What is the media?
It's all around us and it affects how we think about things and what we do each day. I think it's almost impossible to not be affected by the media.
The media includes radio, TV, the Internet, books, newspapers, magazines, pictures/photos, music, movies, and even video games. The iPhone made by Apple is probably the best symbol of the media for this generation. You can access the Internet, movies, music, newspapers, books, photos, maps, in addition to it's main function as a cell phone.
The media can be a good thing and a bad thing. Without the media, specifically news reporters, we wouldn't know what is going on around us, and yet in the United States the media tends to focus inward. This means that you hear mostly about what is going on in the USA and not about what is happening in other parts of the world. For example, the flooding throughout the state of Tabasco in Mexico was mentioned only briefly in the American news. In fact, I didn't even know about it until a group of informed Gresham High students presented about the disaster last week.
The media also tells us what to do and what to think through advertising. When you watch a show on TV there are a lot of commercial breaks. In fact, an hour long show on TV is really only about 42 minutes, with 18 minutes of commercials. A 30 minute show is about 22 minutes of programming and 8 minutes of commercials. We are shown what products to buy, what clothes to wear, and how our bodies should look.
Think about the media in the United States. What are some positive (good) things about the media and what are some negative (bad) things? What are some ways that you think you are influenced by the media? For example, items you buy or want to buy, clothes you wear, brand names you like, the way you want to look, what makes someone beautiful or handsome, etc. Leave a comment for the class.
21 comments:
I think that people what to look like in the fames people so people think that they are cool. All so with the cell phone because they get addicted calling other people and they get the cell phone taken away.
Sandra Villa-P
media is a huge thing in our life, media is helpful because we can know what happen in everywhere in the world, we use media everyday. i think media not good or bad, but the way we use it good or bad.
a lot of kids in U.S is fat because they watch a lot of commercial about fast-food, high-sugar. And they just sit there and watch T.V. we need do somethings for them to make them have a better life.
I think that the media is a positive and negative thing as well because we can know the news through cellphones ipods and the tv news, but the negative thing is that many people are just addicted to those electronic things and some times they care more about it and not pay attention to the staff they should be apying attention. In school lots of students don't pay attention to their classes for being texting messages or playing with their cellphones and the consequence is that their cellphonesare taken away.
I think the media is a bad good thing because for somethings the media is neseser for the people that dont know whats going on in the united states today. Like what I mean is that if you just came from out of state. In some cases like you were saying modals show you how to were your clothing, shoes, hair, how your body has to be I dont think thats right for the people to belive them.Also we need good rowmodals for everyone because all of some point we look up to somebody thats all.
i think tey watch a lot commercial. And that people look in the fames people and they just sit and they watch somting.
well i think that pepole r depending to much on technlolgie and good once in a while but thats not relly going to help us that much *****WORD***** WHATS UP GRESHAM STUDENTS IT 'S ME KRYSTAL AVILES
Some media can be bad because some influence poeple to smoke and some ther stuff. Some good influence are making kids work harder and making them stay in school.
The media is helping on our world. There are new media's every year. Like the cellphone we use, we uses it a lot depending on how to use it. TV also help us by showing the news or TV shows. Some media's have bad issue to bringing to school.
Sometimes the media is a good influence for people but sometimes its bad because instead of showing them good example they show not a really good ones and oviously lot of people want to do what they see around and for me the media its not a great thing but its important sometimes
I think that media is a really helpful thing beacuse it's telling us what is happing in the world. Medie can also be bad by the way that is influencing some kids how to do bad things like smoking.Some ways that I'am influenced by the media is how you need to look if you want to look beauiful and what kind of clothes you sould wear to look cool.
I think media is something good, because it's very useful and helpful.If we use them, we will know what is happening around us and what is going on around the world. Some people use it as hobby like vidio games. But playing a lot with vidio games is not good too. So media can be bad too. Because is included everything and not just vidio games and some people don't use it right.using everything a lot is bad. we just have to help ourselfs.
Well I think that the media is good in a part and bad in another. The good part is that you get alot of info of what is happening recently and news about important issues. The bad thing is that alot of us just make it seem like its something we have to do and waste about half of our day doing nothing. It might be entertaining but we need to use it productively!!
i think that media is really good cuz everbody in the world use it. i dont realy think that it bad i think that its good.i think that the media that infulese me is music cuz i haer it alot and i buy alot of cd......
I think that the media has a very big infuince on every one. Even on little kids. My little sister is alwaya saying that she is fat. My sister is olny 9 years old. I ask her why she tinks that she is fat and she says she gets it from the T.V.
This really makes me feel sad because she is really youg to think that. This has really been hard for me.Seeing that is is not eating things that she used to. I always tell her that is very butiyful, but is does not argee.
The media has a way of getting people to think things that are not true. This gets people think about things that they never botherd to think about.The media has really got my little 9 year old sister thinking about tha way she looks
I know that the media has good information and it can help a lot of people, but it is not helping my sister.
I think that media is a good thing, because everbody in the world use it. We use it every day of ower life, we use cellphons, tv, and watches. I think that the media is a good thing bcause I wont be abel to live whith out it not even one day.
Well one good thing that the media helps some people is having communtication with other people.And one negitive that it affects us is that sometimes people us there medias while driving and so they couse accidents.
it is a good thing has a lot power. media is helpful. u can find anything in there. it easy and quick.
I think that people what to look like in the fames people so people think that they are cool. All so with the cell phone because they get addicted calling other people and they get the cell phone taken away and the bill gets taken away and some people dom't pay attention in calss.so that's not cool.
yes i agree with that because the media does influence our lifes alt even though we sometimes dont want to reconize it .I think that i phone was a great idea that i phone has everythng . They have probaly sold more then 10000 by now . I think it has a bad influnce to us because mostof the time they're just advertising us.
yes i agree with that because the media does influence our lifes alt even though we sometimes dont want to reconize it .I think that i phone was a great idea that i phone has everythng . They have probaly sold more then 10000 by now . I think it has a bad influnce to us because mostof the time they're just advertising us.
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