The overall trend of the media for the past fifty years has made voices be heard across the world and the same pattern in expected to increase into the future. For the past couple of years, people were constrained from expressing their views and opinion regarding the issues that affect...

The number of media available to the average consumer has vastly multiplied in recent years to the extent that most of us carry one around with us every day. Our smartphones, tablets and laptops can go with us wherever we go and can keep us up to date on just...

There is a proliferation of research today which suggests that mass media, and particularly images used in advertising, suggest that for a woman to be "attractive" it is necessary to be skinny, tall, and usually fair-skinned, with "tubular" bodies and fair hair dominating advertising imagery (Dittmar and Howard, 2004). This...

The role that media plays in the socialization process is difficult to overestimate, especially given the increasing importance of Internet in the life of society. Our desires and attitudes are ‘created’ inside of our heads by media producers who are skilled in manipulating our thoughts. Gerard Jones uses the word...

It is quite true that use of social media in many fields remains to be a highly contradictory issue. Particularly it is controversial in the aspect of interpersonal communication. On the one hand, as remarked by Fogelson et al (2013), social media provide unique opportunities of communication to the people,...