Rachel Cipriano

I like facts, especially those that are backed up by statistics. A news piece that says, “62% of Americans surveyed prefer ______” gets...

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher, academic, media theorist…and prophet? McLuhan famously coined the phrases “the medium is the...

I watched the Jacksonville, Florida, local news yesterday. I watched with a new perspective, fresh from my latest lecture in my Mass...

I have always thought of the word elaborate to mean to expand upon something or give more detail. When it comes to the elaboration...

The Two-Step Flow Theory Do you get all of your information directly from the media? These days it’s doubtful. Mobile phones and social...

The magic bullet/hypodermic needle theory says that we are highly susceptible to information from mass media. A news story comes out and...