Sex in what City?

I am analyzing the meanings of the portrayal that a type of person in the media can have on society.  For my analysis I will use the movie “Sex in The City.”  The qualifications of my analysis are modeled after Bonnie Dow’s (1996) qualifications of arguments in the book “Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and [...]

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F*** Yeah! When is the FCC in violation of the first amendment?

You’re a parent flipping between two television programs, the Golden Globes and Saving Private Ryan, with your twelve-year-old sitting beside you.  Similar to many American families, you have cable, and thus are not shocked when you hear profanities coming from Saving Private Ryan.  However, when an accepting artist of a golden globe uses an isolated [...]

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How like your parents are you?

     The assignment, this week, called for an analysis of an article in the Science & Technology section of a mainstream newspaper.  I selected from The New York Times an article found under the Science section titled “In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents Genes Are in Competition” by, Benedict Carey.  The Article [...]

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I already disliked milk.

I recently explored an online braded community, as per the directions for my newest assignment, White Gold.  This websites entire focus is a campaign to inspire the consumption of milk.  The web address directs you to a sight with a link to the “Got Milk?” website in the bottom right hand corner and a link to the rest [...]

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Dear Parents of America,

Some of the youth of America have submerged themselves into a different culture than that of their parents.  With all of the video game consoles and video games offered for computers, and the decrease in the ages of the children using this medium; no wonder researchers have started to take a closer look at increasing [...]

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.org versus .com

After the monitoring the coverage of two different media sources; The New York Times and Free Speech Radio News, I looked for the differences between mainstream and alternative media.   From the limited perspective I obtained, five articles from each source, I feel that consuming both alternative and mainstream media sources together, due to their differences, [...]

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Will a real journalist please stand up?

Over the course of three days, I monitored a news source for one hour daily for my class assignment.  The focus of my monitoring was on the differing political pieces and analyzing the roles the media fulfilled based on Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Walkman’s book “The Press Effect”. 
I’ve read 17 articles concerning the presidential candidates.  I feel a journalist’s most important role [...]

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What do we not hear due to our own bias?

In a lecture hall that seats up to 500, majority of the seats were full.  Students from the University of Oregon came to rate the 2008 presidential debate!  While Senators Barack Obama and John McCain fielded questions and stood their ground, both striving to prove to every American that he is the better candidate choice, the future [...]

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Greetings

 
 
 
 
My name is Jessi and this is my first blog, let alone my first blogging experience.  I consider myself to be decently internet savvy, having been online for a while now- especially since almost everything has moved online!  I have a wide variety of interests, ranging from the media to the vast world of business. Currently, I [...]

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