The World Transition From Brain Deadening Media

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.

In both technology oriented text "Mind over Mass Media" by Steven Pinker and Jonah Lehrer's summary of Sherry Turkle's book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other had opposing views on technology. Both texts were meant for magazine readers to hopefully either realize technology is a benefit or it is what is hurting society. After analyzing both texts I feel strongly that Pinker's text was more rhetorically powerful due to his argument structure with a more logical approach. Lehrer's review took a more emotional approach but did not seem to back up his initial emotions and then went into a completely different path leading me as a reader to mistrust him.

Technology has improved dramatically, to open the gate of globalization during the changing stages of media and communication. These very functions have played an important role in economic growth and at the same time spreads culture growth globally, and with the revolution of global media, it helps the world become smaller and easier to reach. With its growth and capability, global media has attracted many capitalists, especially who are from the West, to grab such opportunity. This has become a question is it true, that the global media systems are mostly controlled by Western transnational media forums, and is there any negative impact from such actions?

The US media has always depicted a traditional family consisting of a mother, a father, and children. Nowadays, there are few families that we still consider traditional. This concept is outdated and offensive to Americans who don 't have a traditional family. The US media needs to redefine the definition of the traditional American family. Divorced and remarried parents, extended families living together, and kids who never really had a family should also be included. This will increase the overall sense of happiness and well-being among children whose families don 't necessarily fit in with society.

We are surrounded by a whirlwind of different media outlets, but they are not being forced upon us. While this mass production of media and various stories is a reflection of our corporations that also can relate to our greedy demand for more and more of everything. We are only human and so are those in media trying to master the masses. The last page of Gladstone’s The Influencing Machine ends with one sentence: “We get the media we deserve”(p.156). The media is a reflection of companies run by people trying to create what we want. Consumption of media is not mandatory, but we urge for more and more. Media caters to the consumers desires and reflects many of our beliefs. This is all well deserved and supported through our interaction with the media.

Growing up as a young boy in America in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s, in the backyard of every home there was a boy playing army, and fighting for his country. These young boys would grow up to be men and it was considered a worthy cause to fight and even die for your country’s freedom. The American Media and the advances in technology would change the public’s view of war and flush this romantic view of war down the toilet. The power of the media had a great impact on the American public’s view of war. The American public eventually couldn’t deny the truth of the photos or the film, war was a horrible thing and there was nothing romantic about it.

Social media has a major impact on today’s society. The thesis of Steven Pinker’s article “Mind Over Mass Media” is whether social media has a negative or positive effect on our brain. He stated he believes it has a positive impact instead of a negative compared to comic books and video games. In my opinion, I agree that technology doesn't have a negative impact on our brains, but I do believe we are allowing it to take over the world because so many people depend on technology for everything.

This essay will delve into the true meaning of crime in the media as well as explain some of the concepts and different views people obtain from watching the news, are the news doing a good job at telling us what is happening in our world ? People have a right to know what is happening in their society especially if it’s too do with criminals and changes to society. The same goes to the victims of crime. It can be argued that the media do not really do an impressive job of telling us the story of victims of crime, people who have actually had a traumatic real life experienve, sometimes the media just tell us what we want to hear in order for individuals within

Within the last few months the American people have experienced an event which has caused the most division this country has seen since the days of the Civil War. The incident in question is that of the 2016 presidential election, in which Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump single-handedly managed to create a powerful divide within the country over something as menial as political views. Due to the controversy incited by this event our two major political parties escalated to hold unprecedented levels of ambiguity towards one another. Nobody can dispute the fact that this separation has occurred. The only topics up for debate are those of why division grew to such a large degree and whether it was warranted. Is it possible that the masses were swayed into such a staunch devotion towards a political side by the media; rather than their own devotion to their parties cause? Maybe the reason that this country hasn’t seen this division in ages is because that no generation before ours has had the capacity to reach millions with their agenda with such simple means. As the voting date of November 8th, 2016 drew closer, the prevalence of candidate advertisement

With the vast amount of resources and material on the Stop Imperialism website, if one was to look for another anti-imperialistic item with a different argument, perspective and example, the availability is ample and possibilities nearly endless. In Eritrea - The Danger of a Good Example, a live, videotaped speech found on StopImperialism.org, Draitser (2015) looked into the African country, Eritrea, and found that main stream media’s biased, erroneous perspective focused on the nation’s shortcomings, but ignored the human rights that they are a leader in, relative to the other countries on the African continent. In this speech Draitser (2015) further emphasizes the massive, twisted effect media has in the general

Everyone sat, with eyes wide open, staring at the tv, wondering what 's going on. Everyone calling everyone asking if they are ok and what 's going on. No one knew but tv broadcasts said that a deadly virus has broke out in Washington. The broadcast explains that the virus is turning people to zombies and then the zombies have been infecting people by eating them. Suddenly a fence is ripped apart by zombies behind the broadcast, the zombies start heading towards the broadcast people. The women speaking says, “may God be with us all” and then the broadcast abruptly cancels. We all know what has happened and that we need to prepare ourselves.

Everyone sat, with eyes wide open, staring at the tv, wondering what 's going on. Everyone calling everyone asking if they are ok and what 's going on. No one knew, but tv broadcasts said that a deadly virus has broken out in Washington. The broadcast explains that the virus is turning people into zombies and then the zombies have been infecting people by eating them. Suddenly a fence is ripped apart by zombies behind the broadcast, the zombies start heading towards the broadcast people. The women speaking says, “may God be with us all” and then the broadcast abruptly cancels. We all know what has happened and that we need to prepare ourselves.

Anyone who has been a fan or has followed EA for an extended period probably knows of the companies reputation for being greedy , games with literally hundreds of dollars of dlc or expecting players to pay tons cash to get an edge on other players in games like FIFA. Recently though it seems they may have just pushed back a bit too far , anyone who may be following recent trends in the gaming industry will have heard but their latest big title Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been making waves in the gaming industry due to what has been called by many fans an abusive microtransaction system. This backlash has even gone so far as to draw the attention of political bodies questioning as to whether the entire system may need to be labeled as

It’s a fact that most people use mainstream media almost everyday. We often even get informed from it. The news is one of the most used and trusted media source to stay informed. The news is in all type of media; tv, websites, print, etc. Over the last few years, people have been questioning if the information they get is actually true.

The possibility that there will be a new entrant into the game -console industry is