Many of America’s youth have cut their teeth on violence and grew up on immoral behavior in the media. They are being bombarded with violent images on a daily basis. Now, he or she has developed behaviors which imitate art. According to Escobar-Chaves and Anderson (2008), children and youth have witnessed violence and have become ...
The media plays a variety of different roles in society, the major role being that of providing information. To what extent though does this role as an information provider influence moral panics? Is the media the puppeteer or is it simply a vehicle for the continuation of a moral panic? Firstly it is necessary to ...
What will the media of the future look like? As Vivian (2009) notes, new technologies have always shaped and driven mass media distribution channels. With the advent of the public Internet, according to Vivian, consumers began swarming online in the early 1990s. Companies around the world have since engaged in a mad dash to beat ...
H.B. Barnum, a 14 year old saxophone player who later became a music producer was one of the many teenagers in the 1950s drawn to the new style of music that featured hard-driving African American rhythm and blues. Barnum described the first time he saw the rhythm and blues performer Richard Wayne Penniman, better know ...
The phrase “mass media” seems to be a popular term in our ever-changing, modern American society. Although it may seem to be an intimidating concept, it essentially refers to any form of media designed to reach a large, “massive” audience, such as television, films, radio, the Internet, newspapers, magazines, books, etc. In terms of job ...