What Should We Do About This???

Is there really such a thing called media regulation?!?!?!

With so much media advertising and marketing going on in our society who's are the good guys and bad guys? Using consequences and contingencies that have the effects on society and factors it plays on regulation it creates tensions. Public interest which favours regulation Vs. free market which favours deregulation that government regulation and media self regulation will never see eye-to-eye. For example tobacco companies show that their product is not harmful to our society and have false science to exhibit false information. Several social effects such as; aggressor affect, victim effect, bystander effect, and catharsis effect illustrate the effects of media on our society. But what are we doing about this?

Do guns really kill people??? Or is it the violence in movies, TV shows, and video games that do???

Reality aka "Media Reality"

What is real and what isn't real?!?!?!

As we read or watch the news we cannot help but believe what is being published or spoken. What hat is real and what is not? One thing we know for sure is that the truth is out there, however it's presented is a different story. Therefore what we need to do with the media is problem solve, assess different outcomes, measure and produce the tangible results and benefits, examine and rationalize, and finally be pragmatic because what you know and what you don't know are totally different things. Three individuals that are key pragmatists are; William James which focused on the individual and developed radical empiricism, John Dewey which focused on the social issues and believed in pragmatic meliorism, and finally Richard Rorty which focused on the essential truth and relativism.

So now what??? What do we do about this???

News...a commodity like no other...

There are several types of news; sports news, breaking news, weather news, and evening news... but what separates the commodity and the important information. News media is influenced by large corporations which creates a filter that have advertisers choose the influence of media prosperity and anticommunism. There are several news information biases; it is personalized which focuses on the individual and not the society, dramatized that emphasizes crisis, fragmented that isolates stories from one another, and finally authority disorder that try to interpret events for us. 

The consequences of the news conventions are; gatekeeping and agenda setting which shows that media determines what is news, homogenization that is the same approach in delivering the news night after night, an increase in soft news that provide more entertainment and finally attribution that is responsible for social ills.

what we see as news can be very well deceiving....but what is real and what is controlled by corporations for profit and commodity?

we have to look past the filters and and not succumb to soft news...

Media Organization

Organizational analysis shows the structure of an organization and the process it takes to influence society. There are different forms of structure in organizational analysis such as; the role of individuals which is the hierarchy, the division of sections which is the specialization, and finally the formal standards that is the formalization of an organization.  With the structure and process of an organization it carries the organizational culture. There are performances, narratives, textual, management, and finally technology that are conventions that govern the way an organization work. Behind conventions there various parts that fall in the professional organization such as; motivation, sharing, naturalization, resilience, and direction. The way a company achieves this is by; training, hiring, evaluation and promotion, recognition and wards, and finally professional societies to achieve professionalization.

Is every organizational analysis true in relation to news media?

Organizations can take on various roles which can leave the viewer eating out of their palms...

Advertising...

ARE WE ALL VICTIMS OF ADVERTISING?!?!

With the ruling class creating a neoliberalism upon the working class; it creates a rule of the market, it cuts public expenditure for social services with: deregulation, privatization, and it eliminates the concept of the public good or community. With advertising it creates a false consciousness to society because it distracts people from the realities of society.

When advertising a product, companies use sexuality to create a commodity fetishism. With the automobile advertising campaigns showing an attractive woman photographed with the car, society is led to believe that "If i buy this car, I will get the attractive woman as well". 

We all succumb to the imagery that advertising but how is it all organized???

Marxist analysis

Who owns and controls the media???
         What role do the media play in society???
                  What ideas are spread and neglected by the media???
                           What kind of heroes are shown in the media???

These are the questions that arise when examining a marxist analysis.  Marx suggests that the ruling class determine the mode of production. They create feudalism which creates a monopoly around land in exchange for service or labor. This creates the capitalism which affects attitudes, values, personality types, and culture.


The ruling class....
- believes its own message
- make it their primary goal to develop and perfect the illusions about their class
- justifies its status and makes it difficult for society to realize they are being exploited
- try to state that capitalism is natural


Are we all victims of capitalism?!?! 

Do we subconsciously give in to the ruling class from advertising?!?!

What is NOT media?!

What is NOT media?!
According to my last post, media was something that connected us, a medium for instance. But now what ISN'T a medium? If media can be brand names, television, radio, internet, and magazines, I guess everything else that doesn't connect us isn't media. But what doesn't connect us??? Theoretically everything in life connects us to SOMETHING. Food can even be a medium for life because we need to ingest it in order to live. Therefore, the question shouldn't be "what is not media?", but "what are the categories of media?"

What is MEDIA???

What is MEDIA???

Media is actually all around us! From the brands of clothes we wear to the signs and symbols that we interact with everyday. 

Media is not only television, radio, internet, magazines and newspapers but also mediums that connect us. For example any sign or object that connects an individual with another source or realm is considered media. In the instance of a television remote, it is considered to be media because it connects us with the television that engages us to media. Anything that connects us is considered media, but now the next question is what is NOT media???