Summary Of Mass Communication By Karina Martinez

Society embraces the systems and symbols created to communicate in the search of belonging. The systems and symbols are used to convey information and assigns meaning and values to our lives. Often culture is defined as the symbols society uses to express themselves as individuals or groups. Culture is the practice that allows individuals to either agree or disagree with the values and ideas that are portrayed and communication helps to circulate these values.

Life has changed dramatically over the last century because of the progression of media technology. The ones that I will be talking about is radio, television, computers, and the internet.

Why is mass media influencing the American culture? This is what we are going to be discussing in this essay. It’s important that we understand where the media has come from and where it is now and the journey that it is taking the American culture in the last century. America has now explored what un-traditional media and it has a major impact on the culture called new media.

The world is full of many people. All are from various parts of world, they come from various backgrounds, and have different stories to tell. However, there are linking values that can bring us together. It can be race, sexuality, or even gender. Gender tends to be split into two ways in today’s society. People chose to be either male or female. And while this divide is not the most accurate, it is how people tend to be portrayed. In today 's society the media is one of the most efficient parts of our society to transfer thoughts and ideals and one of the most influential on portraying what is the newest trend and what is the model that people should aim for. This power is very important; however, it could be seen as a bad thing. People who watch television or read magazines or newspapers absorb what is given to them whether it is positive or negative. This is a problem for what the female image has come to. The female image that is portrayed in the various platforms of media such as, television, gaming, and movies is what I intend on focusing on.

Negative attitudes toward mental health are directly influenced by mass media. In 2017, media controls our surroundings, to the extent that we are inclined to believe everything we see and hear from media. Social media is poisoned with exaggeration and grossly falsified stories. Since it is so personal, people rarely approach social media with a careful eye. Trusting mass media is a slippery slope, as many misconceptions can be easily made about people, especially those with mental illnesses. For example, there are many false, widely accepted stigmas against schizophrenia in the United States. It is important to understand stereotypes, versus realities of mental illness so that members of society can improve the lives of those with mental illnesses, instead of hindering them. A common stereotype against schizophrenia deals with the criminalization of schizophrenics. The criminalization of mental illness in America is a growing problem resulting from factors such as crime television and movie productions. Diefenbach (1997) hypothesized that portrayals of those with mental illness on television are “significantly more violent” than the actuality of mental illness in America. Experimenters have linked the two, finding outstanding evidence relating media to the criminalization of mental illness. Misrepresentation in media contributes to the criminalization of people with mental illnesses in America.

Over the last century, the way the world shares information and communicates has been continuously evolving. Such milestones in the development of communication and media over the last one hundred years include traditional media such as the telephone, radio and television. “New technologies have developed so quickly that executives in traditional media companies often cannot retain control over their content.” (Lule 2017). However, with the recent forms of new media such as the creation of the internet in the 1980’s and more recently social media such as Facebook and YouTube information can now be shared and absorbed at accelerated rate.

There are three cultural products I have viewed, read, or otherwise interacted that are examples of distinct forms of mass media. The first, is a weekly television show that airs on NBC called This Is Us, another is a national broadcast which Pastor Joel Olsteen preaches which airs networks on USA and TBN, and lastly the infamous President Donald Trump and the American people, versus the National Football League. These three cultural products/issues are examples of mass media, however some of them are cleverly written dialog for television which millions of viewers engage in and some are web based material which have gone viral for millions of viewer’s entertainment and/or are sources of information.

News is not typically part of a teenagers daily life.Every day, I stay updated on current events. The BBC app on my phone is what I visit the most in a day, more than Snapchat. While most of my friends are catching up on their snapchat streaks, I am browsing through the various international stories on the BBC app on my phone. Reading on topics such as foreign policy and economics is something that always has interested me.

Mass media has come a long way from where it first started, from someone belting out the news, to the written form of mass media such as the newspaper where it could reach the masses and inform them of what is going on around them, to the now where most news are obtain using the internet via smart phone, tablet or television, as along as an individual has Wi-Fi, internet service they can obtain their desired information from anywhere in the world.

The connection between the teens’ media exposure and teens’ risky sexual behavior have been examined throughout the years. The results of these studies conducted to examine how the exposure to mass media affect teens’ sexual behavior contradict. Teens’ romantic and sexual interests motivate them to seek for information from the media becoming exposed to television, music videos, movies and magazines six to eight hours each day (Steinberg & Monahan, 2011, p. 562). But “… media are saturated with sexual content and imagery, which appear in 83 percent of programs popular among adolescents …” (Ward, Day & Epstein, 2006, p. 57). Pettit (2003) & Pinkleton, Austin, Chen and Cohen (2012) and Fuller and Damico (2008) findings suggest that media messages potentially affect the way teens think about sex negatively. Whereas, Ward et al. (2006) suggest the effect is not always negative, and for Steinberg et al. (2011) there is no effect of mass media in teens’ sexuality. As for the inconsistency of the results, this research establishes the need of a future study on how to diminish the teens’ enjoyment of media to pursue further the possibility of making media less entertaining but educational. Results indicate teens’ exposure to mass media may or may not influence teens’ decisions about sex.

Violence in the media has been a growing problem ever since the emergence of mass media. One wonders however, how violence has become so prominent in our culture, more so than other countries. More minors are being involved in heinous crimes such as murders and armed robberies. Even play on the school ground is getting rougher. There are many factors that play into the increasing violence, such as over population, religious struggles, and race. One factor that plays into the increase of violence would be mass media. Mass media has the power to reach and influence almost every American. Radio, newspaper, and television are all means by which media reaches people. Television however, can be considered the

For many years now, the task of creating a more stable and reliable form of communication for sharing information with people as well as with the world is something that many people across the globe have studied, redesigned, improved, and rebuilt. The spark of mass communication is all thanks to one man named Alexander Graham Bell who invented the first telephone. Bell’s invention of the telephone has opened a multitude of opportunities that have extended the way we communicate in the world today. Bell’s invention went public on March 7, 1916, and many people gathered to see a demonstration that would start a revolution of communication beyond even Bell’s imagination (A Rural Broadband…). “That evenings demonstration made clear that the telephone service was poised to revolutionize communications and unite every part of the country…” (A Rural Broadband…). Bell’s invention was the first reliable, and cost-effective way for communication until just a few decades later when someone decided to take Bell’s invention to the next level and help to bring us public Internet. Just like Bell, AT&T is determined to create the world’s first truly reliable and cost-effective Internet connection for rural areas by revisiting an old concept that, at the time, was proved not reliable. I believe that we can help to cut cost even more by creating a partnership between the FCC and the DOE (Department of Energy). Using AT&T’s current plans, we can partner with other companies and government

The way media have influenced the psycho-social development of adolescents is profound, and it’s important for parents to monitor their child’s exposure to media and to give guidance on age-appropriate use of all social media outlets. Parents aren’t alone when raising their children today; the media is helping. Moms typically stayed at home to take care of the children while Dad worked. With both parents being absent in the home because of the need for more financial stability, kids have less guidance, learning more from the internet. Rosa Rios, author of, “Positive and Negative Effects of Media on Children’s Health,” states, “Research shows that kids between 8 to 10 years old spend an average of 8.5 hours per day with a variety of media including television programs, online searches, social websites, and video games among others.” As it were, children are submerged in the media an indistinguishable measure to a full-time job. The time spent on various media outlets make teens antisocial and socially awkward, which basically impacts child social development.

In my 20 years of living I can say that the things that I am used to seeing my parents’ generation where not use to seeing. The reason for this is because of the time deafferents, many things have change over all or have progressed. Somethings that have changed rapidly over time is mass media, mass media has progressed fast over the years. Coming out with new technology and changing the way people work and view this world. In my parents’ generation the only media there was, was newspapers, and interactions with other people. Now and days, media is seen all over and in many different was. Newspapers, internet, cell phones (smart phones), radio, television, and much more. This is what brings me to my topic that I will be talking about and that is the major development in the evolution of mass media in the last century.

Many aspiring Mass Communications majors find themselves intrigued and hopeful by the medium of Broadcast Journalism. Young students imagine themselves on television speaking to the public about the everyday happenings around the community. However, as other growing mediums emerge, Broadcast Journalism is a dwindling in viewership, especially with the younger generation. For my field research, I had the pleasure of interviewing Christian Schaffer. The newest co-anchor of Good Morning Maryland on ABC-2 News in Baltimore. Broadcast news is a medium that is thrilling, exciting, and fast paced. Schaffer took time out of his action filled day to allow me to interview him and get inside his everyday world of reporting and action.