The Crisis of Unemployment

It can also be seen as a cris of cost and stability. For previous gnerations a person, being smart and capable, could get a job with a company and be put on a payroll and get health benifits and retirment plans.  This is not an easy task these days particularly if you want to do [...]

Censorship on TV

Programming is what attracts audiences to television but advertising is the primary means of revenue generation for most networks and stations.  In a situation when 1) specific broadcast programming is attacked for containing too much “skin and sin” by traditional family values groups, 2) advertisers are inundated with thousands of email, letters and telephone calls [...]

Documentary Film Distribution

The media landscape has certainly changed in the last few years. A dramatic example of this is the way non-fiction films are distributed. Ten years ago there were only a few places where independent producers might sell their documentaries. Today there are many more outlets. What are these new opportunities? Describe at least [...]

Cable TV vs Telephone Companies

The questions
5. In the coming years Cable TV will face very real competition from the telephone companies for customers. Give the competitive advantages of each industry and the efforts both have made in Congress and at the FCC to deal with perceived inequities in the competitive landscape.
Comprehensive Examination Question #5
Andrea P. Fuller
I. Cable Industry
A. Competitive [...]

Children, Obesity, and the Media

Questions
#7

I.                   Obesity
a.       What contributes to childhood obesity
                                                              i.      Media influence on eating habits
1.      Product Placement
2.      Commercials (Preoperational Stage- not being able to tell the difference between a commercial and the program; don’t understand the advertiser’s intent)
3.      Endorsements (e.g. Spongebob cereal)
                                                            ii.      Eating between meals, convenience meals
                                                          iii.      Sedentary lifestyle (being lazy)
                                                          iv.      Genetics
                                                            v.      Parenting [...]

Political Virtue

This argument comes from the conflicting claims to authority in the city.
 
The politician’s job is to create the regime that will best promote the good life within the city.
 
In order to do this he must give the authority of the city to the ruler or rulers that would best promote virtue within the citizens.
 
However all [...]

Tell Me what you think

This is an experiment…
1. Review the theoretical underpinnings of persuasive messages in relation to specific audiences, taking into account at least three of the following constructs: agenda setting, diffusion of innovation, central and peripheral processing, cognitive dissonance, source credibility, reasoned action, two-step flow, selectivity, expectancy-value and fear appeals.  As a writer/producer, which basic model would [...]

Palin gets punked

Wow, I mean wow.  All I can say is extreme gullability isn’t a good quality for someone who wants to help run the country.

“Dead Man” Review

                                                                              
Dead Man
 
I chose this film because I am a big fan of westerns and this is one of my favorites because it is a unique and compelling interpretation of the genre. This is to say that while the film has many of the elements of a classic western, I see it as an anti [...]

Voltaire’s Candide–2003

                                                                                                      Candide’s Travels to the New World
 
 
Voltaire’s view of America as expressed in Candide is a pessimistic one, but also one that shows a lot of potential.  The Americas are corrupted at this point by the European powers and their exploitative nature.  Despite this fact, America is shown as a place where there is great opportunity [...]