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Media: Medium of Information and Change

With the current situation our world is facing, it is evident that media is really significant as we use it on a daily basis. Currently, media is known as the best medium of communication for the mass audience. There are three types of media; Print media, Broadcast media, and New media. These three medias help us get through our lives today despite the threat of the COVID-19. Media is a vital component of our lives nowadays, and it plays a significant role in every aspect of our lives. It links us to the nation's events and teaches us about a variety of topics such as news, history, and entertainment. Media aids in bringing genuine factual information from throughout the world to our knowledge. It also addresses the need for mass communication methods if ever an unfavorable situation arises. The print machine and resulting innovative advances identified with paper assembling and conveyance prompted the foundation of print as the primary mass medium. While the capacity to handwrite original copies and even replicate them existed before the print unrest, such cycles took extensive time and ability, making books and compositions excessively costly for almost anybody in the public arena with the exception of the most special and additionally incredible to have. Furthermore, in spite of the coming of numerous different types of broad communications, print is as yet significant as a channel for data and as an industry.

Then came broadcasting as a medium of information—broadcast media started in a temporary station where the first radio transmission was first made in 1895. From then on, media went from mass publication to radio transmitting, where it is only available to radios, to being available in televisions, until it is now incorporated in the new media. True to its name, new media indeed gave us new and efficient ways of communication—this started when technology was invented and the internet was then widely used. Media, regardless of type, gives us the opportunity to learn what the world has to offer. It helps keep us in touch with reality and what is happening in the world around us. Media also allows us to analyze the information we receive. By doing so, media gives anyone and everyone the opportunity to create their own respective opinions about different topics and concepts. Such mental exercise strengthens our personality since we adhere to some opinions and oppose others. The important thing is that, in the process, our opinions and perspectives develop peacefully while respecting those who think differently from us. Because of this, the media is very important for education, as it helps to develop a critical sense in children and teenagers. Media had came all the way from stones to papers to signals to transmissions being visually available and to being easily accessed in gadgets—it simultaneously evolves with the society around it, and it always will because information brings change as change brings information.

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“Paving A Way for A Better Future: The Evolution of Media”

Media have played an important role in our lives, whether it be Print, Broadcast or New media. It has given us unlimited access to a variety of information across the globe. It provides us a fresh perspective of the outside world everyday; it has given us the power to think critically. In addition to this, it educated us of what had happened in the past, and how us—present people—can correct the mistakes or improve the system everyday. Our hunger for information has led us to become what we are right now. People in the ancient times were creative in passing information to the next generation: from talking, to making music, to writing in paper tablets, drawing in walls, building machineries, to creating technologies. All these were steps taken just to be able to communicate and gather information, and every step taken was crucial just to reach the present stage of Media. 

 Media is basically like a person, it is evolving and growing to become better. And as time goes on, it will continue to prosper and innovate. Every day, fascinating things happen all throughout the world. Every day is jam-packed with information. People learn about the current events by reading newspapers and periodicals, conversing on the phone, or watching television or listening to the radio, or surfing the internet. And it clearly shows that the printed, broadcasted, and new media plays not only an important role in our lives, but also in our society. With the printed media, people were able to draw and write their traditions and culture, thus the following generation was aware. With the broadcast media, everyone from around the world were updated from the happenings of their nation, and of the world. Now with new media, we can speak with people in our neighborhoods or around the world in real time thanks to technology, surf the internet for unlimited information, and entertain ourselves. This invention not only keeps us linked, but it also has the potential to make our lives safer and healthier.