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This 9 page paper looks at four very different types of media—a Web page, a home buyers' guide, a pamphlet and a political cartoon—and analyzes them with regard to composition, arguments, audience and textual meaning. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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types of media with regard to how each is composed, the arguments it makes, who it is aimed at and how its produced. It also considers what these texts say
about the "realist text," "regimes of representation" and occasions of reading and viewing. The Texts The four texts are very different: a web page, a homes for sale booklet, a
pamphlet from a public library, and a political cartoon. Since they can literally be anything, the choice is very broad. The web page is first. Because its simple to find
and many people have access to it, well look at www.MSN.com. This is of course the Microsoft home page, and it provides access to the Internet. Its also the spot
where people can get into their Hotmail accounts, a free email service. It also has a number of links that a user can click on to get to sections like
"city guides," "dating," "games," "movies" and so on. These are listed alphabetically near the top of the screen. Below them is a box with a photo in it that changes;
each photo displayed illustrates one of the days top stories. Beneath that is a section called "Todays Picks"; the rest of the page is filled with boxes, each containing a
picture and several links to the suggested content. These boxes are "Windows Live Spaces," "Also on MSN," "Video Highlights," "Entertainment," "Popular Searches," "MSNBC News," "Fox Sports," "Money, "Quotes" [stock market
quotes]; "Weather" and "Shopping." Microsoft upgrades the page from time to time but hasnt changed the basic layout in years. The page is composed entirely of links and "recommended
content," its aimed at the public in general, though it seems slanted toward a "young, hip" audience more than older people; and its produced by Microsoft itself, which one can
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