Thursday, July 13, 2017

Week 1 (7th July 2017): What Is Media?

7th July 2017

So what is media?Well after a few google research,the definition of Media is,it is basically another way somewhat a very advanced way of communication.Communications such as Broadcasting,Direct Mails,Fax etc are what media is all about.The most commonly used place for 'spreading' Media is always in the most beautiful yet very dangerous place known to society nowadays.And that is the Internet.Whether through Blogs,Text Messaging Apps,Articles from various websites and more.Here are some links containing the definition of Media.


From the link- http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/media.html ,Media means communication channels through which news,entertainment,education,data,or promotional messages are disseminated.Media includes every broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers,magazines,TV,radio,billboards,direct mail,telephone,fax,and internet.Media is the plural of medium and can take plural or singular verb,depending on the sense intended.

Furthermore,from the link  https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/media ,the word media comes from the Latin plural of medium.The traditional view is that it should therefore be treated as a plural noun in all its senses in English and be used with a plural rather than a singular verb: the media have not followed the reports (rather than 'has').In practice,in the sense 'television,radio,and the press collectively',it behaves as a collective noun (like staff or clergy,for example) which means that is is now acceptable in standard english for it to take either a singular or a plural verb.The word is also increasingly used in the plural form medias,as if it had a conventional singular form media,especially when referring to different forms of new media,and in the sense 'the material or form used by an artist':there were great efforts made by the medias of the involved countries about 600 works in all genres and medias were submitted for review.


1. Communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages are disseminated. Media includes every broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, billboards, direct mail, telephone, fax, and internet. Media is the plural of medium and can take a plural or singular verb, depending on the sense intended.
2. Data storage material divided into three broad categories according to the recording method: (1) Magnetic, such as diskettes, disks, tapes, (2) Optical, such as microfiche, and (3) Magneto-Optical, such as CDs and DVDs.

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