What was your perception of media before this lesson?
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My perception of media before the lesson and even after hasn’t drastically changed. During our discussion, although I am aware of every click I made, my curiosity on how media controls and shapes our opinions, thoughts, and actions, appeared in a snap. Media, indeed, has impactful influence to us.
Media has affect our society and real life as the growing of new technology nowadays become more powerful. Before, it takes time to deliver a word or a message to someone but thanks to technology, our everyday life has gotten easier. Today, information is just at our fingertips. Most people nowadays have their own gadget or smartphone, therefore they can get the news in anytime. People become more active in media because of the freedom in giving comment about any issues.
The mass media and all media in general have a heavy influence and impact on individuals and society, as many people rely on the media as a source of information without even thinking whether it is true or not. That is to say that since the usage of media has evolved, falsehoods are deliberately spread online. Furthermore, he media is a very powerful weapon that can quickly change people’s perspectives and beliefs in few minutes. For instance, a news report concerning opposing teams conflict many cover and focus only on one side of the story and ignore or fail to mention the other part which will make the viewers pity with one side and neglect the other side. Media may influence opinion, but to what extent and how reliably it is, is really too difficult to say. Some argue that it only influences those susceptible to be influenced, others say that people are only ‘influenced’ when the media agrees with what they already believe, whereas the Nazis famously believed that if you say something often enough (in the media) people will eventually come to believe it, regardless of its connection to the truth.
Media has become a part of our life and it has great influence in our day to day life. They are powerful in a sense that, they even control our thoughts and actions. We decide to buy products on the basis of advertisements. In the modern world, we depend upon media to get a clear picture about our society and the rest of the world. Our perception about the world is influenced by the media. The media can shape public opinion by publicizing certain stories or stressing certain aspects of stories. Mass media is supposed to play crucial role in building healthy public opinion on all crucial issues of public interest and welfare. But lately, media has been suffering from subjectivity. I agree with what Mr. Salam Hasan Ramdan Hajjeh Hajjeh stated. Irony it is that we are living in the ability to see for ourselves the truth that media provides but at the same time, maybe the real truth that we should be seeing put us under pressure as well as gives us responsibility to be cautious of what kind of media or source we should count on.