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Discuss the role of media studies in making sense of the political, economic and cultural meaning of everyday life. The Australian media, in all its forms - predominantly through print, television, radio, internet and billboards - but also through the newly emerging and perhaps more subtle forms such as pavement stencil art and SMS text messaging, has an exceedingly powerful impact on our mentality, personality, and general awareness of the world[CJM1] around us. Hence, because of the elevated level of control it has over the individual on so many levels - specifically culturally, politically, and economically, Media Studies is intrinsically deterministic in allowing us, through disassembling the purpose and effect behind the various forms of media we absorb, understand how we are manipulated by the media - and therefore give us both knowledge and to some extent, control, over our perceived meaning of everyday life As members of a society living...

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