Media Influences On American Culture

Effects of Mass Media

By

Jacquetta Brown

September 14, 2015

Media Influences on American Culture

Allyson Wells

The evolution of mass media has changed so much in the last 20th century. We started off with newspapers or something that they called periodicals. This is how most people received their information. In the early 1900’s you really didn’t have any type of way to inform people but through the newspapers. By having the news on paper could find out what was going on around the world and also by magazines. By the time the

1940’s came around radio was introduced and this took over how media was received.

You were able to hear things about the wars that were taking place and other events.

By the 1950’s TV was introduced

More channels were introduced and you could get more and more news in different parts of the world. Also with having different forms of media people were now able to choose from how they would like to receive their news whether it was from TV, radio or the newspapers. Fast forward 50 years later you now have new technology where you able to see information via internet. With the internet coming into the picture we were able to have telephone lines and modems connect which allowed us to use the internet and communicate with different people around the world. Now that technology has advanced most newspapers are no longer printing but putting their articles on the internet where people are likely to see everything online. I think with media advancing over the years each new was has changed the American culture just within the last 20 years. 20 years ago we had the internet and we need a modem to communicate with someone in a different state or with someone in a different country.

The only way you could communicate with someone via internet you had to make

The way it has affected everyday life by now being able to shop online or listen to music, watching sports or different television shows without even leaving your home.

We are able to do so much today just because of the way technology has changed over the years. We were not able to do this 20 years ago and we also have Facebook which is another form of social media that we are able to communicate with people that we haven’t seen in a while. We can email which gives us the opportunity to communicate with others. Another affective way of communication is chat. There’s different websites that have chat and rather than talking to a live operator we have the chance to speak to them via chat. Also Twitter, YouTube are some other forms of communication that has changed. We are able to watch people put videos online. Something that we have now that we didn’t have a few years ago and that is eBooks which allow us to read books online. We can use eBooks for school or for entertainment purposes as well. TV has changed as well. We are now able to record different programs, change the way the