Contemporary society propagates flexible identity, which is susceptible to trends and images of the world created by the media. The media have an increasing role in shaping people, especially young people, which are one of the most important consumers of content placed in media. Young people become just one of the expedient of manipulation controlled by the media, and as such they are a perfect...

This paper presents findings from a series interviews with Korean-American residents of Philadelphia. These interviews dealt with the informants pre-immigration experiences with images of the United States in movies, television programs, and magazines. The interviewees were asked to evaluate the role of these images in their decisions to immigrate and about their post-immigration responses to t...

What do we see when we look at a photograph in a magazine or a televised sport event? Different consumers see things differently. This raises questions for scholars and media workers alike about the role that the media plays in the production of images and their subsequent consumption. This consumption has been cultivated by a communications revolution in the twentieth century. Television, film...

In previous chapters, we have explored the industries and organizations that produce our mass media, the content of the media images that circulate widely, and the meaning of these media images for both audiences and the broader political system. In this chapter, we pay closer attention to the specific communication medium on which the various media industries rely. Because we cannot have newsp...

This chapter deals with a stream cipher method for encrypting images. As digital devices such as scanners and digital cameras become more and more available and mass storage media for digital data become more affordable, the use of digital images in practical applications are becoming more widespread. The wired and wireless IP networks are vulnerable to eavesdropping making essential the data t...

In the present research, the role of the mass media in the development of private sector participation in Mazandaran Province sports was studied. For this purpose, a sample of 130 individuals consisting of sports experts and managers and media executives participated in the survey. In the poll process, a researcher-made questionnaire was utilized after its content validity was confirmed by a nu...