1F25 Post 1: Media Impact

How significant do you think mass media is on your world view?

Mass media comes in many forms and each with a different purpose ranging from social networking sites to news networks and television and all these plays a key role my life and that of those around me. It affects how I see the environment and how I respond to it, I can barely go an hour or a couple minutes without checking my twitter and my Instagram accounts and even when I’m at home, I spend a good number of hours watching television and playing games on my consoles.

Mass media affects my world view very much because whatever is broadcasted on the media is easily taken in by the public and whether it concerns me or not, I too get curious and want to be in he know sometimes just because everyone else knows. I mean Miley cyrus’ twerking video went viral in less than 24 hours and then weeks later she releases another single which sparked controversy in a lot of households and during that same week, the USA are edging ever closer to a military assault on Syria (something I probably would never have known if I wasn't just randomly channel surfing a couple days back) and I’m not even sure why, I know that I should be aware of it but I’m far more versed on the latest music videos that are being released this week and the media just keep on serving me and the people around me news that I just don’t need to know and everywhere you look whether on the internet or on social networks, you only find unimportant events, random videos, ads and all other sorts of information. Mass media no doubt affects a good portion of the youth of day in a vast number of ways, what teenagers see on t.v. can affect how they dress, what they eat and how they relate to each other in essence what I’m trying to say is it affects the culture and generally controls it.

Media on a large practically controls my world view because honestly I believe everything I see on the news on some parts of the internet e.t.c. and if some of that information were to be falsified or twisted, it wouldn't matter because mass media is essentially my medium to see the world, my world view is how the media want me to see it The media has essentially controlled the public and there is not much to be done about it.