English Assignment: The Impact of Media on Society and Politics

This essay examines the significant influence of media on society, focusing on its role in shaping public opinion and political discourse. The essay uses the example of Donald Trump's election campaign to illustrate how media can be biased and manipulate information, specifically highlighting the portrayal of immigrants and the promotion of racist rhetoric. It discusses how media outlets can use specific language to influence perceptions and create negative attitudes towards certain groups, such as the black community, and the importance of understanding media's role in shaping ethical and social messages. The essay references various scholarly articles to support its arguments, emphasizing the need for critical analysis of media content and its impact on society.

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ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT 1
Introduction
Currently media is considered as the one of the important pillar of democracy. In addition, it is
also considered as the main source of information circulation in the society. But media plays
very significant role in influencing all the segment of the society, it may be individual, group or
some particular community for their profit margin or sales (Mihailidis & Viotty, 2017).
Donald trump election speech campaign
One of the media article can be clear seen biased towards Donald trump election campaign in
which he has blamed immigrants as one of the main reason for increasing rate of crimes in the
United States (Bump, 2018). In addition media used the word very few immigrants are good.
This created a negative attitude on the minds of the readers that immigrant people are not at all
good and is connected with crimes. By introducing value of white guys in the form of news
related to crime against white people is mostly committed by black people sparked more hate
(Hepp, Hjarvard & Lundby, 2015). In this situation, media has very carefully used those words
which will helped them to increase the attention towards crime related to black people by
removing their focus from the crime committed by white people. One of the best example is the
instead of using word few migrants are good, media could have used all immigrants are not bad.
This increased the hate against the black people in the United States because people are
manipulated in the form of racist speech (Georgakopoulou, 2017). One of the social and moral
roles played by media is that they have highlighted the one of the important matter. But when
asked to one of adviser of Donald trump, they said that no such information was being conveyed
and remained completely in denial mode (Vea, 2019). One of the ethical and social messages
conveyed by media was that all the attacks happened on white people are not committed by black
people; white people are also involved in the crime.

ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT 2
References
Bump, P. (2018). Donald Trump's 's***hole countries' remark is only the latest example of his
racist rhetoric [online]. Retrieved from: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-
trump-racism-shithole-countries-controversy-presidency-candidancy-campaign-mexico-
wall-a8155396.html
Georgakopoulou, A. (2017). ‘Whose context collapse?’: Ethical clashes in the study of language
and social media in context. Applied Linguistics Review, 8(2-3), 169-189.
Hepp, A., Hjarvard, S., & Lundby, K. (2015). Mediatization: theorizing the interplay between
media, culture and society. Media, culture & society, 37(2), 314-324.
Mihailidis, P., & Viotty, S. (2017). Spreadable spectacle in digital culture: Civic expression, fake
news, and the role of media literacies in “post-fact” society. American Behavioral
Scientist, 61(4), 441-454.
Vea, T. (2019). The ethical sensations of im‐mediacy: Embodiment and multiple literacies in
animal rights activists’ learning with media technologies. British Journal of Educational
Technology, 50(4), 1589-1602.