Think Card
Part 1
Question 1
`Human rights convection and declarations underline the significance of freedom of expression as a human right. However, in countries such as Serbia and Uganda, where the freedom status is partly free and not free, respectively, ownership of the media and journalist certification are significantly controlled by the government. In Serbia, the media is owned by private organizations, but the government-allied media outlets undermine journalists through smear campaigns and legal harassment. In Uganda, media is owned by the government through the Media Council and the National Institute of Journalists of Uganda (NIJU) that indoctrinates journalists towards government propaganda. NIJU also restricts the citizen’s freedom of expression. Thus the relationship between media and the government, journalists, and the society has been damaged as the press no longer serves the public instead it helps the politicians
Question 2
Marshal McLuhan’s graphic book, The Medium is the Massage contains a serious argument on the dissonance of the electronic age. Still, it breaks the rules of a coherent narrative. McLuhan explains that different electronic media will have a considerable influence on shaping cultures than the information being presented by the media. His connection was that the digital age would result in a global consciousness resulting in a political equivalent of a global village that would reshape the world. Thus, the mass media is today’s driving force of social change. McLuhan’s graphic book does not follow a linear description. The text appears in the form of a product of mixed visual, verbal, experiments in graphic and typography juxtaposition, and diagrammatic media, thus offering a chaotic combination of assertions.
Part 2
The readings, lectures, and themes covered in this semester offer insights into how realities are constructed and how they shape ideas about culture. However, the public sphere is influenced by organizations, corporations, and lobby groups engaged in political practices. Within these practices, the media and communications negotiate the consequences of politics in reinforcing ways of thinking about the social world. Therefore, throughout history, media technologies change how society relates economically, politically, and socially.