Continuation of social media!!! :D
Anyway, carrying on from the earlier post i talked about social media, i found it absolutely fascinating the point by our professor on how the television which is one of the traditional media & examples of institutional control, is able to influence people, such as in voting. That really got me thinking as i recalled watching a movie that my UGC 211 professor showed us during class last semester, "Fahrenheit 9/11" where it showed the HUGE INFLUENCE that television has on voting during the elections involving George W. Bush and Al Gore.
Indeed, that made me wonder the IMPACT that the television has on the masses. It's able to MANIPULATE and INFLUENCE people to act the way they WANT so much so that it is able to affect people's perspective of the situation.
Below is the video that i found to be relevant to how the news on the television is able to influence the people's opinions during 2000's election in US:
SHOCKING RIGHT!!!! I can't believe the other networks ACTUALLY TRUSTED Fox News without confirming first with concrete evidence that George W. Bush had more votes than Al Gore. Pity really that it became a 'birds flock together mentality'.. :(
Notably, there has been a significant shift though in recent times from the traditional media (e.g. TV, Movies, Radios, Print) to the social media (e.g. Podcasts, Forums, Wikis) and one such example of social media that was most intriguing is probably the podcast..(mostly because i've NEVER used it even though i knew the existence of it!! :P)
The podcast: A collection of digital media files which is distributed over the internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable MP3 players and personal computers.In order to have a first hand experience on the availability of podcasts to the masses were like, i went to the itunes application store and even discovered an application tool that was created which allows users to view at ease the top 100 podcasts for the day. Indeed, this makes searching for podcasts that other people like really fuss-free.
Im so awed as while trying to find out more about the podcasts on the internet, i discovered that we could actually upload podcasts with blogger!!! Now that is WAYYYY COOL for sure!!! :D Don't know how to? Well, refer to this video for an easy step by step guide as to how to do it.. :)
2 comments:
this reminds me of Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. he won the elections by heavily utilising the television. also, Obama's presidential campaign last year relied a lot on the internet.
Fox News is quite a driving force in America. I remember watching a documentary about Fox News and its antics during COM101 a year or two ago... Granted, it was biased against Fox network, but it still does a good job of highlighting just how much Fox network gets away with.
While the internet has become a major competitor for people's attention to the TV, there is no doubt that people inherently trust TVs more because it's not as easy to get on TV as it is to get on the internet soapbox.
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