Media studies

Social media was created for the purpose of connecting others and helping old friends stay in touch. It was a new twist into networking and mingling with other people, but in a digital way. While social media was created to make people more integrated and communitive, in today’s society it has seem to have done the opposite. It has made our society less personal. Instead of taking the effort to genuinely get to know someone or deepen a relationship with a friend, we turn to social media to…

addresses the roles of digital media in personal relationships, especially, the internet and the mobile phone. She explains how online community affects our interpersonal relationships, whether this effect is positive or negative. This book consists of six chapters that cover the historical visions and theoretical perspectives about the influence of digital media on our society and personal connections. The first chapter highlighted some of the issues that caused by new media like the…

drastically changed. Unfortunately, there is no way to get around it, social media is here to stay. Notwithstanding, the social media platform can be a slippery slope, especially for a company that is new to it. Thus, for social media to be effective for a company it must approach it strategically. Further, one of the main functions of social media is the ability to connect with people, if a company is active on social media it must be willing to tackle both negative and positive feedback. In…

Thus making me think that the body images that are shown in the media are negative to those that are targeted, in this case girls. For me personally, this issue affects me a lot. Growing up, I’ve been expected for my body to fit in a category where my mom finds it perfect. When I see women or girls on media it usually leaves me feeling anxious and ashamed. Seeing it makes me self-conscious because I don't have the things that they have…

range, but often times fall short (in my personal opinion). Michele Byers studies television, specifically Canadian TV. She asks the question, “Why study Canadian TV?” and follows up with one reason that I feel, perfectly explains the lack of teenage appropriate television. She states that the first reason relates to the “need to take teens, teen TV, and Canadian TV seriously” by acknowledging that today’s youth are powerful media consumers, negotiating cultural meanings and who are…

like. Tan, thin yet shapely women and tan, toned, bulked up men; all portrayed by media as the most desirable. You subconsciously take in all these images and end up feeling like you need to look like that, otherwise you’re undesirable. 50-88% of adolescent girls feel negatively about their body size or shape ( 7). Methods like, “if you buy top, you will look like this model”, are used. People want to be happy; the media take advantage of this, telling people if they look a certain way they will…

Modern media is made by a small number of people and usually relies on technology. Storage and transmission with media began more than 30,000 years ago such as cave drawings. Modern media must go out a mass amount of people which means mass production. Gutenberg Press which is the first printed press and it printed 180 copies in Europe. Which started newspaper in the 1960s in England. The idea of photographs is more than 1000 years old. Radio was invented in 1894 and became a wireless…

which they would which they would otherwise not be able to attain. However, the technology transformation is now beginning to be harnessing the minds of future children and adolescents in ways that could be harmful. Both authors Loyalka and Srinvas, studies and shared these changes that affect our world. Although both stories from Loyalka and Srinvas experience the new growing technology and city construction around the environment, Loyalka focuses on the individuals’ stories while Srinvas…

The media, a fast paced, always changing portal for information and inspiration. The media influence people and how they behave. Anywhere from influences from the movies and television, the violence our society is exposed to, the positive influences, twisted “facts” that the media taught us, the negative influences involving school work, how we are influenced to spend out money, how Miss Narwin was effected by the media, how the media makes us think about our body image,and how the media makes…

its many forms. The biggest being the media. Mass media has become extremely popular with young adolescences, and since technology allows everything to be easily accessible, media has become even more prevalent with the expansion of the Internet. Thus, the media’s influence on teenagers has grown and spread which allows for the media to spread the Western ideal body image. This body image ideal is a negative influence on people…