Voice out Loud through media !
Mass Communication 
It is always an interesting topic to talk about as now mass media have been part of us as it is playing a big part in our daily life. We did watch television; listen to radio and even internet which is a new media nowadays. Those are act as a channel to transmit medium to us, and this medium has the power to change the way we live and experience the world. Moreover, the functions of media are to give us surveillance, correlation, cultural transmission, and entertainment. It taught us the trends and the important issues that happening around the world as you all know time are precious to us, media can help us to shorten the time we spend for finding information. However, we need to take a balance between bad and good sources.
In media communication theories it explain the effects of mass communication which means how they influences us and explain the role of the mass media in shaping values, world views and world fair.
Remember what Ms Hui ask us how media influences us? Many students have suggested a lot of things; most of them said media influences us in good and bad ways. Actually, personally I feel that media can influences many ways especially the way we talk and the language we used.
Of course, in Singapore, language used in media will not influenced us in a bad way, as Singapore’s media are partial controlled by government, language and information they used are guided.
Being a Hongkie, I have noticed that now Hong Kong has a trend of using improper Chinese in the lifestyles magazines. They can create new words when the words do not even exist in the dictionary as it is not controlled by government and they need interesting gimmicks to build up the sales. This can influence teenagers especially when they are writing composition and even the way they talk, if they are not talk like that they will be seen as totally “uncool”. This is a big issue in Hong Kong’s education; many teachers and parent are worrying that once the teenagers used to write in improper Chinese, it will affect their writing skills in the future. Now, the teachers are trying to correct their way of writing as much as they can in school and for the parents they are giving their children more newspaper for reading, however this issue has been posted in the media (newspaper) and have been acknowleged.
I think they should not use verbal languages for writing in the magazines, especially words that are not in the dictionary. They maybe want to bring up interesting stuffs but to me by using proper Chinese can also give the same effects just like Singapore’s magazine.
It is always an interesting topic to talk about as now mass media have been part of us as it is playing a big part in our daily life. We did watch television; listen to radio and even internet which is a new media nowadays. Those are act as a channel to transmit medium to us, and this medium has the power to change the way we live and experience the world. Moreover, the functions of media are to give us surveillance, correlation, cultural transmission, and entertainment. It taught us the trends and the important issues that happening around the world as you all know time are precious to us, media can help us to shorten the time we spend for finding information. However, we need to take a balance between bad and good sources.
In media communication theories it explain the effects of mass communication which means how they influences us and explain the role of the mass media in shaping values, world views and world fair.
Remember what Ms Hui ask us how media influences us? Many students have suggested a lot of things; most of them said media influences us in good and bad ways. Actually, personally I feel that media can influences many ways especially the way we talk and the language we used.
Of course, in Singapore, language used in media will not influenced us in a bad way, as Singapore’s media are partial controlled by government, language and information they used are guided.
Being a Hongkie, I have noticed that now Hong Kong has a trend of using improper Chinese in the lifestyles magazines. They can create new words when the words do not even exist in the dictionary as it is not controlled by government and they need interesting gimmicks to build up the sales. This can influence teenagers especially when they are writing composition and even the way they talk, if they are not talk like that they will be seen as totally “uncool”. This is a big issue in Hong Kong’s education; many teachers and parent are worrying that once the teenagers used to write in improper Chinese, it will affect their writing skills in the future. Now, the teachers are trying to correct their way of writing as much as they can in school and for the parents they are giving their children more newspaper for reading, however this issue has been posted in the media (newspaper) and have been acknowleged.
I think they should not use verbal languages for writing in the magazines, especially words that are not in the dictionary. They maybe want to bring up interesting stuffs but to me by using proper Chinese can also give the same effects just like Singapore’s magazine.
However, it maybe wrong to use improper language, but the idea of freedom of speeches is popular in Hong Kong. They can discuss any issues that happened around them in the media which I strongly support it. I believed freedom of speech are important to us and the media, through media act as a third party iwhich let us voice out our own opinions(minority views) to the issues especially politics, economics that happened in that country and not only majority views. What do you think?
posted by shelly at
2:23 AM
5 Comments:
i support HK's idea of freedom of speeches. i guess everybody has their own thinking sometimes its good to voice out your opinions.
i beleived that media have it own power in Hong Kong, as they always believed in freedom of speech.
Voice out our thinking maybe good but sometime it can be a bad way, to illustrate it, i would say if one say some points that are hurtful to someone it is bad.
But if it is sometime that are helpful to the issues (useful points) it is good.
Yupps. I do agree with you that the media should allow the public to view their opinions. Even though these opinions might not belong to the majority, they should be acknowledged.
It is only through different voices then we will be able to know how the different views of others. From there, we can learn more things and find solutions for certain issues.
But seriously how many of us dare to stand up?
Hi shelly,
I believe that freedom of speech is important for the government to listen to the public's voices.
Thanks for your sharing about your country. In singpore, we also encourage that. A very prominent example is the website xin.sg.
Our news reporter of channel 8, will always remind the viewers of the presence of this website and encourages all of us to post our views online where we could discuss any recent incidents that happened!
Dear Shelly,
You have many grammer and vocab mistakes. Please do ask your friends who have a better command of english to proof read your entry.
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