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Media & Society

First thing first , Media is defined as one of the means or channels of general communication in society, as newspapers, radio, television etc.  In simpler words , media is where you would use to communicate with people. How about society then ? Sociey is defined as the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. So , we the people are the society and the media is what I'm using to communicate and share the information that i have with the world using this blog.

So, how does media and society works together ?

Let's face the facts that we're living in 2017 where almost everything in our daily lives is associated to media in any form. Most notably is the internet , the internet is one of the most essential tool nowadays for the society to share and communicate with each other. Media and society is like a bond that can't be seperated.

Media is used by the most influential people to spread the news towards the society that we're in. For example , politicians/entertainer/actor etc. literally anyone uses media as a tool to reach a much more bigger audience so that they can share the informations that they have.

There are negative and positive impacts of media on the society. I'll start with the bad first. The world is full of perfect people today. With perfect skin, body, and hair - that’s what it appears like to the young today. Thanks to Photoshop, the standard of beauty has become impossible to achieve. And these images are everywhere. This has led to distorted body image among a number of teenagers. Anorexia and bulimia are a fall out of this body image crisis and this is not limited just to the girls. Even boys are made to feel ‘less’ manly unless they fit the image popularized by media.
The positive impacts is when a celebrity talks of her favorite book, we might be tempted to grab a book too. Not just that, if we want to be a part of blogs, chat rooms, this would increase our reading and communication skills.

 In conclusion , media plays a major role in our society but not to disregard the fact that we are the one's in control of the media so we should be more wise than being controlled by the media!


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