to obtain main income. As for women, their role is as a home maker, responsible for reproductive activities and domestic works (Sultana, 2011). Mass media is one of the industries that unconsciously have strengthened the belief about gender that exists in society (Daniel and Akanji, 2011). This begs the question; does the work process of mass media implements a belief that prioritizes man or patriarchy?
Fandom is performative, projecting a range of cultural practices that constitute fan’s social formations. In the context of cultural community, fandom involves cultural works that are based on the fan’s performance that are shared with others. These performances are constructed by the norms within the fan culture. The cultural works within the fandom are treated as cultural artifacts that asserted the fan’s identity. “Fans of a popular television series [and/or film] may sample dialogue, summarize
1. Introduction The social media has become one of the most important communication means in recent times. However, social networking exist so as to provide communication among people regardless of the distance, making it open to people easily share information, files and pictures and videos, create blogs and send messages, and conduct real-time conversations. These systems are referred to as social, simply because they allow communication with buddies and coworkers so easily and effectively. It
In the world that we live in today, social norms are guidelines that one must behave the way that we are expected to. However, not all norms are understandable and not all norms are irrational, but many of our norms are created by a group of people who attract a great deal of attention from the media. These people are known as celebrities. Furthering along with this statement, these two articles take different approaches toward the same topic in order to explain how these celebrities, who can be
In an attempt to unmask the sources of dominance and inequality in society, van Dijk (1998) proposes discourse analysis, social analysis and cognitive analysis of texts. To van Dijk (1998), texts are not only sources of information about some reality; they are also sources of personal and organizational ideologies to produce and construct reality. From the foregoing, one can
post-independence years (1947-1964) due to the fact that these were the years of Jawaharlal Nehru’s tenure as Prime Minister. We begin by examining the ideologies which led to the construction of various media policies in India during the mentioned period. A notable feature of these ideologies was their construction based on the restrictive policies
Erving Goffman is hailed by many as ‘one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable practitioners of social science’ (Smith, 2006:1). Smith goes on to further remark that Goffman‘s work is ‘enough to signify not only a subject matter but also a highly distinctive attitude and analytic stance toward the social world’ (Smith, 2006:1). This claim is perhaps justified when noting the alternative direction Goffman headed in his development of sociological theory in comparison to the founding fathers
Introduction John Smedley is a luxury heritage brand who manufactures fine-gauge knitwear for men, women and have recently developed a limited edition children’s wear collection of four different styles, two girls designs and two boys designs. The age range for the collection consists of girls and boys ages 2-10. This limited editon collection was inspired by Her Majesty the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to John Smedleys Mill. This took place on the 10th of July 2014, thus stating that
Abstract In the beginning, I'd like to present that social media is main element in modifying the way people communicate, get information, and teach others. People continue discovering social media behaviors and new tools to help each other. This principle lies in the very essence of improving college students attitude toward learning English in Riyadh. The aim of this research is to show the efficiency of the social media on improving college students attitudes towards learning English in Riyadh