Role of media

The Role of the Media in Our Lives

 

Today, it is easy for us to collect information in free, because we can watch TV or read newspaper and online news in internet. It looks like a flood. I also gather many information in these media. In statistics of Japanese newspaper company, over 5 hundred million people read newspaper and 1 billion people use internet all over the world. These media has very huge influence for people. For example, people could defeat some political powers in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Their source of power was information on media like a twitter and facebook. Therefore, we have to think about the role of the media carefully as much as we can. If we do not, a tragedy of Nazi Germany will be repeated again, because Adolf Hitler has talented to use media. The media can also have a bad influence to our lives too.  In addition to that, if information from media is not correct, it will be easy for us to make a misunderstand. And we also have to have a correct knowledge not to be cheated by media too.

First, media gives many entertainment to us. For example, when we watch TV, we sometimes watch TV show, comedy drama, variety drama, traditional Japanese comic storytelling, anime and comic backchat. Why does media produce many entertainment contents? I think that the reason is we want restoration of serenity, peace of mind and joyful. In this modern society, we often feel stress in working, household, other private scenes. Therefore, if we watch entertainment shows in TV or internet, we can remove the stressful through taking pleasure in these media. And after removing the stressful, we will do our best in daily life from tomorrow. Furthermore, if we enjoy watching TV, we can also enjoy talking about the TV shows with family. Enjoying talking with family is indispensability to make a good family. So, I think that it is one of the good point which media has. Actually, Japanese anime is supported by many people all over the world. In other words, it is important for us to watch entertainment contents. That is to say, media provide us many joyful too.

Second, media provide not only entertainment contents but also educational contents to us. For example, Japanese student can study many subjects like math, science, English social studies in TV. Moreover, We can study many university’s subjects in TV and online. Almost all subjects are free. If you use internet, you can watch famous university’s lessons like a Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, other good universities. Especially, Udacity, Coursera, Edx are famous online university lesson websites that we can study free. Before, School shoulder the responsibility of education for students. However, media can engage in education too. So, the merit is that we do not need to go to school, because it is easier than studying in classroom. In addition to that, we can study good university subjects even if we are not university students. Maybe, it will be much convenient to study in the future. I think that this style is one of the function in media.

Third, media have to be requested as a monitoring device of political power, because media can gather many information about politics and have great influence. Today, there are TV program about politics and social problems. So, politicians often cheat people, hide bad information and insist only good things. Then we are often cheated by politicians because, we have less information than politician and government official. In this case, media has to collect information and convey to us.