Summary: This program emphasizes the seductive nature of films and television. The pervasiveness and sheer volume of electronic images in daily life make it extremely difficult for viewers to discern fact from fiction, as with Oliver Stone's controversial JFK. The manufactured reality of films and TV also plays a role in popularizing certain behaviors-some of which are unhealthy or antisocial, like...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Is a political candidate's past personal life fodder for the front page? If a child commits murder, should the offender's name be released? If a CD by a top recording artist has strongly antisocial lyrics, should the record label consider its impact on kids? In this program, news professionals and executives from NBC, CBS, Capitol-EMI Records, and Mercury Records speak out about the ethical...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Sixties' media philosopher Marshall McLuhan predicted the coming of a Global Village in which telecommunications technology would figuratively shrink the world. Satellites, the Internet, multinational communications giants, and the ubiquity of televisions and computers have more than helped realize his prophecy. Who are the big players and what kind of village have they wrought? As American...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: The world is quickly becoming saturated with information, entertainment, and advertisements. In this program, academic and industry experts examine the globalization of information exchange, the way in which it has altered the social distance between nations and individuals, and the future of mass media. In the U.S., viewers watch an average of 4.5 hours per day of television, willingly lending...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: TV and radio commercials, Web sites and banner ads, magazine ads, pop songs, photos, and even news articles and textbooks: all of them are sending messages to influence the reader/viewer/listener. How do they grab the attention? What are they selling-a product or service? a lifestyle? an ideology?-and why? Would a different media consumer interpret the message differently? This program raises...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: Tabloid journalism. Kinky TV talk shows. "Gangsta" rap music. Sexually explicit and violent movies. The media have established new outposts in the frontiers of taste that were thought impossible 30 years ago, and all in the name of First Amendment rights and giving the public what it wants. But with these rights come responsibilities that are seldom respected. What leverage can society use...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: This program is an excellent survey of the history of mass media. Academic and industry experts discuss the invention and impact of the printing press, telegraph, and telephone, all of which have allowed information to be easily transmitted over great distances. Mass media as it is currently evolving is also examined in depth. During the 1920s and 30s, radio dominated entertainment and the news...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: This program explains how to teach media literacy through the application of three basic facts and five key analytical questions that can be applied to any media message. This simple and highly effective approach is reinforced by insights and observations provided by important figures in the media literacy movement, including Elizabeth Thoman, Tessa Jolls, and Jeff Share, of the Center for...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: The telephone, the television, and the computer are three of the most potent inventions of the 20th century and have completely transformed world society. But what happens when you combine all three into one powerful communications medium? This program examines the growing convergence of phones, TVs, and computers in Cyberspace and the radical impact on businesses, homes, and schools in this...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: The Library of Congress brings booklovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books. Featuring more than 200 full-color images of original catalog cards, first edition book covers, and photographs from the library's magnificent archives, this collection is a visual celebration of the rarely seen treasures in one of the world's most famous...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017

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Summary: Categorizing others is a part of human nature, and even as infants we divide the world into two groups-male and female-to help organize our reality. But when these stereotypes are used to make assumptions about a person's character and value, they become gender bias or outright sexism. This program illustrates some of the commercial, cultural, psychological, and sociological forces that have...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: The pictures in our heads that define who we are and help us neatly categorize others are increasingly shaped by the newspaper, magazine, film, and TV images that bombard our senses. To convey a message quickly, these images often rely on stereotypes and primal reflexes that can foster in an audience an inordinate fear of violence, racial and ethnic prejudices, diminished self-worth, and even...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Dufresne, Emilie

Summary: Students today live in a media-rich world of breaking news headlines and social media posts. With the vital information in this book, students will learn how to navigate the many facets of this evolving media so they can stay informed while also objective. Complete with captivating diagrams and photographs, this resource will help students understand how the news and media have evolved, how to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Meier, Leslie

Summary: A collection of three holiday-themed novellas includes Leslie Meier's "Christmas Card Murder," in which the discovery of an old Christmas card with a nasty message finds Lucy Stone investigating a decades-old murder.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020

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Summary: Most people rely on television newscasts to keep them informed. Yet, a recent Gallup poll says that only 21 percent of Americans rated television media as "very or mostly honest. Faced with declining ratings, increased competition, and intensified attention to the bottom line, television news organizations have been criticized for turning daily newscasts into "info-tainment. This program...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Ancel

Summary: The ANCEL AD310 can easily determine the cause of the check engine light coming on, quickly read and clear diagnostic trouble codes, read live data and hard memory data, view freezeframe, I/M monitor readiness, and collect vehicle information. Supporting OBDII protocols such as KWP2000, J1850 VPW, ISO9141, J1850 PWM and CAN, this device is compatible with 1996 US-based, 2000 EU-based and Asian...

Format: three dimensional object

Publisher / Publication Date: OBDSpace Technology co., Ltd. 2016

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