For the first question, What is "media?," all of the people I interviewed said, in so many words, that it was a way of communicating and receiving information. Two of those people went on to list examples such as news on TV, the Internet, the newspaper, etc.
For the second question, How do the "media" impact your life?," three of the four said that it keeps us informed and up to date with what is happening all over the world. The other person, my Dad, said that it influences us all in good and bad ways, and it also provides entertainment.
The third question I asked was Overall, do the "media" have positive or negative impacts? (Is the "media" good?) Two of the people said it was positive because otherwise we wouldn't know what is happening in our world. One of those two also said that it gives us the news almost immediately after it happens, so that's another plus. The other two people wouldn't settle on saying it is one or the other, so they said both. They said that it is positive because it gives us the information we need to know, but it is negative because it gives us information that we don't need to know, and it uses too much propaganda to try to influence us.
The fourth question I asked was, What is your favorite way of getting information and why do you prefer it over other ways? Three people said they like watching the news on TV. Of these three, one of them also said they like the Internet just as well and another person said they like talk radio just as well. The fourth person said that she preferred the Internet. When asked why they preferred these ways rather than others, they all said it was because it was the fastest and easiest way for them to get the information that they wanted to hear.
Overall, many or their answers were very similar.
For the second question, How do the "media" impact your life?," three of the four said that it keeps us informed and up to date with what is happening all over the world. The other person, my Dad, said that it influences us all in good and bad ways, and it also provides entertainment.
The third question I asked was Overall, do the "media" have positive or negative impacts? (Is the "media" good?) Two of the people said it was positive because otherwise we wouldn't know what is happening in our world. One of those two also said that it gives us the news almost immediately after it happens, so that's another plus. The other two people wouldn't settle on saying it is one or the other, so they said both. They said that it is positive because it gives us the information we need to know, but it is negative because it gives us information that we don't need to know, and it uses too much propaganda to try to influence us.
The fourth question I asked was, What is your favorite way of getting information and why do you prefer it over other ways? Three people said they like watching the news on TV. Of these three, one of them also said they like the Internet just as well and another person said they like talk radio just as well. The fourth person said that she preferred the Internet. When asked why they preferred these ways rather than others, they all said it was because it was the fastest and easiest way for them to get the information that they wanted to hear.
Overall, many or their answers were very similar.
It surprised me that three of the four people preferred to watch television as their form of media. Also, it was interesting to see that they chose the form of media they did because it was most convenient and not because of the information being given.
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