Assignment 2
ID: 123789
Date: May 31, 2020
Words: 1500
Introduction:
The media sector became one of the most important sectors in humans' life. Day by day it is developing rapidly in terms of human or social communication. In the past no one think that in one day we will have a video call and a lot of things we can't mention them. Now a days according to developing of media we face a lot of issues and problems which effect in media by making it a dangerous place. And we are going to discuss these issues and show how they affect on us. As we are media students, we realize the importance of discussing them and trying to find solution to make media better than now.
Submitted material:
Disinformation is false information deliberately and often covertly spread in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. It has different goals like achieving government aims, some promoters use it to attract customers and some of people use it for financial incentives. This issue has many bad impacts such as make difficulty to find the truth.
Cognitive strategy in media is one of the most important strategies for deferent type of people to achieve their aims and how it affects in a specific people.
The media is developed year by year and from the past it has a great importance. We can mention here how media was in three important happened: Cold War, World War I, World War II, The American coalition invasion of Iraq. People start communication in the First war by carrier pigeons, dogs, newspaper, cartoons and illustration, telephone and telegraph. Then, they started using the radio, cinema, mail and posters in the Second war. Technologies started appearing in the Cold war, people started using the computer, television (black and white) and the propaganda in cinema. Finally, in the American coalition invasion of Iraq people started phone, video conferencing, photography, newspaper and television.
According to the differences between people and most of them use the internet platforms with different cultures some problems appeared which present or trying to present things in wrong way like race، gender(male is always the strongest and smartest, but the females the victim, who take care) and class.
According to the deferent social media platforms and how people can share photos and getting comments, studies showed there are relation between selfie, narcissism and fame online. There are positive and negative narcissism personalities .
There is relation between selfie, narcissism and fame online, we can realize most of celebrities when they post their various types of posts.
Hate speech spread so much in the last period. It happens when attack someone or group or calls for violence against them or bothering them by comments, memes, groups or using words likely to excite hostility or bring into contempt any groups. Like, " I hate all Muslims".
The role of media in health education we can note it more in this period of Coronavirus. It works a great turn in preventing and while the crisis, by sharing the important information and steps of preventing and how to deal if you have been sick.
Comics became one of most famous ways to reach to audience. it can be understood by different ages. And most of time explain the reality more because all people can do it and share it, but sometimes it might understand in wrong way or people use it to spread rumors.
In the most countries citizens always asking the government to be clearer in some types of information, and this their right to have enough idea and avoid believing rumors. On the other hand, some information is better to hide them to avoid misunderstanding if the citizens don't have enough experience and to can control more.
The media ethics face a lot of challenges especially in crisis times. This is one result of developing technology and media which all people now can be as a journalist. Also, even the real journalist face challenges like the credibility, the financial rewards, governmental oversight and the reality.
Analyses :
From the past the importance of media is clear as we can note it from the communication methods in the old-world wars. But After long periods of developing media there a lot of issues appeared.
Everything in the world has positive and negative aspects, like media.
Media increase the level of using critical thinking by posts, advertising, colors and words that used. This help people to think better and know how to deal with any issues they face especially in media. It makes people wakeup more. So, media develop the societies and transfer them from traditional to modern.
The experts said that media became colonialized to achieve commercial goals and this is correct, according to what we see it in media. Such as we they use women to present deferent types of products to attract more customers. As a result, it makes a wrong stereotype of women. Also, the advertisements can send a lot of messages by different ways even they will affect in people by wrong way. like some of them will encourage the idea if race ageist any group of people. Moreover, celebrities colonialized media to git financial returns.
We don’t forget the big turn of media of changing a lot of prevailing customs, traditions and cultures, but it has positive and negative sides. The positive for example it changed an important idea in people's minds which is asking their governments to know everything and being more credibility with them. And the negative side that may be people will not realize it, it how this high credibility will affect in their life in negative way.
The educational aspect is very clear especially in educating and prevention especially in the crisis time like Coronavirus crisis and what it did to aware people by posts and daily news and what it doing to persuade and to adhere the quarantine by what it to encourage and attract people to stay at home.
In the social aspect media made the word a small town to exchange the information, opinion, comments, photos and give chances for people to achieve their personal goals. Such as some people suffering from narcissism so they sharing their selfie to get comments as they want. On the other hand, there were a labelling appeared which spread so much which can serve some and harm others and be a reason of classification and deviation of specific group in negative way like: criminals, immigrants and how they present Arabs, China and others in American cinema.
To achieving a lot of goals of media, the experts find different ways to affect in people and persuade them such as: association, bandwagon, beautiful people… . And to use these ways they can do it by using comics as it one of the most ways it used because all people can understand it as it’s simple, but sometimes it may understand it in wrong way and a lot of people can use it to spread rumors. So, all of us we should ask themselves many questions when we receive any message to know the reality and the main idea of it , the way that they use it affect in us? and what we should do to avoid this way?.
There are many impacts of media's goals and we can note it in people's behavior, belief, emotion and attitude. For example, the ideas of issued related to class they will trying to have specific clothes, ideas, their talking way if they want to be from high class.
After long time of starting media especially from old was till now, especially now in Coronavirus global crisis , media facing a lot of challenges which it draw a bad idea about media and affects in it in future. The most challenge is the credibility in news and information. And how media platforms hide of change some of them but this causes a disinformation which can make a difficulty in finding the realty and spreading rumors and fears. All this may be happened according to bias to groups, person, government and others.
Conclusion:
Media help us to communicate with all world to know what happen, know others cultures and learn from others new lessons.
All these issues develop several sides in each person which make him determines his goals and opinions and trying to develop it or protect it to avoid controlling from others.
As we are media students, we can realize the importance of media literacy and use it to reach our audience. we can teach people how to get the right information and avoid the rumors.
In addition, the words and ideas in internet effects in people's behaviors as we can see it in social media now a days against china and how Chinese suffering in most of countries especially in America, It can cause several problems like of soft wars, hate crimes, fake news, suicide and other human's problems.
Moreover, now we know how, what, when the information effect in people because a lot of people use a strange trek to change our ideas and opinions to achieve their aims.
Finally, people should realize the value of media and how its effects in their most important time.
The developing of media and appearance of various issues it became a necessary to put new and easy lows in media's platforms to complain if people note any of these issues.
