Children & TV !

Television is one of the most prevalent media influences in kids' lives. Researchers have identified three potential responses to media violence in children:

Increased fear, Children, particularly girls, are much more likely than adults to be portrayed as victims of violence on TV, and this can make them more afraid of the world around them.

Desensitization to real-life violence, Some of the most violent TV shows are children's cartoons, in which violence is portrayed as humorous—and realistic consequences of violence are seldom shown.

Increased aggressive behavior, This can be especially true of young children, who are more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior after viewing violent TV shows or movies.

Parents should pay close attention to what their children see in the news since studies have shown that kids are more afraid of violence in news coverage than in any other media content. Fear based on real news events increases as children get older and is better able to distinguish fantasy from reality.

Citizen Journalism

The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others. For example, you might write about a city council meeting on your blog or in an online forum. Or you could fact-check a newspaper article from the mainstream media and point out factual errors or bias on your blog. Or you might snap a digital photo of a newsworthy event happening in your town and post it online. Or you might videotape a similar event and post it on a site such as YouTube.

All these might be considered acts of journalism, even if they don't go beyond simple observation at the scene of an important event. Because of the wide dispersion of so many excellent tools for capturing live the average citizen can now make news and distribute it globally, an act that was once the province of established journalists and media companies.

Advantages of the Internet

The internet, sometimes called simply “the net”, is a worldwide system for computer networks that allows users to send and receive information from other computers. Today, the internet is the most powerful tools throughout the world. I think using internet has more advantages than disadvantages and I am going to show that.

24 hours a day- 7 days a week: even if no stuff is in your office, visitors will come to your website using internet. Also, you can do your business in your home or even if you were outside the country.

Online chat: you can access many “chat rooms “on the web that can be used to meet new people, make new friends, as well as to stay in touch with old friends.

Software download: I think this is the most important especially for teenagers who are interested in computer technique. They can freely download innumerable, software like utilities, games, music, videos, movies, etc.

Original Songs in New Edition

Who doesn’t like to listen to music or watch video clips, especially if they were entertaining and very popular? Boyce Avenue is a very famous band which gains its popularity from YouTube (kind of mass media). They cover the top listening songs by their own voices and unique using of musical Instruments. Besides that they are very professionals, they represent raucous songs in a calm way that attracts you, sometimes their covers are much better than original song. In this video we can see the same person singing and playing many different instruments at the same time, that need them to train very well. They definitely have musical sense to be able to do that and due to media, it helps them a lot to spread their music and get a lot of fans around the world.      

FACEBOOK

FACEBOOK

Facebook has simply changed our life in many things, such as helping many people to connect with each other in different places around the world no matter how far it was and what time it is in other countries. Facebook has made a big improvement in different field, like business field, political field, educational field, and most importantly in our daily life and daily purposes. As an example, companies have their own pages on facebook so they can advertise their own products and communicate with other companies through distance. Politically, facebook is one of the most important methods to solve some cases or to start a new life as what happened recently in Syria and Egypt. Revolutions in these countries have started by a certain group on facebook how wanted to change the current situation and give people freedom.  Also, Education has been an important field on facebook. To explain this, schools and especially universities have their own pages on facebook and therefore many students, instructors, parents and administrators became fans and members of that page, and what they do is, posting recent events or news regarding school activities and so on. Besides that, parents can be aware of their children. Another significant thing is how people create their own pages on facebook so they publish their diaries, talents, pictures, experiences and special moments, and that will get them to know more people from different countries who have the same interests and share the same favorites. As a result, people will communicate with each other and expand to different cultures and traditions. So it is absolutely true when they say that facebook has changed the world.