Media Studies

This is a Literature Review about characteristics of whiteness seen in contemporary films today, which are considered to be called "White Savior Films." I discuss Color-Blind racism and how its the new form of invisible racism that we use today's society. I describe aspects of whiteness and how it effects our media, popular culture and Hollywood cinema. Films discussed is the review include; Avatar, City of Joy, Dangerous Minds, Freedom Writers, The Blindside, The Soloist, Hard Ball, Gran Torino, and The Help.

This is a short analysis paper I wrote using Leslie Grinners framework of Sexuality, Christianity, Whiteness, Able-Bodies, Male, and Property Holders (SCWAMP) to analyze the 2006 film Step Up. Through my analysis I reveal hidden messages that are shown in the film, including black culture vs White culture, the problem with interracial couples, the repercussions of homosexuality, and the difference between light black people and dark black people.

In the analysis paper I analyze the first season of THE WALKING DEAD TV Series and apply three of the moral principles used throughout the moral philosophy of ethics to reveal the dominant ideologies of the Christianity beliefs that intertwine with this series about the zombie apocalypse.

The highlights of The Walking Dead are it’s visually realistic, which helps bring the characters to life and their representation becomes more believable. It teaches the audience moral lessons about the importance of life and influences dominant ideologies. The purpose of this analysis is to get a better understanding of the television show The Walking Dead and its realistic visual look, the representation of the characters, the moral lessons that it teaches and the dominant ideology of males that it exemplifies. I also include information about its format, genre and target audience to better understand the messages the show sends to its audience.

This is a paper analyzing young adult and teenage television shows shown around the world including in The U.K., New Zealand, and South Korea. I compare and contrast the content of several television programs from each location and compare them to the young adult television shows that you would see in The U.S.

In this essay, I select two theses from Norman Malcolm"s 1977 Memory and Mind and subject them to the kind of analysis exemplified in his own writing. (1) "A true conception of the objects of memory can be obtained," according to Malcolm, "only from reflection on the use of the words "memory" and "remember" in daily language. This reflection reveals that the objects of memory constitute a far richer variety than many memory theorists have supposed." (2) Under close consideration, "the assumption of an intrinsic memory-event simply fades away, no longer felt to be intelligible. With its disappearance one is freed from the necessity of choosing between these two rival "theories" as to what its content is, and a fortiori from the necessity of thinking that since the past occurrence cannot be there in the memory-event, therefore what is there is a representation." I try to show that such reflection on their use in daily language does not provide us with a true conception of the objects of memory, but only a conception of the objects of memory-locutions in daily language, thus the validity of Malcolm"s arguments against memory theorists is questionable. I also try to demonstrate that Malcolm"s talk of memory-events as having content weakens his argument against the assumption of an intrinsic memory-event.

This paper explores the explosive growth of social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook and Google+ and their inconsistent policies regarding the use of pseudonyms. A description of the leading sites' policies regarding pseudonyms is followed by examples where the policies are either ignored or haphazardly enforced. Next I list reasons why users of a SNS might wish or require to remain anonymous and close my argument with both hypothetical and real-world consequences posed by the lack of anonymity.

The term "Enterprise 2.0" (E2.0) describes a collection of organizational and information technology (IT) constructs that enable more flexible work models, knowledge sharing, and community building. E2.0 is not something totally new-rather, it represents the evolution and maturation of best practices for collaboration and knowledge management (KM). The meme is useful, though, to help reinvigorate business and IT focus on these strategic topics. A "rebirth" in terms of rethinking fundamentals, understanding past success/failures, and examining evolving cultural situations can profoundly alter past assumptions regarding collaboration and KM efforts-leading to novel approaches in light of today's organizational challenges.

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The term ‘Database Aesthetics’ has become a catchword of the digital realm and poses interesting semantic questions that seem to outline the field of research and art relating to databases itself. What exactly do we mean by ‘database aesthetics’? In discourse on digital art, the term is frequently used to describe the aesthetic principles applied in imposing the logic of the database to any type of information, filtering data collections, and visualizing data. In that sense, database aesthetics often becomes a conceptual potential and cultural form--a way of revealing (visual) patterns of knowledge, beliefs, and social behavior. The term is seldom used to refer to the aesthetics of the database as structure itself, although it certainly implies that meaning and the structure of a database is inherently connected to the results produced by the filtering of the data contained in it and the nature of its visualization.