Media and Cultural Analysis The hidden message of social conditions via the art of media production

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กัญญาพร สมมีชัย

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This paper is based on dissecting functions of media; to explore the scope on how media representation corresponds with the society. Media learners are replaced with audiences as they both share the experience of consuming information. The meaning that media conveys is consistently inserted by chosen textual analysis to make the paper more objective, and to provide reader broader perspectives of its embodiment. Qualitative research method is applied as a tool to dig into respective findings. The subjects are stressed on culture, ideology, and identity that media fundamentally performs as a linkage. Films are utilized as underlying medium to mirror historical and current situations which contain buried message of social conditions. The advantages of studying media is to help audiences understand themselves and fathom different social dimensions.

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สมมีชัย ก. (2019). Media and Cultural Analysis: The hidden message of social conditions via the art of media production. NKRAFA Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 7, 29–33. Retrieved from https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/KANNICHA/article/view/190902
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