It's not one of those propaganda posters you see. HAHA. 1. PROPAGANDA
- According to Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell in Propaganda and Persuasion, Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to share perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist.
- It is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of the majority. Instead of impartially providing information, it presents information in order to influence its audience. It is often completely truthful, but some propaganda presents facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis.
SOURCE: "Propaganda." Wikipedia. Internet Resource <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda>
2. POPULAR LITERATURE
- Popular literature includes those writings intended for the masses and those that find favour with large audiences. It can be distinguished from artistic literature in that it is designed primarily to entertain. Popular literature, unlike high literature, generally does not seek a high degree of formal beauty or subtlety and is not intended to endure.
SOURCE: "Popular Literature." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 8 Jan 2008 <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-5876>.
- Popular literature is written by journalists, who are employed by the magazine for which they write. Journalists cover news and current events in a field, write profiles of people, places, or events, and express political opinions. Its ultimate purpose is to inform and entertain the general reader/general public. It covers a broad variety of public interest topics which is written by employees of the publication or freelancers (including journalists and scholars) and is published commercially. It is characterized with having little technical language or jargon, few or no cited references, absence of bibliographies, general summaries of background information; it contains numerous advertisements, brief articles usually containing 1 – 7 pages and is frequently available in a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
- Examples of Popular Literature include: Time, US News and World Report, Modern Healthcare
SOURCE: Hunt, Imma. “Popular Literature Versus Scholarly Literature”. Rutgers.edu. <http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ecollege/popular.htm>. 20 Dec 2000. 10 Jan 2008.
3. REACT on DISCRIMINATION in MEDIA
Re: WOMEN.
Gender Discrimination has been prominent especially on women. Women are being viewed as subservient individuals of society. Its a sad reality and predestination that women are being treated as inferior bodies of humanity. However, I am appalled by the many organizations that upbring the power of women which give rise to civilization. Here, women are now being mindset that we are all people with equal rights and authority based on what we do and for who we are. I am glad that presently, women fight for their power in humanity and do not act as subservient indiviuals to men and society. Nevertheless, there are many women who still do not see their worth as equal individuals; regardless of their state, they sometimes tend to follow discrimination. Many sitcoms and movies (e.g. 300, Desperate Housewives, etc) portray the 'use' of women in society. They depict women as individuals for sexual pleasure and use them as tools for personal worth and 'reputable' gain. It saddens me that by this strong reality, we are supposedly predestined to live equally; however not all women see the truth and scandal of gender discrimination. Most of them do not fight for it; they affrim and act majorly with inferiority.
Do I look like a woman of subservience in society? Or to anyone (but my parents)? :))
