Before learning what is media culture, lets look into the word media first. The word "Media" refers to the means of communication such as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely. Then, the word "Culture" means the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group. Hence, I could define "Media Culture" in this way: hows the media changes or affects our culture.Lets describe media as an ice-cream. Long long day ago, we are only limited to a few flavors, but now we can found lot of them in the city. Why is this phenomena happening? The same theory applied in the using of internet today. Everyone is using the Internet to do research, to communicate with others.Why?
Always remember that the media has a great power within itself. It is not only affects our daily life, opinion, perspective, thinking etc, it is also provide us information, entertain us as well. Besides, media will form lots of community among ourselves by gathering a group of people with the same thinking. So, how is it affects our life, our culture? Stay tuned for the following chapter. =D
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