Posted: December 6th, 2013
Theories and efectts of Mass comunicación
After reading : Theories and efectts of Mass comunicación (book introduction to mass communication -media literacy and culture by
Stanley J Baran) you should now have a better understanding of various theories of communication. As the text explains, we currently believe that the media do affect us, but not in the
all-powerful ways once taught by the
magic bullet theories. Instead we believe the media impact us powerfully in limited areas of life, such as that explained by
agenda setting theory.
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Now that you’ve listed the most important problems, think about how you came to believe that those are the most important problems. Are they from personal experience, do the media talk about those problems, or is it a combination of the two?
Write a 2 pages ( 1″ margins, 12 point Times New Roman font) essay explaining your answer to these two questions. Talk about how much knowledge you could even have about each issue without the media, and therefore the amount of “dependency” you place on the media for that specific topic.