Author Archives: Xiaoyue Zhang

Mandour (2013) discusses how the notion of sexuality in Lebanon’s media changed from 2012 to 2013. In 2012, a number of men were being shot secretly participating in sexual actions in abandoned cinema houses. The Lebanese station MTV hosted by Joe Maalouf expressed fury towards the homosexuals and called on the police to implement someContinue reading “Blogpost #8”

Zaatari (2015) reveal gender inequality depicted by the Syrian series Bab El-Hara through several practices. Women in the series are considered good women if they are obedient to their husbands, fathers, and/or brothers. Men are superior in this relation as they are the ones who make important decisions and discuss primary issues while women areContinue reading “Blogpost #7”

Media plays a role in stereotyping disabled people (Barnes, 1992) In the movie “Me Before You,” directed by Shia Sharrock and was originally a novel written by Jojo Moyes, ‘Will Traynor’ had a motorcycle incident at the beginning of the movie leading his to be paralyzed. Through the movie, he was portrayed as a manContinue reading “Blogpost #6”

When it comes to ideology, there are three elements that should be linked to that topic. The first one is that ideologies always come as a set or a chain and the order placement of this set affect the notion itself. Second, we unconsciously speak with already existed ideologies. Thus, our statements are formed byContinue reading “Blogpost #5”

According to Kandutsch (2015), there are three concepts when viewing a photo and studying it that are: punctum, absorption, and facingness. Punctum referes to an object or a detail that captures the attention of the viewer either due to his/her own experiences or an old memory. Absorption is when the person being captured is immersedContinue reading “Blogpost #4”

The news cannot be unltimately objective and there must be some kinds of biases in the process of producing news, according to Johnson(2016). One of these biases is bias by placement and headline. For example, according to a news article produced by BBC regarding the coronavirus outbreak, a strike in Hong Kong was held toContinue reading “In-class exercise 2”

According to Greer as cited in “Four Habits of International News Reporting” by Moeller (1999), there are four habits that media adopts when crisis coverage is involved: the formulaic coverage of news, usage of dramatic and overstated words, referring current crisis to old incidents, and covering news related to Americans. An implementation of exaggerated usageContinue reading “Blogpost #3”

A propaganda model According to Herman and Chomsky(1998), mass media goes through five filters: The size, ownership, and profit of the mass media institution: mass media centuries ago would need little amount of finance for a vast audience but that is not the case anymore where large amounts of money should be put into toContinue reading “Blogpost #2”

Media literacy nowadays has become a crucial part for the whole globe to understand its several vast aspects as each individual is engaged in this matter. The definition of media literacy would be the insight of what content does it provide, who it targets, and how does it influence the current generation. Knowing the evolutionContinue reading “Media Literacy”