Media Research Proposals Samples For Students

Introduction

The Arab Spring occurs as one of the widely discussed topics in history. This can be attributed to the fact that the Arab Spring evolved into a significant global event in history. The Arab Spring can be traced to the beginning of the early twentieth century when revolts to topple over authoritarian regimes in the Middle East became the most adequate solution to dictatorship, which had defied global trends aligned with liberalisation of the populations. Worth noting is the fact that social media played a comprehensive role in enhancing the success of the Arab Spring. Precisely, social media platforms such as ...

A study of the Effects of Social Media on the Arab Spring; Syria case

The Arab Spring refers to the instance that characterized the North Africa and Eastern Europe. I this regard, the countries that border this region was characterized by repressions and war related instances that were targeting the respective governments in the specific countries. The counties covered in the Arab Spring include, Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan when it is related to Africa. On the other hand, the countries that comprise Eastern Europe are the likes of Tehran and Syria. It is referred to as the Arab spring because it center staged in the Arab world over a very short period (Wilson, 2013). ...

Comparative Politics

Some of the dependent variables in comparative politics include political stability, state capacity, political culture, and democracies. This paper discusses democracy variable, independent variables, and two constant variables. Freedom House is a non-governmental organization located in Washington D.C. It has numerous offices in many countries around the globe (Giannone, 2010). Freedom House has a Board of Trustees that encompasses business leaders, state officials, media, labor leaders, and scholars. Freedom House publishes a yearly report based on the degree of freedom in many nations and territories in dispute around the world. Freedom in the world survey evaluates global freedom within and outside the ...

Communication

Thesis statement:
Various implications of the representation of race and ethnicity in popular culture and its impact on intercultural communications
The paper will discuss about the facts relating to intercultural communication and how the representation of race and ethnicity on popular media and society influences this communication. (Gray, John, 2000)

Also, it will touch upon the impact that language barriers and internationalism has on intercultural communications.

Scholarly Articles/Sources:
Below given are the four articles/sources that will be used for discussing the paper:
- Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Communication Research: Some Reflections about Culture and Qualitative Methods by María Assumpta Aneas & María Paz Sandín
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1251/2738
This article talks about qualitative ...

Introduction

Social media or social networking tools often come in the form of internet platforms because firstly, they are based on the internet and secondly, such platforms enable users and members to communicate to other users through virtual means. One of the biggest and perhaps the most popular social media platform today is Facebook. Social media may also be defined as the act of remotely interacting with people by doing activities such as creating contents, sharing contents, and or basically exchanging any form of ideas and information in a practically virtual community of friends and other people . According to social media ...

Proposal pitch for new girl heroes

- Introduction
- Research question: Has the rise new girl heroes/feminist commentators in the modern popular culture got recognition and improved the life of the girl child?
- Working thesis: There has been a rise of new girl heroes in the modern culture today. However such heroes’ efforts rarely gets recognized and most of the time, their hard work goes unappreciated. This behavior has greatly not improved the life of the girl child. Therefore, such trend should completely be abolished so that the society learns how to improve the standard of life of a teenage girl. This could be ...

ISIS AND SOCIAL MEDIA: THE GLOBALIZATION OF TERRORISM

- Narrative Description
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, is a non-governmental organization that is vying for political control in Iraq and Syria. ISIS, sometimes known as ISIL, controls territories in these regions. ISIS has been responsible for a great amount of unrest in both Iraq and Syria, and has caused a lot of trouble with sectarian and terrorist violence in the regions.
ISIS has been highly successful in recruiting new members through use of social media networking strategies. Because of this success, the membership in ISIS has been younger than some of the other ...

Internet usage for file sharing has in the recent times being on the rise. With the increasing number of internet users, file sharing is inevitable. The sharing of files through the internet has sparked heated debates due to its adverse effects on the music industry. Low sharing cost is perhaps the main cause of file sharing across the continent. Controversies between the copyright owners and the internet sharing technologies have resulted in intense debates bordering on the effect of file sharing. The essay focuses on the effects of increased file sharing on the sales and revenues of the music ...

- Main argument
Technology in the simplest and most basic sense refers to the added ability in machines and computers that have the use and benefit of making the human life easier. It is my guided and respectful submission that technology as an avenue and part of the human life has the prospects of technology towards uncovering crime. Or any heinous acts that may affect the welfare of the human race (Duvall, 127).
- Why this argument is unique and significant
Thus, this paper will postulate and draw the relation on the power of technology relative ...

Aggressive Behavior Influence by Media Violence

Listening to news these days, it is easy to notice that there has been an increase in teenage violent behaviors, which has led me to conclude that the increase in media violence has a hand in the aggressive behaviors of teenagers. Recently, the topic of aggression and aggressiveness became widely discussed at various levels. In addition, among psychologists, there are held many conferences, symposia on the topic. The problem of studying aggression became the subject of many studies. There has been an increase in mass school shootings, drive by shootings, rape and senseless killings of teenagers. An example of some ...

Swearing holds a unique place in society that is rife with contradictions. It can elevate one’s image as bold and assertive, and simultaneously diminish another’s image as uncouth and aggressive. It is perceived as unacceptable language in the classroom, yet essential on the sea deck. There is an innate hierarchy in swear words or phrases, which is constantly shifting. Societal change largely dictates acceptance or rejection of obscenities. Some words or phrases become acceptable within common vernacular and others mutate into objectionable vitriol. Words that were heard only in watering holes are now common on primetime television. In ...

There is a growing use of social media at workplace. This is a problem because it leads to reduction and fall in productivity which is unacceptable to organizations. In order to find out the trends and patterns of the problem, a brief survey was conducted.
There are two types of data in the entire analysis where measures of central tendency can be used. These two categories of data are age and time spent on social media during work hours. The mean of the age will tell us what age group uses the social media the most. Similarly, number of hours spent ...

Proposal

Introduction
a. Social media have turned the world into a global village. The vast internet connections across the world has enabled for quick transfer of information from one part of the world to the other regardless of the locations.
b. Social media play a major role in all aspects of modern businesses. Communications have been turned into interactive dialogues among individuals, communities and organizations resulting to reliable propagation of information (San Antonio, 2011).
c. Web-based and mobile-based technologies and other multiple forms of internet connections have had a major impact on businesses. Organizations based on the latest technologies have ...

ON A NATIONAL HEALTH ISSUE

[Institution Title]

ROLE OF MEDIA IN SHAPING PARENTS’ ATTITUDE

“One of the most egregious outcomes of marijuana prohibition is that many sick people cannot legally access the medicine that works best for them. For many seriously ill people, medical marijuana is the only medicine that relieves their pain and suffering, or treats symptoms of their medical condition, without debilitating side effects. Marijuana has been shown to alleviate symptoms of a huge variety of serious medical conditions including cancer, AIDS, and glaucoma, and is often an effective alternative to synthetic painkillers.”
- Introduction
Researchers believe that the marijuana can provide relief, even cure for numerously medical ...

English

Education in the United States has forever been in the limelight for varying reasons. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind), which was made a federal law by the then President, George W. Bush, in 2002; Children with Learning Disabilities; Technology-Assisted Learning, English for Foreign Learners; and Role of Parents in Education, to name a few, has been making headlines in the education sector for a number of years. The number of children leaving school education is growing alarmingly because of their inability to learn, or for personal reasons. It is for this reason that I have taken a special ...

Abstract

On an annual basis, children are known to spend more of their time on television watching than any other activity. In fact, television viewing can be considered as a hobby of most children. The entertainment programs presented on television attract the attention of most children causes addiction to them. The question that one may ask is, “Does television watching have any health concern?” A positive relationship is believed to exist between television watching and rates of obesity. Although it is still not clear the reasons behind it, studies have shown that the two are directly related. The proposed study, therefore, ...

Introduction:

Customer loyalty is a wide topic and is achieved by an organization when a customer buys goods from the same organization continuously without going to other suppliers. It involves the commitment of a customer to continue using the given brand from the same supplier without any forms of complains (Kabani, 2010). In case of any problems or complains, the customer can have a certain level of confidence in the organization that their specific problems will be addressed. The factor of customer loyalty is considered to be more than just clients repurchasing goods from the same organization. This is because customers may choose to ...

The eating disorders have been considered to be very complex condition that is necessitated by a variety of factors. These factors may be biological, psychological, behavioral, interpersonal, social and emotional. It has not been established as to exactly what motivates this physical and emotionally damaging condition. This essay will seek to integrate psychological and marketing literature that is associated with eating disorders. There is strong evidence linking the use of models during advertising and the cases of eating disorders among young girls (Hesse-Biber, Leavy, Quinn, & Zoino, 2006).
It has been a widely held that eating disorders are as a result of psychiatric ...

Women in Media

The media is arguably the most powerful and pervasive influence on society’s perception of men and women. The media has a constant presence in the modern society through advertisements, news and programs that have become part of our daily lives. Media messages are ingrained in our consciousness where they influence our perception of many issues including gender roles and expectations. This paper postulates that the media is responsible for propagating unrealistic stereotypes about women. While men are also affected by these stereotypes, it is women who are underrepresented, overly sexualized and portrayed in traditional gender roles that are not ...

Introduction

The media is a powerful tool of communication. Apart from the basic purpose of conveying information to the public in a reliable, accurate, unbiased and timely manner, it also influences the economic, political and social spheres of peoples’ lives. Consequently, the media plays a crucial role in influencing the direction of public interest. In recent times, there has been increased concern by women about their body image. Many women seem interested in staying healthy, fit and fashionable. The media is a vital source of information on the latest trends being used to achieve this. Fitness programs, fashion magazines and health tips are some ...

Introduction:

The media is an important source of information. The media has become very influential in modeling people’s lives through different decades. The society today thrives on the media a reliable source where they get informed. The coming of new media has become more influential in the recent days. Social media has become very influential and has been used by everyone across the board for business and recently politicians have turned to the social media as a way of furthering their agenda. Many of the elite groups of politicians have used the media to reach out and organize their supports. Many ...

In a world moving fast forward, social media networks have come to play a significant role in reshaping the marketing strategy as we know it so far. Online marketing is now a fact and comprises an important factor for businesses that are after a “bigger slice of the target market pie” (Tabtrett, 2012). One might say that social media is an umbrella term used for the number of tools and applications that allow the World Wide Web to have social capabilities (Miletsky, 2010, p. 75). Social media has managed to change the way people communicate with one another, all around the world, even ...

Introduction:

According to a recent research study social media marketing has allowed the companies to increase the overall market exposure (Dyer). Hence, it will be beneficial for the organization to invest in the social media marketing as it will generate high ROI.
Organizations in today’s highly competitive world are looking for different innovative methods and tools to differentiate themselves from other competitors and at the same time to attract more customers. Social media, in this regard, has gain high importance recently. More and more organizations are including social media marketing as one of the most important part of the ...

Abstract

The emergence and spread of the Arab Spring Revolution has depended heavily on the use of internet and social media to pass on information and create awareness on the need for political revolution that creates the presence of democracy in the Arab countries. According to the rise in the number of social media users such as Facebook and Twitter in Egypt indicates that the political activists and rioters depended on the social media to immobilize people and also to plan and execute rallies and riots with the aim of bringing political changes. The aim of this research is to ...

23-October-2013

Media Policy Analysis
Introduction
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is one of the leading national media groups in the United Kingdom and it operates under the Royal Charter. BBC was considered to be the most watched news channel in the country until 2005. Later on, ITV Plc became fully operational and grabbed a major place in media industry and stock exchange of the country. BBC is considered as one of the largest media groups in the world and it offers a wide range of services and channels for its both domestic and international viewers.

Analysis of Group

BBC published a new strategy for its ...

The urbanization and globalization of our lives have changed the way we look at and feel about spaces; landscaping and man's mastery of our environment has allowed us to shape it according to our will. The introduction of technology has furthered this ability to create and change the way we interact with the world around us; GPS, Foursquare, Google Maps and other social networking and electronic media heavily shape how we move through a space and interact with it. My goal is to create a project that brings out the connections between technological advances and our movement through landscapes, linking the ...

The research question is going to be centered on social network and privacy. The main question about this is whether anyone can enjoy their privacy with the onset of social networking considering the fact that almost all the information about the social network users is remotely stored by the networking sites (Kizza 2010). It is very important to look at social networking from this perspective because privacy is a very crucial issue when it comes to it.
The target audience is the general public regardless of their ages and backgrounds because literary everyone in this computer era has an ...

Introduction

Currently in the United States and across all the nations of the world, allegations of media bias have formed headlines in different forums for discussion. Media bias usually occurs when one party in a news media feels that the media have favored the other party’s viewpoint. However, the media has constantly refuted these claims and allegations pointing out that these conflicting views have to be presented and obviously one side of the argument have to supersede. According to the media, every individual would wish his/her idea to be favored, making it impossible to satisfy both sides at one time. ...

Abstract

At a time like this when knowledge and information is considered power, and a lot of people rely on the various channels of knowledge and information, typically via the internet and other forms of media, the threat to the personal security of these individuals would normally be on the rise. Cyber security is one of the most often overlooked forms of security because people tend to focus a lot on physical security and other forms of threat. Being aware of the various threats in the cyber space, which is basically a dimension where millions, if not billions of people spend their time every ...

Research Design and Methodology

Purpose of the Study
The study purports to acquire knowledge and explain the correlation between the use of social media by employees and its impact on the company’s image. Thus the study shall put interest on how social media is managed by various sections of employees in an organization. In this study, time allocation will be adopted as the independent variable. This shall entail how time is apportioned and use amongst the various categories of social media. The organization’s image which is described as the company’s public relations will form the basis of the dependent ...

Introduction

Social networking is a term used for internet sites which helps people to interact freely, sharing and discussion about each other. These websites help users to communicate with their social circle by sharing pictures, videos, audio and personal words. Social media has emerged from the days of IRC and BBS chats to today with Facebook, LinkedIn and a lot more. Social media is still in the process on evolving. Other electronic media is left behind by social media as some social networking websites have user bases much bigger than the population of many countries. Social media websites have many forms as ...

Research question: How does social media affect identity in popular culture?

Background: In today’s day and age, social media is the next big thing and this has become intrinsically part of our popular culture in many ways. As argued in Reading the Signs, popular culture can be defined in several ways which include the portrayal of adverts in a given commercial and other similar issues.
However it is social media which is now gaining the upper hand in popular culture and this is reflected in the phenomenal growth and success of sites such as Facebook and Twitter which dominate everything these days. Before popular culture was more centralised in ...

Introduction

It is widely known that most movies made by Hollywood can be watched in almost every corner of the world. How this happened however, is a different question. It is also a known fact that not just American movies circulate around the world, but also its music, its games and many other entertainment outlets is accepted by most cultures around the world. Why this happens, is the main purpose of this study. Is it because the topics of the shows are culturally diverse? Is it because it’s basic in human nature that it can transcend the bounds of culture? If ...

Introduction

Electronic communication is gradually gaining popularity at the expense of verbal face-to-face communication in social and organizational institutions. Social media has created an extensive network that allows people from different walks of life to exchange information and ideas. Social networking sites have been used as communication media for close to two decades now since classmates.com was started in 1995 with the aim of encouraging former colleagues in high school and colleges to reunite. Several other social networking sites were later started. SixDegrees.com (1997), Swedish community-Lunar Storm (2000), Ryze.com (2001), was targeted to help the San Francisco business community network ( ...

Introduction

The ANHEUSER BUSCH Company is known as leading brewing company in U.S. It has a share volume of about 49% in the sales of beer. In the United States, it operates to market twelve brews while in the universe it operates in selling seventeen brands. It mainly focuses on the Budweiser family and bud light family brews.
The ANHEUSER BUSCH Company capitalizes on the marketing mix concepts in ensuring that it reaches a bigger percentage in the target market. The company has therefore included the following objectives of promotion in their plan: The promotion team aims to persuade the target ...

Abstract

Community radio stations are instrumental in enhancing different social and economic aspects in the Arab world. A debate has been ensuing over the years about the contribution of community radio station and establishment of a legal framework that supports the thriving of these stations. In the recent past, the Arab spring has triggered debate over the contribution of the media to the revolts spreading from Africa to the Middle East.

The problem

Many Arab countries have policies that prohibit the operation of community radio stations.
Background of the problem
The policy framework has a historical justification where only government based radios ...

The urbanization and globalization of our lives have changed the way we look at and feel about spaces; landscaping and man's mastery of our environment has allowed us to shape it according to our will. The introduction of technology has furthered this ability to create and change the way we interact with the world around us; GPS, Foursquare, Google Maps and other social networking and electronic media heavily shape how we move through a space and interact with it. My goal is to create a project that brings out the connections between technological advances and our movement through landscapes, linking the ...

Introduction

Children watching on television are a learning activity. New ideas and lessons are learned every day. It is of great concern about the effect of this activity on the children's health. Mostly, as the activity is done, the child is involved with minimal physical exercise, yet the food consumption remains constant. The activity can lead to an increase of the calories gained by the child. The impact of this to the child may be obese. This is a body condition in which body mass exceeds body size. An individual is characterized by body fats due to increased body metabolism. It is ...

According to the historian, Marilyn Young, Americans were involved in the fighting in Vietnam from 1945 to 1990. The Vietnam War became a very contentious issue in the United States (U.S.) and many mark the serious decline in American citizen’s support for the war. The purpose of the war was stated to be – to save South Vietnam from becoming communist. The 1968 Tet Offensive was a surprise attack launched by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong at the end of January during the Vietnam War. A truce had been called between the north and south warring parties because Tet is ...

Abstract

This research proposal is aimed at the determination of the effects of social media on the sales and marketing activities of companies. It provides a literature review on the significance of social media in the achievement of companies’ business objectives and also provides a review of some of the recent studies conducted about the subject matter. Given the lack of standards when it comes to the effective implementation of social media marketing strategies and the measurement of the effects of such strategies, this paper, based on the premise that social media does have a positive impact on businesses, proposes the conduct of ...

“Advertising and public relations are emotional businesses.” It is not enough that viewers like the ad, they must experience/feel a connection with the message (Jugenheimer et al. p.297 ). In the latest product of Vytar, the ”ultimate basketball shoes for women” the company’s PR team works closely with the Vytar research and development department to effectively market the product using the least cost. In the next six months the promotions team will launch specific activities that are not only cost effective but are expected to persuade more customers to patronize this latest offering from Vytar.

The Product

Vytar’s Basketball shoes for ...

Abstract

Social Media has emerged as a sacrosanct part of our life. We connect to friends, colleagues, siblings, acquaintances and make new buddies on virtual social platform just at one click. Many of us are so addicted to the social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and the like that the first thing we do in the morning right after wriggling out of bed, still in sleep inertia, is to check the updates of our friends. The extent of addiction though varying is more or less similar for everyone logging into Facebook or Twitter at least once every day. Now the question ...

A number of research questions have a valid impact on the effect of education on the religious behavior and religious attendance of Muslims in the United States. The most pertinent issues on this topic include:
- What is the education level of the average Muslim in the United States?
- How have education levels affected the religious behavior of Muslims in the United States?
- How have education levels affected the religious attendance of Muslims in the United States?
- Is there a correlation between education and religiousness of Muslims in the United States?

Step Two

In order to ...

Proposal

The research questions in this paper are how the media is connected to developing the responsiveness about domestic violence? And how the society is doing to mitigate media influence especially to the young girls? This paper describes how different sources help to understand how the media is affecting the young girls and women in the society. Media currently had played a major role in facilitating gender violence in the modern society. This is because young people are geared towards imitating the behaviors of their role models and celebrities.
Domestic violence could be viewed broadly not only as a domestic issue ...

Situation analysis -

ExxonMobil is an oil manufacturing company long suspected of engaging in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” activities that are widely suspected as contributing to the pollution of underground water supplies in many communities. A group from our local community formed two years ago to act as a kind of unofficial watchdog committee, comprised of concerned citizens from various walks of life and professional backgrounds. Periodic checks of the local water supply have failed to prove that the local water is unsafe, with levels of pollutants found to be well within accepted parameters as established by state government agencies and the Environmental ...

Childhood obesity has recently turned out to be a growing epidemic in most parts of the world; one of the highest growing stages of obesity in the United States is during the stage of childhood. One of the leading contributing factors to this issue is the media, the internet and video games to name but a few. In accordance to a one year research on childhood obesity that was conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation of Menlo Park in the United States and Europe, the study conclude that childhood obesity is largely contributed by how much time the child spends on the ...

Affiliated institute

Abstract
Capturing space in social media is a easy task, difficulty lies in capturing customer mindsets and their moulding their viewpoints about your business or product using the social media. Social Media has given a great opportunity to businesses but collecting distinct target groups under one roof who are open to any sort of communication and explore new things.

Introduction

In this era of Information Technology dominance, social networking is a great opportunity. Social media is not just a way to meet friends, but to meet potential business associates also and thus expand the business without spending much. You can build a business from ...

Re:

Site structure and navigation

The site chosen for analysis in this paper is Barnes and Noble which is an online store front selling books and other literature materials in digital form. The site is designed in a way as to allow for easy navigation and use by its users. At the top of the home page, towards the right hand side, the navigation links which links different web pages in the site is placed. The location for the links is strategically placed in a location that makes it easier for a new user of the system to recognize. These links will lead the user to ...

Abstract

Television is a strong media form that can have significant influence to the minds of the minors. Behavioral and psychological effects of television have been documented in research studies, but what is most significant is how literature reviews demonstrated the impact of television shows in the communication of minors and their mindsets. Television, in its various media forms, has the ability to influence behavior and may result in persuasive effects in the use of words and other forms of communication in order to attract its viewers, especially the minors. As the young audience is exposed to television in its ...

EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE MARKETING STRATEGIES IN SMALL AND MEDIUM FIRMS. THE CASE OF GUERRILLA MARKETING APPROACH.

I: Introduction

The changes in the contemporary business landscape are driven by a variety of factors. External environment places more and more challenges for the companies, as they grow international, internationalize their chains and adopt new technology in thi relashionships with suppliers and customers globally. The external environment of a company is comprised of political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal factors. Each of them has the significant impact on the ways modern companies conduct their business and build their ...

IMPACT OF MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES ON SOCIETY

Abstract
Media technologies have undergone significant evolution in the past few years involving many new considerations such as Web 3.0., social media, and satellite coverage. Both negative and positive implications of media technologies can be observed on social level. (Artz&Kamalipour, 2007). Therefore, the proposed research will set out to study how these technologies can be used towards the benefit of society by eliminating or avoiding the negatively influential areas. It will extend in several critical dimensions. For example, the purpose of the research is to investigate into different areas wherein different types of technologies are benefitting society. On the ...

The Effect of Social Media on the Selection or the Desire of UAE Nationals Living in Abu Dhabi to Choose a Tourism Destination- Research Prospectus

Abstract

The study seeks to find out the impact of social media on the choice of travel destinations by UAE national who live in Abu Dhabi. The problem that the survey aims to address is the role of social media factors in influencing decision-making by consumers of tourism services. The study acknowledges that social media plays an imperative role in influencing consumers’ choice of their travel destination, which makes an important aspect for the study. ...

Millennials include all those people that were born between 1982 and 2000. It is also known as the digital generation and the first internet generation. For last many years, the debate has been continued about the characteristics, attitude, behaviour and nature of new generation or Millennials (Dauria, 2015). In the same field, the debate has emerged among the researchers that New Generation or Millennials are not very much interested in news as compared to those who born and grew in the pre-internet or digital age. The concerns began when the data finding suggested that the underlying generation is not ...

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between social networking and face-to-face communication with respect to their influence on the social interaction skills. The first aim of the research has to determine whether there is a causal relationship between use of social networking tools and face-to-face communication behaviors. The research aims to investigate the hypothesis. There will be a statistically significant difference in change/gain scores for communication behaviors between the experimental group and the control group; Face-to-face communication is associated with the students’ social media networking habits (i.e. time spent on social media networking). There will ...

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Abstract

The importance of social media effects on families and communities has been determined by the research findings based on the investigation of existing literature. The principal objective of the study is to examine the influence of social media on our everyday life. Besides, another investigative goal is to identify possible consequences that social media may bring. Therefore, this study implies the utilization of both secondary research and primary research approaches. The expected findings of the literature have suggested that there are not only positive effects of social media on families and communities but also negative ones. ...

Introduction

Islam is currently portrayed as an intensely violent religion, which is against the western values. The obsession of mainstream media in tinged with the negative portrayal of Muslims and depicts them as fanatical, bigoted, violent, or as terrorists and extremists. Media also calls out against the intentions of Muslims all over the world and infers that they support the fanatical cause of terror organizations (Espiritu, 2016). The media coverage of Islam and related issues changed dramatically after the events of 9/11. The terrorist activity brought Islam to the forefront of media attention. Since then, the media coverage of Islam ...

The Effect of Social Media on the Selection or the Desire of UAE Nationals Living in Abu Dhabi to Choose a Tourism Destination

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of social media on UAE nationals living in Abu Dhabi in their choice of tourist destinations. The study will identify the challenges the social media users in the city go through as they select the places to visit for leisure as well as offer solutions to these issues. The researcher will collect data from 50 Facebook users in Abu Dhabi using online survey questionnaires. Purposive non-probability ...

Introduction

Cyberbullying has become a serious social issue in the world today. It is a growing problem deeply rooted in the society and affects the life of social media users in innumerable ways. Cyberbullying is the deliberate use of technology and the social media to cause harm to other users. Cyberbullying in the social media is an established phenomenon that poses a significant threat to the future lives of our youths with the growing use of technology. There is an extensive knowledge that helps us understand the problem of cyber bullying and which also provides us with the required information ...

Introduction

Society dictates that people, in general, should always look good where the definition of looking good means an individual is skinny, slim, or someone who maintains a healthy weight. This thinking has influenced the youths of today to adapt the same philosophy and opinions that they apply to themselves as well as to others when it comes to defining beauty, confidence, body image, body satisfaction, and self-esteem, among others. Tiggemann and Pickering (1996) assert that mass media contribute to the formation of opinions about what an ideal woman looks like, thus, affecting how the younger generation view the subject as ...

Research Paper Proposal

Social media became widespread phenomenon in the second half of 2000s. Social networks like Facebook or Twitter quickly became popular globally: e.g. the total number of people using Facebook at least once per month reached 1.6 billion in 2015 (Statista, 2016). Therefore, due to their vast popularity, social media generated a number of positive and negative effects influencing the society, which are interesting to analyze.
During the first years of social media existence public attention was mainly focused on positive side of social media usage, on the opportunities which humanity had never had before. But later in 2010s, when ...