The hypodermic needle theory from the 1940s-1950s suggested that mass media had a direct and powerful influence on audiences by "injecting" them with messages that would trigger desired responses. It viewed audiences as passive receivers who uncritically accepted whatever messages they were exposed to via radio, television, advertising, and propaganda. This theory is now considered outdated as later research found that audiences interact with media in more complex ways and are not uniformly influenced. The radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" led some listeners to mistakenly believe the fictional story of a Martian invasion was real news, demonstrating how early audiences may have passively accepted media messages. However, the hypodermic needle theory fails to account for differences
This document lists and briefly describes the various media technologies and software used by the author at different stages of their music video project. These include cameras, memory cards, lighting equipment, and editing/presentation software like Photoshop, Premier Pro, PowerPoint, YouTube, and Survey Monkey. The author explains how each tool was utilized for tasks like capturing footage and images, editing, research, planning, presenting work, and gathering audience feedback to help create their final music video and ancillary materials.
This document provides guidance for a media studies exam focusing on representations of youth in media. It outlines four key areas exam questions may focus on: how different groups are represented, how representations have changed over time, social implications, and the mediation of identity. Students are instructed to refer to historical, contemporary, and future representations in their essays. The document also provides advice on how to structure an essay to hit assessment criteria focusing on explanation, examples, and terminology. It emphasizes developing an argument connected to the question using theories, case studies, and media texts from different forms and industries.
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The document discusses the development of a travel sickness app to help users overcome motion sickness during travel. The app will provide tips and advice based on scientific evidence, and allow users to listen to their own music to relax and take their mind off travel sickness. It will have sliding pages with tips at the bottom. The app aims to help anyone aged 9+ who experiences travel sickness.
The document summarizes how the media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real media. Specifically, it discusses how a promotional package for an album, including a music video, CD, and magazine ad, follows conventions like displaying the artist and song name at the beginning of the video. It also discusses how it challenges conventions through choices like using pots and pans instead of real drums or including both male and female cast members. Overall, the product aims to both follow expectations for professionalism while also including creative choices atypical of the genre.
The hypodermic needle theory from the 1940s-1950s suggested that mass media had a direct and powerful influence on audiences by "injecting" them with messages that would trigger desired responses. It viewed audiences as passive receivers who uncritically accepted whatever messages they were exposed to via radio, television, advertising, and propaganda. This theory is now considered outdated as later research found that audiences interact with media in more complex ways and are not uniformly influenced. The radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" led some listeners to mistakenly believe the fictional story of a Martian invasion was real news, demonstrating how early audiences may have passively accepted media messages. However, the hypodermic needle theory fails to account for differences
This document lists and briefly describes the various media technologies and software used by the author at different stages of their music video project. These include cameras, memory cards, lighting equipment, and editing/presentation software like Photoshop, Premier Pro, PowerPoint, YouTube, and Survey Monkey. The author explains how each tool was utilized for tasks like capturing footage and images, editing, research, planning, presenting work, and gathering audience feedback to help create their final music video and ancillary materials.
This document provides guidance for a media studies exam focusing on representations of youth in media. It outlines four key areas exam questions may focus on: how different groups are represented, how representations have changed over time, social implications, and the mediation of identity. Students are instructed to refer to historical, contemporary, and future representations in their essays. The document also provides advice on how to structure an essay to hit assessment criteria focusing on explanation, examples, and terminology. It emphasizes developing an argument connected to the question using theories, case studies, and media texts from different forms and industries.
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The document discusses the development of a travel sickness app to help users overcome motion sickness during travel. The app will provide tips and advice based on scientific evidence, and allow users to listen to their own music to relax and take their mind off travel sickness. It will have sliding pages with tips at the bottom. The app aims to help anyone aged 9+ who experiences travel sickness.
The document summarizes how the media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real media. Specifically, it discusses how a promotional package for an album, including a music video, CD, and magazine ad, follows conventions like displaying the artist and song name at the beginning of the video. It also discusses how it challenges conventions through choices like using pots and pans instead of real drums or including both male and female cast members. Overall, the product aims to both follow expectations for professionalism while also including creative choices atypical of the genre.
This document asks a series of questions about the film "Fish Tank" and how it represents youth and adults. It asks how opinions develop of the young characters and adult characters throughout the film. It also asks how the film challenges stereotypes of working-class youth by showing a different perspective than typical media representations, and how the film could be used in an exam to argue that media often presents unfair representations of youth.
Tatiana Moret é uma mulher brasileira que trabalha como assistente pessoal. Ela tem experiência em organizar agendas, fazer compras, planejar viagens e outras tarefas administrativas. Tatiana é confiável, organizada e tem ótimos feedbacks de seus clientes.
Global warming refers to the long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system, primarily due to the increased greenhouse gas emissions from human activities like burning fossil fuels. Climate change is a broader term that includes long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns. The key evidence that global warming is occurring includes rising global temperatures, especially over the past 35 years, shrinking ice sheets and glaciers, and rising sea levels. The main cause is the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas which release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Individual actions like using energy efficient light bulbs, driving less, and reducing electricity and water usage can help address the problem.
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The document presents a proposal for a disability support app that would help disabled users locate accessible amenities like lifts, buses, and disabled-friendly shops using their location. The app would draw from Google Maps data to pinpoint accessible areas and facilities. It aims to assist disabled people and their careers by providing simple, easy-to-use navigation without charge. The team proposes a basic interface and designing the app specifically for users with disabilities like impaired sight or mobility issues.
This document provides recommendations for individual actions to reduce global warming through reducing waste, using less heating and air conditioning, replacing light bulbs with more efficient options, driving less and more efficiently, and taking public transit when possible. Specific tips include choosing reusable products and recycling, adding home insulation, replacing incandescent bulbs with CFLs, walking and biking more, keeping tires properly inflated, and each person doing their part to protect the climate. The overall message is that small actions by individuals can collectively make a meaningful impact on reducing carbon emissions.
The document provides information about the planets in our solar system. It describes the size, composition and key features of each planet from Mercury to Neptune. It notes that most astronomers believe the Sun and solar system were born from the collapse of a huge cloud of gas and dust under its own gravity.
Sidapaksa, the prime minister of East Java, had a beautiful wife who was disliked by his mother. One day, while the wife was bathing, Sidapaksa's mother took the couple's baby and threw it into the river. Years later, when Sidapaksa's wife threw herself into the river out of grief, the baby and wife appeared as flowers and revealed that the grandmother was responsible for the baby's death. The city where this occurred became known as Banyuwangi, meaning "water fragrance", in memory of this tragic event.
This document provides information about a study conducted on the Mevad Toll Plaza located on the Mehsana-Ahmedabad Highway in Gujarat, India. The study involved collecting classified volume count data, service time data for different vehicle types, and conducting a user survey. The data was analyzed to determine peak traffic hours and the average service times. It was found that the average service time at the manual toll plaza was around 25 seconds per vehicle, much higher than the 4-5 seconds per vehicle achieved at electronic toll collection plazas. The results of the study can be used to identify opportunities to reduce congestion and delays at the toll plaza.
This document provides guidance and resources for a student's coursework on representations of youth in the media. It discusses deadlines, areas for improvement in their draft, and topics to research such as existing products and conventions. It also lists top student bloggers as examples and provides links to their work. In discussing past representations, it references the 1960s mods and rockers as well as the 2011 London riots. It examines how youth were portrayed negatively in both eras and how new media shaped responses. The document aims to help the student strengthen their analysis of how representations of youth in the media can perpetuate moral panics and stereotypes over time.
This document summarizes a study assessing mercury emissions and recovery from artisanal and small-scale gold mining at Sikonge Gold Mine in Tanzania. The study introduced techniques to optimize mercury use and reduce environmental pollution, such as reprocessing tailings, using a mercury retort to capture mercury during amalgamation, and weighing mercury to determine losses. These methods recovered 73% of mercury lost over two months. While mercury pollution from small-scale mining poses risks, the introduced techniques helped reduce emissions and recover mercury from tailings.
This document outlines Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze theory of how women are represented in media. Mulvey argues that women are typically portrayed as objects for the male gaze, with the camera emphasizing their bodies and sexuality. The document discusses applying Mulvey's theory by analyzing portrayals of women in music videos and film trailers. Students are tasked with watching various media clips and assessing whether they depict women as sexual objects focused on pleasing the male viewer's look. The lesson aims to have students understand Mulvey's theory, form their own opinions on modern representations of women, and consider how her analysis could be expanded.
Ethylene oxide is produced through the direct oxidation of ethylene using a silver oxide catalyst between 250-300°C and 4-5 atmospheres of pressure. Ethylene and air are mixed and passed over the catalyst, and the highly exothermic reaction produces ethylene oxide with a 60-70% yield. The effluent gases are washed and the absorbed ethylene oxide is separated through fractional distillation, producing a 95-98% pure product. Major engineering challenges include controlling the air-to-ethylene ratio and preventing the competitive oxidation reaction to carbon dioxide and water.
This document asks a series of questions about the film "Fish Tank" and how it represents youth and adults. It asks how opinions develop of the young characters and adult characters throughout the film. It also asks how the film challenges stereotypes of working-class youth by showing a different perspective than typical media representations, and how the film could be used in an exam to argue that media often presents unfair representations of youth.
Tatiana Moret é uma mulher brasileira que trabalha como assistente pessoal. Ela tem experiência em organizar agendas, fazer compras, planejar viagens e outras tarefas administrativas. Tatiana é confiável, organizada e tem ótimos feedbacks de seus clientes.
Global warming refers to the long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system, primarily due to the increased greenhouse gas emissions from human activities like burning fossil fuels. Climate change is a broader term that includes long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns. The key evidence that global warming is occurring includes rising global temperatures, especially over the past 35 years, shrinking ice sheets and glaciers, and rising sea levels. The main cause is the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas which release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Individual actions like using energy efficient light bulbs, driving less, and reducing electricity and water usage can help address the problem.
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The document presents a proposal for a disability support app that would help disabled users locate accessible amenities like lifts, buses, and disabled-friendly shops using their location. The app would draw from Google Maps data to pinpoint accessible areas and facilities. It aims to assist disabled people and their careers by providing simple, easy-to-use navigation without charge. The team proposes a basic interface and designing the app specifically for users with disabilities like impaired sight or mobility issues.
This document provides recommendations for individual actions to reduce global warming through reducing waste, using less heating and air conditioning, replacing light bulbs with more efficient options, driving less and more efficiently, and taking public transit when possible. Specific tips include choosing reusable products and recycling, adding home insulation, replacing incandescent bulbs with CFLs, walking and biking more, keeping tires properly inflated, and each person doing their part to protect the climate. The overall message is that small actions by individuals can collectively make a meaningful impact on reducing carbon emissions.
The document provides information about the planets in our solar system. It describes the size, composition and key features of each planet from Mercury to Neptune. It notes that most astronomers believe the Sun and solar system were born from the collapse of a huge cloud of gas and dust under its own gravity.
Sidapaksa, the prime minister of East Java, had a beautiful wife who was disliked by his mother. One day, while the wife was bathing, Sidapaksa's mother took the couple's baby and threw it into the river. Years later, when Sidapaksa's wife threw herself into the river out of grief, the baby and wife appeared as flowers and revealed that the grandmother was responsible for the baby's death. The city where this occurred became known as Banyuwangi, meaning "water fragrance", in memory of this tragic event.
This document provides information about a study conducted on the Mevad Toll Plaza located on the Mehsana-Ahmedabad Highway in Gujarat, India. The study involved collecting classified volume count data, service time data for different vehicle types, and conducting a user survey. The data was analyzed to determine peak traffic hours and the average service times. It was found that the average service time at the manual toll plaza was around 25 seconds per vehicle, much higher than the 4-5 seconds per vehicle achieved at electronic toll collection plazas. The results of the study can be used to identify opportunities to reduce congestion and delays at the toll plaza.
This document provides guidance and resources for a student's coursework on representations of youth in the media. It discusses deadlines, areas for improvement in their draft, and topics to research such as existing products and conventions. It also lists top student bloggers as examples and provides links to their work. In discussing past representations, it references the 1960s mods and rockers as well as the 2011 London riots. It examines how youth were portrayed negatively in both eras and how new media shaped responses. The document aims to help the student strengthen their analysis of how representations of youth in the media can perpetuate moral panics and stereotypes over time.
This document summarizes a study assessing mercury emissions and recovery from artisanal and small-scale gold mining at Sikonge Gold Mine in Tanzania. The study introduced techniques to optimize mercury use and reduce environmental pollution, such as reprocessing tailings, using a mercury retort to capture mercury during amalgamation, and weighing mercury to determine losses. These methods recovered 73% of mercury lost over two months. While mercury pollution from small-scale mining poses risks, the introduced techniques helped reduce emissions and recover mercury from tailings.
This document outlines Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze theory of how women are represented in media. Mulvey argues that women are typically portrayed as objects for the male gaze, with the camera emphasizing their bodies and sexuality. The document discusses applying Mulvey's theory by analyzing portrayals of women in music videos and film trailers. Students are tasked with watching various media clips and assessing whether they depict women as sexual objects focused on pleasing the male viewer's look. The lesson aims to have students understand Mulvey's theory, form their own opinions on modern representations of women, and consider how her analysis could be expanded.
Ethylene oxide is produced through the direct oxidation of ethylene using a silver oxide catalyst between 250-300°C and 4-5 atmospheres of pressure. Ethylene and air are mixed and passed over the catalyst, and the highly exothermic reaction produces ethylene oxide with a 60-70% yield. The effluent gases are washed and the absorbed ethylene oxide is separated through fractional distillation, producing a 95-98% pure product. Major engineering challenges include controlling the air-to-ethylene ratio and preventing the competitive oxidation reaction to carbon dioxide and water.