http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/10/22/ngos-media-monitor-sby039s-next-cabinet.html From the article, one can see that the media and Civil society groups ( such as non-government organisations) are able to hold high power in politics. According to sociologist Charles Wright, one of the functions that is fulfils by the media is Surveillance (information). In this case, the press in Jarkata is playing a watch-dog [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Functions of media
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Ethnocentrism
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
By definition, Culture tells us who we are, what groups we belong to and how we live our lives. To further elaborate, one of the characteristics of culture is that cultural values provide the the context within which a society’s norms are established and justified. Cultural norms direct us in what we can or cannot do. [...]
Group Communication
Posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Humans are generally social by nature. Everyday, we interact with one another, influence and are influenced by the behaviours of each other. In addition, humans need groups to survive, which is true for most of us. Hence, it is only right to say that Groups affect us during the whole of our lives. From the day we [...]
Interpersonal Communication
Posted in Uncategorized on October 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For this week entry, i am going to write about The Proposal, which is a movie i watched about a month ago. Synopsis: Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is the executive editor-in-chief of a book publishing company, Colden Books, who forces her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her in order to avoid being [...]
