Is it necessary?
I agree
with McLuhan’s “medium is the message”, because all media is disseminate some
message to people, let people know what happening in this society, such as we
through the TV drama or movie, we can understand the social atmosphere or
culture of our society or other counties. For example, I using the “MTR app”
usually, because I go to school by MTR every day, I will check it before I go
out from my home, then I will be know the MTR is it normal operation or malfunction,
and this problem is it will influence me to be late, if will, then I should go
out early. Therefore, I think this app very useful for me.
In the
other hand, some media is not necessary for people, for example, the “17”app
very popular recently, although this app stopped to download. This app for user
to have a live chats with others, but is it necessary or useful for people? How
many people really need it then to use it? Some people will think, “This live
chats can convenient to workers of high class to have an important meeting”,
but somebody can saw this live chats and give some comment, then how they get
an important meeting? Moreover, some user to be illegal of live chats, such as pornography.
So that,
someone can be a medium in this society, but how do you use it is the problems.
If you correctly to use the media, then it will be useful for you, but if you
use it to be illegal, then this media will be failure.
Student
name: Ip Man Yee
Dear Man Yee, the claim at the end nicely summarises what you want to argue in the first two paragraph. Please note that the argument in the first paragraph seems to contradict with your last statement. Your stand point is more about uses and gratifications which has not been covered when you wrote up this article. You can consider it as your framework when you write up your portfolio assignments.
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