Media is playing a major role in people’s daily life, especially during national celebrations because sometimes they direct their opinions and tell the people what to do during these celebrations. For that reason, every country the media shows celebrations in a different way than the other country depending on the culture, religion and the type of celebration. Media in Oman present Eid and the Renaissance Day celebrations as a source of joy and happiness, as well as America in The Independence Day and Christmas but with more consumption.
Eid is a religious holiday which became also a cultural holiday in Oman. The media show Eid as a religious and cultural celebration for all Omanis. When the media present the Eid as a religious holiday, they show the Eid prayer and send the congratulations to the entire Islamic nation. The media also present the Eid as a cultural holiday by showing the dancing and songs which shows the joy and happiness during Eid days between families and neighborhoods. Mostly during the day the entire media is talking about Eid by showing live programs, celebrations and songs. Live shows during Eid are shows that present for sending the congratulations to the Omanis and to the Sultan Qaboos. It also shows the live celebrations in some villages during Eid days. At the end of the show they include part for the audience to participate and share their experience in Eid.
The Renaissance Day is the day when the Sultan Qaboos took the leadership from his father and the start of development by using oil. The media show that day as a change of Oman’s timeline and to the start of the renaissance. T.V shows present the celebrations around the country and it gives the audience an opportunity to express their feelings about...
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...at they are sources of happiness and joy that spread all over the country during that day. Also, media shows the strong bonds in society and in families by sharing the love in a different ways. People in both countries as the media show they have a sense of patriotism during governmental and federal celebrations as The Renaissance Day and The Independence Day.
As a final consideration, media in America relate consumption in celebrations such as The Independence Day and Christmas as a source of joy and happiness. While in Oman joy and happiness came from Eid and The Renaissance Day celebrations. Media with its affect in people’s life, it varies from country to another depending on the culture, religion and type of celebration in that country. The media show the differences and the similarities in the way of reactions and presenting the celebration in each country.
Having 22 different countries, the Arab region has diverse political, religious and ethical views that are accepted in one country but rejected in other countries. These diversities presented different reactions to what was seen as controversial content that MTV network was introducing. Different religious conviction such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism make some television content acceptable in some countries but rejected in other countries. Religious forms the most vital aspects of Arabs’ lifestyle and is greatly considered in mak...
The purpose of individual cultural assessment is to gain a greater understanding of the values and attitudes of another cultural group through an in depth interview with a member of the group of interest. For this assignment, the interviewee is a forty-eight years old Muslim woman from Bangladesh. Based on an extensive interview with Mrs. SK, the paper discusses many topics including cultural affiliations, cultural sanctions and restriction, religion and spirituality, health-related beliefs and practices, and patterns and traditional ideas within the Bengali Muslim community. In addition, celebrations and rituals will be explored and analyzed for its significance to the Bangladeshi culture.
In his classic work Christ and Culture, H. Richard Niebuhr asserts that the relationship between earnest followers of Jesus Christ and human culture has been an "enduring problem."1 How should believers who are "disciplining themselves for the purpose of godliness" (1 Tim. 4:7) relate to a world whose culture is dominated by "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life" (1 John 2: 16)? Culture is God's gift and task for human beings created in His image and likeness. At creation humanity received a "cultural mandate" from the sovereign Creator to have dominion over the earth and to cultivate and keep it (Gen. 1:26, 28; 2:15). But sin's effects are total, and culture—whether high, popular, or folk—has been corrupted thoroughly by rebellion, idolatry, and immorality. How, then, should Christians, who have been redeemed, "not with perishable things like gold or silver . . . but with precious blood, as of a lamb, unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ" (1 Pet. 1:18-19) live in relation to culture? According to Jesus in His high priestly prayer, believers are to be in the world but not of it (John 17:11-16). But in what way? How do believers act in and interact with the "crooked and perverse generation" (Phil. 2:15) that surrounds them and of which they are a part?
Media has had many changes in the past years. Growing up I remember my mom saying that we were lucky to have color televisions now. She would say that when she was younger she would have to hear her stories and games over the radio because back then there was no televisions. Another way of getting entertained was reading stories. The newspaper and the radio was the only way of getting news back then. I thought it was funny when my mom told me that since they were one of the few families that had a television in the neighborhood, she would charge the kids 10 cents to watch television in her house. This was actually a pretty smart thing to do.
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...nvergence of broad communications from bigger countries as a critical variable in contrarily influencing more diminutive countries, in which the national personality of more diminutive countries is decreased or lost because of media homogeneity characteristic in broad communications from the bigger nations. In connection to McDonald’s media, the plugs and publicizing push the staple "quick sustenance" method for living. On the other hand, for most societies, this is pushing a development far from a family arranged eating to singular feasting. While American society keeps tabs on consuming as a need, most different societies view feasting as a social experience with religion assuming a critical part in its practice. McDonald’s promoting's push of American society pushes independence and freedom upon societies that generally support congruity and family orientation.
As a one of the largerst Muslim in the world, we have to pround of our traditional celebration days besed on religion especially muslim. And don’t forget to be tolerant to another celebration days.
...ng the Renaissance were much like the modern day celebrities and personalities that entertain society through and through. The world had become so infatuated with taking in more knowledge into discovery and exploration of life and nature that by producing its images and projections onto a canvas or perhaps carved into stone was the most entertaining process to take part in. There is a true Renaissance man within all human beings and by taking a deeper and closer look into the greatest works of art, gaining a greater appreciation of the Renaissance heritage in an uplifting and edification of experience. The art within the Renaissance rediscovered man for what and who we are as individuals and giving up the idea that each person is just another part of the species fulfilling a number within the population and showing the true beauty and aesthetics of life and nature.
Taking a macro level approach, this paper will be arguing that structural institutions like the media makes use aware of our national identity. Along with this, it shapes our understanding of other cultures whether positive or negative. Many people who watch movies or television shows can see that there is an abundance of negative portrayals of Muslim women, whereas it is often tough to see positive ones. This paper will deconstruct how this negative representation showcases aspects of colonialism, racism, and white supremacy in western society.
When Tillich makes reference to his famous quote I feel that he was saying that culture and religion go hand in hand with one another. Each culture deprives from religious substance. In every culture the depth and the dimension of that relationship vary. Religion is something that each of us have in some form or some aspect. Something that comes to mind is when Tillich was speaking of the greatest commandment. Tillich spoke about this in his book Theology of Culture chapter four. When I say this I feel that you can make anyone or anything your God. In return you can love that God with all your heart. Regardless of what type of God you choose there is always judgment. Tillich mentioned judgment of cultures and religious belief. Tillich mentioned that the church is also of the work and included under the judgment with which judges the world. In some of the pictures that we viewed in this category relates to making your religion your culture. The films that came to mind were “The Mission”, “The Chosen”, “The Rapture”, “Paris is Burning” and The Long Walk Home. In “The Mission” Mendoza was so caught up in doing his job capturing Guaranis, that he never once thought about how it affected the Guranis people. In my opinion his job became his god. In the film “The Chosen” the families were so caught up in religion and their culture; that did not want to socialize or interact with no one outside their religion. They felt that if you were not part of their religious belief or culture then you were not worthy enough. I envision this happening today amongst Christian denominations. I feel these two films showed examples of explicit religion. In the motion picture “The Rapture” the wife went into trying to make sure she was ready for th...
The use of media and popular culture is a sociological phenomenon wherein the structural changes to society, which accompany the emergence of new forms of communication and accessing information, can be examined. There are many differing views regarding whether media and popular culture are necessary to the functioning of a democratic and egalitarian society or whether they actually further social inequality and inhibit political discussion or involvement. Although both interpretations are arguably valid, it can be seen that it is not popular culture and the media in and of themselves but rather how they are consumed by the public that determine how these mediums influence individuals and by extension the wider society.
In the beginning, the relationship between everyday culture and mass media culture are closed but there are some difference between popular culture and traditional culture. The traditional culture is known as ‘high culture’ which refer to literature, art, music etc. However, popular culture is the produced by mass media, may know it as low culture. People used to entertainment or relaxation. It shared and spread rapidly in groups, communities, societies and so on. Some people may say popular culture help us to understand more about the world because of the globalization factor.
Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms” from Media, Culture and Society, Raymond Williams and E.P Thompson summarize about the way they saw culture, they refer it to the way of life and saw mass media as the main role in capitalist society. Williams’s perspective, his ideas was referred to culture as to social practice, he saw “culture as a whole way of life” and as to structuralism that makes the concept of the “structure of feeling“(Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms” 1980). William was influenced in the seventy by Gramsci’s but, Williams became familiarly with Gramsci dominate and at the end of the 1970’s hegemony became the central concept of cultural studies. Thompson main idea was cultural focus, but mostly on social
The way we live today, was not how the world lived years ago. There were many different time periods that tried many different ways of living; many failed. The Renaissance, which also means rebirth, went on from the 14th to the 17th century. A connection the people of the modern life to the renaissance is the motivation; money, fame, and power. Aspects of the Renaissance time period helped shape a lot of art, literature, and technology we have today. It originated in Florence, Italy and soon spread throughout western Europe. The Renaissance is widely known for the innovation of new technology and ideas.
There are many institutions of technology that have influenced Christians to support or oppose the media as a whole. Even to this day, there are differing opinions of how Christians should approach media. Some say that we should avoid it all together, and some say that we need to be fully involved with the media. It ultimately comes down to one’s world view and their approach to being the light of the world that Christians are supposed to be.