1. Media criticism is both theoretically and politically driven in the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. The theoretical perspective in the terms of critical media deals with the attitude of skepticism. This stance stems from the title alone and is subjected to a negative representation of women, with the stereotype of the love struck hysterical women. Politically it deals with domination and exploitation of relationships when it comes to influence. The main character gives up everything to chase after a man she barely knows. When you dive deeper into the narrative of CEG it actually is a feminist show by giving the initial premise as a sexist insult but is meant to be ironic. The feminist lens can be seen through the main character being high power lawyer and freeing herself from the expectations put on her by society. 2. …show more content…
Marxism in media criticism deals with socioeconomics and examines class system in relation to historical materialism. This methodology is used analyze and critique the development of capitalism and the role of laborer and in their economic struggles. Marxist political economy is relationships between people and classes through the patterns of media ownership for profit-motives and how it influences media business practices. An example of this is how we consume media. Both entertainment and media industries are making billions off our consumption of what we read, view, listening to and downloading. The analyses of mass media examines the relations of production under multinational capitalism. These patterns of media ownership are concentration, meaning small concentration of small industries owners that dominate their field. Conglomeration, accumulating multiple companies through mergers and takeovers. Integration, is how a business is put together by vertical and horizontal integration. Multinationalism, which is corporation’s being in multiple countries distributing products
Firstly, Newsom provided a handful of statistics that show how the media has affect women negatively. Girls are exposed to the idea of having the “perfect body” at a very young age due to television. This causes them to become unhappy with their bodies. According to “Miss Representation,” fifty three percent of thirteen year old are unsatisfied by the look of their bodies and as they reach the age of seventeen, that percentage increases to seventy eight percent. This causes eating disorders because women are taught to look a certain way. The characters on tv shows and
The significant question regarding this consequence is whose version of the world is being portrayed in the media content and are there any political or economical reasons behind that. Even more significant is the ideological implications of the media ownership concentration, which is especially relevant nowadays, in the time of new ideological conflicts in the world. Regarding the Time Warner example, the media concentration consequence of growing political and economical influence is also evident in that case. This media conglomerate had been accused of being politically biased several times. Time Warner is claimed to be liberally biased and thus received a lot of critique. It is perceived as a media corporation which deals with particular types of content better or worse depending on the provider’s political and financial relationship to the Time Warner Cable and the established power over it. (Sirota,
In this essay, I’ll argue which point are similar between media history and contemporary media by using examples which are mainly focus on consumption culture and how technology has changed the way of media environment, then I’ll conclude that why studying media history helps understanding for contemporary
Hallin and Mancini’s conceptual framework comprises structures of four dimensions development of media markets, political parallelism or “the extent to which the media system reflects the major divisions in society”, the development of journalistic professionalism , and the degree and nature of state intervention in the media system; furthermore aspects of the state role; degree of pluralism, type of democracy, and degree of rational-legal authority with associating to the political contexts of media systems. Hallin and Mancini conceptualized the three models of media and politics when referring characteristic configurations within these dimensions. These are Mediterranean or Polarized Pluralist Model, North Central Europe or Democratic Corporatist Model, North Atlantic or Liberal Model. The principal features of Mediterranean or Polarized Pluralist Model are high political parallelism, low newspaper circulation, weaker professionalization, strong state intervention; North Central Europe or Democratic Corporatist Model consists high new...
HBO's Sex and the City has become a cultural icon in its 6 seasons of running. Based on Candace Bushnell's racy book Sex and the City, the show exhibits an unprecedented example of the sexual prowess of women over the age of 35. The result is an immense viewing audience and an evolving view on the "old maid" stigma that a woman's chances of finding love are significantly reduced after thirty-five. In this paper, we will closely analyze the characters and themes of Sex and the City to explain the significance of what the show represents in American culture.
One of the fundamental roles of the media in a liberal democracy is to critically scrutinise governmental affairs: that is to act as a watchdog of government to ensure that the government can be held accountable by the public. However, the systematic deregulation of media systems worldwide is diminishing the ability of citizens to meaningfully participate in policymaking process governing the media (McChesney, 2003, p. 126). The relaxation of ownership rules and control, has resulted in a move away from diversity of production to a situation where media ownership is becoming increasing concentrated by just a few predominantly western global conglomerates (M...
In the United States, as well as throughout the majority of the world, people are bombarded with information on a daily basis. The majority of the information that it seen or heard is a direct result of someone aiming the information at the masses. Whether it is a company that would like us to buy it's product, or a newspaper that would have us believe a certain "fact" that they are reporting, someone has decided how the information will be presented. This notion brings me to the issue of how our society perpetuates violence against women through the use of the media and television shows. I would argue that, because we are socialized on a daily basis to believe certain ideas, this same process contributes to the violence aimed toward women. This encompasses the concept that impressionable young men may remain unaware of the impact of this violence by the omission of certain facts from news articles. It is also important to see how the media contributes to the way in which the abused women see their role in the "creation" of this violence. Furthermore, I would reason that these media outlets create a certain type of apathy in our society that has caused many people to either blame the victim, or just turn their heads and consider domestic violence a "family" problem, thus ignoring the legal ramifications altogether. This area must be understood in order to determine how the distortion of the ideas that are being expressed, through the use of television and magazines, are directly related to the societal values being represented.
Transnational media often impose different cultural and social consequences, especially in underdeveloped nations. Transnational media effect may not seem obvious, or intentional, but there is no doubt that transnational media and the capitalist elites in any nation are cooperating to achieve certain agenda to expand their dominance, and increase their profit. Such results are reached by multiple approaches that disguise the true intent of the existing of transnational media in any nation. To better understand how transnational media operates, and disseminate media content, numerous communication scholars developed theories that discuss the flow of media into and out of the non-dominant nations.
Within past decades media has become a powerful complex mechanism, which is one of the dominant parts of a rising promotional culture. Its influence has become noticeable all over the globe. This mechanism can affect almost every single human decision at conscious and/or unconscious level, and it does not matter whether it concerns cultural, social, economic or political areas. It is believed, that ‘the media's the most powerful entity on earth. <...> Because they control the minds of the masses.‘ (Keeble,2010:99) However, this writing will concentrate on the analysis of only one specific area, i.e. politics, and its interaction within the media. The topic of this essay is politics, its connection and cooperation with the media in a contemporary capitalist Western world. This writing will define to what degree politics is mediatized and how ‘institutional politics has been affected by promotional needs.’ (Davis,2013:11) Therefore, it will be examined how media and politics work together, and what impact has a rise of promotional culture, which according to Aeron Davis, ‘directs media and public attention to public figures.’ (Davis,2013:202) In order to give a complete picture, the concepts of ‘promotional culture’ and ‘mediatization’ will be explained, and the liaison between media and politics will be defined. It will be questioned if media and politics affect one another, or whether politicians manage media, or maybe media controls politics in the promotional contemporary culture. Consequently, three major aspects proving that politics is fully mediatized, an example of Lithuanian well-known celebrity, and the government election of 2008 will be given and investigated. To make th...
After an arduous analysis of the reading, class notes and discussions, the author of this paper has come up with the following summary: All the forces of media and cultural production are interrelated.
Marx's unique view has been developed by neo-Marxist such as Hall et al examining the late-twentieth-century role of the mass media. They propose an explanation in terms of the way the influential ruling class set the agenda for their domination ideas and direct or indirect control. Also they influence the content of the mass media. To put it another way, capitalist and mass media are seen as having common interest to preserve the status quo. Hall showed how the sources of information coming from the police and legal authorities in relation to the crime of `mugging' in the 70s acted as primary definers for media personnel such as journalism. They present a biased view of the world as fair and just when in fact it is founded on inequality and injustice. So big business and the profit motive are presented uncritically as working in the best interests of the whole of society. Nay challenges or threats this as these are focused on as deviant. More recently neo-Marxist have pointed out that not only do the media reflect capitalist ideology, values and interest but such media themselves become capitalist enterprise a means of making vast profits.
The media’s role in this society is fundamentally a function of how this society chooses to use the media. In the present world due to the thirst of knowledge media has become a necessity in one’s life. Media nowadays plays a very crucial role in creating and shapping of the general public.
The process of homogenization of the industrial sectors during the 20th century didn't spare the media sector. In fact, it has become common nowadays to find important industrials in charge of media groups. We have entered the era of new “Press Barons” (Curran, 2011) and the consequence of this oligarchic tendency of democracy applied to media streams is that the message transmitted in the press or radio is not politically or economically neutral (Halimi, 2005).
To conclude, alienation in society is the systematic result of today's capitalist system, the abusive use of technology and mass media. As it was stated before, mass media reinforces the ideas of materialism, discrimination and individualism on society. Humans have been isolated as a result of the constant manipulation and bad information coming from music, films and news. Therefore, it is demonstrated that media works in function of specific agenda to manipulate the whole society.
Lule argues that the village encompasses a range of values, knowledge and experience. The function of the global village is to promote interaction between human beings. However, he admits that media is essential in the process of globalization. Hollows (2015) argues that the process of globalization includes several different aspects such as economics, politics and culture. They overlap and interact with each other due to deep historical roots. For Hollows (2015), large Western media corporations are powerful in international markets. They sell media products to other regions. As a consequence, Western nation-states tend to strength their dominance at a global level. Not only does this spread Western values and promote Western cultural identity, but also attracts profits through selling Western products. Foreign media products have a significant impact on local media markets and so impact on the local economy. This economic and cultural influence enables Western countries to also exert political dominance. The developments of media technology is essential to globalization (Lule, 2012). One of the earliest mediums is considered as scrip. The very first forms of writing allowed people to share information with others across long distance and even beyond their own lifetimes. The development of the printing press permitted the transmission of information across the world quickly. Knowledge and values that are rooted in different cultural bases help humans shape the world. Electronic media (film, TV, radio) is the latest breakthrough to foster globalization and digital media enables people to have the ability to gain a wide range of information. According to Lule (2012), one function of the media is to spread cultures, and so to disseminate media products through television, movies and the Internet and interact with