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Reading Summary: Content Analysis is the first step in analyzing media content.  In content analysis you will describe and research meanings in media however, the results of the description do not permit one to make inferences about the effects of the media messages. The broad idea is coders will look at manifest content and turn nonContinue reading “Analyzing content”

Reading Summary: Realism should not just be a comparison between a movie and “real life.” This article explains that realism is a changing topic that varies from person to person, but there are patterns. There are two broad ideas about realism, The “dramatic” and the “documentary” look. Most documentary films are apparently spontaneous, can haveContinue reading “What is Realism?”