The Effects Of Media On People 's Lives

Throughout the years the use of technology has increased, and expanded. Mass media plays a vital role in society. Mass media can be defined as any means of communication, to an extremely large group of people. Technological advancements have been extremely beneficial for prior generations, the generation we now live in, and will be for the future generations to come. Such as, providing news for the world to hear, entertainment, and much more. Some examples of media would be television, films, newspapers, and the Internet. Unfortunately along with benefits, there are disadvantages concerning gender discrimination, and sexism. Such as, women feelings forced and obligated to stay at home with their children instead of working, and the representation of beauty involving both men and women. Examples of how the media can accomplish this would be through the use of advertisements, movies, magazines, and the radio. The media has an enormous effect on people within society today.

Televised news has the ability to influence the lives of the human population. News broadcasts have an impact on communities in a way other media outlets have been unable to accomplish. Major events have been captured by television, which affects individuals, and multiple aspects of society.

I often wonder about our humanity given the current state of affairs in our nation and abroad. America has been a powerful and abundant nation through a lifetime of wars and financial crisis but today is a different time for many of us. What is the media producer’s role in our very own implosion? What is our, the “media user” role in it?

The media immensely affects how issues are perceived in the society. To constantine the cultural set up is, in actuality, to dismiss the world "as seems to be," and rather to demand twisting it to people’s inclinations, as though authority and predominance were outmodelled. The act of technological metamorphosis in culture is due to the media and its uses in our daily lives. Every conventional society comprehended the unprecedented change and viewed affliction as securely attached from, and vital to, the postulation of independent people.The media directs the political structure, the modes of business operation, the dressing code and even the behavior of different industries.

When we look at the media’s impact in our world it reaches far beyond the individual. While we may spend a large portion of our day individually consuming media, it affects us all in a way that has begun to shape our society. What we see on the news, TV, movies, advertisements, and the internet, all influence what we think and how we act. A quick example is how body image is affected by what we see in media. Teenage girl’s body image is especially distorted based on what the media says they should look like rather than what is realistic. In many more ways, mass media has integrated its way into our lives and it affects us at a societal level when it comes to what we think, how we act, and how we perceive violence in our world.

Like many people my age, media is a huge part of my daily life and is prevalent in all my memories. Media such as photography brings to life memories I otherwise would have forgotten, while the internet allows me to connect with others from across the world and gives me access to resources like Khan Academy to aid me in school. Media also has more negative impacts, such as interfering with family time. Whether its effect is positive or negative, media has influenced my life since the start and this reflection helped me realize that.

Every minute and every hour, the world we know revolves around the Internet. Relying on the Internet for every important aspect of life. People depend on the Internet for research, bills, communication, and most importantly reading. Through experience, the Internet helps ease many obstacles but it also aids in generating greater complications. Nicolas Carr, author of is Google Making Us Stupid? Argued the negative effects of using the Internet (Carr). Carr explained that blinking advertisements and hyperlinks are just of the few never ending distractions that flood the Internet. Thus, converting a simple task into a grueling mission. I also noticed that the more I use the Internet, the greater the distraction becomes. Webpages seem to recognize what the user is trying to research and generates pop-ups in accordance to the initial point of interest. Hence, filled with unnecessary advertisements, videos, and hyperlinks. Slate.com article Is Google Wrecking Our Memory, without a doubt contributes negative effects towards reading (Thompson). Using websites such as Slate.com, creates distractions, breaks concentration, and forms inefficient reading and thinking patters.

There is no doubt that the media influences us. To state some examples to prove this claim, try answering the questions that follow. Do you feel like attempting a stunt from a movie? Do you base your fashion on what you see the celebrities are wearing? Do you copy the hairstyle of your favorite famous personalities? Have you ever attempted to walk model-like in an attempt to imitate those ramp models in fashion shows? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then it is accepting the influence on media in your life. However, it is important to dwell on the negative influences of media because these can change the dynamics of the society for the worse.

"It occurred to me I was approaching the project in the wrong way. The only way to tell the story was as a black comedy, or better, a nightmare comedy, where the things you laugh at most are really the heart of the paradoxical postures that make a nuclear war possible” –Stanley Kubrick (Phillips, 97)

Media is where people today get most of their information. Children learn most of their gender rules through the television they watch. Media is a reflection of the society we live in. Advertising is a form of media. Since advertising is meant to appeal to society, it is a direct reflection of society.

As the world becomes a global village due to technology our society changes with it. We become more and more civilized that our way of life must change to match the changes in our world. One of the most common changes that have hit our today’s society is media. Media has penetrated through all barriers including our war fronts and areas where man never thought to have penetrated. As media develops through the years and technology expands more media outlets open and so the society has and continues to move away from the mainstream media (CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, ABC, etc.) to local media and different websites to get their news. The trust society had in Television and the mainstream media to provide true and uncontaminated reports has faded and therefore society is moving away from these to where they believe they can get news first hand. In this paper, I will attempt to explain why in today 's media many people don 't just rely on the major networks but go online for news (Local, National, and Global). Could this be splintering our views and causing more anger? Should it be regulated? I will also attempt to express my opinion on what the business of news is becoming in the next ten years.

The media doesn’t just show us the news and what is going on in the world. It shows us exactly what they want us to see, hear, feel and believe. Therefore we need to be aware that our own lives are not tainted in a negative way through this communication between ourselves and an industry trying to diminish our sense of individuality and shape us into what they themselves want. My research delves into the in-depth processes in which messages are delivered to our eyes and ears, through the news, newspapers, magazines and radio in what the effects of the conglomeration of these corporations has on us as a society and especially on children’s innocent minds. With the introduction of new improved technology, our society has expanded radically, and so has our use of communication and the way we communicate (Crothers, 2007). The media and the use of this technology plays a significant educational role throughout society as we adapt to new ways of learning through the new instruments made available for us. Our culture and the society in which we live, evolves together through these new enhancements and opportunities that technology and the media has allowed as well as our understandings of reality (Crothers, 2007). Over the last few generations the growth of the media and the improvement in technologies has radically changed the way we live and how we live. Text based literacies such as newspapers, books and magazines were what catered our society’s information across the world,

It has become common knowledge that in the last twenty years, the newspaper industry has undergone a huge transformation. Once considered the primary and best way for communities to transmit and receive world-wide information, the business of printed news has taken suffered some major setbacks. With the advent of the Internet age and the advancement of technology, printed news sources and publishing companies have needed to redesign their business models and reform certain aspects of their companies. In today’s day and age, publishing companies are being forced to redesign the way they market to customers and to incorporate the inclusion of digital sources in doing business.

According to Dictionary.com, “media” is defined as "means of communication that reach and influence society or people widely."

“Mass media is a significant force in modern culture. Sociologists refer to this as a mediated culture where media reflects and creates the culture” (“The Role and Influence of Mass Media”, n.d, para.2). Media has affected to the most area of human life include relationship, education, careers, and entertainment. There were a lot of researches about the impacts of media to society from negative to positive effects; however, researchers were not pay attention to the impacts of media in inequality. It is also the important effect of media to society, but it show unclearly in other reports or researches. That is the reason why our group choose this topic to research and present. In fact, sometime people can recognize the inequality in some