Media Technologies can be said to have Significant Impacts on Society, Culture and Politics
Media and its associated technologies now form a core part of society, changing the way in which we not only engage in a political sense but have also caused the social and cultural values that we have once held to evolve alongside this technology. This has been due to the integration of media networks into our daily lives as well as the evolution of media technology into new digital environments. Media networks now form a core part of our social functions, consequently defining the values and beliefs that we hold as a society. Power is now spread out more evenly through such networks, affecting the way in which cultural and political discussions are held, as now such discussions are more accessible. As media becomes more widely used and integrated, media technologies, as a medium of communication, will increasingly affect the way in which we interpret information. As active audiences, this has a significant impact on our socio-cultural processes which are reliant on these new n...