...TOPIC: ‘CHRISTIAN FAMILY AND THE MEDIA’ INTRODUCTION: Every Christian family is a balanced environment designed by God for the growth of human beings. God’s idea of family is to transmit values from generation to generation. Every Christian family is originated in God alone. And every family has its purpose from God. When we study about Christian family, we find that each family differs from one to the other in terms of design, lifestyle, background, character, purpose, goal and the structure. Christian family comes under the plan of God where the relationship between parents and children are notable through which it touches the outer world. Family is also one of the most important and enduring institution in our modern society. Every good and bad thing comes out of the family. If the family fails then the other institution of societies will get sick. So the family is that basic unit of society which strengthens and weakens the entire society1. CHRISTIAN FAMILY IN MODERN SOCIETY: The life of the family depends on the love of parents for children. But most parents focus on making material prosperity by keeping aside their children. Their problem is very common in today’s world. In many cases the modern parents leave their children depending in electronic games and media instead of teaching faith, values, behavior and a Christian world view. As a result the family has become an idolatrous symbol in parts of the modern world. The fame and reputation of a family in...
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... Sociopsychological, Sociocultural and Critical devices. These domains approach the organizational issues that arose in events, such as, the Mass Shooting that took place at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina. These different lenses help us better understand the complexity of the organizational communication processes. (Miller 13) One of the seven domains include the Rhetorical approach. The Rhetorical approach, according to Katherine Miller, Professor at Arizona State University, is "the practical art of discourse” which, in organizational context means "Considering the communication strategies of organizational leaders during times of crisis.”(Miller 14) The event that took place that evening was instantaneously thrown into the media circuit. Influential figures from across the world began expressing their grief by taking to verbal interviews, social media, as well as holding press conferences . Public Political leaders such as President Barack Obama, Governor Nikki Haley, Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., became vessels for the Charleston community . President Obama was even in attendance at the memorial service for the nine victims, providing comfort for friends and family and serving as the church speaker. Emanuel A.M.E. Church took the Semiotic approach during the entire aftermath of the mass shooting. Miller described the Semiotic approach as being the "Intersubjective mediation by signs” by "Studying the ways that organizations create...
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...The Advantages and Disadvantages of Mass Media Mass media is one of the fastest medium of exchange of information which capture audience attention and interest, for example, television and radio is said to be the best Mass Media. A Mass Media to be effective must be accessible to the target audience and able to hold audience attention and interest. Therefore, this essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Mass Media. The first advantage of mass media is peace and reconciliation. In the Northern Uganda there has been a civil war and FM radios contributed towards bringing peace after 20 years of crisis which was emphasized by both the respondent interviewees and focus groups. One of the focus group participants said that “when we finally see an end to this war, which might come soon, we should not forget the impact of the local radios.” For the past two years the FM stations have been running peace and reconciliation programmes in the northern Uganda to make a group of army surrender and come out of the bush. The rebels were mostly from Lira and other neighboring districts from where they were forcefully abducted or conscripted into rebel ranks. The radio stations, in collaboration with church leaders and peace non-governmental organizations, have been stressing the spirit of reconciliation and forgiveness of the rebels, who have killed, abducted or maimed many people, as well as destroying or looting people’s property. Peace and reconciliation programmes in FM radios...
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...schemes, which are certain representations of the reality displaying its most typical and fundamental elements and properties. The media Now I would like to focus on the attendance of gender stereotypes in the mass media, which nowadays has a great power and reaches large audiences. In order to create a medium which is universal, understandable and acceptable for numerous and diverse recipients, senders very often use stereotypes, which fill the social life and evoke certain associations. However, mass media not only gives people information and entertainment, but, also affects people’s lives by shaping their opinions, attitudes and beliefs. Men have been perceived as the head of the household and women were mainly housewives. Nowadays the differences between male and female roles are smaller, however mass media still perpetuates traditional gender stereotypes. Moreover, due to their great influence on people’s attitudes, they can depict certain social groups in negative and unrealistic manner. They can be a very useful tool for those remaining power. By manipulating the message, media can create a certain image of reality, which is consistent with the policy of the dominant group. As a result, the reflection of a real world is incomplete and distorted. Although people are aware of the unequal representation of certain social groups in mass media, it is hard to remain objective and insensitive to its influence. Religion interacts very closely with culture and since gender...
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...University of Phoenix Material Effects of Mass Media Worksheet Write brief 250-to 300-word answers to each of the following: |Questions |Answers | |What were the major developments in the |In the 21st century, rabid fans could turn their attention to a whole swath of pop stars | |evolution of mass media during the 20th |in | |century? |the making when the reality TV program American Idolhit the airwaves in 2002. The show was| | | | | |the only television program ever to have snagged the top spot in the Nielsen ratings for | | |six | | |seasons in a row, often averaging more than 30 million nightly viewers. Rival television | | |network | | |executives were alarmed, deeming the pop giant “the ultimate schoolyard bully,” “the Death| | ...
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...Hinduism under Threat! Copy for General Distribution-Hitaya Hinduism under Threat! 1. Mass Conversions 2. Destruction of Hindu Institutions 3. Vote Bank Politics 4. Hindu Apathy and Ignorance 5. Solutions Copy for General Distribution-Hitaya Mass Conversions -15,018 persons converted in single day in Ongole -10,000 churches planned in 2005 alone, by just one group, the Seventh Day Adventists. Kyle Fiess, Maranatha (Org for building churches) marketing director reports: "We were astonished when Ron Watts (head of Seventh Day Adventists) presented us with a proposal for 10,000 churches in India…After many experiences like the one in Ongole, we no longer consider 10,000 churches to be an unrealistic goal, but an unparalleled opportunity”. http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=NEWS&id=1103997730 article has links to may Copy for General Distribution-Hitaya missionary websites. Mass Conversions In 1998, the Seventh Adventist Church reported 225,000 members. In 2005, the numbers reached 825,000. “Most of the people in the villages are from a Hindu background, so it was gratifying to see so many people accepting Jesus," said Stenbakken (Seventh Day Adventist). This much conversion by just one organization. There are several other organizations working in parallel. Copy for General Distribution-Hitaya Mass Conversions Goal of 100 Million Hindu Converts Declared by Reverend Pat Robertson in Dallas Christian Conclave in Oct 2005 ...
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...theory they developed, is different from that of the dominant paradigm (Frankfurt School = [and] Critical Theory) - Offers a response to, and critique of, the integration of mass communication into industrial capitalism • Media reinforced elites within capitalism societies • Mass Media enabled our domination - Before the advent of the mass communication system, culture was produced differently - Vaudeville theatre was popular before the rise of the culture industry • (Mass, Personal and Popular Media - Vaudeville is closer to popular) The Frankfurt School: Biography and Historical Context (Critical Theory) - Develops within the Institute for Social Research, based in Frankfurt in the 1920s (Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer) - Their perspective was marked by German fascism and American consumer culture - Was interested in the “social contradictions” of capitalism - We are going to focus on their theory of mass media - “The Culture Industry” = the standardized production of cultural goods (that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity) The Enlightenment and its Perversion - The Enlightenment is a way of thinking about the world that emerges in the 18th and 19th centuries - It challenges traditional ways of seeing the world, including those of the Catholic church and monarchies 1 Thursday, October 15, 2015 • Tries to replace religion with humanism and the scientific method - It included an underlying belief in progress for all...
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...Multi Media Influences on American Culture Michele Frizzell HUM/186 October 3, 2013 Merrylee Felder Multi Media Influences on American Culture The turn of the century introduced America to a whole new way of how we receive mass media. Smart phones, IPhones and IPads are just a few ways the American people can have media at their fingertips. “We have an app for that” used to be just a play on words, but in today’s society there really is an app for everything. Whether it be Hollywood drama, world news or what’s going on in the neighborhood, Americans have the ability to stay in the know every minute of the day. Mass production of print media was made possible by Jonannes Gutenburg in the 15th century with the invention of the movable type press, until then books were hand written and no two were ever the same. While a hand operated press produced 480 pages per hour, in the 1800’s a German printer, Friedrich Koenig, hooked a steam engine to a printing press and industerlized printed media. By the 1930’s printing presses could produce 3,000 pages an hour. The American people could now get the local news and gossip via newspaper. In 1837 Samuel Morris patent the electric telegraph, thus paving the road for broadcast mass media and putting an end to physical transportation of messages. The telegraph made communication possible through telegraph lines and in 1858 the first transatlantic lines were laid, making communication between the United States and Europe almost instant...
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...Popular Culture of Europe Throughout the Ages Popular culture always has, and will remain, a telling aspect of the mindset of the masses throughout history. It is best defined by PhilosophyNow as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time. The popular culture of Early Modern Europe can largely be classified as a shift from rowdy and vulgar celebrations to a more educated form of enjoying oneself. In the 1800’s, the formation of a mass society accompanied the growing literary movement, while post-WWI Europe experienced the gradual growth of mass media after numerous technological advancements, and later, a global movement towards rapid Americanization. In the mid-1300’s, the disease known as the Black Death was progressing rapidly throughout Europe. As more and more bodies were infected, the European masses began to live each day as if it were their last. This took place in the form of “sex crazed and alcoholic orgies” (Spielvogel 307). In Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, a description of the popular reaction to the plague is featured: “Others maintained free living to be a better preservative, and would baulk no passion or appetite they wished to gratify, drinking and reveling incessantly from tavern to tavern” (Boccaccio 3). Although the most prominent scares of the Black Death began to fade away in the later years of the 14th century, the need for a rowdy form of enjoyment was still prevalent. Europe experienced a so-called...
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...one of the boy catechists who went with San Vitores from the Philippines to the Ladrones Islands in the western North Pacific Ocean in 1668 to evangelize the Chamorros. In that century, the Jesuits in the Philippines used to train and employ young boys as competent catechists and versatile assistants in their missions. The Ladrones at that time was part of the old Diocese of Cebu. Life in the Ladrones was hard. The provisions for the Mission did not arrive regularly; the jungles were too thick to cross; the cliffs were very stiff to climb, and the islands were frequently visited by devastating typhoons. Despite the hardships, the missionaries persevered, and the Mission was blessed with many conversions. The first mission residence and church were built in the town of Hagåtña in the island of Guam. At this time, Spanish missionaries were actively converting Chamorros to Roman Catholicism. Very soon, a Chinese quack, named Choco, envious of the prestige that the missionaries were gaining among the Chamorros, started to spread the talk that the baptismal water of the missionaries was poisonous. These began the persecution to the missionaries. Matapang was a Christian converted, turn again to unlawful things and intend to kill all the missionaries. He violently hurled spears first at...
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...renewal and questions about what position did the church play in the modern world. Pope John XXIII inspired by the holy spirit, decided to take action against this challenges and called the bishops of the world to come together for the Second Vatican Council on October 1962. Unlike most of the previous Ecumenical Councils, the goal during the second Vatican council was not to respond to people who were teaching heresy. Rather, the goal during the council was for Church leaders to explore how Church teaching could be made clearer for all Catholics. One of the most spectacular...
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...charm of Edward Birch, had morphed into full-fledged libertarians. The Democratic Party was nearly defunct. Progressives were against the ropes; the Gellibrand Case was one of their last toeholds in power. William knew that if he could use a states’ rights argument to win the Gellibrand Case, the reach of federal authority would be stricken with one more nail in the coffin. A second email from Sage interrupted William’s meditations. He opened the message. Sage wrote, ‘Once again, congratulations, William. Now that you’re a full-fledged attorney, it’s time to revisit your compensation package. Look over the attached contract. I’m sure you’ll find it acceptable. Take that lovely wife and unborn child of yours out to celebrate. I’ll see you at mass tomorrow....
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...Printing Press The Ancient Catalyst of Culture DeVry University Humanities 303 Printing Press, the Ancient Catalyst of Culture How did we get to the latest art form of printing, the wireless printer? Through years of evolutional design and determination, this technology was possible. The printing press allowed people to learn different styles of the art of printing, education, arts, literature, and cultural differences quicker, and learning was more widespread, in addition; it provided the world with the most efficient means of communication of the written word through mass production. I will show how the decision of humankind to advance the printing presses worthiness did advance literacy in many cultures. Through the printing presses, humble beginnings of block printing to the latest technological advancements, the printing press has continued to evolve in one form or other. The printing presses evolution would not be complete without some prior knowledge of how it all began; therefore, a little history is necessary to fully understand the evolutional picture of communicational needs and the printing press. In ancient times before the beginning of a written dialogue, when reading and writing was nonexistent, communication was nothing more than some obscured hand drawings on clay tablets or cave walls. Communication was limited to the imagination of the ancient artist who wanted to explain life’s surrounding and how to survive. The validation of communications in religion...
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...For any idea, effective negotiation and selling is necessary in order to persuade your target audience. Through means of systematic persuasion the communicator will appeal to reason and logic to help change attitudes, or they may appeal to emotion and habit by means of heuristic persuasion to change beliefs. Every communicator aims to gain different and desired results. For example, sales people, politicians, and leaders in other areas all have different goals and audiences, but use persuasion to their benefit. Cult leaders and other extremists in history have used persuasion to immerse followings and gain social loyalty. Over time they have evolved with different religious, political, and revolutionary motives. A cult by definition is a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous. They are typically characterized by their distinct beliefs and rituals related to devotion to a god or person, are isolated from their surrounding “evil culture,” and have a charismatic leader (Myers, 252). These charismatic leaders of will use persuasion to influence the intentions, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and motivations of different individuals (Thoms and Walden, 2007). Vulnerability in the larger community is the main reason individuals find consolation in cults (Richard, 2010). Feelings of inferiority, ignorance, social threat, and other such factors influence an individual’s ability...
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...Based on the Webster Dictionary the word misconception means erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. The Roman Catholic Church is not prone to any type of misconceptions when it comes to religions. With nearly one quarter of the U.S. population Catholic and many more around the world, they make up a huge part of society and the largest Christian denomination. The Catholic Church is the only church that can trace its roots back to the apostles. There is no other church that can make the same claim. There have been many Protestant theologians and Pastors that left their faith for the Catholic Church after researching the writings of the early church fathers. Topics such as baptism, confession, the Mass, Purgatory, Mary, abortion, etc.; they are all found in the early Christian writing. Many people are unsure about the Catholic faith or have heard negative opinions. I can admit I was one of those people. In order for you to receive the truth you must be honest with yourself and examine both sides of an issue without prejudice and with an open heart; this is the only way to finding the truth. In the following essay I will discuss any misconceptions regarding the Roman Catholic Church. Next I will analyze how my prior understanding about the Catholic religion was altered with my encounter. Then I will discuss misconceptions about other people’s religions that are common. Last I will recommend as least one step that could be taken to minimize misconceptions people...
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