Does media influence society?
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Does society influence media
I personally believe society influences media, as media grants us our wish. As a society, our demands gives the media a reason to work. We, as humans like to be updated with the latest news, therefore there are news channels. We also like to be updated with the newest trend of fashion, there are magazines. Some of us prefer to read than watch news on TV, there are newspaper. Behind the makings of newspapers, magazines or news channel there are plenty of jobs provided.
What do you think?
I agree with you on the first point.
ReplyDeleteFor the media to function, it needs constant demand. We, normal day people are the fuel source for the media. Or at least we were. I think that the media used to depends on demand, and society used to influence the media, but now it has come to a complete U-turn. The media have turned the game around. They have made us so dependent and used to their updates that now they are the ones influencing us, the society.
I believe that the media influences society because it just gives everyone the template on whats hot and whats not, and whats right and whats wrong. In the aspect of females the media gives women the outlook on what they should be eating, wearing, and talking about in there everyday lives. Many of our young girls confess there sorrows to a toilet bowl because they feel as if there not as pretty as Beyonce or outgoing as Paris Hilton. These days society is hurting our females and there self esteem, I believe men have the same issue but not as bad as the females do. Overall the media is hurting our youth and our young adults today, and if we don't stand up now to the media then our society will sowly contiune to crumble.
ReplyDeleteI think that it’s a little bit of both,
ReplyDeleteWe influence media because as you said it gives us what we want fast updates, fashion, gossip etc...
But I think the media does also influences us even if you say it doesn’t it subconsciously does because after seeing that one chocolate ad 10 times , now you see it in the store you’re more likely to buy it even if you don’t realize it’s because of the ad on T.V.
We live in a democracy, but we don't vote by connecting arrows on a piece of paper and throwing it into a machine, instead we vote with our credit cards, debit cards, cash, cheques...etc. Whenever we purchase something we're voting on what we want. Thus in return the media gives us exactly what we vote for with out money. So I think we're affecting media, and the "norm" is actually generated by us, but projected by the media.
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ReplyDeleteI personally believe that the media affects our society. Media is such a powerful tool now that it literally governs the direction of our society today. Everything we consume from media texts shapes our thinking in a certain way.
ReplyDeleteMedia can adversely affect the thinking capability of individuals and instill negative or destructive thinking patterns in the society as a whole. As already said before, media has the power to form and alter opinions. This means that the media can portray an ordinary thing so negatively that it may force people to think or act in quite the opposite way. Media also glorifies violence, negatively affecting some individuals. When viewed by the vulnerable portion of the society, i.e., the children, it can have grave effects on their upcoming and thinking patterns. Thereofore the media affects out society.
I believe the distinction between media and society is blurred so media and society have become one. Society influences media just as equally media influences society. A perfect example of how society influences media would be the reality that women, generally speaking, find it more difficult to attain superior roles in business and because of this the media reinforces this by portraying women who do become managers of businesses as cold and heartless. Media also influences society because we live in a society that depends on information and a means of communication. Has there been one morning where you hadn’t turned on the radio or the television or read the newspaper? A further example would also be when you switch on the weather channel and its tells you that it’s chilly outside but you don’t bother to check outside because you assume that the information is reliable, and so walk out with a jacket on a 20 C afternoon.
ReplyDeleteI know that’s happened to me numerous times!