Media and Technology: It’s Roles and Importance to the Society

What are roles and importance of Media and Technology? Why do we need to have Media and Technology? What is the effect of these in our society?

Media and Technology is really important in our lives. Technology are physical things, they do not communicate. Media are means of communication. They require a source of information and transmitting of information. Although there is usually that media will use technology for the means of transmission and communication. Media is a huge factor in our lives. The media presents us with images of the world all the time. We understand cultures through the media. Also it communicates ideas and brings society together. Through newspapers and television, ideas and beliefs are exchanged and absorbed into people. Some of the broadcasting service in different country lived by motto, inform, educate, and entertain the public. They provided information. Newspapers have political learning, when the public read them they are making a decision as to what they are going to follow.

Media and Technologies are very important most especially in terms of Education. Speech, writing drama, radio and television programming, computer programming are all media. While classrooms, books,  theatres, cinema, radio sets, cable, satellites, television monitors, computer software and networks are all technologies. Communication technologies are good for information transmission. Certain technologies have educational advantages. The teachers use the term multimedia to describe the combination of text still graphics, animation, audio and video within a simple technology such as a computer and television. The value of multimedia is that students can learn about abstract principles through text and see the application of those principles.

Media has such an impact and significance on people. It has shaped are lives and by understanding it, we can understand why things happen in the wide world. In addition, the media gave power to the people. Through these, we can see how society has developed and we understand past civilization.