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- 2. Real Life Situation • A car hit a Chinese kid as she crossed the street • The driver saw that he hit the kid, but he runs Away • 18 people in total pass the kid on the street and no one did anything about it •Later another car came in the road and hit the kid once more •Finally after 10 minutes a woman saw the kid and carried her outside the road. •The girl was in a severe coma state •After the media heard about the news they immediately captured the video and published it worldwide. Link of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFifW
- 3. Thanks to the video shown in the media, the two drivers that ran over the little girl were arrested: • Police arrested the driver of the second van the night of the accident • The driver from the first car admitted to the media that he noticed that he had run over someone •He never expected that the media will publish this video in such a big way and he now feels ashamed. •We may ask ourselves if he feels ashamed now just because everyone is judging him? If the news weren’t published worldwide them maybe he wouldn’t have felt so ashamed?
- 4. Knowledge Issue what affects our body of knowledge more, public opinion or the media? And how are they interrelated?
- 5. How does media influence public opinion? And vice versa? •TED TALK: TED TALKS- Deb Rry- The birth of a word MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his son learned language. In every place of his house he placed video camera in order to catch every moment (with exceptions He collected, data-rich research with deep implications on how we learn. In 3 years they recorded 90,000 hours of video and 140,000 hours of audio. Social environments influence on learning
- 6. How the structure of when words are heard affect when they are learned. In other words relationship between words and what their context is in the world.
- 7. There is online a link betw an een what d what app opinion we ea chang see on TV rs in TV, es su about what's bei ddenly n opinio among peo g talked n is lin p televis ked to le (Public ion an con d vice tent on versa) Conclusion: see new social structures, and see our behavior around communication.
- 8. Psychological Process Atribution Theory • Attribution theory is intended to help to understand the causes of human behavior. • People wants to know the reasons for the actions they take. • Want to attribute causes to behaviours • People want to assume some feeling of control over their own behaviours and situations.
- 9. Article: “How Media Frames Move Public Opinion: An Analysis of the Woman’s Movement”. This article basically talks about the woman’s movement and how the fames within presented in the media affected the public in different ways.
- 10. Rush Limbaugh: this is one of the uncommon cases in which the public opinion affects the media, and not vice versa. Basically, based on his live comments done on the show, the public reacted in a bad way leading to his show losing all his sponsors.
- 11. Twitter: Social Networking or News Media: This article discusses on whether a social network like twitter is actually a social network or a news media. Based on a thorough analysis done, it states that 85% of the ‘tweets’ are based on “headline news or persistent news in nature.”
- 12. Public opinion dictates media due to issues of ratings and popularity. For example, the primetime ratings for Fox News Channel on primetime were of 462, compared to 152 for CNN. This is because, evidently, Fox News has determined what the public wants to hear and therefore gained higher ratings.
- 13. Social Media • Social Media describes online technologies that people use to share content, opinions, insights, experiences, perspectives and media.
- 14. Social Media •Social media controls the public, whenever they access media through TV, radio or newspapers people is exposed to editorial decisions of what becomes a news and how the news is presented to the audiences. • Social media can “shape our thinking”, how the media chooses to report and to comment on daily events and issues will have an impact on audiences and will inevitably influence the thinking of many. • Social media and the internet are making it easier and quicker than ever for information to pass through borders. • Nowadays, even governments need to react more quickly now because social media is influencing public opinion and they must controlled to keep calm.
- 15. Social Media • In the case of the RLS we are examining, social Media was a key element to spread the news around the globe. • The news showed a weaker and dark side of society, where nobody cares about other human beings. • The audience reacted to how the news were presented and as a result societies from all over the world commented and analyzed the news. • Our body of knowledge is a compendium of media and public opinion. • The influence of media is so strong that can influence public views and even their conduct.
- 16. Twitter & Facebook • During the last years the increase of social networks is over passing all our expectations, in just seconds a quote, a twitter or a Face book message is posted in the web. • Facebook and Twitter have seen recent examples of news spreading globally at incredible speeds, and of people reacting to and forming opinions based on this news. • People is connecter around the world and geographical barriers do not exist anymore. • These kind of messages or posts influence the public opinion who can have the last information, just faraway from a click. • On the other hand media also takes advantage of these new mass tools by influencing large audiences.
- 17. We must also keep in mind this question…. Does the media shape the public or does the public shape the media?
- 18. • The little kid accident was commented on line by millions of people around the world. • The news was broadcasted in many languages and commented on social networks as Twitter and Face Book for several weeks. • This was an example were social media and public opinion mixed together to comment one of the most famous news of the last years that was globalized thanks to social networks.
- 19. Relation to other real life historical issues: • WW2: people think that it was genocide and an overall horrible event, but what would they have done if they were in that situation. • Blood diamonds: people buy the products but they don’t think about the issues behind their production. •Restrepo Case: Colombian brothers disappeared in Ecuador after being stopped by the police. It’s said that the police officers abused their power and killed one brother and later on had to kill the other. Their bodies were never found until today. •People had different reactions and opinions after watching this in the media, what influences knowledge about this case more? Public opinion or how the media portrayed it?