MEDIA CULTURE@ JOURNAL

Can you think of some examples of media imperialism (local, your own country, overseas)?    Definition of media imperialism "Media imperialism  is a theory based upon an over-concentration of mass  media  from larger nations as a significant variable in negatively affecting smaller nations, in which the national identity of smaller nations is lessened or lost due to  media  homogeneity inherent in mass  media  from the larger countries." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_imperialism      One of the examples I can think of is media imperialism occurs with our Malaysia’s newspaper. Our newspaper are strictly controlled by the government, hence all the news are all being manipulated and not all of them are true. My parents used to see newspaper before one of the 1MDB cases was discovered, but after 1MDB was discovered, most of the newspapers were more strictly controlled by the government by not simply slip...

"How does Mass Media Affect Socialization in Children and in Young Adults? Talk about how the mass media affects socialization in children and in young adults. Discuss how there are negative and positive factors of how mass media can influences a child's or young adult's life. " Definition of socialization: “Socialization is a process whereby individuals are made aware of behaviours that are expected of them with regards to the norms, beliefs, attitudes and values of the society in which they live. Socialization in this sense, initiates the awareness of every individual, age and sex no in question, to the expected i.e. the existing trends in the society they live in, this means each society has a trend, lifestyle, way of life, dressing, language and so many other things that make up the social life of individuals. Socialization through the appreciation of cultural practices builds up the individual in facing the realities of life in that society.”...

“Films can teach, they can explain and they can move people to great depths. Having done all these things, is it possible for films to move people to action? There is no question for most social scientists that carefully constructed communications, films for instance, can produce changes in attitudes, in those who adequately receive the communication. The use of adequately is of course a conscious one in that we know that people tend to misperceive that which they hear and see, and go through fairly complicated strategies of selective attention and selective perception.” [Challenge for Change programme, National Film Board of Canada (NFB)]       Question: Based on the statement above, share your thoughts on the issue, of how community video can make changes in people, and the community that they belonged to. You can give some examples to explain. I believe that media can make changes to people, and the community they belonged to. Media is very powerf...

Discuss one or few of the scenes in ‘The Truman’s Show’ that captivates you, explain the role of media in that particular scene and what your opinion regarding the issues being portrayed in the movie. How is the movie affect you personally? Discuss a scene you find the most profound in the movie. One of the scene in ‘ The Truman Show’ that captivates me is the last scene before he went out from the dorm. Truman always hoped to go to Fiji Island and even though the show director Christof tried to stop him with the horrible storm and rain during his sailing to Fiji, he never once gave up. He even tried to overcome the fear of sea and of his childhood memories. Eventually, he came to the end of the dorm, he thought that that was the end as he tried to push past the big dorm. After that he saw a door where exit was and decided to get out, that was the most touching part as he decided that he did not want to be controlled by anyone again, he wanted be a free man. The role...