Machine Translation and Horizons of the Future Almost everyone is familiar with the nifty Google feature which allows for instantaneous translation of foreign words. This automated or 'machine' translation is a convenient way to read websites in di Continue Reading...
"[T]here remains a distinction between autonomy, the ability to think for oneself, and self-expression, the communicating of one's thoughts to others. Both are important components of our interest in free speech" (Lichtenberg, 336). Still some beli Continue Reading...
Censorship and Freedom of the Press In 2009, Frank Bainimarama, the self-appointed Prime Minister of Fiji said that freedom of speech causes trouble and is to blame for his country's political turmoil (ABC News, 2009). This is only a small portion Continue Reading...
United Kingdom and Chinese newspaper coverage of BP Oil spill British Petroleum came under severe criticism from around the world when in April 2010 the company lost control of marine drilling operations and caused a major oil spill in Gulf of Mexic Continue Reading...
To this point, Chouliarki (2000) argues that "the facilitation of deliberative processes among audiences is a matter not only of changing institutional arrangements (towards a regulation of marketized media) but also of changing the mode of articula Continue Reading...
Manipulation of Media Coverage During War on Iraq The role of the media is critical in nearly every walk of life now because of its expanse especially in the last decade. The media has grown into such a powerful tool of communication and influence t Continue Reading...
A disconnection from action, even when it is literally right outside one's door is felt by the viewer, where as simple and plain print media has not the power to distort the message, or at least arguably as much. A culture and society of apathy, as Continue Reading...
Managers Do? Discovering the answer to "What do Managers Do?" was deceptively difficult. In the process of interviewing the four subjects for this assignment, I found more questions being raised about the nature of managerial duties. Part of the re Continue Reading...
Pseudo-Event In the scientific literature it is difficult to find a useful concept for the news craze. In Media Matters (1994) John Fiske uses the word 'media event'. These kinds of events have their own reality and their own patterns. "The term med Continue Reading...
Understanding the Context of Information ManagementIntroductionStakeholders in public sector information management can include elected officials, the general public, taxpayers, public employees, and service providers. These stakeholders have differe Continue Reading...
Media I believe that the media exerts tremendous power on people. I certainly subscribe to McLuhan's view that media allows humans to perceive the world differently. The world in which we live is rich with media, and most of our interactions with th Continue Reading...
Braille, sign language, and pictograms all offer nonverbal means of effectively communicating ideas. Each of these nonverbal communications constitutes a type of language, and each has unique applications. It is important to realize that verbal and w Continue Reading...
Social media is an extremely hot buzzword in the business world today. However, it is not just a buzzword. According to Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein, social media is "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and tec Continue Reading...
Evidence of this can be seen with the company being slow to provide information, on the total amounts of oil that are leaking into the ocean and the various restrictions that they have placed on media coverage. (Lack of Transparency Afflicts Oil Spi Continue Reading...
Content reflects advertising and investor revenues. What is being reported on, and the tone with which it is delivered, are not influenced by the public except in an indirect way: response to media advertisements. Advertisements that garner attentio Continue Reading...
In medicine, for one example, pharmaceutical companies have established something of a tradition compensating physicians for their time in connection with contributing to educational seminars on topics within their professional expertise (Kolata 20 Continue Reading...
CONCLUSION The public relation efforts following the Staten Island Ferry accident were effective for the most part. In the future however efforts should be made to design the order of information in a way that it tiers to those who need it most. U Continue Reading...
PRSA Perhaps the clearest violation of the principles of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) in Wag the Dog is its essential premise: the PR firm is working to create the impression that the U.S. is at war to save the reputation of the cu Continue Reading...
Human Dev Symbols, the Mind, and the Animal State In Chapter 7 of Maps of Time, David Christian (2011) discusses how human language is built not only of "icons" and "indices," which are types of recognition, correlation, and communication that many Continue Reading...
Oyez FCC v. FOX TELEVISION STATIONS Case Basics Docket No. Petitioner Federal Communications Commission, et al. Respondent Fox Television Stations, Inc., et al. Granted Monday, June 27, 2011 Term: 2010-20192011 Location: 40.714353, -74.0059 Continue Reading...
Strategic Planning at the Chronicle Gazette The Declining Newspaper Readership The Strategic Planning The Reestablished Mission of the Chronicle Gazette The Human Resource Planning The Importance of Strategic Planning The Evaluation Criteria T Continue Reading...
BP Deepwater Horizon In April, 2010, Gulf of Mexico oil rig Deepwater Horizon, managed by British Petroleum (BP) suffered an explosion, sank to the bottom of the sea and precipitated an oil leak that would take months to cap (Pagnamenta & Goddar Continue Reading...
It is important that we be allowed to pursue our business interests with a minimum of government interference. Given that the FTC and DoJ already enforce antitrust legislation, it seems unethical that the FCC also enforce such codes, specifically fo Continue Reading...
). Over time, from one second to the next, human behavior constantly changes, contributing to the fact that human behavior, consequently human cognition, constitutes a dynamic process. (Thelen and Smith, 1994). Communication, also a continuous inter Continue Reading...
However, if they do start to reveal sources, then future informants are going to be hesitant to alert the media when corruption takes place (Dreiling, 2004). News organizations such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Dow Jones and Company, Continue Reading...
Thus, they set off a great deal of protest. Americans did not appreciate the fact that a small group of powerful corporations are given more control of the most important element of our democracy: our access to information. They are right to feel th Continue Reading...
P&g There are a number of stakeholders in this situation. Procter & Gamble, Iams, their employees and their shareholders represent one set of stakeholders, oriented primarily towards defusing or deflecting the criticism in order to protect t Continue Reading...
Airbrushing John Rawls' philosophical theme centers on the topic of "justice as fairness." It's hard not to relate this to one of the growing topics of discussion, namely the importance of digital deception which might well include the idea of airbr Continue Reading...
Another disadvantage of a media relations campaign is that the link between the marketing message and the purchase decision is often distant. The message relies on planting the seed that may evolve into a purchase decision rather than other methods Continue Reading...
The recent proliferation of such incidents stained My Space's image. While the largest part of communication taking place through My Space is usually harmless, the incidents alarmed parents and thus created negative publicity. My Space responded f Continue Reading...
In addition to the implications earlier described, YouTube clips have succeeded in coining certain expressions, characters, behaviors that were copied by the audience. For example, the Hong Kong Bus uncle case in which a middle-aged man - Chan Yuet Continue Reading...
Even during the golden years of the beauty contest between the wars there were unresolved problems with the nature and purpose of such competitions: There remained elements of discomfort and tension, only superficially palliated by the scientific d Continue Reading...
Disney Case Stakeholder Communications Disney's American project ultimately never manifested due to a slew of different reasons. However, one of the most fundamental breakdowns in the process was definitely stakeholder communications. The project h Continue Reading...
Power of Media in American Values Contemporary Discuss the power of the media in shaping contemporary American values. The online oxford dictionary defines media as "the main means of mass communication (television, radio, and newspapers) regarded Continue Reading...
BP's corporate image in a negative light. The first reason is that it will give the media a negative talking point about the company. The second reason is that it will give an audience to critics of the company's environmental policies. The third re Continue Reading...
With recent immigration and greater exposure to outside cultures, will the need for diversity arise? Will the need be reflected in media? There is evidence already of this happening thanks to reality shows and the news. Suggestions of hot and cold m Continue Reading...
I would use search key for "is," "are," and then "it" and "they" and revise where potentially confusing. THANK YOU for an educational order!!! I tried to avoid trivial issues of word choice or personal taste, and only comment where mechanics or rule Continue Reading...
The United States has no national identity card, and many Americans do not have passports. The driver's license registries are one of the primary ways that law enforcement personnel can identify suspects and victims in crimes. Moreover, a huge porti Continue Reading...
