After reading “Media in Everyday Life,” I believe that mass media is a means of communicating information, ideas, or beliefs in a way that it would be able to reach a large number of people. This can be done through newspapers, radio, television, or any other technological methods.
The public sphere is where the general public is able to voice their thoughts and interests. This is a separate area from the private sphere where only select people are able to contribute to the dialogue.
Convergence is a way to condense once separate modes of media into one or group them together.
A critique is a logical analysis of information, ideas, or beliefs that have been presented to the general public.
The digital cultural has changed the dynamics of media and mass media overall because it has allowed a certain demographic to control just about everything. Initially, newspapers made it so that only literate people were able to receive information, thus giving them power over others because they have the power of information. As technology progressed the people who were wealthy enough to afford radios, televisions, or computers with internet are able to wield the power. That is a problem with mass media, only some people are able to access it. Another issue that was mentioned was the source of the information that is being passed around. Only a handful of companies control the media, and they are able to skew the news however they would like so that society will think what they want. Those in power are able to mold what we think, and give us bits and pieces of information instead of the whole story so that they can continue to marginalize our thoughts and inevitably our actions.
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