Category: Mass Media
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Police Brutality and Rodney King
These new patterns of action are spreading gradually across the United States. The 1980s saw the arrival of many programs inspired by community policing. Pedestrian patrols, the creation of nearby police stations or neighborhood meetings with local groups become common practice in different major cities, improving the image of the police as well as the…
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Use and Misuse of Media Regarding Police Brutality
Nowadays, stereotype plays the biggest problem of the modern society with racism in the media. The dominance of stereotypes in films and T.V. shows reached its peak. In the same time, people get wrong and negative view of African American lifestyle watching programs and movies full of stereotypes. Many ways of picturing African Americans are…
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Public Speaking Appearances and Personal Lives
Since media has been the largest source of entertainment is anything private? The public’s right to know versus the right to privacy, a topic that has an ongoing debate by the media itself, the subject of conversation has intensified since technology has become more and more advanced. Requested by ordinary citizens, celebrities, as well as…
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The Origins of Social Media: Identifying the First Platforms that Connected Us
Social media has fundamentally reshaped how we communicate, share information, and connect across the globe. To trace the origins of social media is to chart the evolution of human communication from its analog roots to the intricate digital networks that thread through our daily lives. The journey to the first platforms that connected us unveils…
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An Examination of Modern Conspiracy Culture
In recent years, the term “Pizzagate” has etched itself into the annals of internet lore, emerging as a contentious conspiracy theory that captivated the minds of many. It was during the backdrop of the 2016 United States presidential election campaign that this saga began to unfold, its genesis rooted in a series of leaked emails…