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Barger, Wendy Noel. "Toward a theory of press criticism /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3113000.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 302-311). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Dubé, Richard. "Focus of attention : a behavioral perspective on media credibility /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6210.
Full textOrr, G. Michael. "An articulation theory perspective of Neil Postman's media criticism /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3060130.
Full textTypescript. Paging starts with leaf 2. There is no leaf 1. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-185). Also available on the Internet.
Bright, Sue-Ann. "Brain drain, exodus and chicken run : media discourses on emigration." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007672.
Full textRodgers, Ronald R. "An untamed force : magazine and trade journal criticism of the new journalism and the rise of professional standards, 1890s to 1920s /." View abstract, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3191716.
Full textKleiner, Marcus S. "Medien-Heterotopien Diskursräume einer gesellschaftskritischen Medientheorie." Bielefeld Transcript, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014863907&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textOriez, Richard J. Rees David. "Do readers believe what they see? reader acceptance of image manipulation /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6551.
Full textVine, Josie, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "'...we are not competing with bigger papers - we are doing a different job': A study of country Australian news values." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050815.100534.
Full textDi, Guglielmo Antoinette Christine. "Sex and the city: A postmodern reading." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3239.
Full textFortin, Patrice. "L'implication régionale des média écrits dans les grands débats politiques canadiens /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1988. http://theses.uqac.ca.
Full textKincade, Therese Supple. "You've come a long way, baby? : a feminist rhetorical analysis of More magazine /." View online, 2009. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131566311.pdf.
Full textHull, Thomas William Allan. "Selling Moral Panic: Social Scientific Criticism of Movies and Comic Books for Children, 1925-1955." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1263949945.
Full textMartindale, Linda Shirley. "Racism, criticism or, inept reporting? : racism in the media, the relationship between the state and the press, and the standard of journalism in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53025.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The furor around racism in the media was brought to the surface in 1999 when the Black Lawyers Association and the Association of Black Accountants of South Africa appealed to the South African Human Rights Commission to investigate the South African media. This request was based on the presumption that the South African media was rife with racism and urgently required attention. The subsequent enquiry was the source of much controversy and accusation. Almost three years since the enquiries inception, the issue of racism in the South African media has not disappeared despite decreasing media coverage in recent months. When the South African Human Rights Commission launched the enquiry into racism, prominent media leaders including key editors and newspaper representatives were summoned to appear before the controversial Commission. Some media leaders felt the Commission was a direct attack on the freedom of the Press. Others felt the enquiry was long overdue or slammed it as an all-time flop. Furthermore, pure and simple criticism of the government is still perceived as racism when it is the Press fulfilling its role as the 'watchdog of democracy' . Various Press theories, for example Developmental or Libertarian, impact on the perceived role of the Press in a democratic nation. The standard of journalism in a country can also impact on the way in which the press is perceived. For example, there are times when inept reporting is misunderstood as racist reporting. This assignment is a broad overview of the enquiry into racism in the media and the concerns around this issue as well as the response to it. It takes a closer look at the role of the media and the relationship between the media and the state. In particular, it focuses on how criticism of the government can be misread as racism, as well as investigating how the standard of journalism impacts on the way in which the media serve the public. The South African National Editors Forum launched a skills audit in 2002 and the results were surprisingly negative. The general standard of journalism in South Africa was assessed as "low". This assignment looks at the findings of the audit in the light of the above questions surrounding the standard of journalism as it pertains to reporting on race and accuracy, understanding and objectivity. The last section of the assignment takes a brief look at several examples of how to report on race in South Africa and what to be aware of when considering sensitivity to race issues. The questions as to whether it is racism, healthy criticism misconstrued as racism, or simply inept reporting, are explored. Although an expansive topic by nature, this paper provides an overview of the key issues pertaining to media ethics as it pertains to racism in the South African media.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die skandaaloor rasisme in die media was te vore gebring in 1999 toe die Black Lawyers' Association en die Association of Black Accountants die Suid Afrikaanse Menslike Regtes Kommissie gevra het om die Suid Afrikaanse media te ondersoek. Die versoek was gebaseer op die gedagte dat die Suid Afrikaanse media rasisties is en dringend aandag nodig het. Die ondersoek was baie kontroverseel en het na baie beskuldiging gelei. Omtrent drie jaar nadat die ondersoek begin het, is die kwessie van rasisme in die Suid Afrikaanse media nog lewendig alhoewel daar minder daaroor geskryf is in die land se publikasies. Toe die Suid Afrikaanse Menslike Regtes Kommissie die ondersoek op rasisme begin het, is belangrike media leiers - redakteurs en koerant verteenwoordiges - voor die Kommissie geroep. Sommige van die media leiers het gevoel dat die kommissie 'n direkte aanval op Vryheid van die Pers was; ander het gevoel dat die Ondersoek belangrik was en nog ander dit as 'n mislukking bestempel het. Eenvoudige kritiek van die regering deur die Pers is ook as rasisme gesien alhoewel hulle die rol van 'bewaarder van demokrasie' vervul. Daar is verskeie Pers teories, byvoorbeeld "Developmental" of "Libertarian" wat die persepsie van die rol van die pers beindruk het. Die standaard van joernalistiek in 'n land bepaal deur hoe die Pers gesien is. Byvoorbeeld, somtyds is slegte verslaggewering as rasisties bestempel. Hierdie opdrag is 'n wye oorsig van die ondersoek op rasisme in die media, die bekommernis oor die kwessie en die reaksie daaroor. Dit kyk nader na die rol van die media en die verhouding tussen die media en die staat. Dit fokus op hoe kritiek van die regering as rasisme misgelees kan word en gee ondersoek aan hoe die standard van journalistiek na beskuldiging van rasisme kan lei. Die "South African National Editors' Forum" het 'n Vaardighede oudit in 2002 opgedoen en die uitslae was negatief. Die standaard van joernalisme in Suid Afrika was as "laag" assesseer. Hierdie opdrag kyk na die oudit se vindings in die lig van die bogenoemde vrae oor die standard van joernalistiek: verslaggewing oor rase en akuraatheid, en objectiviteit. Die laaste deel van die opdrag kyk na verskeie voorbeelde van hoe om oor rase verslag te gee en waaroor te dink as jy sensitief teenoor rase kwessies wil wees. Die volgende vrae is na gekyk: Is dit rasisme; gesonde kritiek wat as rasisme bestempel word, of eenvoudig, slegte verslaggewing? Hierdie opdrag gee 'n wye oorsig oor die belangrike kwessies van media etiek in verhouding met rasisme in die Suid Afrikaanse media.
Legge, Janet Helen. "Post-feminism in Cosmopolitan and For Him magazine (FHM) : a critical analysis." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005956.
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Manda, Levi Zeleza. "Gender discourse and Malawian rural communities: a study of the meaning the people of traditional authority Likoswe of Chiradzulo make from human rights and gender messages." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002910.
Full textLyons, Sara J. "The sacrifice of honey (fiction) ; The depiction of the media in The shark net, Evil angels and The sacrifice of honey (thesis)." University of Western Australia. English, Communication and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0055.
Full textLeopold, Amanda A. "Dealing with the Digital: Literary Media, Mediated Narratives, and Sketchy Politics." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1495718816858325.
Full textWang, Sijie. "Criticism, Censorship, Influence on Newswork: A Content Analysis of How Film Reviews Published in Photoplay Magazine Changed after Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America's 1934 Censorship." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1399459519.
Full textGifford, Ben. "Reviewing the critics: Examining popular video game reviews through a comparative content analysis." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1377089044.
Full textDaiello, Vittoria S. "The “I” of the Text: A Psychoanalytic Theory Perspective on Students’ Television Criticism Writing, Subjectivity, and Critical Consciousness in Visual Culture Art Education." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1293716652.
Full textKeltner, Kathy A. "FROM MYTH TO METAPHOR TO MEMORY: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF TELEVISED REPRESENTATIONS OF PROJECT APOLLO, 1968-2004." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1177848776.
Full textSouza, Evelise Guioto de. "Dogville, filme e crítica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-17102007-151818/.
Full textDogville is a movie to which most people reacted passionately, whether in favor or against it. This dissertation approaches two aspects of this phenomenon. First, it provides a reading of the film that focuses on its contradictory principle. It is not only about the fact that some of it resorts to classic realism whereas some other aspects question this illusionism by deriving from a Brechtian inspiration. It is about understanding how this very contradiction is the heart and soul of the movie and how it is this that produces its content. Then, a reading of reviews published in wide circulation papers attempts to identify how these texts either address or ignore this contradiction, as well as the pre-conceptions that allow them to do so and that determine the analyses they produce.
Tapia, Ruby C. "Conceiving images : racialized visions of the maternal /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3057347.
Full textScott, Robert James. "The best a man can get? : an analysis of the representation of men within group situations in the advertising copy of Men’s Health and FHM from December 2006 through May 2007." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013576.
Full textMulonya, Rodrick K. A. R. "The political economy of development aid: an investigation of three donor-funded HIV/AIDS programmes broadcast by Malawi television from 2004 to 2007." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002926.
Full textDumm, Elena. "Show No Weakness: An Ideological Analysis of China Daily News Coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617884910805174.
Full textBonham, Lorie N. "Gender Images and Power in Magazine Advertisements: The Consciousness Scale Revisited." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2005. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/1.
Full textMoot, Dennis. "Visual Culture, Crises Discourse and the Politics of Representation: Alternative Visionsof Africa in Film and News Media." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1596021641358625.
Full textDewa, Nonhlanhla. "Interrogating gender constructions in the Daily Sun: an analysis of the coverage of the 'Charter for a Man' campaign against gender violence between November and December 2007." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002879.
Full textDann, Sierra. "“Big Little Lies:” Using Hegemonic Ideology to Challenge Hegemonic Ideology." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1623773842217318.
Full textChmielewska, Katarzyna. "In Martha We Trust? The Cultural Significance of the Martha Stewart Phenomenon." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4267/.
Full textDorworth, Vicky E. "Learning about the criminal justice protagonists: a content analysis of gender messages in the crime film genre." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27987.
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Becerra, Martin. "Not Dead At All." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2370.
Full textCastillo, Gilbert Gerard. "Gender, Identity, and Influence: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3354/.
Full textDunn, Jennifer C. "Legal Prostitution as Sex Work: Discourses of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch." View abstract, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3371481.
Full textBarker, Cory Andrew. "Genre Welcome?: Formula, Genre and Branding in USA Network's Programming and Promotional Content." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1332972861.
Full textYu, Hongmei. "The politics of images : Chinese cinema in the context of globalization /." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8304.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 306-318). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
Harlig, Alexandra M. "Social Texts, Social Audiences, Social Worlds: The Circulation of Popular Dance on YouTube." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557161706452516.
Full textVan, Niekerk Tanya. "'N Feministiese analise van animasiekarakters vanuit 'n feministiese benadering." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10122004-135247.
Full textMorden, Lizl. "Winged words : a descriptive and quantitative study of figurative speech in the subtitles of 7de Laan." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86394.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates subtitling in 7de Laan, comparing episodes from 2007 to episodes from 2010 with a focus on figurative language. It is a quantitative, descriptive study and aims to determine the overall adequacy or acceptability of the subtitles, the translation strategies used, how figurative language and language varieties are translated and compares findings from 2007 to those of 2010 to establish whether there has been a change in approach over this period. The source text, 7de Laan, is discussed in Chapter 1, which also outlines how the study will proceed, the research problem and the research questions. Chapters 2 and 3 are the literature review of the relevant theories. Chapter 2 covers Descriptive Translation Studies and the translation of figurative language. The challenges particular to subtitling, specifically the constraints of the medium, are discussed in Chapter 3. The following two chapters are the analysis and each begins with the methodology used for that analysis. Chapter 4 is a macrolevel analysis of the corpus and determines the acceptability/adequacy of the subtitles, their governing translation norms and analyses the translation strategies used. More specific questions are answered in Chapter 5, which analyses the translation of figurative language, the representation of language varieties in the subtitles and the influence catering for a hearing-impaired audience has on translation decisions. The findings indicate that the subtitles of 7de Laan are mostly acceptable and that acceptability increases in 2010. The translation strategies used and their frequency of usage are similar over the years. However, there are slight changes: in 2010 there is less literal translation, more omission and fewer figurative-specific translation strategies are used. The findings further show that there is less figurative language in the subtitles in 2010. Additionally, there is a tendency of levelling out figurative language in both years which increases in 2010. The analysis of language varieties indicates that for sociolects, age markers influence the subtitles more than race markers do. Idiolects are rendered but how much of an idiolect is rendered depends on its markers. The analysis also finds that subtitling for hearing-impaired audiences is a significant factor in the translation process over and above the spatiotemporal constraint of subtitling.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die onderskrifte van 7de Laan. Dit vergelyk episodes van 2007 met episodes van 2010 en fokus op figuurlike taalgebruik. Die ondersoek is kwantitatief en beskrywend en wil die algehele geskiktheid (adequacy) of aanvaarbaarheid (acceptability) van die onderskrifte vasstel, asook die vertaalstrategieë wat gebruik is en die wyse waarop figuurlike taal en taalvariëteite vertaal word. Die bevindinge van 2007 word vergelyk met dié van 2010 om vas te stel of die vertaalbenadering in die tydperk verander het. Die bronteks, 7de Laan, word in hoofstuk 1 bespreek, wat ‘n oorsig gee oor hoe die studie verloop, die navorsingsprobleem en die navorsingsvrae. Hoofstuk 2 en 3 is die literatuurstudie van die relevante teorieë. Hoofstuk 2 dek beskrywende vertaalstudies (Descriptive Translation Studies) en die vertaling van figuurlike taal. Die probleem eie aan onderskrifte, veral die beperkings in die vertaalproses, word in hoofstuk 3 bespreek. Die volgende twee hoofstukke bestaan uit die ontleding en elke hoofstuk begin met die metodologie wat gebruik is vir daardie ontleding. Hoofstuk 4 is ‘n makrovlakontleding van die korpus en bepaal die geskiktheid/ aanvaarbaarheid van die onderskrifte, oorheersende norme en ontleed die vertaalstrategieë wat gebruik is. Meer spesifieke vrae word in hoofstuk 5 beantwoord, wat betref die vertaling van figuurlike taal, die oordra van taalvariëteite in die onderskrifte en die invloed van die inagneming van gehoorgestremde kykers op vertaalbesluite. Die bevindinge dui aan dat die onderskrifte van 7de Laan meestal aanvaarbaar is en dat aanvaarbaarheid in 2010 toegeneem het. Die vertaalstrategieë en die frekwensie van die gebruik daarvan het oor die jare nie veel verander nie. Daar is egter klein veranderings: in 2010 is daar minder letterlike vertalings, meer weglatings en minder vertaalstrategieë wat spesifiek op figuurlike taalgebruik gemik is. Die bevindings dui ook aan dat daar minder figuurlike taal in die 2010-onderskrifte is. Die ontleding van taalvariëteite toon dat, ten opsigte van sosiolekte, ouderdommerkers ‘n groter invloed op onderskrifte het as rasmerkers. Idiolekte word wel verteenwoordig, maar die mate daarvan word deur die idiolek se merkers bepaal. Die ontleding dui ook aan dat onderskrifte wat gerig is op gehoorgestremde kykers, ‘n groot faktor in die vertaalproses is, benewens die tydruimtelike beperking van onderskrifte as sodanig.
Anderson, Tonya. "24, Lost, and Six Feet Under: Post-traumatic television in the post-9/11 era." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6137/.
Full textHedström, Julia. "La marche des morts-vivants : une sociologie praxéologique de la médiation critique." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO30008/document.
Full textThe present research follows George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead’s reception in the American press between 1967 and 1971. The analysis of the film’s media career shows how it progressively becomes consolidated as a public phenomenon, cult film and a work of art. The aim of the investigation is to understand by what means a film qualified by its first national review in Variety as an “orgy of sadism” becomes worthy of projection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the object of numerous interpretations, initiated by European critics in 1970. Night will be interpreted as a barely disguised metaphor of interior and exterior conflicts that shook the United States in the late Sixties (racial tensions, weakening of the traditional patriarchy, Vietnam War). Beyond the immediacy of its violent imagery of cannibalism, its content will be seen as socially and politically subversive. In the end, this little horror film made by some Pittsburgh-based amateurs will be integrated into United States’ cultural heritage, i.e. the national memory. This indicates that (film) critics do more than just inform their readership about new cultural releases. A journalist’s job consisting of spreading information to anonymous audiences is also an operation of mediation. By presenting Night of the Living Dead as a mirror of the American society, the critics take up the imaginary as a source for reflection on the commonly shared world. By doing so, they enable a national collectivity of a democratic society characterized by mass communication to see itself and to have control on its own history and actions
Armentrout, Jenny A. "Sugar, Salt, and Fat: Michelle Obama's Rhetoric Concerning the Let's Move! Initiative, Binary Opposition, Weight Obsession, and the Obesity Paradox." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1307554274.
Full textCano, López Marina. "Finishing off Jane Austen : the evolution of responses to Austen through continuations of The Watsons." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3972.
Full textMiddlebrooks, Justin M. Mr. "The Intersection Between Politics, Culture, and Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Performance Art Activism and Contemporary Societal Problems." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1333397676.
Full textAllington, Daniel. "Discourse and the reception of literature : problematising 'reader response'." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/507.
Full textMoody, Kyle Andrew. ""Why so serious?" comics, film and politics, or the comic book film as the answer to the question of identity and narrative in a post-9/11 world /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1249507295.
Full textCamara, Samba. "Recording Postcolonial Nationhood: Islam and Popular Music in Senegal." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1510780384221502.
Full textSenger, Saesha. "Gender, Politics, Market Segmentation, and Taste: Adult Contemporary Radio at the End of the Twentieth Century." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/150.
Full textLin, Shi-jaan, and 林希展. "Leisure Discourse about Internet Cafes in Mass Media : A Rhetorical Criticism Perspective." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62128382039039268167.
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The first Internet Café in Taiwan appeared in the late 1995. With the coming of information society, Internet Cafés gradually become an omnipresent leisure space in Taiwan cities. Intertwined with technology and leisure, the space of Internet Café has always been the focus of news reporting. The daily news reporting about Internet Cafés affect the way people see, interpret, even imagine this leisure space, especially in issues about policy regulation and leisure legitimacy. Using Borman’s “Fantasy Theme Analysis”, this study analyzed the appearance of Internet Cafés in mass media, in particular, the printed news. A total of 352 pieces of news were sampled from China Times and United Daily News from 1992 to 2002. Fantasy themes were coded separately via character, action, and setting. Finally two rhetorical visions were induced. The first vision appeared proximately in the period of 1995 to 1998. It described that the appearance of Internet Cafés was a sign of information society. Owing to the educational ideal of suppliers, consumers could experience the pleasure of cyberspace without burden. The Internet Cafés thus became “a way to the promised land of cyberspace.” However, this vision was gradually replaced by another one during 1999 to 2002. During this period, Internet Cafés became more and more penetrating because of the rapid growth of the fascinating on-line game and the information industry. However, because of the youth deviant behaviors in the space and the issues of regulation arguments, the “trade of Faust” vision appeared. The collected memory about amusement arcades has largely influenced the image transformation of Internet Cafés. Due to the growing population of on-line games, Internet Cafés are usually identified with amusement arcade. With the appearance of Internet technology, the “immature” youth are considered at the risk of affecting by some negative impacts, such as addiction, violence, pornography, and deviant behavior in the Internet Cafés. By means of analyzing the motives, power relations, and cultural implications conveyed by rhetorical vision, this study presented a possible “social reality” about Internet Cafés acquainted or constructed by the mass. In general, the transformation of rhetorical vision implies a rationality of leisure, which requests that youth must choose leisure activities beneficial to both their body and mind, they should act moderately in leisure times, and these activities must be under “mature” adults’ supervision. It also implied that work ethics which deemed leisure a subordinate choice to normal school work. Under the circumstance of not influencing normal schedule, leisure is thus a permitted activity having reproductive effects. This kind of leisure attitude may heavily ignore that human beings have the need to play, and also deny the accumulation of real life experiences. It is considered that the inferiority which youth are facing may be solved by the practice of life politics.