Mass media has a significant influence on modern culture, allowing people to become famous on a large scale. It keeps society informed and helps build communities, but can also enable idleness and obesity from excessive TV watching. New forms of media like the internet and social media are helpful for networking but also make bullying easier due to online anonymity.

1. The Impact of Mass Media On Daily
Life
Coordinnating Teacher: Mihai Frumuselu
Students: Cosmin Radu
Stefan Dumitru

2. The Role and Influence of Mass Media
Mass media is communication—whether written, broadcast, or
spoken—that reaches a large audience. This includes television, radio,
advertising, movies, the Internet, newspapers, magazines, and so forth.
Mass media is a significant force in modern culture, particularly in
America. Sociologists refer to this as a mediated culture where media
reflects and creates the culture.

3. Mass media makes possible the concept of
celebrity: without the ability of movies, magazines, and
news media to reach across thousands of miles, people
could not become famous.
In fact, only political and business leaders, as
well as the few notorious outlaws, were famous in the
past. Only in recent times have actors, singers, and other
social elites become celebrities or “stars.”

4.  The most positive effects of mass media
include a more informed society. Newspaper
circulation was the first mass media content
to affect the way people considered their role
in society. An informed public translates into
an involved public. Newspapers helped to
build communities. Mass media took on a
new role in the form of radio and television,
exposing the general public to sights and
sounds they never would have previously
had access to.

5.  The negative consequences that came from
television include idleness and a correlation to
obesity when an individual consumes too
much television. Advertising is also implicated
as a negative consequence, as depictions of
women in advertising create unrealistic role
models for young girls.
New mass media
forms, including the Internet
and social media, have
proved to be the most
dangerous. While social
media helps young people
learn to network and
navigate personal
relationships, it also makes it
easier to bully others due to
the anonymity of the Web.