How does media impact on our daily life?

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Stefanie Fuchs

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How does media impact on our daily life?

Media has dramatically influenced the daily life of human beings in the last fifty years. Modern life is based on the mass media and its consequences. Media involves television broadcasting, advertisement, radio and magazines. In western societies, these factors are constantly relevant and is developing more and more in the developing countries. The following paragraphs will discuss the relevance of media in daily life and the consequences brought with the presence of mass media.

Imagine the following scene. It is seven o’clock in the morning. You are walking to the bus stop and sit down on the bench waiting for the bus to arrive. You look to the right and are acquainted with the advertisement of a new car, to the left a poster advertises for the new winter collection of H&M. Thousands of such posters could be found all around a city, thus the media forms the environment surrounding us.

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A second example illustrating the relevance of media and its influence is the propaganda broadcast on television. The documentary Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore, illustrates the propaganda found in American society. A typical example resulting from this propaganda, would be the chronic influence of fear surrounding the daily life of an American citizen. Even though many of these fears seem odd, it is due to the American media that such fears is relevant. For example, it was reported that the Killer Bees found in Africa would swoop over the North American country and cause the death of many Americans. ...

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