Academic papers on Communications, Media, Theory, Etc

Hidden and Public Transcripts/Use of Power
A 5 page research paper on James Scott's model of discourse that delineates between hidden and public transcripts. Basically, public transcripts are the face that subordinated people assume for those in power, while hidden transcripts are what they...
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Fiber Optics
A 5 page paper which examines fiber optics, illustrating their use in medicine, telecommunications and other fields. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Media Manipulates the World
This 5 page paper looks at media in general, and determines how it affects society. Its manipulative effects are the focus of this paper that looks at subliminal seduction, media's effects on elections and how media promotes trends. Examples are...
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Sociolinguistics: The Vietnamese Learners of English
5 pages. This is an informative essay identifying request strategies in Vietnamese and American English. This Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching model paper reviews pragmatic transfer and the distinctions between requests in the VLE and...
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Television Violence and Children: Catharsis or Role Modeling?
A 6 page discussion of the impacts of television violence on children. The author clarifies that although some contend that by allowing our children to include violent programs in their viewing choices we allow them an agent for catharsis, an...
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Anti-Arab Bias in the American Press
This 11 page paper evaluates media bias in the American press concerning how it covers terrorism. September 11th is the springboard for this discussion that, for the most part, comes from a British point of view. The British press is looked at in...
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The Reporting of The Three Mile Island Accident
This 7 page paper looks back at news reporting in 1979, shortly after the disaster. Various types of print media are evaluated. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Symbolic Convergence Theory
This 10 page report discusses Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT) or
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CONJUNCTIONS AND GRAMMAR
This paper examines the role of conjunctions in English grammar. The paper discusses differences between subordinate and coordinate conjunctions and explains use of conjunctions such as "because," "since," "for" and "as." Bibliography lists 5...
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MEDIA BIAS
This paper examines the concept of media bias, and provides examples from both the right and left in terms of biased reporting. Also discussed is how bias impacted news coverage of the 9-11 events. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Human Rights: Case Study
5 pages in length. Billy, a former Golf Masters Champion and celebrity interviewer for Channel 9, discovered that the Daily Gossip is planning to publish an article in its Sunday edition that claims he enjoyed "sexual pleasures" with two lap...
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Natural Language Processing/AutoSlog, an Application
A 10 page research paper that discusses in detail a natural language processing application, a program called "AutoSlog," which automatically creates dictionaries once constructed manually, with a high degree of accuracy. Bibliography lists 2...
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Cellular Phones
6 pages in length. The impact twentieth century technology has had upon the populace is both grand and far-reaching; when one considers how so many lives are influenced upon a daily basis because of the convenience of technological advancement, it...
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INFANT MORTALITY AND STATISTICAL CLAIMS
This paper examines the idea of statistics as it relates to infant mortality, and demonstrates how such statistics can be skewed and manipulated in order to achieve certain ends and opinions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Role of Profit in Media
This 9 page paper looks at profit as both a negative and positive influence in American media today. Detrimental qualities such as the proliferation of greed, and the compromising of values, are noted as are the positive mechanisms like the...
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