19:140: Legal and Ethical Issues in Mass CommunicationCopyright, Peer to Peer Network Sharing and the First Amendment Online peer to peer networking is the sharing of files through one central network between users across the globe. Before 2000 there was not much controversy over file...
It’s Prime Time ThanksgivingThanksgiving is a day for family to get together, eat, and once the food settles, relax and watch television. Many cable and broadcast stations prepare their programming for the day of thanks by creating traditions among families such as watching certain shows every...
Entourage: It’s Not Really RealityTelevision is, contrary to film, a form that can be analyzed in multiple different aspects. HBO’s Entourage does not fall out of the serialized form that television has taken. It unveils itself season through season in events that one must have seen the show...
Mass Communication and American DemocracyBringing News into the Television LineupTelevision is engulfed in a culture of politics and entertainment. It would make sense then that at times entertainment takes the form of news and vice versa. Within this is the distinction between hard news (through...
Jealousy: Not So Dark?Introduction: “There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard,” Washington Irving once wrote. Jealousy has been a heavy topic of discussion in both early literatures as well as in recent research. Although it may seem that many people think that if someone is...