...“It's been said that we get the media we deserve”(Benton). For the most part, I believe that this is true although I believe that sites such as Facebook as well as mankind can change that. For more than 20 years we have had access to the internet and devices that use such a thing, but for such tools, there is false information out there that could be taken down either the users themselves or the social medias themselves as well. People have created these things called “filter bubbles” within social media itself, and this has stopped many of people from differing the truth to the false given information. Both Facebook and readers using such sources have the responsibility to see if that said is indeed factual or if it is a hoax. Facebook’s...
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...The media has grown and gained independence, it’s a huge part of our everyday life and it has become such a big influence on everyone. The media helps shape the way we see things because it’s how most people learn new information. It’s their responsibility to give us accountable information. . “As journalists and the media itself we all have the responsibility to seek truth and report it, minimize harm, and act independently” (Pulliam, 1996-2012). The media is all around us you pick up your phone, read a magazine, watch TV, or read a newspaper it’s there. Not only should they be giving us accountable news they should be educating everyone. However, it seems like they will report anything and are too concerned with their ratings. They are so fast to talk about all the negative things going on in our world. There are a few terms that are used for the effects a person might get from the media like beliefs, attitude, and behavior. The effects from the media can occur immediately or they could take a good amount of time to occur. This effects can stay with someone for a lifetime or for a very short period. Ethical practice is extremely important in media because the media has a high level of public impact. The media at times can oversteps their boundaries like, exposing an individual’s private life. The news and media has such a huge negative impact on our children’s life. It was very hard to learn just how much time most children spend watching TV. According to the Kaiser Family...
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...The Media Cheneka Wright PHI 208: Ethic and Moral Reasoning Instructor: Justin Murray June 7, 2016 We all seen the different stereotypes that the media has portray women to be from the femme fatale, the supermom, the sex kitten, the nasty corporate climber. Whatever the role, television, film and popular magazines are full of images of women and girls who are typically white, desperately thin, and made up to the hilt—even after slaying a gang of vampires or dressing down a Greek phalanx. There has to be said that there have been some strides that have been made in which the way that women are portrayed in films, television, and even in magazines, and this has been over the last few decades. The presence as well as influence of women behind the scenes has also grown in many ways that were not so before. But have we come far enough. So my question is Has the Portrayal of Women in Today’s Society Health Role Models to Our Young People of Today? With the television shows that are aired on a day to day basis it’s hard to expect the portrayal of women to be any less than what it is…..negative. Is there an obligation for the media to show young people a more positive image of women or is it a duty of the parents? The notion of common good does not just happen. Establishing and maintaining it is the responsibility of everyone. Maintaining the social conditions from which we all benefit requires the cooperative efforts of all citizens. These efforts pay off with the media assuming...
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...Positive: The media is sensitive and responsible Honorable Judges, Fellow classmates, Worthy Opponents. The resolution before us today, BIRT the media is sensitive and responsible is absolutely correct. So there is no confusion about the terms, I will now define them. · Media: Means of communication, such as television, music, newspapers, and the internet, which provide the public with news and entertainment · Sensitive: Feeling or responding to the emotions of others · Responsible: One that is expected or decides to respond to an action. We the negative team firmly now must believe this to be correct, and plan to tell you why. Over the past decade, this world has made extremely rapid advancements in science, technology, health, and education. Our knowledge today of this universe is like a 20 story building compared to a centimeter tall pile of paper a hundred years ago. How have humans gained such vast intelligence? From the media! Inventions such as the newspaper, radio, television, magazines have kept us up to date with important world news which could be critical if unknown. Over the past 10 years, the internet has successfully enabled us to communicate with people on the other side of the world for virtually no cost at all! It not only helps us keep in contact with friends, but brings us new ones and even finds ones lost for years! We can learn about almost anything...
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...Social Responsibility and the Media Chantel Warren HUM/186 2/22/15 Marie Loggia-Kee In this day and age, there are newspapers, magazines, news programs and social media are all forms of information media. We get news in some form from these outlets. We depend on these outlets to deliver the most important and credible information so that we can make informed decisions based on the information proved. That’s part of social responsibility. These media outlet have a social responsibility to their audience. People look to the media for information that is relevant to their everyday lives. For example, daytime television is filled with talk shows about entertainment, health, beauty, food and everyday lifestyles. The audience that watches these shows are made up of mostly stay at home mothers and caregivers. They rely on the fact the information that is shared on these shows is not only helpful but truthful. That ties in to information media’s responsibility to this group of people to make sure they are giving information that will help make decisions based on what they took from their programs. The same can be applied to news outlets during election time. During election season, the role of the information and news media is truly at its highest. The information and news media has a responsibility to their audience to give an unbiased account of events and news as they relate to the political landscape. During election season...
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...Mass media has a huge responsibility to the public in the way it influences and shapes people’s ideas. The more the audience interacts with mass media the greater the influence it has on the viewer’s ideals. Living in a socially and technically evolving society means that like Mass Media, what we deem socially acceptable in terms of sexual roles/ identities or even body image has also changed (Silverstein, B. 1986). Mass media acts as an authority that creates a frame work for its audience to perceive reality, using this we can see how manipulation occurs through simple advertising campaigns. The more we interact with media, the more accepting we are of the social reality presented (Gauntlett, D.2008). We want to believe our reality is ‘objective’ when in fact it is ‘subjective’ (McQuail, D. 2010). McQuail argues that our perspective is our reality; Jeffres expands upon this by explaining that mass media acts as an “authority to provide us with an interpretation of reality, explanation, personal opinions and even instructions on how to understand it” (Jeffres, L.W. 2001). Gauntlett believes that on a subconscious level, we seek such an authority to provide us with a framework to perceive reality. Through advertising we see that mass media has the ability to manipulate its audience. Advertising utilises many psychological principals based on research and depending on its target audience, persuades viewers into believing they ‘must’ have the product advertised. A great amount...
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...We look for escapes and stress relievers. The media provides a false comfort away from those stresses. “Thus the predominant genres and modes of representation (news, chat show, soap opera) meet the needs and the desires for order of, and in, the everyday, and even in those areas of media production and consumption where it may be suggested that there is scope for both resistance and ambiguity (and there is evidence, for example, in popular music culture and in some online networks and bulletin boards that this is the case).” (Silverstone, R., 2002). It’s the media, producers and the fortune 500 companies that produce consumer goods and those companies that feed our imaginations with fallacies through “entertainment” television. i. Thesis: It is my belief that we should hold the media accountable for its not only on a deontological level but, a judicial level as well. II. Ethnics: while not mandatory is in good character. i. Promote your business in a positive light. ii. Provide positive influences for children. III. Where the stereotypes are: “There are many formal fallacies, mistakes in reasoning that occur due to the structure of the argument (the fallacy of affirming the consequent is, therefore, a formal fallacy). There are also hundreds of informal fallacies.” (Mosser, 2010) i. Stereotypes and the media influence consumers with fallacies such as Slippery Slope, False Authority and Hasty Generalizations. ii. It’s “reality”, not the consumers’ reality but the producers...
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...continued to lose around 11 likes every minute. For those who enjoy interactive graphics with their schadenfreude, the site DisappearingRomney.com shows Romney's Facebook likes dropping in real time. A ticker at the bottom of the page tallies how many people have unliked Romney's page just in the time users have been on the site. Not that Romney is hurting for social media pals. As of Monday afternoon, he still had more than 12 million Facebook fans and 1.7 million followers on Twitter. The former governor's team hasn't been doing much on social media lately to persuade people to stick around. After a flurry of activity leading up to the election, his official Facebook and Twitter accounts went silent for four days afterward. On Saturday, the campaign finally posted a photo of a sad-looking Romney with the message, "From the bottom of our hearts, Ann and I thank you for your support, prayers, efforts and vote. We are forever grateful to every one of you." By contrast, President Barack Obama acknowledged his victory last week with a pair of posts on Twitter and Facebook that quickly went viral. And his social media accounts have been active in the week since the election. Romney's recent silence extends to his running mate, U.S....
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...Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies As part of integral system to society corporate has responsibility towards community and also part of corporate self-regulation integrated with into business. Increasingly, companies are putting a public face on their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activity, but is it driving customer trial, purchase and loyalty and ultimately brand equity? Too frequently these activities are unconnected or, worst of all, go in opposite directions, which for certain types of companies become catastrophes. The authors describe three different approaches for incorporating their CSR activities with their marketing activities. The current CSR debate is clear evidence of missed opportunities to leverage CSR in brand-building activities. More money than ever is being invested in CSR and companies are making wide-reaching organizational changes to support it. Most now have CSR departments reporting to the chief executive, publishing CSR reports and developing CSR strategies and plans. However, despite this intense investment activity, results are few and far between. Instead of bolstering the brand and bottom line, CSR efforts have come under fire both from investors, who cry misuse of shareholders’ money, and from consumers and interest groups who criticize companies for promising more than they deliver. Shell, the Coca-Cola Company, and British American Tobacco are just some of the latest organizations to have experienced backlash for their...
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...Have you asked yourself what is social Media? Well after researches and articles social media is networking site where people get together and interact using a highly open and scalable communication techniques. Social media are media for social communication, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques, it is mostly a web based, like face book, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Google. Also Social media can be more than web based for example text messaging, news papers, and using cell phone. The Social media had brought a lot and it had brought more good than harm. In this easy I am going to discuss the impacts of social media to our day to day life. There more than billions and billions people on social media every day. For instance some marketing company’s sell their products through social media. Some people just use social media for fun or to just waste lack of time. Some people use social media to still identity and do more stuff to it, while others are putting more of their information in. Social media can be helpful or it can be dangerous. People don’t know what’s behind it. I know some people that are online on Facebook the whole time nothing else, but there some others are selling their products. According to the Social media revolution 2 video it said”1 Out of 8 couples married in the U.S. met via social media”. Anyone worldwide use social media. Teens and adult mostly use it for fun, but college students use it to communicate or to learn. According...
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...11 November 2013 Public Relations Principles Social responsibility refers to the ethical theory that an entity, regardless if it’s an organization or individual, has an obligation to act to benefit society at large (www.dictionary.com). Whether it’s a corporate restaurant, a clothing store with shops in every state and major city, or a sports organization, social responsibility is an integral and vital part of an organization and company’s global stratagem and approach. The NCAA, though it is a college-based organization, is also a non-profit association of more than 1000 organizations, institutions, and conferences relating to athletics. The NCAA does a prime job of executing their social responsibility goals and strategies, which is what has contributed to their success and global recognition. Strategic and calculated social responsibility, even more so on the corporate level, is able to play a vital role in any organizations strategic management. Social responsibility enhances the relationship between the organization and the interested party, who are almost always the fans, but can also include the media and local community partners. The NCAA takes much pride in their fans, in the media, and also in their community partners, but they also take pride in those who are employed by the sports industry. The NCAA has already placed an importance on social responsibility, on a national level, by implementing a program that looks to assist current assistant basketball coaches...
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...Social Media Responsibilities Jana Keeley Hum/186 June 05, 2012 Tanny Rodriguez Responsibilities of news media include providing the society a truthful, objectives and balanced news and information while respecting the secrecy of issues related to national security. Known tasks of journalists in the entertainment media are In the social responsibility theory of the press, the media is driven to benefit the public. It expects journalists to answer society's need for truth, requires an open and diverse debate on public issues, and honest updates of current events. In this model, media ethics is automatic because the press is free to serve its purpose for the public, as opposed to special interest groups or advertisers( referenced below). Another condition of the social responsibility model, is that news reporting cannot be dependent on groups that may encourage bias and unethical practices in exchange for financial support catchy headlines which directly affect civilians. The public learns about government and politics primarily through television and nationwide newspapers. The media has a choice of which stories to cover. Recent studies prove the exposures can have a sizeable impact in shaping the public’s view on politics. Media coverage shapes attitudes and behaviors related to judging ones capabilities of running for office. It’s a known fact that citizens often times seek out information that agrees with their pre-existing views. People will relate with a politician...
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...Mass Media: A platform to give strength to the weak or a loaded gun in the hands of humanity? “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth…because they control the minds of the masses” (Malcom X, 2012). Media has responsibilities and these responsibilities need to be clarified and upheld by society. Unfortunately, media today does not abide by moral standards, which in turn sends mixed messages to our society. Often times these messages are demoralizing, desensitizing, and false. Young people and adults alike are trying to navigate through their lives and through the world with a broken compass. The role media plays in issues such as self-worth, bullying, and suicide need to be addressed and revised. I will discuss media and its role and responsibility through the perspective of both a classical and contemporary ethical theory. The classical theory that will be discussed is virtue ethics, which is the study of the virtuous character of a person (Mosser, 2010, p.1.7). The contemporary theory that will be discussed is emotivism, which is basing one’s moral decisions on one’s feelings and emotions (Mosser, 2010, p.1.8). Concluding, I will discuss which theory is closer to my own personal view and why I chose that particular theory. While freedom of speech and personal connection are very important, age appropriate moral standards should be upheld in the media because media plays a significant role in suicide, bullying, and self-worth. According to Mosser (2010)...
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...“Protection At All Times” My defense of our Second Amendment Micah Satchwell Many people view guns as a curse not a blessing. Recently people have abused them and caused large media attraction. Also they have also become a large contributer to our economy. The recent sales have shot up tremendously because of the talk of stricter gun laws. These are some of the reasons I am choosing to defend our Second Amendment. First I think every family should have the right to have in their home a firearm. If you’re going to use it for self defense than there shouldn’t be an issue purchasing one and owning it legally for defending your home and family. But safety should be the number one priority in owning a firearm. Steps such as using trigger locks, teaching children not to touch and treating every firearm as if it is loaded are the responsibilities of owning a firearm. Also a criminal will have to second guess whether or not a home is protected by an armed responsible homeowner. The laws in place require a thorough background check to purchase a firearm legally. These include a trip to your local Federal Firearms dealer, filling out the proper forms and a call into the FBI. This division is called NICS (National Instant Check Systems). If you have committed any felony or misdeamenor crime of domestic violence are some of the preventions in getting a firearm. Also renouncing your US citizenship will keep you from passing the background check. I believe these are sufficient...
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...Ben & Jerry’s Media Campaign William Kennedy Southern New Hampshire University INTRODUCTION Born out of a renovated gas station in Vermont over 30 years ago and with unheard of different flavors of ice cream Ben & Jerry’s was created. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield both grew in Merrick Long Island. They met in Jr. High and became fast friends. Jerry finished college but couldn’t get into any med schools and Ben went to college but dropped out of everyone he attended. Both realizing they were not going anywhere doing what they were doing they decided to start their own food business. Neither knew anything about starting a business but both loved eating ice cream and that made sense to them the way to go. After splitting the $5.00 cost of a correspondence class from Penn State on how to make ice cream and armed with a combined $8000.00 of their savings and a $4000.00 loan leased and old gas station in Burlington VT they opened their ice cream shop in 1978. They churned out all sorts of ice cream with chunks of their favorite things such as cookies, candies and fruits. Soon long lines were the norm at the ice cream shop. I wasn’t long after that they began to sell to restaurants, grocery stores and supermarkets. After a Time magazine featured them in a cover story as the best ice cream in the world Ben & Jerry’s went national and expanded beyond Vermont. They continued to expand operations over the years. In 2000 Unilever purchased Ben & Jerry’s for 326 million...
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