Monday, February 18, 2013

Knowing about Mass Media

Knowing about Mass Media. Television is one of the media play a huge role in duping the public mindset Indonesia. Indonesian television shows often show things that educate the public to be a fool. One of the most important tools is the patron twit who incidentally featured several television programs in Indonesia.

Program duping


Here are a few television programs that are considered as a means of duping the public.

1. Sinetron

Why soap categorized as major media twit ? Because soap tends to show and exploit elements of violence, infidelity, paced glamorous life, love, and promiscuity. See, every patron must have a villain who often commit abuses. The poor are always being insulted and not humanized. Thus, the minimal elements of soap opera stories that are educational scene.

2. From Zero to Hero

In addition to soap, impressions are from zero to hero actively participate in duping the public. Some of the event that makes a person become nobodies that nobody, including Indonesian Idol, AFI, Mamamia, Residents Finally, Indonesia Seeking Talent, KDI, and Remix.

Such programs have directly impede the young generation framework for vying to become an artist in order to get rich and have a lot of fans. In fact, being an artist is easy. If you want to be a soap opera actress, you simply could act angry, crying, pleading faced, and faced violent. If you just want to get in a news program, you simply become violent criminals.

3. Children's Film

Some kids movie has indirectly made their own personality apathetic, easily discouraged, and do not want to try to solve the problem at hand because it can rely on something that is magical or magic. Yes. The films contain elements of magic that has pervaded the unconscious child to act like that they do not try to solve problems in a logical and realistic.

4. Film Dubbing

The rise of foreign films that have dubbing with Indonesian language makes people feel no need to learn a foreign language. After all, the Chinese, the Indians, and the west, can speak Indonesian. So why bother to learn a foreign language ? This is precisely what makes the high rate of illiteracy in Indonesia.

5. Mystery Expedition

This ghost hunt event gives duping the public to think that the people who have died can bounce back in the form of kuntilanak, pocong, and so on. It also helped shape the children into a coward and always thought that there are demons in the cemetery and other spooky places. In fact, the ghosts that appear in the search for ghosts that may be engineered purely for the sake of ratings impressions.

Eradicate Poverty ?

Some of those impressions have implanted permanent ignorance of the mindset of the people of Indonesia. No wonder Indonesia poverty rate remains high. After all, society is educated with things that befouled. In fact, the progress of a nation depends on the quality of its human resources. If you really want to reduce poverty, the government must present a good education for its citizens. The way is easy. Make regulations for the ban on Indonesian television organizers dubbing and replacing it with the look of the text as a translation.

That way, people who can not read will be encouraged to learn to read because it encouraged a strong desire to know the story of the film concerned. This method also can save on production costs of television because no need to pay the dubber. Original language films also provide convenience for people who want to learn a foreign language through film show. At least, someone who was able to learn a foreign language listen to the pronunciation of the language means that accelerate the learning process.

Understanding Media

Surely everyone is familiar with the word media. The word media refers to a means of delivering the news, good electronic media, print media, and other media. In the world of communications, media is defined as a channel, a means of connecting and communication tools.

Etymologically, the word comes from the Latin media and is the plural form of the word which means the intermediary nor a medium of instruction. Thus, it is understandable that the media is the medium or the introduction of the sender to the receiver. The definition identifies the media has recognized expert by providing media boundaries with different opinions, but still in the same direction and purpose. Here is an explanation of the meaning of the various viewpoints media experts.

According to Santoso S. Hamidjojo in Achsin Amir (1980), the media is all the intermediate forms that people use to spread ideas that idea or that idea up to the recipient. Meanwhile, Luhan in Arif S. Sadiman (1984) suggests that the media is a tool which is also called the media channel because essentially expand or extend the human ability to feel, hear, and see the boundaries of distance, space and time are virtually unlimited anymore.

Understanding Mass Media was presented by Association and Communications Technology (Association of Education and Communication Technology / AECT) in the United States. According to AECT, are all forms of media and channels that people use to distribute the message or information. Meanwhile, Gagne (1970) states that the media are the various types of components in the environment can stimulate students to learn. Another understanding of the media expressed by Bringgs. Brings found that the media is all the physical tools to present the message and stimulate students to study books, films, tapes are examples.

Mass media

Mass media refers more to the press. Mass media is a term used in the 1920s for the type termed media specifically designed to reach a very wide public. In the context of day-to-heart talks, the term is often shortened to the media. Among low-income communities have the dependency and the need for higher mass media than people with a high economic level because of their limited options. Communities with a high economic level have more choice and access to mass media.

Understanding Mass Media or Press

According to Law no. 40 Year 1990 on the Press, the media or the press is a social institution and a vehicle of mass communication that carry out journalistic activities including searching, get, possess, keep, process and convey information in the form of text, sounds, images, or sounds and images, or other forms of print media, electronic media, and all available channels.

Meanwhile, according to the General Dictionary Indonesian, means the following releases.
  • Printing equipment to print a book or newspaper.
  • Tools for clamping or compressing.
  • Newspaper and magazine that contains news.
  • People who work in the field of news letter.
Types of Mass Media

There are 2 types of media, traditional media and modern mass media.

Traditional Mass Media

Traditional mass media is mass media and the authorities have a clear organization as the mass media. Traditionally, the mass media are classified into several categories, namely newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and film. The mass media of this type has the following characteristics.
  • Information from the selected, translated and distributed.
  • Mediates the mass media and send information through a specific channel.
  • Not passive recipients of the message and is a part of the community and to select the information they receive.
  • The interaction between the source and the receiver a little news.
Modern Mass Media

As time goes by and the development of technology and social culture, has developed other media are then grouped into the mass media such as the internet and mobile phones. Media types have the following characteristics.
  • Source can transmit a message to multiple recipients (through SMS or internet for example).
  • The contents of the message are not only provided by the agency or organization, but also by individuals.
  • No middlemen, the interaction occurs in individuals.
  • Communication flows (take) into.
  • Recipients that define the interaction.
Function of Mass Media or Press

Under Article 33 of Law no. 40 of 199 on the Press, the function of the press is a medium of information, education, entertainment, and social control. Meanwhile, Article 6 of the Law on the National Press implement the following role.
  1. Meet the public's right to know uphold basic values of democracy and promote the establishment of the rule of law and human rights. Furthermore, the press must also respect the diversity of public opinion based information to develop precise, accurate and benr monitoring.
  2. Press give and provide information about events that happened to the community and people buy newspapers because they require the information.
  3. The press as a means of mass education (Mass Education) contains writings that contain knowledge that people gain knowledge and insights.
  4. The press also includes things that are fun to offset the heavy news (hard news) and the articles are weighted. Shaped short stories, serialized, illustrated stories, crossword puzzles, corner, and caricatures.
  5. The press has the function of social control, namely social participation (participation of the people in the government), social responsibility (the government accountable to the people), social support (support of the people against the government), social control (community control over the actions of the government).
  6. Press is a company engaged in the field of press and can use around circumstances as selling points that the press as a social institution can gain the maximum benefit from their produce for survival press agency itself.
Function of Mass Media in Culture
  1. Function monitoring (surveillance), the provision of information about the environment.
  2. Linking function (correlation), occurs presentation options for the solution of a problem.
  3. Cultural transfer function (transmission), lack of socialization and education.
  4. Entertainment functions (entertainment) that was introduced by Charles Wright who developed the model by introducing a model Laswell twelve categories and a list of functions. In this model Charles Wright added entertainment functions. Wright also distinguish between positive functions (functions) and a negative function (dysfunction).
Press Freedom in Indonesia

With the freedom of mass media, eventually shift towards liberal in recent years. This is freedom of the press consists of two types, namely negative freedom and positive freedom.
  1. Negative freedom is freedom associated with the mass media where that's life. Freedom is the freedom from external intervention of mass media organizations are trying to control, restrict, or direct the mass media.
  2. Positive freedom is the freedom of mass media in determining the content of media organizations. This relates to the control run by media owners and media manager for the producers, editors and controls imposed by the editors of the employees.
Well, that's the description of the media. May be useful for you.

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