How To Analyze a Piece of Media by UnderstandMedia.com Staff
Media is all around us in many forms. Everyday we're exposed to countless types of media, from television shows and newspapers, to musical lyrics, advertisements, and event messages from our friends and family. This is why it's important to be capable of analyzing the messages we receive and decide whether to accept them or reject them.
Media messages come to us in different formats. Some are printed on paper in magazines or billboards. Some are audio-based, such as music and the radio. Yet others use audio-visual techniques to get our attention, like movies and television. And yet others use even simpler transmission techniques, like when people use non-verbal communication to "speak" to one another.
Below we discuss how to analyze the most popular types of media, using examples from various formats.
Analyzing a print advertisement
Analyzing a song
Analyzing a television commercial
Analyzing a photograph
Analyzing a newspaper article
