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Social Media Influencers as Encoders of Lifestyle Ideals

Social Media influencers have become indispensable promoters of ideas about acceptable living standards, particularly for the younger…

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Encoding and decoding: how can information be transmitted and interpreted

Every day, we are exposed to a lot of information: news, advertising, movies and TV dramas, and…

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Manufacturing Consent and Cognitive Bias: How Our Minds Aid Media Control

Do you ever wondered why we sometimes just go along with what the media tells us? Noam…

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Chomsky: The Media Manufacturing Consent

In nowadays society, advertisement is not only a tool for product promotion, but also a force for…

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The ‘Consent’ Created By Social Media

With the development of communication technology, the Internet, the threshold of dissemination of information is gradually lowered,…

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Media Literacy in the Digital Era: How Encoding Shapes Our Interpretations

Media communication is shaped by cultural and social factors. Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding model provides an understanding of…

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Social Media and Manufacturing Consent: Lessons from The Social Dilemma

Summary: The Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma provides a chilling look at how social media platforms manipulate…

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How Media Shapes Our Thoughts and Beliefs: The Concept of “Manufacturing Consent”

In today’s world, media plays a vital role in shaping public opinion. In the book Manufacturing Consent,…

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Manufacturing Consensus Among Consumers

In the modern market, making consensus is an important strategy to build trust and promote purchasing behavior…

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Individuals, or the media, create biases in the formation of information

一·Background Manufactured consent is a term coined by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman to describe the…

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How Media Shapes What We Think: Manufacturing Consent Explained

Have you ever wondered why some stories are all over the news while others barely get a…

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Netflix and the Culture Industry: Global Storytelling or Standardized Spectacle?

Introduction The Culture Industry, as developed by Adorno and Horkheimer (2002), questions how cultural products are now…

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Is Media Still Manufacturing Our Consent?™

first lets start of with what Manufacturing Consent is – Manufacturing Consent is a concept from Noam…

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Still believe in the Authenticity of Social Media in 2024?

“Media builds stories, media spreads stories, media makes people aware of stories.” Herman and Chomsky proposed the…

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Manufacturing Consent: How Companies Greenwash Their Customers

Edward Herman and Norman Chomsky wrote a book  in 1988 called Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of…

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The impact of encoding and decoding on cross-cultural communication

Encoding and decoding are very important for cross-cultural communication. According to Ruben (1977), cross-cultural communication refers to non-verbal…

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Encoding and decoding in cross-cultural communication

We live in a multicultural world, where people of different colours and ethnicities inhabit this “global village”…

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Encoding and Decoding: Essential Functions in Formulating, Disseminating, and Interpreting Information

In contemporary media, encoding and decoding are fundamental processes that influence the creation, dissemination, and comprehension of…

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“Manufacturing Consent” in Advertising: How PR Tactics Shape Consumer Beliefs and Choices

‘Manufacturing Consent’ is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. ‘Manufacturing Consent’ is the…

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The impact of cultural industry on China’s cosmetics industry and cultural communication

As an important factor in the economic development of a country, the cultural industry is conducive to…

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Manufacturing Consent: How Media Filters Appear in the Music Industry

‘Manufacturing Consent’ is a 1988 book by Noam Chomsky and David S Herman which proposed that US…

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‘Call Her Daddy’ Podcast: The Medium is the Message

In 1964, McLuhan proposed that the medium used for content is far more important than the content…

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Construction of Identity in a Digital World

The internet has changed how we create and express our identity. In the real world, our identity…

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Performance vs. Authenticity: Crafting Identity on Social Platforms

Summary: This post explores the complex interplay between self-presentation and authenticity on social media platforms, examining how…