Media has a significant cultural impact by acting as a medium for communicating and spreading culture to large groups. As an interlinked system, media both shapes and is shaped by culture. It affects culture by potentially diminishing traditions, impacting relationships, and creating new norms across age groups through long-distance spread of ideas. Conversely, culture bounds and influences media through conveyed values and representations that may differ across age groups. Overall, media and culture have a reciprocal relationship where each continuously changes the other over time through shifts in things like clothing, music, education, relationships, and ways of thinking.