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Understanding Media

January 31, 2019 / BY Daniyel Espiritu
What is social networking? Social networking is the use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself. Essentially, it's the usage of social media, not at all just media in itself. For example, one may have many friends on Facebook, that would be your social network. To make contact with these people, say,...

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Audio Visual Analysis

January 23, 2019 / BY Daniyel Espiritu
I. Photo Bomb - Old Spice: Rocker (Print-Ad) (Source: Ads of the World) In this photo, Old Spice is trying to sell the ad's viewers one thing: masculinity. With the slogan "Somewhere in there, there's a man in there.", it sells that by using their products, you become more manly. II. Sound Tripping - "Samson" by Regina Spektor Listen to Samson on Spotify...

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Media Favorites

January 05, 2019 / BY Daniyel Espiritu
Media Product Local Examples Foreign Examples How Did You Discover Them? Why Do You Like Them? Print Zines Books, Comics On my own I find zines visually pleasing, while I love "exercising" my imagination by reading books    Film Movies Movies   Internet, on my own. Follow projects my favorite actors/directors are involved in Films serve as a great source of entertainment and inspiration...

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Media Framing

January 05, 2019 / BY Daniyel Espiritu
Media framing is the concept of placing certain events into a field of meaning by manipulating how certain details of the event are either blown up or swept subtly under the carpet. It is the idea of influencing a viewer's perception of an event for certain various purposes, for example: a news outlet could "neutralize" incriminating news about a certain school if a...

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