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The Effects of Social Media on How We Speak and Write - 0 views
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This article discusses the pros and cons of the current lifestyle we live in a social-mediated world. People are learning new ways to "speak" with shorter-slanged words, and more concisely; and even using photos to communicate with others (through photo sharing platforms). Users are also over sharing their private lives with the world on social platforms, not realizing that almost anyone can see and read what they are putting out there.
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Media Influence on Society - 0 views
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This brief blurb on how media has influenced society is very relevant to teenagers today. It touches on how teens are easily influenced by celebrities and advertisements in media, and how that will easily sway our decision making habits. As well for the general population of all demographics, people are easily swayed by mass mediums - it isn't hard to convince people with an attractive advertisement or commercial, clearly.
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NARRATIVE IN THE MEDIA - 0 views
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certain codes to generate or control the flow of suspense, to provide setting, to engage the viewer's attention, to reveal character, or to further the plot
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characters are involved, what the narrative is about (themes, values and issues), its pleasures and effects on the viewer or listener
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This study on narrative in media informs us on how narrative is very evident in media today. Not only do we use the form in literary works, but narrative (hand in hand with genre) work in media. For example, in the news, it is presented in order of first: the credibility of news, then presenting the current issue at hand, and finally an explanation of the resolution or following matter. This is applied in all forms of media.
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Introduction to Genre Theory - 0 views
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genre knowledge is typically tacit and would be difficult for most readers to articulate as any kind of detailed and coherent framework
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one needs to encounter sufficient examples of a genre in order to recognize shared features as being characteristic of it
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constrains the possible ways in which a text is interpreted, guiding readers of a text towards a preferred reading
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film requires several acts of "framing" it: as a fiction, as a Hollywood movie, as a comedy, as a Steve Martin movie, as a "summer movie" and so on
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orientates competent readers of the genre towards appropriate attitudes, assumptions and expectations
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Familiarity with a genre enables readers to generate feasible predictions about events in a narrative
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derive a variety of pleasures from reading texts within genres which are orientated towards entertainment
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This piece describes how genre is effective in reading and other forms of rhetoric. It can allow readers to get deeper into text, and understand the form of communication on paper. Similarly to genres in movies and TV, genre in written works allow a reader to get the sense of what is "going on". Reading more and more, a reader is able to understand and decipher which genre is which. They also enable readers to connect emotionally to a text, and experience feelings of the writer/characters.