New media

In Aldous Huxley book, “Brave New World”, it mentions a drug that everyone takes (soma) that “controls and tamed” humanity. Social Media is very much like the soma that all of the people take in Brave New World. They are related by how they both “control” society in a way that people feel obligated to do it. For example, if one of the people in a group doesn’t have a social media account they are almost excluded from the group because teens use social media almost more than texting. Lots of…

recognized the impact social media has made in many of our lives, social media has in fact impacted and influenced society as a whole. Social media is being used more and more each day, and now things that we did ourselves are now accomplished through social media. For instance, telling a loved one “Happy Birthday” what is social media doing to our society? More importantly how has the influence of social media impacted the way that we do our jobs, or our jobs as a whole? Social media has…

The Media: Your New Mirror In advertising and social media, body image has now made women more self-conscious of their bodies. Women feel the need to look pretty for the opinion and compliments of society as a whole, not just a few people or a loved one. Advertisements use Photoshop and airbrushing to make a model look perfect. Over time the way society perceives women as beautiful has changed drastically. The most popular looks through the years have been corsets for a tiny waist, womanly…

on the news to see what is going on in the world around them. It sparks opinion among people in subjects such as politics, entertainment, social events, and many others. Journalism and news has continuously evolved throughout time. It first started through the word of mouth. Then it printed itself on paper. Eventually it got onto our screens. Today, the world’s reliance of news lies mainly in the hands of social media. This fact has raised questions as to if social media has affected news in a…

Misconduct in News Media News media has evolved for almost thirty-five years because of Internet usage, leaving a great milestone in world history; now advanced in technology, social media has pulled itself in the world of news media, giving a window to viewers to read and reflect on news media without even knowing it. However, according to Tim Graham, social media has been put in a harsh spot because of the inaccuracy of sources within stories. In Paul Farhi’s “Why Everyone (It Seems) Hates the…

Journalist Edward R. Murrow and director George Clooney both agree the view on integrity can be altered by a mass hysteria. According to Murrow’s speech on the Future of News Media, he says, “We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information, and our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who…

social media. Many individual in the United States has some type of social media and would spend most of their free time on it and sometime does not realize what is going on around them. People use social media as a distraction and in the novel that we read Brave New World, there is a type of substance that does the exact same thing. In the novel Brave New World, the substance that brings people into another world is soma. The government of the World State, supply the drug for…

Domesticating New Media: A Discussion on Locating Mobile Media The extract from domesticating new media: a discussion on locating mobile media by Larissa Hjorth, compares mobile media technologies to a Swiss army knife, primarily because of their multiplicity of uses. Over the last twenty years or so mobile phones have been constantly changing, through the mediated and remediated methodologies that Hjorth believes are the most relevant to the study of mobile devices. The mobile phones in the…

Wilson in a suburb of St. Louis. The ethics concern, in this case, focus on the issue of rather the TV news media covering the looting, rioting, and fighting instead of the peaceful protest, the loved ones of Michael Brown and the death. This also became an issue because the TV news media allowed the opportunity to interview people that were protesting, which expressed their anger. I believe that the media helped the crime that took place during the protest. They focused so much on this issue…

New Media In the latter half of the 1800s and moving forward into the twentieth century, new forms of media began to spring up, which drastically changed the way art was created and produced. The invention of the camera and motion pictures evolved art in a way that the question of which art forms should really be considered art was asked. In an article written by Domenica Quaranta, she brings up this question and provides some analysis. Her biggest point states that while a media may be new…