LibGuides: Communications: Broadcasting, Radio & Television: DVDs & Streaming Video

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What is "Streaming" Media?

"Streaming" multimedia (video & audio) allows the user to begin viewing video clips stored on our server, without first downloading the entire file. After a brief period of initializing and buffering, the file will begin to stream - or play - in real time. Your picture quality will be determined by your available bandwidth (download speed) and computer processor speed. Users with older processors and slower modem connections will have more dropped frames and pixelization.

Source: www.upenn.edu/video/pvp/streams.html

DVDs on TV, Radio, Media and Journalism

Feeding the Beast: An Inside Look at the News Media
This program takes an inside look at what goes on at America's newspapers and TV stations. An ABC News production.
Guerrilla Media: A Citizen's Guide to Using Electronic Media for Social Change
Through discussion and examples of radio and television spots, Tony Schwartz and others focus on how the average individual can use the media to promote social change inexpensively and effectively.
Color Adjustment
This study of prejudice and perception traces over forty years of race relations in America through the lens of prime time TV entertainment.
Generation M: Mysogyny in Media and Culture
This documentary looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our popular culture.
Sexual Stereotypes in the Media
This program illustrates some of the commercial, cultural, psychological, and sociological forces that have shaped sexual stereotypes in the media, such as demographic segmentation and the selling of gender, the myths of alluring femininity and rugged masculinity, Jungian personality archetypes, consensus reality, stereotype threat, the hegemonic forces of agenda-setting and mainstreaming, body image dysfunctions, and the theory of the male gaze.
Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity
Systematically examine[s] the relationship between images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century.
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants.