about the changes in the media

With the rapid advancement of technology mass media in society has been influenced and shaped by it. This has influence in such a way that our daily day life are some how affected by this merging of mass media and technology. This influence that it exerts has shaped American values and the way in which we view them. Neil Postman, Newcomb and Hirsch wrote two essays, which agree and oppose to this statement respectively. After …

…the media plays such an important role. For example if my parents tell me that we are going to Europe I immediately associate Europe with museums, history, monuments, painters, etc. But when they tell me we are going to the USA I think of technology, computers, TV, magazines and music. In the US we idolize personajes such as Marylyn Monroe, Madonna and Elvis Presley. They were the ones that marked history by entertaining the audience.