Saturday, January 17, 2009

Problems and Possibilities in MMS

One major problem that is well-known to most people is the idea of the transferring of wrong information. There are many examples of this in different types of media. One example would be the news. There are news stations that are bias toward one political view or just in general they could be more conservative than liberal. When stations are more one sided than in between they are going to share information that leans toward their view whether it is correct or not. There have also been times when there are errors in newspaper information. This is usually corrected if it is brought to the attention of the writers but there is still the time lapsed that people have the wrong information. Or if they do not see the rewrite or correction in the next paper they will continue to have wrong information. These situations can affect people's opinions on things and how they go about things to some degree. I think one major possibility within media and society is for media to lead someone into making a mistake. Media could have such a great affect on someone that they want to follow what is happening on the source. For example, if a child grows up playing video games that are all about killing people then they may begin to think that that is an okay action to take part in. This is not true for all people but it can be a possibility for some.

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