as over population, religious struggles, and race. One factor that plays into the increase of violence would be mass media. Mass media has the power to reach and influence almost every American. Radio, newspaper, and television are all means by which media reaches people. Television however, can be considered the most influential. Ninety-eight percent of Americans have a television in their household. When it first came out it was considered a novelty, there were only a few channels and the signal was not very clear. Now it is available through air broadcast, cable, or satellite. Television has become part of everyday life. With the growing fixation and attraction to violence in the media, children in today’s society are becoming more violent and aggressive than ever before. However, to obtain a true understanding of this problem we must look at all aspect that cause violence, and not just put all of the blame on the media. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t forget the number one violence causing aspect, the media.
As Terry Crews makes his entrance this is almost shown, as Crews is shown wearing nothing but red shorts this color is the meaning of fire and passion, but still has the bland background. Towards the end of the commercial, during the product placement, the color scheme changes to bland white shower tiles in the locker room. Also within this the name of the product is in white while the sub-line “Smell Is Power” is highlighted in red and yellow, Also it has the red cans of body spray under the subheading to try and push the power meaning more. To finish the commercial off they show Crews one more time with an explosion in the background further showing the color of power. Overall the advertisement I thought was a failure.
Nowadays, the popularity of these media is more to electronic media than printed media because their trying to dominate each other. A printed media have its own importance and popularity which cannot be replaced by anyone else. When though there is a tight competition between the newspapers and electronics medium among variety of newspapers increasing day to day which has made the print media cheaper, qualitative, informative and fast. The printed media is more accurate information details. The electronic media just hire people based on looks rather than journalism skills because the journalists and editor of newspapers are more efficient and experienced. The utility of print media will always remain informative to help the user. Printed media on deeper research of particular topic
Stereotypes is a big issue within the media industry. Representation within the media is to show someone or something, using a process of depicting, descripting and symbolization. Stereotypes, as described by Stuart Hall, is the “production of the meaning of the concepts in our minds through language which enables us to refer to either the ‘real’ world of objects, people or events, or indeed to imaginary worlds of fictional objects, people and events”. In his research Hall has suggested that there is two systems of representation, the first system regarding direct associations of events, people and objects that have certain mental representations and concepts that people have in their minds. Meaning is therefore
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Media is the most powerful sector of an economy. It is a tool to maintain a balanced society which is characterized by well informed people, effective democracy and social justice. In fact, media has unparallel influence on all aspects of human life in modern times.