Influence of Global Satellites Expansion in the Chinese Media and its Local Audiences Introduction The growth of satellite companies globally and the widespread use of the internet in media have been creating significant changes in the distribution and creating of content and news. These forms of media have provided alternative sources for audiences as they break down monopolies of mainstream media in different countries. In China, the media environment has experienced this global expansion of satellites that began in the 1990s. The rapid economic growth and improved literacy rate have been accelerating this expansion of comprehensive content in the country. In recent years the use of social media and the internet has led to explosive growth on sources of information despite them being strictly regulated and controlled by the government. Competition from professional journalists has also contributed to the diversity in the media. Topics that were usually considered taboo in the country are now discussed and reported by the mainstream media and in social media. These include corruption cases and social problems, such as the high rate of unemployment…
Business Applications for Mobile Devices With the increased rate in the proliferation of mobile devices such as mobile phones, laptops and Personal Digital Assistant, mobile commerce is an essential part of the effectiveness of most businesses. The business industry has developed tremendously, and through mobile applications, users can perform tasks that are complex such as mobile money transfers, generating invoices, mobile banking, and tracking inventory. With the aid of mobile applications, businesses have been able to continuously improve their level of productivity hence saving on time and costs (Liang, Wei, 2004). Various mobile apps have been developed in multiple industries. Mobile payment is rapidly becoming the service of the present. Thus, the number of mobile applications that offer financial services flooding e-stores does not come as a surprise. PayPal is one such application. It is an application that allows a user to make payments both online and offline. Users can pay, accept payments and transfer funds into and from multiple outlets (“7 Popular Types of Business Applications for Mobile Phones – O2I”, 2020). It is essential for businesses that…
Chapter 4: The Angry Indian and a Culture of Blame Chapter 4: The Angry Indian and a Culture of Blame reveals the violent reactions of Indigenous people to colonial practices. What is this anger a reaction to? How is that anger exercised upon self and family members within Indigenous communities? When anger is exercised in this way, what is it called? What are some impacts or outcomes of this type of anger? Given the readings and class discussions, what, in your opinion, are solutions that could effect change. The indigenous people reacted violently against the colonialists in Canada’s history because of two key reasons. However, it is vital first to note that different indigenous groups fought different colonial groups while collaborating with others. The indigenous military groups or communities fought only the colonialist who they perceived as threats to their way of life. Apparently, most indigenous groups applied the rule of “enemy of my enemy is a friend.” As such, they often fought some colonial powers without a direct motivation to their community. They simply fought to secure the malicious…
Use of Social Media in Promotion Introduction The use of social media platforms in marketing has been one of the game changers in the recent past. It has indeed played a key role in increasing the message reach, frequency as well as the size of the audience that the people can get in touch with. The main social media platforms that have been used regularly have been Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, as well as YouTube, among many others. The social media platforms have been able to effectively play a key role in reducing the cost of running promotion campaigns. There are a number of key things that need to be addressed when it comes to the issue of content to do with social media, as well as its application to promotion. There is a need to understand the key dynamics of how effective social media can be used in promotion. For such to happen, the literature on social media and its application to the promotion will be factored in. There are three key sources of such literature. The first source is…
Television and social media is it good and bad in regard to culture identity Social media and television through airing information to the world has brought about the unification of the global system. This has culminated ethnocentrism which is the worst enemy of the propagation of the original culture. As a result of globalization, social media and televisions have ushered the vice of individualism and capitalism in social ideology. Through social media the original culture has been propagated into a mixture of culture through borrowing or stealing traits from other culture and integrating them into the original culture. However, social media is playing a very critical role that has reduced the world into a global village through modern technology. The television and social media therefore propagating both virtues and vices of a community enhances culture development Unification of global systems through social media comes with ethnocentrism which is the greatest enemy of the propagation of the original culture. Initially, people or the nations which were strong regarded themselves as more superior and imposed their cultures everywhere they went resulting…
New Media Interactivity Considering technology as just a tool means it is a way through which current practices are automated hence made easier or more efficient. As innovations lead to new tools, these can be used to create new ways to manipulate, converge, and instantly transmit various forms of media. Technology has automated the communication process between people in multiple regions. New media connects people from different cultures in a more sophisticated way than before by eliminating the concepts of space and time (Eadie, 2009). Human interaction is greatly interconnected, and information from different locations is readily available and easy to retrieve. The digitization of new media has allowed manipulation of data into various forms. This transformational process is instant, using multiple features in electronic devices. Therefore, information can move freely, spontaneously interconnecting different users of the media. The intercultural impact of new media makes the statement more complex as technology, in this case, goes beyond functioning as just a tool. New media not only makes communication between different people easier, but it changes the perception of people ad…
In the Company of Educated Women vs The Boy Problem Introduction The education issues vary based on how is addressing them. The second issue is that they vary based on the perspective from which they are being addressed. This is based on the understanding that perspective from which the education issues are addressed vary based on the issue of gender as well as how the people look at the issues. There are several similarities and differences when it comes to how the two aspects are looked at. The book “In the Company of Educated Women” was written by Barbara Miller, the book highlights the history of women in the education landscape in America. It especially details the challenges that women gave faced when pursuing higher education, seeing that in colonial America, education was designed for men. The book “The Boy Problem” was written by Julia Grant. It aims at analyzing the challenges that educators face in the education of boys. It took a time range and perspective in which the analysis was done on boys located in Urban America from…
Business A good supervisor is one that is fair, has a positive attitude, loyal to the organization, great communicator, ability to delegate as well as wanting the job by being ready to be committed to it and love what they do. For fairness, this where the supervisors come up with policies that will equally apply to all parties regardless. In this case, it is where if it is the issue of reporting to work early, then everyone has to abide that regardless of who they are in the organization. Having a positive attitude is majorly about a case where the manner in which the supervisor behaves towards the overall job, as well as performance of the organization, will be key in influencing the manner in which the subordinates view their work hence the need for supervisor to be able to have a positive mindset about the work they are expected to do so that it may encourage the employees to do the same. On being loyal, there is a need for a supervisor to be committed to the long term…
TOYOTA’S BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT SWOT ANALYSIS Strength Motivated Employees Proper Management Favorable culture Weaknesses Unmotivated employees Poor management Opportunities Technological advancement More customers Favorable suppliers Adequate Labor market Sociocultural factors Threats Natural factors Competitors International factors Political/legal factors Company’s description Toyota company is a manufacturing industry whose headquarters is based in Japan. It also has other branches in different locations all over the world, including North America, UK, and other regions as well. It specializes in various types of business, including automobile business, finance as well as different kinds of companies. The segment of the automobile is focused on design, manufacture, as well as the sale of trucks, sports utility vehicles, 2box, minivans, sedans, and other cars as well. The segment of finance is related to vehicle leasing and finance business. The company also carries out business in information communication. Task Environment The task environment of an organization can be defined as the collection of different entities beyond the internal limits of an organization, which determines how the organization executes its operations. The various…
Deaths caused by Social Media use (Outline) Introduction Increased social media use has been linked to an increased risk of committing suicide. Technological advances have improved the internet. The internet is often used as social, educational, and entertainment reasons. Social media platforms have transformed the traditional methods of communication (Luxton, 2012). The world has been reduced into a global village, where information is shared rapidly across media platforms. Despite the positive use of social media, it had also been associated with negative effects like increased suicides. People easily communicate with each other anonymously, and this increases the risk of easily hurting or influencing someone to hurt themselves or kill themselves. The sites are used to promote negative messages, teach self-injurious behavior and mental illnesses (Memon et al., 2018). Social media use is responsible for increasing the number of deaths worldwide. Unlimited Information on Suicide Methods Social media has unlimited information on suicide methods and procedures (Luxton et al., 2012). Social media users can easily access this information and put it to practice. Uncontrolled and unrestricted information on social media…