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"Digital Media is having a big impact on many things in this age. Examine and analyse the impact of digital media on our culture".
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In what ways has the development of the Internet created challenges to Bagozzi's views of exchange? "Bagozzi's exchange paradigm has emerged as a framework for conceptualising marketing behaviour." (Bagozzi, 1975: pp. 32). This theory identifies the parties involved in any transaction, and the intangible and tangible entities are exchanged. By identifying the actors/parties, this theory acts as a valuable managerial tool, by helping to think what is being exchanged, and with whom. This theory has helped to see beyond the tangible products being exchanged, but to consider the intangible aspects of the transaction and all entities. The weakness of this being that it is difficult to identify all intangible entities within the transaction. The theory also states the exchange is reciprocal and mutually beneficial (Bagozzi, 1975: pp. 32), i.e. that the entities being exchanged are perceived to be of equal value. Furthermore, Bagozzi (1974) observed that complex exchanges could include both overt and covert coordination. Bagozzi identified three different types of exchange: restricted, generalised and complex. "Restricted exchange refers to two party reciprocal relationships", where both parties give and receive from the other party, (Bagozzi, 1975: pp. 32). Generalised exchange includes at least three actors, who benefit indirectly, i.e. gives to one actor and receives from
Outline and discuss the view that media institutions are expanding and becoming more popular.
Outline and discuss the view that media institutions are expanding and becoming more popular. Media is the method and organisation used by specialist groups to convey messages to large socially mixed and widely dispersed. It can be defined as a means of public communication, which is open to all audiences of people living under different conditions in widely different cultures, therefore reaching a great and wider audience. It establishes contact with people at a distance from the media source and from each other. If we are referring to a single form of communication such as T.V or radio than we use the term 'medium'. The audience for mass communications is unique to modern society and the main form of mass media is Television, Internet, Radio, and Newspapers. It's obvious that the mass institution has increased as individuals are spending an overwhelming amount of physical time with different media forms. This is known as 'centrality of the media'. Analysing sociologist arguments and reports will successfully assist me to complete this essay. Throughout this essay I aim to discuss and analyse the following media institutions: Internet, Video games and Television. The first media institution to be mentioned in this essay is the Internet. The Internet is the largest WAN (wide area network) in the world. It was developed by the United States Defence Advanced Research
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For my AS level media studies coursework, my brief was to produce an entertainment webzine comprising of a home page, six hyperlinked pages with at least 1 original picture.
Brief For my AS level media studies coursework, my brief was to produce an entertainment webzine comprising of a home page, six hyperlinked pages with at least 1 original picture. Research Firstly I chose to focus my project on urban music but I found that it would be difficult through my research to focus on a wide genre of music (especially with the time restrictions). Therefore I decided to narrow the concept down to one particular artist of the urban ("hip-hop") culture scene. I then began to find that the concept of a "hip-hop" orientated webzine appealed to a 13-19 year old urban music liking audience which I labelled as my "target" audience. Through questionnaires and group interviews I found the response very interesting, I found that most of the target audience felt that "hip-hop" was treated as a niche category and that the lesser known artists were not being represented. On the questionnaire a question asked: Do you think that there are enough hip-hop dedicated sites on the internet? Approximately 60% of the answers I received said that there was not enough "hip-hop" sites on the web and many highlighted the point that lesser known artists were being represented. With the research I chose to focus my website on Nas (Nasir Jones) a massive artist in the "hip-hop" community but does not have many websites that are dedicated to his music, life and career and. I