MediaSpeak: Three American VoicesThis book defines and analyzes the content, structure, and values of three predominant types of public discourse, which are labeled Doublespeak, Salespeak, and Sensationspeak. These media messages are examined to determine how they are constructed and how they influence individuals, ideology, and culture. Discussions are illustrated with a diverse range of examples from popular culture, magazines, Internet sites, politics, television, and film. Fox argues that the Information Age has replaced actual reality with representations of reality. He states that electronic media dominates our lives. Together, these three voices saturate media and technology, profoundly influencing American culture. Fox suggests specific strategies for recognizing and understanding these coded messages. |
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... Natural Born Killers multiple times ( Gibbs and Roche 1999 ) . It's important to note that Harris and Klebold were not enamored just with violence , but with media itself . They created a video about their guns for a film production ...
... natural for Sensationspeak to influence our actions , be- cause throughout recorded history , we have looked to ... natural . The fact that we often fail to acknowledge such natural connections between Sensationspeak and our actual ...
... natural part of such a fast , complex process . In short , our symbolic environment could well become increasingly volatile . In such environ- ments — when things happen so fast and most people don't think they know what is really going ...
Contents
Making Sense of MediaSpeak | 17 |
Doublespeak | 45 |
Salespeak | 87 |
Copyright | |
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