We are the people of our society, what we see and hear in our world, major amount of the people believe that, this is real for them. Therefore, what we see and what we hear around is reality to us.I have figured that when the entire society is observing or forced to observe and believe that observation completely, that is the social construction of our reality. A very strong pillar of that construction is based upon the media.
In the Oscar nominated film "Wag the Dog" the director Barry Levinson wants to state the fact that, media is the biggest constructor of our reality. Media is capable of creating a war and they even can make a war which is not happening. There is no war but people will believe when media is showing that.
Our society is changing and getting practical day by day. It wasn't like this before but slowly we were sinking into the media's pond, and now we are totally depend on it. We are now bound to believe what media is saying and there also have no other option left.
Media is something what we see and hear everyday, so what we see and hear in our daily life and life goes on like this that is our social construction of reality.
This is a statement of my very own perspective.
Our society is changing and getting practical day by day. It wasn't like this before but slowly we were sinking into the media's pond, and now we are totally depend on it. We are now bound to believe what media is saying and there also have no other option left.
Media is something what we see and hear everyday, so what we see and hear in our daily life and life goes on like this that is our social construction of reality.
This is a statement of my very own perspective.
1 comment:
This is an excellent post. You sound very cynical, though - I hope that we are not so fully dependent on media as to give up independent thought!
J-
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