Abstract:This paper explores the role of the media in shaping the perceptions and attitude of their audience. Media institutions weather traditional or new construct content in the form of messages and interpret them within the context of those messages. Whatever content is portrayed through media should be interpreted correctly by the audience. Modern audience are active participants in the meaning making process. That understanding is formed based on how individual constructs meanings for the symbols, images or event… Show more
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