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Patriarchy is a societal system, that stands for a male dominated society. It is the male who is in power and in control in his family, and his male descendent is the one who takes on power after him. In the Arab society, patriarchy is common, resulting in TV series that showcase it too. InContinue reading “Patriarchy”

Disabled people tend to be stereotyped in the media in certain inaccurate ways, causing their misrepresentation to feel offensive and negative to those who actually suffer from any kind of disability. In a TV series entitled 13 Reasons Why, the main character commits suicide, and the TV series follows the 13 reasons she actually didContinue reading “Stereotypes about disabled people in the media”

Media aims to produce and transform sets of ideas in many areas, from economic ones to political ones (Hall, S., 1990). Unfortunately, the system of racism starts with ideologies in the society. Society’s ideas and intentions are highlighted through the media, causing the media to often come off as racist. Media is also built forContinue reading “Racism in the media”

Images have the power to reinforce a statement published by the media, and to highlight the journalists’ point of view of the story. That being said, images are biased to the owner and source of the news and what it wishes to highlight. A punctum is a detail of an image that attracts the viewer’sContinue reading “Images in the media”

In an article by the New York Times uploaded on the 2nd of February in 2020 in the section global health by Donald G. Mcneil Jr., entitled Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, Experts Say, about the dangerous Coronavirus spreading around the world. The ownership filter comes through, as The New York times isContinue reading “In class exercise 2”

International news reporting is how different sides of the globes learn about what news are happening on the other end. In order to report the news internationally, there are four habits that are followed. These habits include giving a formulaic chronology of events, using sensationalized and exaggerated language, referencing metaphors and imagery with which AmericansContinue reading “The four habits of the press”

The means of mass communications, also known as the media operates using five filters according to Herman and Chomsky (1998): profit/ownership, advertising, establishment, flak and the common enemy. The limitation of ownership in media is caused by the large investments required to own a part of a media. (Herman and Chomsky, 1998). Only the largestContinue reading “The five filters of the media”

     Media literacy defines one’s capacity to understand, interpret, and use the information received by the media through the different methods of communication. In fact, media literacy enables one’s interpretation of media texts to awaken their attention on the various aspects of the daily life that the media affects, such as the social and politicalContinue reading “What is Media Literacy?”