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Media And New Media

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As technology has changed over the past century so has the forms of media. Media has begun a transition from old media to new media. Old media is the kind of media that people form the the previous generation still use regularly like your radio, the newspaper and the television. However we are coming into the age of new media where the forms of media are expanding to social media and online forums or news agencies. This change in the forms of media has allowed for more people's opinion to be spread and allowed for for people to be more aware about current affairs. It has also prevented governments from having full control over the news. This change in the diversity of the mid has occurred mainly across the past century as technology has …show more content…

Social media acts as a branch of media that allows for the sharing of opinions and viewpoints. This is because it allows for people to share their personal stories from current events and give people a greater understanding of what is going on. You can see this change when it comes to natural disasters that have occurred recently, for example the Nepalese Earthquake (that costed $4.3 billion dollars in repairs) that only occurred this year, thousands of people responded to the event with donations or just sending a simple prayer to show that they cared for the people who were trapped amidst the event. A lot of the time these prayers were posted on social media as people as that was where they found out the information. This just shows how much people's awareness to current affairs have improved since the change from new media to old media.

This change in the forms media also prevents a government monopoly from controlling the media. This is because although social media is owned by few companies it is still not in cohesion with the government. This means that the government can’t gain control of the media as it does have in some countries. This included North Korea where the government has full control over all media in their country. This can be seen here in this quote; “no independent media; radios and TVs are pre-tuned to government stations; 4

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