1. “For those engaged in the promotion of
particular ideas, including such diverse groups as politicians, corporate
actors, citizen activists, and religious groups, media are among the primary
contemporary battlegrounds.”
I
think why the author is saying that type of groups named above are Primary
contemporary battlegrounds is because these diverse groups are the most popular
for the media too attack. For example, the media had a field day when priests
of the Catholic Church were caught sexually assaulting little boys, which
caused a bad reputation for the Catholic society. One case that I found on Abc
news website states that “Former priest Robert Van Handel's 27-page sexual
history, which he wrote for a psychologist between 1993 and 1994, details his
history of abuse and fantasies of abusing boys age 8 to 11. The document was
released as part of a settlement between the Franciscan order of priests and 25
abuse victims. Because
of the media’s embellishment of Catholic priests many people think priests are
sexual predators.
2.
“Instead of assessing the images and making some judgment about levels
of realness, ideological analysis asks what these messages tell us about
ourselves and our society.” One example of Ideological Analysis is the
disagreement of the Sandy Hook story being false. Some people who think the
Sandy Hook story is real would get their sources from news broadcasts and
websites such as Abc News. On the other hand, the people who think this story
is fake would most likely get their sources from YouTube. An Ideological Analysis
looks at where both of the sources come from without being judgmental.
3. “This articulation
is accomplished, in large part, by the fact that popular media, particularly
television and mass advertising have a tendency to display a remarkably narrow
range of behaviors and lifestyles.
I believe that Mass media is very narrow with
the choices of behavioral lifestyles because the networks chose to introduce to
the public, such as the nuclear family.
Instead of networks, broadcasting shows that are about an everyday
normal family, the networks choose to show television shows that are not the
norm, such as TLC’s Sister Wives. Sister Wives is about a polygamist family,
which consists of four wives, the husband Cody and their 17 kids.
WEBSITES
1.http://www.slideshare.net/RbkAsr/media-and-ideology-9660682 ( I hope you all enjoy this slide show it basically gives us all the information we are leaning in class.)
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