Modern people in the contemporary world are necessarily users of social networks. People have their accounts on several networks simultaneously for different reasons. One person also has several accounts on one site, one for personal purposes and the other for business. Social networks offer many opportunities for communication, entertainment, and...
Introduction American popular culture was greatly influenced by hip-hop. It is more than just music to them; it positively impacted the United States. Hip-hop has come a long way since it first emerged and has gained much popularity in countries other than the United States. This media style has become...
The contemporary world is powered by modern technologies, which people use for communication, entertainment, transportation, tracking, health, and education. Definitively, these are devices and electronic tools capable of generating, processing, and storing data. Humans are now digital natives, with video games having more than 2.6 billion players globally (Chopin et...
Background Direct recommendations and advertisements on social media or unintended brand-related activities taken by the community on social media can both influence people’s behavior online. People spend more and more time on the Internet communicating, studying, and buying goods and services. Shopping has become easier not only thanks to online...
Introduction The mainstream media in the United States is frequently accused of having a left tilt. This view is influenced by several reasons, including the fact that most journalists identify as Democrats, the media’s coverage of liberal causes such as same-sex marriage and abortion, and the media’s headquarters in liberal...
Introduction The 2009 movie “My Sister’s Keeper” is about a family whose daughter suffers from a serious disease. Out of choices, the family decides to make a “savior sibling” who will donate blood, tissues, and organs to save their daughter. The movie examines several delicate subjects, but the main moral...
Introduction Despite the new media technology having many benefits, it has resulted in an issue of privacy that has affected many lives. Many experts in the field of information technology refer to the term as one that consists of various web-associated communication technologies, for example, wikis, social media, blogs, and...
Background Video games have relatively recently become a widely available and mass way of spending leisure time. Therefore at the moment, there is a tremendous amount of controversy on the subject of the impact of computer games on people. The most attention in the framework of this topic is focused...
Facebook is one of the most popular social networks in the world. Not only adults but children and teens use the platform daily. Parents today are more concerned about how Facebook affects their kids now that studies have revealed how social media can harm children’s mental health, body image, and...
Introduction The problem of media influence on election campaigns and primaries, in particular, has been an object of study for many years for sociologists, journalists, mathematicians, and psychologists. The media shape public opinion and can help regulate voting statistics and liking for a particular candidate. Recently, the role of the...
In his 2012 book “The Shallows,” Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet’s distractive and time-consuming qualities erode our ability to focus (Carr, 2008). He says that with so many opportunities for distraction, our brains are becoming so scattered it would be no exaggeration to say that we now live in...
Popular culture consists of habits, beliefs, and items representing society’s most common values. Popular culture is distinct from high culture and numerous institutional cultures (political culture, educational culture, legal culture, etc.) (Storey, 2018). With the relationship between mass culture and popular culture, it becomes necessary to consider popular culture’s role...
Explanation of Topic The selected topic is the effects of social media on people’s self-esteem. Currently, using social network sites (SNSs) is one of the most popular trends. People of all ages use SNSs to communicate with each other, share their impressions and feelings, and engaging in numerous other activities....
Communication patterns refer to the styles of communication that are used to pass information. Personal communication can be self-criticism, self-justification, listening, and blaming oneself. Social communication is the type of communication that is carried out between more than one individual (Stevenson, 2005). It can be done by carrying out lectures,...
Introduction The growing use of social media affects all parts of people’s lives, including their actions to encourage social change. Various social media platforms, including Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram, have already altered how people communicate, build communities, and discuss pressing issues. Social movements move from the physical to the digital...
Introduction Social networks have become a major part of our social life. It can be argued that their exceptional popularity has redefined social interactions in modern society. However, not everyone agrees that the changes are positive. While their entertainment value is undisputed, the long-term effects on various aspects of human...
Johnson, the author of The Body Myth article published in 1996, discusses a range of negative feedback received from customers and related to thin models, dictating beauty standards. In particular, the female readers were outraged that observing almost dystrophic models on the pages of Vogue magazine, they tend to encounter...
Violence in mass communication is a controversial debate that becomes more relevant as society is continuously exposed to various sources of media. The influence of media is creating the opinion that showing violence may have psychological and societal effects that perpetuate such behaviors and crimes in real life. My personal...
In the modern world, due to new technologies media has invaded all spheres of society: politics, economics, science, culture, and others. Media attracts the attention of the audience by providing a wide variety of information. To accomplish this, media has unlimited resources, technology, and developed techniques. It is impossible to...
Abstract Creation of internet technologies in the recent past has influenced the manner in which the public perceives news across the entire globe. For instance, social media is one of the newest technologies that have allowed people to express their opinions on matters concerning their lives. In this respect, there...
Introduction The mass media remains one of the crucial sources of knowledge, and their role in the formation of individual perceptions is essential. The broadcasted cultural information affects the way different social groups understand themselves and each other, and the presence of stereotypes or other cultural biases in the public...
Abstract Social media is increasingly becoming popular as a means of communication, not only among the young population but also among the middle-aged and the aging population. Many companies are currently using social media platforms as means of advertising their products. However, the corporate society is yet to accept social...
Abstract Previous research on the topic of media violence affects children demonstrates a close relationship between media violence and the likelihood of violence. The relationship between media violence and children’s values and behaviors attributes to the fact that children spend more than 4 hours each day on the media. Video,...
Introduction to Social Networking Social networking has been narrowly understood as a mobile-based or rather internet collective space where social groups can communicate and connect by the creation and sharing of contents through the established links between people. Social networking can also be broadly understood as a practice of the...
Do People who use Facebook have a legitimate claim to privacy when they are posting information about themselves? With the advent of Facebook and social media, the question of maintaining one’s privacy has become much more complicated. Numerous times since its inception, Facebook has attempted to find a way to...
Introduction The increased access to information through various modern and traditional media platforms has its upsides, but over the past, there has emerged many downsides to the constant access to media. One of the downsides included the pressure on women that is applied to them by the image that the...
Introduction The body responsible for governing media in Canada is the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) (Attallah & Shade, 2006). It acts as a broadcasting and telecommunication regulatory agency (Vipond, 2000). However, CRTC is not responsible for the regulation of newspaper and internet media ownership. There is a belief...
Introduction Nowadays, it is hard to image everyday life without the Internet and social networks where people spend much of their time. The fact is that such networks as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook become not only popular among people but become a crucial factor in such fields as marketing, management,...
Abstract Guidance and regulation are very important elements when playing video games, especially when it comes to children. Many parents do not encourage their children to play video games because they believe they are a waste of time and a source of bad influence because they can easily corrupt their...
Working topic This paper will be focused on the most influential entity of today’s world – the media – and the way it affects the general public. In particular, the working topic is the influence of the image of women promoted by the media on the females’ decision to undertake...