Communication Studies Essays and Term Papers

killed more people, destroyed more property, disrupted more lives, and probably had more far-reaching consequences than any other war in history be reenacted on screen? World War II was a war that hit home to many people, with battlefields stretching…

- Children and Television         The children of America spend their time on many different activities. One of the most time consuming activities is watching television. Television plays a large role in the social and emotional developm…

of data and ideas. Can media inspire violent crimes? One problem that many corporations ignore is the possibility that aggressive type people seek reinforcement for their own destructive acts, either against themselves or other people. Television…

are totally evil, but in reality there are more positive aspects that are not shown. The media only shows gangs involved with drugs and the violence, and as a result the media has scared many people into believing that gangs will take over our cities…

is threatened today by the government by putting a brown paper bag around "risqué" material on the Internet and television. Industry, responding both to government pressure and consumer demand, has compounded the problem by creating easy tools for…

media coverage of violence contribute to its increase in our society? One Saturday morning many years ago, I was watching an episode of the 'Roadrunner' on television. As wile E. Coyote was pushed off of a cliff by the Roadrunner for the fourth…

it. They are constantly and subconsciously classifying and grouping each object, event or action that takes place. Thus genres are born. The word genre is a term used to state a group of things that share the same characteristics or they are similar…

by millions of people each day, affecting many people's lives. This is why there is a lot of information out there about television, in books, in magazines, and even on video tapes which are viewed on a T.V. For this historiographical review, I chose…

and entertainment that is full of violence. It is estimated that the average child watches from three to five hours of television a day! (Neilson 1993). Listening to music is also a time consuming pastime among children. With all of that exposure,…

programs discuss Barker's contention that "National Identity is a form of imaginative identification with that nation state as expressed through symbols and discourses. Thus, nations are not only political formations but also systems of cultural…