Course name: Issues in Mass Communication.
In this course, we learned about a lot of things related to media and issues in mass communication. In the starting of this course .The model materials talked about critical thinking, how to understand the media, what we are able to know what is behind news and information in the media, what are the roles that the media play in education, health, lifestyle and their ability to alter values and help the society .In addition, in this course we understood media topics, developed media literacy skills and thinking critically and In this assignment, I will summarize and analyze all my submitted materials that I post it on Tumbler. Besides, I will write a critical document by collecting all the topics that I post on Tumbler and course materials together.
Is one of the challenges we face nowadays on media and with the rapid technological development .In addition, Disinformation is false information deliberately and often covertly spread in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. It has different goals like achieving government aims, some promoters use it to attract customers and some of people use it for financial incentives. Disinformation is one of the challenges we face nowadays on media and with the rapid technological development.
Media use different strategies and ways to get people to pay attention to his message or goal, understanding small data in today’s world means understanding the verbal and non-verbal communications that are taking place in media.Also to achieve the disinformation goals, by using psychological aspects to manipulate the people and control their actions. For example, using experts or celebrities to talk about products knowing that people will believe them.
Communication used in Cold War, World War I, World War II, The American coalition invasion of Iraq:
The media played an important role in communications during the war. it helped them achieve their goals through it as Influence public opinion, Communication among soldiers sending important alerts, the impact of propaganda . it was People start communication in the First war by carrier pigeons, dogs, newspaper, cartoons and illustration, telephone and telegraph. Then, they started using the radio, cinema, mail and posters in the Second war. Technologies started appearing in the Cold war, people started using the computer, television (black and white) and the propaganda in cinema. Finally, in the American coalition invasion of Iraq people started phone, video conferencing, photography, newspaper and television.
How Media present Race, Gender (men, women,3rd), class:
According to the differences between people and most of them use the internet platforms with different cultures some problems appeared which present or trying to present things in wrong. In addition , media classified some individuals and minorities such as linking Arabs to terrorism. For the class, as we see in movies and ads that show and focus on high class, rich celebrities with their luxury products.
Narcissism affects the posting behavior of selfies it seems to attract people's attention and admiration by using it because they think they are physically attractive. For people to obtain social acceptance, they change their behaviors and create a personality other than his reality. Selfie and fame-online is being fake more and more, just to get acceptance.
Hate speech in media content:
Hate speech spread so much in the last period. It happens when attack someone or group or calls for violence against them or bothering them by comments, memes, groups or using words likely to excite hostility or bring into contempt any groups. For example, when someone publishes his picture, we will see hate speech about his appearance in the comments also, An example of that, what's happening now in the world about coronavirus everyone's avoiding chinese people.
The role of media in health education:
The media plays an important role in educating people and informing them of the events and changes that are happening in the world. In the current crisis in Corona, the media play a big role in providing people with accurate information about health .In addition , at a time of epidemics, the media creates videos and images that educate people about prevention. It also organizes interviews with experts and doctors, refutes rumors, teaches people about the disease, and shapes their behavior.
Visual designs such as illustration or comics are used for multiple purposes, including the delivery of information easily and simply, which helps the general public even children to understand the message or information .In the field of health information, educational comics may have several purposes, including raising awareness of disease symptoms, assisting with decision‐making, promoting self‐management of chronic conditions, or increasing understanding and acceptance of a condition.
The citizens have the right to know everything through media:
Citizens have the right to know the things that concern them and their specialty and inform them of all developments and events that are happening around them, but the media laws and policies limit it and it is difficult to have everything transparent in the media and maybe the media hides some things for the benefit of the citizens and to avoid chaos in the country.
The media ethics face a lot of challenges especially in crisis times. for example saying the truth, being fair and accurate, bias, hate speech, disinformation and misinformation.
Most topics are linking with one another in some kind of way, and all topics linked to critical thinking in the first place and , we started our course with critical thinking, which helped us to learn how develop our skills in interpreting, analyzing, reasoning, evaluating and all these, we need it as university students , and all issues that we studied in this course need critical thinking.
The media contributes directly and indirectly to shaping society, either by shaping negative behaviors and beliefs, or positive behaviors such as giving the community different health habits.
It affects negatively as we saw above in terms of disinformation by using cognitive strategies and persuasion techniques like association, bribery, fear, humor, beautiful people, celebrities, experts, explicit, intensity, and name-calling through exploit people's emotions and psychology .Understanding the media can help us learn how to deal with Disinformation and misinformation through media and information literacy, so we know when these techniques used and why.
(Communication in wars/ Disinformation/ Cognitive strategies): There is a relation between disinformation and cognitive strategies. Sometime, people use cognitive strategies to mislead the information or the truth. For example, the creators of fake news use cognitive strategies in creating the misleading information and news to be appealing and attention grabbing.) In wars, they used media to spread disinformation in the enemy country to weaken the morale of the people and dismantling the armies. Besides, they used cognitive to effect on citizens emotions to control the situation during wars.
(disinformation /communication): used through the ages and cognitive strategies. The more communication develops, the more disinformation will spread, the more cognitive strategies will use due to the features of communication.
(narcissism / hate speech): The word bias refers to showing unjustified favoritism toward something or someone. People tend to be one-sided in their perspectives like narcissism, which is a personality trait that is marked by grandiosity and an overly positive self-view, and this can lead to poor decision making and increase the level of hate speech, this appears more with fame online because of easy to use and reach the platforms by all age.
(Cartoon / Health education): There is a great correlation between them because they play the role of awareness and guidance to spread awareness among people about the virus and the current situation that the world suffers from .Comics re becoming increasingly popular as a tool for science education and communication. It is intended to convey information easily because of having attractiveness and emotional attachment, it can explain complex issues, and easy to remember.
(Media challenges/ Two hypothesis): The media ethics challenge emerged because of some issues that are relating to media. For example, the media ethics challenge of public trust and interest it linked with the topic of (citizens have the right to have a clear and transparent media or not). Sometime, media hide the truth from the citizens to avoid making them worried and terrified.
I benefited a lot from this course and I learned new media issues, which added to me new experience in analyzing them and knowing hidden information that the media student should notice. Also, I have developed my writing skills, observing, checking and expressing opinion on different media issues. In addition, This assignment made me be able to analytically look at and talk about contemporary media issues.
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