Essays on Sociology of Media and Communication

Grey’s Anatomy is an extremely popular medical drama that first appeared 2005 on American Broadcasting Company, better known as ABC. The television show is based around Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo, and her journey through internship, residency, and eventually her role as an attending...

Anyone familiar with Grey’s Anatomy will agree that the show is over dramatized. The show writer, Shonda Rhimes, tries to add more drama to the show to make it more interesting. The show can be misleading on how hospitals run. Although it has not been...

Violence in the media does not always make people violent. Violent films alone do not make people violent, but the combined effects of violent media exposure along with other serious risk factors that could potentially create a violent or aggressive person. Films like Reservoir Dogs...

As a nation of immigrants, American society is composed of major groups such as White and a variety of minority groups such as African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American and so on. As the number of immigrants increased over a long period of time,...

Literature in not like it was in the past, where in the past to get a full understanding of a text one would have to have to read the text multiple times or have to discuss it between a party or individual in person. Today with the innovations that have progressed technology that is now a thing of...

At the beginning of the 21st-century social networking sites were developed and spread all over the world. Since then, social media platforms have become an important part of the lives of young people in particular. Many teenagers use social media like Youtube, Instagram, and especially...

The news sources I have chosen to use for this essay are The Blaze, a republican biased news source, and CNN, a democratic biased news source. As of October 1st, Kamala Harris wants to have President Donald Trump’s Twitter account suspended. The article from The...

Before Facebook took over the internet and stole netizen’s social lives, there was one social networking site that permeated the early years of the era of social media: MySpace. Somehow, it still exists today despite the three giants of social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram)...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s “The Drum Major Instinct” speech was a sermon that was told at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia on February 4, 1968. During the time of the Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr. was a strong supporter in the Movement....

Abstract MySpace is a social networking site which was built in 2003 by Chris DeWolf and Tom Anderson in Beverly Hills, California. This site was functioned to enable people communicating or interacting freely with each other. They could customize their own profile by using different...

I never really thought about social media, or if it was good or bad. To me, it was just like a thing that was there, and everyone used it. The first really big social media site was myspace, but I wasn’t even born when it...

Definition is a theme that usually resonates within the spectrum of dark psychology. It has throughout the years been defined as any particular act that is used by a particular manipulative individual in order to instill certain beliefs within the victim that are usually false...

The beginning of the twentieth century saw new forms of mechanical reproduction making its way into the cultural domains of society. While photography is now a recognized art form, associated with popular culture, this was not the case in the ninetieth century. Photography has long...

I generally felt comfortable throughout the process of learning these tools. The tutorial videos helped walk me through the steps of utilizing these tools and develop the skills I already had. I found it greatly useful to learn by means of application, working through activities...

Public speaking is typically something many people do not enjoy doing. Most people try to avoid doing public speaking simply because of the fear of speaking in front of an audience is just terrifying or maybe even intimidating to some. I am one of those...

Public Speaking was never an issue for me, as I have participated in a few public speaking competitions and got into the final of both. Anyway, there is dependably an opportunity to get better for anybody.  Over this semester, I had the alternative to get...

The most successful people in the world have one thing in common between them, or at least one like quality that they all possess. That thing that they can all share is called, the ability to speak with high confidence in front of a group...

Abstract This paper discusses the importance of character building in grooming and how it can help achieve strong character. Communication skills are one of the most important skills in today’s life and through public speaking we can attain it. This paper sheds light on the...

The Black Lives Matter Global Network is a chapter-based, member-led organization with the mission of building local power and intervening in state- and vigilantes-inflicted violence against Black communities. Other things like racial profiling, police brutality and racial inequity in the United States have protested regularly...