| There are different forms of media such as newspaper, television, printing instruments, radio,magazines, telephones, fax, internet etc. Media plays great role in our daily lives, there are number of advantages and disadvantages of media. One of the great benefit of media is to express your views, thoughts, ideas and estimations towards community. Media reflects our culture and it is considered as the representative of our culture and society.
The very simple and easy definition of media: it comprises all means of communications, or through which we get any type of information, updates, entertainment, leisure etc. The term media shows different ways of communication. It can also refer to the combined noun for print media, press or any news reporting agencies. If we talk in the computer language then meaning of media is any data storage devices, such as any hard devices, removable drives, CD-ROM or CD-R, DVDs, flash memory, USB, drives, floppy disks.
It can also define as all communication channels are in category of media. It also includes all broadcasting and narrowcasting.
Media is the plural of medium.
History of Media:
The very first form of media was issued in America in 1690. It is comes from Latin means instruments or tools.
Media provides awareness of world or what is around us. Media provides connection between common person and world. The importance of media on culture and society is great and changing from day to day.There are also drawbacks of media, it affects our youth culture greatly. |