Why Study the Media

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Why study the media? Why study the media? This question crossed my mind when choosing my A-Levels at Nobel so it is quite a useful question for people to know. First of all, what is the media? The media in its literal definition is mass communication. Some examples of media are things such as TV, the internet, newspapers, radio, magazines and other things like that. Some specific examples of TV are programmes such as EastEnders, Community, The Simpson’s and the list could go on forever as most people in Britain on average now have over 1,000 TV channels with thousands of programmes too. The internet is also very broad, some specific examples are mobile phones and social media such as twitter, Facebook and instagram which is now becoming the most popular way of sending mass communication. There are also many examples of newspapers; The Sun, The daily mail, The comet, The Mirror and The daily express. We also have a huge variety of radio channels such as BBC Radio, Absolute Radio, Classic FM, Kiss, Magic 105.4 FM, Capital and again many more. Specific examples of magazines include The national trust magazine, TV choice, Take a Break, Closer, new!, Ok!, Hello! And hundreds more. So from this big list of different types of media we can tell that there is huge variation and many ways to be involved with media. The media is an interesting thing to study because it is a wide and varied topic, the media is a constant daily things in all of our lives that we should be involved in. There are so many different types of media but the internet has now become the second preferred choice of news consumption after television. This fact proves that the media is a good way of being educated on issues and situations that are happening in our every day lives and we are being introduced to new and different ways. This means that the media and the news is also more available
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