TeleNet

There was a time when a gentle men could get on the radio and tell a story to the masses, a story about aliens that would bring chaos to a society. When the radio was still the prominent form of entertainment a man told a story to people about aliens raining from the sky an they actually believed him. These people poured into the streets in fear the aliens where coming down to take over. That was entertainment then. After that came the tele, I can't believe people sat around a gauked at a colourful picture box for hours, my have three times changed.

The television stands as the dominant in home visual entertainment form right? The internet has been making a gradual take over for the past decade. The evolving of things like YouTube and Vimeo video entertainment hubs has put a change on the way people look for entertainment in house.

Netflix has sparked the next era of video viewer ship. It's now normal to watch an entire season of a show in a day. 21 episodes of a 21 min show, all consumed in one afternoon. Just about every major television program provider has made they're major content available online.

The question is this healthy, is it okay to watch an entire story of developed characters and growing universe's in one afternoon. Yes, you do it to a movie.

This adds more time to watch more content making more room for more content to be created more quickly.

Visual virus

The News is poison. Not to be to much of a conspiracy theorist but as much we all know the media is controlled by our government, some of us don't know how much.

The News is literally brain washing. All news is bias, but there's a point before people put their own interpretation of events into the mix.  What you have is this. An event takes place depending upon the place and victims of said event the media or "news" will determine how they are going to intensify said story; whether it be earthquakes in Nepal or riots in urban areas.
An event such as an earthquake is out of man's control, making it an event no one can be blamed for. If there's no one to blame or potentially blame there's no person vs person conflict. People don't find interest in man vs. nature conflict unless it's on their front step.

If the media can't make it matter to you them they don't over dramatize it.

I have no personal biases or feelings to any events taking place in Baltimore or Ferguson. The news immediately changes the perception of what the viewer sees. The viewer never gets to interpret it for themselves. The problem with that is if they portrayed it more negative than its actuality then that's almost fictional and instigation.

The media will forever be a major misconception based on feeding you false information.

Music Interpretation

Music has been around for a very long time. For the each decade has it's own sound and it's always said that "oh my generations music is far superior to yours". Can one generation of music really be better than the next?

   From about the 20s up into 70s music was changes drastically, each era having it's own touch on music would while creating genres in the process. Music is typically based on the contents of the writers life meaning it would directly reflect on the era. The depression era directly relates to jazz, blues because the sad, depressed mood of the world at the time. The point is the music from each era is reflective of what was happening at the time. The things that happened in these era were not necessarily important but they were  impactive, enough to mean something. Events during these time completely drove people's lives. There isn't nearly enough going on now for people to wanna write music about. Not only that but theres a lot less worry than ever before. Not to stray too far off topic but music is definitively not as good as it used to be plain and simple. That just encompasses 90 percent of music.

Patrick Q

To add to what Anthony posted, the people who are gaining from  the military industrial complex and most other disasters and problems are the same people who control and own the media. they influence government policies that enable them to continue to pillage our country.  these "policies" that are recently unconstitutional are printed on paper and displayed on the internet for all to see. yet why is it that only a small percent of the population are aware of these atrocities? the media spins a captivating web to ensnare the masses, and the more illiterate a person is, the easer they are to trick and control.
they separate society by constantly race bating, making it easer for a person who is uninformed to get angry and choose a side, playing right into the lie. its not just news stations that are weaving the lie. the countless amount of mind numbing shows that people cant live without is absurd. not to mention how many people are sucking into sports and espn to a point that it drives their lives, but at least thats better than watching a fake more drama full version or people lives that in no way relevant and betters the viewer as a person in no way, shape, or form.  

Media Interpretation

The media today is about delivering information. The media is for everyone, right?

There is so much media in the world especially on the web. With all media on the internet there's a message to convey. Each piece of media has a different target audience. In many cases said target audience will comprehend the subject matter most appropriately based the specific information included. For example, not to be sexist but a makeup tutorial on YouTube would be targeted at females ill equipped with makeup dressing skills.  Said female group would essentially take the info and likely learn from it.  Any other audience or other group would interpret it differently.  A more experienced female would  be inclined to find mistakes in the video, versus learning from the content. My point is each piece of media is tailored to a specific type of person, and when it's presented to others  the message is different. This is a problem. When you have important information that informs on a current event or issue, it needs to be presented clearly the way it occurred. Not should be told the way it happened but told with no bias. No person sided on a event should tell a story to the public with out all it's information or  personal connection. These misconception power most 🌎 problems. It's the misinterpretation and ill conveyance of a issue the power all issue. So at least on the media who should delegate the flow of information, a biased higher power with hidden agendas, the biased people who want more for themselves,  or no one? I think no one. I believe it's the responsibility, not the choice of each individual, the responsibility of each individual that travels into the vast media hub of the world to educate yourself to point where your capable of making logically, ethical analysis on what you take in. If people did this it would not stop all problems, that's impossible. What it would do is prevent larger scale ethical conflicts around the world. Conclusion people need to educate themselves and think about the bigger picture.

Technology affecting Society

        Throughout the last few decades, technology has been advancing in many ways that have been negatively impacting our society. The addiction to social media has escalated significantly. Social media sites such as Facebook result in inarticulate and unintelligent people. People expect instant gratification when messaging or commenting to another individual. This has made society much more impatient. Rather than writing letters, we just expect to be answered right away on the internet, which is much faster. Another impact of technology is the way it is affecting children and there mental growth. Much less kids play outside nowadays. They are to consumed in video games, television, and social media. This causes them to lack creativity, and exercise. Video games also result in more violent minded children. Texting is causing people to no longer talk on the phone, this is resulting in people becoming more socially awkward, and less professional when they are face to face with people.

Media and Society

me·di·a¹

ˈmēdēə/

noun

1. 

plural form of medium.

2. 

the main means of mass communication (especially television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet) regarded collectively.

"the campaign won media attention"

synonyms:

the press, the fourth estate, the news, the papers; broadcasting, publishing;  big media;  citizen journalism "the media went wild with the story of the singer's arrest" so·ci·e·ty 1.  the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. "drugs, crime, and other dangers to society" synonyms: the community, the (general) public, the people, the population;

To me media and society is how both effect each other. There are numerous forms of media new and old, even oral communication, which before this class I never would have considered media. There are also numerous types of societies. There wouldn't be media without society, but would there be societies without media? If so what would that be like? How dull, boring and quiet that world would be. So maybe there wouldn't be a society without media. This doesn't seem like something we will ever experience, media is constantly changing and adapting to our evolving world and people rely on it so the demand is there too. Media and society has become social media, so what's next?