Media Bias In Elections
Media Bias While the media and its bias have had an effect on elections for decades, in the more recent elections its influence has increased exponentially. With the development of new technologies, the media has expanded and its presence has become very major. The media nowadays plays a key role in our everyday lives. It has become so important to us that it has started to affect us, the human race, negatively, especially during the most recent election, the election of 2016. Before diving deeper into the topic of media bias throughout the years, we must first understand what it is. To begin, let us start with the definition of media. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary the word “media” is defined as “the system and organizations
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In the past the media was still developing and there wasn’t a very strong sense of what it was, so it did not have a large influence on politics. As the media started developing and more forms of it were created it started to have a larger influence on our daily life. In the 1800’s there was no such thing as televisions, smartphones, or any sort of social media platforms such a Facebook or Twitter. The most popular form of media they had was the newspaper, which spread news much slower than the more modern forms. Politics aside the media in general can have some pretty negative effects on humans. Using tools such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) we can now measure how exactly media affects us. Recent studies done using this tool show the development of Internet Addiction Disorder, or IAD for short. This disorder “can cause tremors, shivers, nausea and anxiety in some addicts and many professionals now consider IAD analogous to substance abuse” (Luskin). It has even been compared to eating disorders and gambling addictions. According to Bernard J. Luskin, Ed.D, people tend to use media as a way to cope with their emotions or feelings. These addicts are connected to their computer screens and exclude the world around them; they tend neglect their work, family, relationships, studies, social life, and themselves. They negative causes of media include, but are not limited to the decrease of attention spans, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), increase in violent behavior or thoughts, crimes such as identity theft, and a decrease in the average number of sleep hours per
In the past the media was still developing and there wasn’t a very strong sense of what it was, so it did not have a large influence on politics. As the media started developing and more forms of it were created it started to have a larger influence on our daily life. In the 1800’s there was no such thing as televisions, smartphones, or any sort of social media platforms such a Facebook or Twitter. The most popular form of media they had was the newspaper, which spread news much slower than the more modern forms. Politics aside the media in general can have some pretty negative effects on humans. Using tools such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) we can now measure how exactly media affects us. Recent studies done using this tool show the development of Internet Addiction Disorder, or IAD for short. This disorder “can cause tremors, shivers, nausea and anxiety in some addicts and many professionals now consider IAD analogous to substance abuse” (Luskin). It has even been compared to eating disorders and gambling addictions. According to Bernard J. Luskin, Ed.D, people tend to use media as a way to cope with their emotions or feelings. These addicts are connected to their computer screens and exclude the world around them; they tend neglect their work, family, relationships, studies, social life, and themselves. They negative causes of media include, but are not limited to the decrease of attention spans, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), increase in violent behavior or thoughts, crimes such as identity theft, and a decrease in the average number of sleep hours per