Thursday, November 1, 2012

Week 2 - Individual task

10 different media form

1. Printed media


Print media is commonly used term referring to the medium that disseminates printed matter. Print media include such forms as newspapers, magazines, books and newsletters.

2. Broadcasting media


Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via radio, television, and often digital transmission media. 

3. Digital media


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Digital media is digitized content that can be transmitted over the internet or computer networks. This can include text, audio, video, and graphics.  It means that news from a TV network, newspaper and magazine that is presented on a Web site or blog.

4. Art media


Art media is focuses primarily on the visual arts, which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, drawing and other visual media.

5. Photography


Photography is an image or picture made by exposing light sensitive film with a camera. Photography is a presentation of life’s reality. The images may vary in so many ways due to the uniqueness of each person taking it and each subject being featured. 

6. Social media


Social media includes the various online technology tools that enable people to communicate easily via the internet to share information and resources. Social media can include text, audio, video, images, podcasts, and other multimedia communications. For example: Facebook, Twitter and etc.

7. Animation


Animation is a simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures, or frames.  Cartoons on television are one example of animation. Animation on computers is one of the chief ingredients of multimedia presentations. 

8. Movies


A story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a theatre or on television, it can be defined as motion picture.

9. Smartphone

Smartphone is a mobile phone that is like a computer in your hand; it is capable of internet access, email, downloading applications, taking photos and conducting internet banking and shopping online.

10. Music

The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.


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Essay 
Identify at least 4 social /cultural group and what media you think they use?

Nowadays, media is important for everyone and it has become a part of our daily life. People are always use more than one media in a day such as television, radio, newspaper, mobile phone and so on. Not all the people are using the same media, it depend on the needed of the user. Media user will change through the age and it can be categories in social group. Social group can be defined as when two or more persons who interact with each other which similar characteristics will be share and come out with the sense of unity.

One of the social groups that have been identify is the children which the age around 2-13 year old.  With the modern technology, children nowadays are not just sitting in front of the television to watch the cartoon or drawing on the paper. They are starting to touch the media such as mobile phone, PSP and video games. We can easily found children as young as two years old are playing with an electronic device anywhere. This is a way that parent easier to make their children stay in one place by giving them an electronic device to play with.

Secondly, the other social groups are the teenagers. Most of the teenagers nowadays spend a lots of time sit in front of the computer, so that the media often use by them will be social networking such as social media, YouTube and blogging. Social media is a place for them to get connect with their friends and easy to update their status. They are most likely to spend lots of time on social networking to keep in touch with their friends, watching video and listen to the music.

The third social groups that can be discussed are the workers. Worker is also known as employer and they are spending lots of time in the office. The media often use by them I think will be smart phone, social media and email. Through this media, they able to do the advertising through online and easily fulfill customer demands and reach them by sending them an email.

Lastly, the social groups are the old folks. Normally old folks are the aged from 55 years to later. Most of the old folks at this kind of age known as the retire person which always stay at home. The media often use by them will be the old media. Old media are traditional means of communication before the existed of the technology of internet such as television, radio, newspaper, telephone and cassette tapes.  It can be said that are related with the old materials from 19th century which some of them still available at this century.

In the conclusion, social groups can divided into many groups which can determine who they are and understand their culture. Furthermore, we can be said that different social groups have their own objective to be achieves by using different kind of media.  


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