We receive messages from the media through medium, so we can say that medium holds important role as the messages. This theory is called media determinism.....
Sometimes we have different opinions and views about one thing but we do not want to express our thoughts because everyone's opinions are different from us. In addition, the media supports the most popular views, we feel anxiety to speak up. It's better to keep silence, this theory is known as spiral of silence....
The last one is cultivation theory, TV supports this theory. Media such as TV can influence the way we look at the world around us. Media creates a common way to look at a certain aspect which is called mainstreaming. Another aspect from this theory is resonance or mean world hypothesis, as we watch too much TV everyday, we see a lot of criminalities going on in the world. Double dose effect happens, we perceive that the world is more dangerous, in fact it is not that dangerous as we thought.... Be careful in receiving messages from the media!!!
I still want to show you some interesting advertisements for your pleasure.............
This is a creative ad by Mini Cooper placed at the Zurich, Switzerland train station. It gives the perception that the Mini Cooper has a large space.The main topic for this entry is Communication and Technology......
In 21st century, many technologies are introduced. We are living in a world full of technology. One of the uses of technology is to communicate. The equipments may include computer, internet, telephone, radio, etc. Many people prefer to communicate through these equipments provided by technology in order to get the faster and cheaper way.
Not all people can afford the cost required to buy those equipments, so they may remain to communicate with the equipments that they have. They still can survive in the digitalization period.
As young people, we always use of internet and computer everyday to do many things such as communicate, play games, etc. Any forms of communication using the computer are called as computer mediated communication (CMC). Computer and internet are friends for some people, they cannot live without them.
One thing which is really common for us is chatting, we chat with people everday through internet. We are addicted to its fun and simplicity. In fact, I am addicted to web chat too. I always chat with my families and friends in my hometown, it is cheap and fast. I also can use web-cam to see my families and friends.
Different people have different uses of web chat, some people may use it to find friends and boyfriend/girlfriend. They often feel more confidence when they chat in virtual world rather than in the real world. They share personal experiences to strangers, sometimes they ask suggestions from them. They can hide their "real" identity, it seems scary but this is the reality.
Many people, including me, use internet to read news from different countries. We want to update our knowledge to the most current and happening news. As I go overseas, electronic news are very helpful for me to know what is going on in my country.
How about you? What is your primary need for using the internet?
Have a nice day........... :D
Carla~,
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to be the 1st commentor.
Very practical approach of revising the principles.=) The internet is a new media and there is a lot things that can happen in it. There you go-> mentioning the undisclosed identity in the internet with a cute cartoon picture.Such things do occur whenever making new friends online and that's why going back to previous chapter it can considered as interactive and not trasactional.
Media have many sources and it's simply interesting that you touch on new media even we didn;t learn much in class.
Thanks 4 e post~~
-Cheers Waine_
HELLOOOOO CARLAAAAA!!
ReplyDeleteHaha, I love the cool ads! Very creative touch :D
And good use of the comic. It clearly shows that people can assume different identities online, which can be very dangerous. This reflects the ambiguity of the internet-it can be beneficial but also harmful at the same time.
For me, I mostly use the net for entertainment and work purposes. It makes do research or watching videos a much accessible and efficient task!
Yet there are also dangers of the internet like viruses or scams online.
So I think it goes both ways...we can't have it all, can we? We just need to be more careful when we're using the internet to avoid such dangers online.
Hi carla !! (:
ReplyDeleteLet me start of by saying that I think not only myself, but many others can not live without this technology .. >.< ... Otherwise, as you mentioned, it's so heavily relied on that, it seems almost impossible for our current world today not to have the internet or CMC as you call it be part of us. We do argue however about people living in their virtual world, taking up identities that often are complete opposites of them, yet hiding behind this facade of technology has allowed some of us to actually get to know their personalities better, okay it is arguable to say that we aren't helping them at all by allowing them to hide behind their computer. But Technology has so many benefits, we can connect with love ones over seas, we can hold online discussions without wasting time to travel from one place to the other, we book tickets online, everything well practically everything is at our fingertips (:
And so with the good comes the bad! Ying and yang... we have scams, and even crimes on the internet, giving away too much personal information is a silly thing to do, people should really be more aware and more knowledgeable about the things they are about to partake rather than just going about randomly getting themselves into trouble... Oh well.. be more intelligent when using the internet, take a min to ponder about what you are getting yourself into and I am sure the "online" experience will be a comfortable and fun one !! (: the end.