Why study the media? The Media is such a key component of society today and has been for a long time. It has affected how the modern world is today and will keep shaping the future for the generations after us. Television, the internet, films, radio, newspapers are all types of media, it's everywhere why would I not want to study such a contemporary subject that surrounds us day in day out and understand it to a greater depth. www.dictionary.com defines media as ‘the means of communication that reach or influence people’ to me this suggests that media has been around since the Tang Dynasty in China where they used wooden blocks coated in ink to create books, such as the diamond sutra made in 868 A.D. This shows us how long media has been around for and how it is part of our history, it has helped develop technologies around the world through sharing knowledge and will continue to do so. More than 4 billion people are now using the internet and over 5 billion people now have m...
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