Assignment 3

Assignment 3: Media In Our Lives

Answer the 3 questions questions in at least 4 complete sentences.

First we will watch this video on media influence in our daily lives.

1. What does the video say about how media influence works on individual people?

This video says that media affects our view of world in several ways, it influences on individual people in several ways. It influences by priming, which is that it might make you recall old ideas, knowledge or experience. By agenda setting, which is how media controls the information we get, and that editors have power because they are able to choose which stories to tell. Framing affects because a  spin applied to messages we may see or here on media, because that choose how to tell them. Another influence is cultivation, which starts to blur lines between real world and the ones on TV, which persuades people to adopt a new idea or a new practice. In a world like ours it is impossible to avoid media influence, but by understanding how media works you can seek back your own perception.

Then we will watch this video on 21st century social media trends.

2. What is your favorite fact pointed out in the video? Explain why this fact is important or interesting to you?

The fact I most like on this video is that if Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest. I think it is so incredible how just one social media site can have so much impact on the world, and all over it, because Facebook is used in so many countries by so many different people. Almost everyone you know has a Facebook, and a lot of us check it practically every day. This is just so incredible what one social network can cause. This is why this fact, I found to be the most interesting, and my favorite.

Media is the main means of mass communication (esp. television, radio, newspapers, and the internet) regarded collectively.

MULTIMEDIA is the combination of one or more media.

•     When text, still images, sound, video, and animation are combined that is an example of multimedia.

•       The most recognizable form of multimedia is the World Wide Web.

3. How is multimedia affecting our daily lives? Do you think there such a thing as "too much media" in our lives?

Multimedia is affecting our lives in such a big way, mainly because every year there is something more advanced and new to it. I definitely think that there is something as too much media, in our lives. We sometimes use it excessively, and sometimes we use it for such simple things that we can do manually, as they say "Everything in excess is bad". However, I do think that multimedia has given many advantages to our world, we just need to able to control it and have a limit.