The Influence of Media

My MYP1 students were asked to make a presentation in which the topic was "The influence of media in our lives". Thus, they were divided in pairs and received different kinds of media so that they developed their presentations. The medias were TV, Internet, Radio, Newspaper, and Billboards. I transformed some of their presentation into a video and asked them to write the summary of what they presented.

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NEWSPAPERS                               

The newspaper was the first and the main way of communication for a long time. Even with the development of new technologies, the newspaper still has a large importance in daily life of people.

The newspapers have to adapt to readers along the history and share space with others kinds of media like radio, magazines, internet and television. The newspaper informs the people about news in Brazil and in the world.

The main characteristic of this type of media is it influence on public opinion of the people. 

However, many times the newspaper can take different approaches in news.

By Marina Furlan & Juliana Furlan

TV                                                  

Most people I know watch TV every day. We watch the news from the whole world; we have our favorite serial movies, talk-shows and other programs. TV enables us to get to know about people from every part of the world. We are informed, how different people live, how they dress and what are their habits. Television plays and important role in creating new trends. It makes us want to follow the examples of other people. Moreover, the advertisements make people want to buy certain products. Even if we avoid watching them, we are constantly influenced by them.

Numerous people consider television a good escape from all difficulties of everyday life. On TV you can learn, that everyone can become rich, beautiful and popular. In the movies we watch pretty actresses and actors, who easily solve all difficult problems, making careers, having much money. Very popular nowadays are fantasy and science-fiction films. They show us the imaginations about the future of the world. It tells the untrue stories, which take place in the future or in other worlds and spaces.

By Athilio Marangoni & José Renato Guedes

BILLBOARDS                                

The billboard, also called hoarding in other places in the world, is a big panel that is very used for making comercial of many things like new cars new schools and these stuff affect our lives a lot because when you see a hot woman driving a car you will think "Wow! With this car I can be like her". Then you go there and buy the car. On the other hand, the visual pollution is very big. Imagine a city with a lot of billboards everywhere it Will be a visual polluted city.But the big interprises use it a lot to make a good image for her brand. And it is important to say that the billboards are used to help enterprises earn more money. And that's why billboards are important not only for us but for the enterprises too.

By Heitor Inácio & Adauto Gramático

RADIO                                           

The arrival of the radio was an important change in our lives. Without it the globalization process would take more time to happen. We would be living without instant communication, and we would never be able to have a lot of signal that help us, like wireless, GPS, 3G, and others; It’s all based in radio waves. Radio also changed the advertising business, allowing it to not just see, but listen to advertisement. Political ads would never be the same without radio, because everybody would hear the ads on it, in simple pamphlets or outdoors people had a choice to see it or not, but listen to it is more difficult to prevent. 

By Henrique Gonçalves & Giovana Telles