Four Social Groups and The Media They Use

There are four types of social group and media forms that they use.

1. BOYBAND SUPPORTERS GROUP

Now Boyband supporter has dominated most of the social group of teenagers. They use all kinds of media forms but more to internet and printed media. They communicated each other use internet media such as website, twitter, facebook, tumblr, and many more. Most of the fangroups has their own website and forum for them to share. They also use printed media when they want to support their band when there are concerts or even just standing in front of their houses.

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2. STREET SELLER

Street seller use their voice as the main media to sell their stuffs. They often to shout to their buyer and promote their stuffs. Some of them also use another types of media form such as mini television to show a commercial about their stuffs or radio.

(http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/developing-world-stories/2009/07/obama-in-ghana-mixed-reaction.html)

3. HOUSEWIVES

Well, although housewives is one social group but I think it still can be separated based on their place to lived. Housewives in modern city already usually to use any kind of media forms such as handphone, television, ipad, ipod, and many more. But Housewives at suburban still not too familiar with media. Maybe the common media that they use is telephone to communicate with others at far place.

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4. DEMONSTRATION PEOPLE

Demonstration or campaign people usually use printed media such as flag, poster, or banner to vocalize their opinion. They also use their voice as the media form.

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My Thought of Media Use

In general, "media" refers to various means of communication. For example, television, radio, and the newspaper are different types of media. The term can also be used as a collective noun for the press or news reporting agencies. In the computer world, "media" is also used as a collective noun, but refers to different types of data storage options. (http://www.techterms.com/definition/media). In my opinion media refers to a big unity of things that we can defined to communicate each other. There are a lot of kinds of realize a media. For example printed media, digital media, and many more. 

The main use of media is for communication, but as time goes there are some developments of media use. As a young adult, media is one of the main or primer needs in my life. Without media there just a lot of things that would be really difficult to solve and survive. Nowadays media give us an easy way to do everything, but back then I remember how hard people to communicate each other with a very limited media. As a human being we really can not live without communicating that's why media is one of the most important aspect to concern about. However media also often misused by the general public. I will focusing on teenager group. Teenager spend most of their time concern about media too much. Some of them just sitting in front of their computer for the whole day to playing game and forget about their school. Some of them watching television until so late and can't wake up at the next morning. Media can also be one factor in a teen vandal. There are just a lot of sex abuse that happened to the teenager because of media. Porn can be watch everywhere and so easy to find it. Censorship is no longer doing its job well and many more things that make teenager misuse   the use of media. However there are also a good advantage of media use for teenager. Especially in education aspect. We more attractive to moving objects then a still objects and sometime reading too much things just not efficient. That's why nowadays education program use a lot of utilization of media to realize their vision. For example they use attractive slide of powerpoint in their teaching method then write it on board or they use website as an e-learning for students to learn their subject without use a heavy book. 

Media continues to evolve without us knowing or even can stop it and there would be a lot of advantages and disadvantages appear in the uses. That's why we as human being that has minds and instincts to really responsible in media use. If we can do that at least we can  minimize bad things happened in our earth.

Forms of Media

1. Poster
Poster is any piece or kind of printed media that including images or text or both. Usually attached to the wall or vertical surface and designed eye-catching. Poster usually informative.

(http://flip-design.blogspot.com/2011/11/retro-advertising-and-concert-posters.html)

2. Television

Television is an electronic media and another kind of technology for communication that showing moving image and sound. 

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3. Newspaper

Newspaper is a printed media that posted by schedule that containing news, advertising, entertainment, etc. 

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/23/design-save-media-newspapers)

4. Magazine

Magazine is also a printed media, almost same with newspaper but usually magazine is more specific and cost more expensive. Magazine usually designed full colors and more attractive. There are a lot of type of magazines such as fashion magazine, art magazine, health magazine and many more.

(http://sopoani.blogspot.com/2012/03/actresses-on-vogue.html)

5. Banner

Banner is a piece of cloth or other types of cloth that contain symbol, message, or slogan. It usually for advertising or campaign purpose

(http://magpro.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/placement-spanduk-umbul-umbul/)

6. Telephone

Telephone is a communication device that transmitting and receiving sound of usually human voice.

(http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/household/Old%20Telephone.htm)

7. Website

Website is a set of related web pages that containing content such as text, image, audio, video, etc.  A website hosted by web server accessible via network or internet. 

(http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/household/Old%20Telephone.htm)

8. Pamphlet 

Pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called a leaflet), or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and saddle stapled at the crease to make a simple book. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet)

(http://historyweaver.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/memory-day/gar-encampment-phamplet/)

9. Book

A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book)

(http://benonsensical.com/blog/tag/book-photography)

10. Radio

Radio is communication over distance when sounds are converted to electromagnetic waves and sent to a receiver that transfers the waves back to sounds. (http://www.yourdictionary.com/radio)

(http://www.pxleyes.com/photography-picture/4ba7572a384a1/My-daily-need---RADIO.html)

Definitions

The definition of: 
1. Cross Disciplinary 

Cross-disciplinary refers to knowledge that explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another. Common examples of cross-disciplinary approaches are studies of the physics of musics or the politics of literature. 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary#Cross-disciplinary)

2. Trans Disciplinary 

Trans Disciplinary involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g. a research project). It is about creating something new by crossing boundaries, and thinking across them
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinary)
Describing a study which runs across traditional subject boundaries such as arts and science.
(http://www.answers.com/topic/transdisciplinary#ixzz2AtIEY5OK)

3. Qualitative Research

Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such behavior. The qualitative method investigates the why and how of decision making, not just what, where, when. Hence, smaller but focused samples are more often needed than large samples.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research)

4. Ethnographic Studies

Methods of qualitative research developed by anthropologists, in which the researcher attends to and interprets communication while participating in the research context. 
(http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ethnographic+studies)