Question

Do Media Influence Society?

Answer 1

Media are the communication method that deliver and store data or information. Media are working for transferring all types of information which are essential for society and the community. Every countries have several types of media like private media, government undertaking media, electronic media, print media and social media. Media are playing a vital role in creating justice, faith, belief, morality social awareness, etc. We have seen during a pandemic, emergency role of media became more critical and media are always directly in touch with societies and communities, keep informing citizens with all types of information in detail.

Yes, definitely media can influence society because of in-depth coverage and reach in society, media can manipulate the information, data, picture as per its demand and create panic and confusion in society. Media can create a violation, hate and disrespect in society for any issue and also media can divert any information as for national interest and create harmony in society.

Electronic, Print and social media have a very wide reach and nowadays social media has drastic influence in societies and social media can create war or violation in societies in a few hours. Social media like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Whatsapp, etc role are crucial and cumbersome because we have experience in the past couple of years several violent hates created by social media through fake messages.

So we can easily say that social media can easily influence the society with its information and create a panic and fearful situation.