How does mass media affect our day-to-day social behaviour? Interactionists take a micro-level approach to understanding how mass media interacts with our lives. For example, programs like the morning and nightly news are an everyday...

The stories we share as a society come packaged inside our movies, video games, novels, and other media. These stories provide a shared experience, and bring different groups together. This is a positive effect of mass media, but not all...

A general introduction to the Functionalist perspective on Mass Media.

Media isn’t just movies and newspapers and TV shows, it’s also a part of society that involves a lot of money. And all that money has implications for the media that gets created. Media is created by people -- a range of people, making a...

NPR's Science Desk recently received NSB's Public Service Award on May 3rd at the U.S. Department of State for contributing to public understanding of and appreciation of science and engineering--including mass media, education, training...

* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Sexting, like anything that's fun, runs its risks -- but a serious violation of privacy shouldn't be one of them....

This program covers the very important topics known as atomic number, mass number, and isotopes. We begin by discussing the structure of the atom and how the atomic number is used to organize the periodic table. We discuss the mass...

This program covers the very important topics known as atomic number, mass number, and isotopes. We begin by discussing the structure of the atom and how the atomic number is used to organize the periodic table. We discuss the mass...

This program covers the very important topic of atomic mass of an element. We begin by discussing the structure of the atom and how this can be used to arrive at a number that represents the relative mass of the atom. This quantity will...

The Columbine High school shooting was the most widely covered news story of 1999 in the United States. It set a precedent for the blanket coverage of random mass shootings we see today: the rush to the crime scene; the pictures of the...

Mass Storage (disk drives and solid-state drives) store the operating system and applications. Despite the different technologies, systems talk to these many devices in similar ways. This clip is from the chapter "Mass Storage...

Don’t speak your mind! Don’t write about the truth!

That’s what it’s like in the world of Fahrenheit 451. The mass media is a joke and independent thought is dangerous. As for books, they’re burned… sometimes with their owners!...

On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting in a movie theater of Aurora, Colorado left the town, and its nation, reeling. To many -- including Tom Teves, who lost his son in the tragedy -- the news coverage that followed focused on all the wrong...

From the section: Mass Storage Technologies. In this section, we cover topics related to Mass storage. Mass Storage (disk drives and solid-state drives) store the operating system and applications. Despite the different technologies,...

This live-action video program is about the word mass. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word mass through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...

Mass storage (disk drives and solid-state drives) store the operating system and applications. Despite the different technologies, systems talk to these many devices in similar ways.
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Pupil outcome: I can explain the role that media has within a democracy. Key learning points: - Media includes mediums of getting information out to the masses on a large scale. - There are different types of media: broadcast (TV, radio)...

Three major differences between weight and mass are discussed and three media examples of weight in kilograms are presented (and you should know that weight is NOT in kilograms).

This program covers part 3 of the very important topic of the atomic theory of matter. We discuss how atoms combine together to form new compounds. Students review the law of conservation of mass and how the mass of the substances at the...

Veronica Tarasevich is a 16 years old 10th grade student in Siberia. She will graduate in 2018.



She plans to enter the University of Foreign Languages and study Languages and Internation

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Veronica has done...

Why do we see only one face of the Moon? What would happen to Earth if the Moon didn't exist? We dive into questions you asked on social media.

Hank sets the record straight on some of the findings of NASA's GRACE mission and how they relate to predictions about sea level rise and climate change.

Episode 06 #YourDailyEquation: Why is the speed of light the fastest possible speed? In this episode, Brian tells a simple story--involving medieval jousters--to motivate the relativistic mass equation, and then uses that equation to...

At the end of the 19th century, the inventions of the Industrial Revolution create a whole set of new industrial branches. The second wave of the Industrial Revolution is characterized by the chemical industry in Germany and mass...