Media Studies Induction Task

Why study the media Media is everywhere in the modern day and with more technology advancing, media is becoming bigger and much easier to access from all over the planet. Media includes, tv’s, the internet, newspapers, social media’s (Instagram, Facebook, snapchat, twitter) and more. With the use of television and internet we can access all sorts of stuff to know events that are taking place all over the world, for example the news that gets broadcasted daily is a type of media and it gives us updates and information of everything happening. Newspapers we buy from local shops also give us the same information, however ”fake news” has been delivered to readers and listeners before and this is where the news given to us is either twisted or just completely not true. The medias use this as manipulation to people to make them have different beliefs in things, for examples when politicians need votes, newspapers may twist information or use photoshop to persuade people to not vote for that certain candidate. An example of this is where the sun photoshopped a photo of Jeremy Corbyn in a bin with the caption in bold saying “cor-bin” which is a way of trying to manipulate the readers into not voting for him.A news reporter has also been found out for reporting fake news before as she broadcasted her self on tv with police tape in the background and reported a story which then was claimed to not be true and that the scene was staged.With different ways of accessing the media for younger pupils with Instagram and facebooketc, the young pupils can access contact to other people around the world which may be unsafe without parental guidence. With the media expanding the environment of social media may become much more dangerous and unsafe to those in less control of usage.