The advancement of technology simply makes more information available, giving students more opportunity to not only complete their school work efficiently, but also for them to engage in self-directed learning online. With everything in society fluctuating as time passes, consuming mass media is unavoidable. Today’s society tends to base a lot of its decisions around the idea of popular culture. Popular culture can be defined as a culture that is preferred and adored by various amounts of people and a mass culture. Therefore, the forms of mass media that people tend to consume are influenced by those around them. Using the idea of social media as an example, if a friend has a Facebook account, that one friend is going to try to get all his or her other friends to make an account as well so they have the opportunity to communicate with one another through the means of social media. With entertainment being so popular in every age group, it has a large impact on
The advancement of technology simply makes more information available, giving students more opportunity to not only complete their school work efficiently, but also for them to engage in self-directed learning online. With everything in society fluctuating as time passes, consuming mass media is unavoidable. Today’s society tends to base a lot of its decisions around the idea of popular culture. Popular culture can be defined as a culture that is preferred and adored by various amounts of people and a mass culture. Therefore, the forms of mass media that people tend to consume are influenced by those around them. Using the idea of social media as an example, if a friend has a Facebook account, that one friend is going to try to get all his or her other friends to make an account as well so they have the opportunity to communicate with one another through the means of social media. With entertainment being so popular in every age group, it has a large impact on