Mixed Blessings: A Perspective on the Coming Computer Age
The "Information Age" is dawning. We all know it, we see it around us in new products and services which...
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The Technological Child
We'll call her Susan. She is 32, happily married to Brad, a successful aerospace engineer, lives in the home of...
اقرأ المزيدStarting Point: More than a Game
One of the challenges of publishing Media&Values is selecting an issue-theme which does not already have a significant body of...
اقرأ المزيدWOMEN: Using Female Bodies For Sales and Profit
Dismembered bodies — thighs, breasts, anus lie strewn across the television screen… exotic women drape themselves over leopard-skin rugs seductively...
اقرأ المزيدToying With War
Many young children in day-care centers around the country are regularly acting out fantasies from today's most popular cartoons and...
اقرأ المزيدGLOBAL: It’s a Small World For Pop Conglomerates
One of the greatest shocks for the western traveler comes from visiting a remote village in a distant land and...
اقرأ المزيدCHILDREN: Learning to Decipher TV Culture
How many two-year-olds do not know Big Bird or can't recognize the Golden Arches? Speaking, listening, writing! reading, and watching...
اقرأ المزيدAddicted to Violence: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare?
At a psychological level, the drama and titillation of violent scenarios serve to create a sense of excitement, potency and...
اقرأ المزيدADVOCACY: TV Still Sidesteps Real Life Struggles
Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is a TV character I can admire. A successful mystery writer who can be seen each...
اقرأ المزيدYOUTH: Media Models Say Muscles Make Men
Muscles are in. Young men believe that to be a "real man" you have to project a strong, tough body...
اقرأ المزيدWhat Makes A Good Female Character?
When Women in Film, an organization of industry women in Los Angeles, instituted The Luminas Awards for the positive depiction...
اقرأ المزيدSTARTING POINT: Sexual Violence in the Media
The trend today in media is exploitation and violence. And I must warn you that this issue of Media&Values is...
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