Media Shapes Society - Journalism 3.0 | Sveriges Radio - 0 views
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The little Vietnamese girl Kim Phuc ran away from her napalm-bombed village of Trang Bang, past the lens of cameraman Alan Downes, and into the whole world’s awareness of USA’s war in Southeast Asia. The Vietnam War became impossible to wage in the age of television.
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Kyle Palandech on 23 Apr 14Authority and Accuracy: This was a live event caught on camera in Vietnam. It showed how real war is and the media exposed the world to what was going on at the time.
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FORM AND CONTENT. There’s a common logic in media: That which suits television is aired on television; if something makes a good headline, it’s placed on the front page of the newspaper. In this way, media shapes society. Media technology determines the content. And the content in media determines images of society. But perhaps it’s not that simple. The interaction between technological, political and commercial forces can be significantly more complex
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Purpose: This is giving the reader a preview of what the webpage is about. Gives the reader the reason the content is important
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The development of newspapers is closely tied to the emerging formation of political parties in Europe and North America. Henry Jarvis Raymond, a journalist and politician, founded the New York Times in 1851. He was a Whig, that is, he belonged to the political party that was the forerunner of today’s Republican Party, and the establishment of the newspaper was, in part, a political project.
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Currency because this information explains how media started off. The daily paper changed the way people discovered information.
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A more reflective consideration of the relationship between media and society might find this simple marketing analysis lacking in substance. The Swedish media researcher Göran Bolin writes, in a paper on libraries, that it isn’t “a question of society being ‘mediafied’ through the transformation of information but, rather, that society itself is enclosed in human communication, in the way we all communicate with each other.”
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Relevance: This explains how media and society intertwine with each other and how media researchers today still are looking at how it affects the world.
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Those of us active in media will look for the influence of new technology on media and media structure, not least because the effects in this area of society have been so tangible. The new technology affects media and media structure directly. In the next steps toward the further development of Internet society, changes in the entire production order could be the most important. The effects on media and media structure might then be more indirect—but not necessarily of lesser impact.
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Relevance and Currency: This shows how the topic directly effects the individual. This information is fresh and new to our generation.
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As a counterforce, every soldier and citizen in a war zone has become a potential journalist able to report with both text and film. A cell phone is enough. And the reports can be distributed without being screened—or checked or authenticated—by a professional media company. The mobile [cell phone] changes journalism more than
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Accuracy because this is an obvious statement by the writer. We understand that media is all around us and that we can all take part in it easily, by using many different devices.
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FORM AND CONTENT. There's a common logic in media: That which suits television is aired on television; if something makes a good headline. Journalism has used media to inform people and share what is going on visually around the world
