CHAPTER 14:
PROBLEMS IN THE MEDIA
By the end of this chapter students will be able to:
- Define media including its components.
- Explain why media is important in one’s everyday life, especially in an industrialized nation.
- Describe how media has changed in its organizational and ownership structure in the twentieth century.
- Discuss media industries and how a small number of “Big Media” control the distribution of news and information worldwide.
- Discuss how corporate megamergers have led to changes in media industries.
- Explain and discuss how “Big Media” have developed into a worldwide social problem.
- Discuss the potential media effects of aggression and violence and race and gender stereotyping.
- Discuss the benefits and social problems media have created from the three major sociological perspectives.
- Forecast changes in the media and how the media will change lives both for Americans and worldwide in the twenty-first century.
