Wednesday, November 7, 2012

WEEK 2 TASK

Write an essay of about 400 words:
Identify at least four/cultural groups and what media do you think they use.


            Different group of social group may have different type media preferences. Their preferences are usually affected by the advances of the technology. As the technology moving forward the media may need to be adjusted in order to meet the people needs. There are several social group which may show us  what kind of factor may influence the preference of different type of media.

            For the business social group, the media they are using are mostly the mobile media device. This make sense as they need to constantly moving from place to place to meet their client. This type of social group will certainly prefer their media gadget to be mobile and performance may come in second. The type of mobile device they are using are usually range from smart phone to tablet, even the laptop may seems to be an elephant nowadays.

            As for the elderly social group, their media preferences are usually more traditional as they have hard time to cope with the changes of the technology. Their learning ability are certainly not as fast as the young ones anymore so this type of social group usually will not choose to keep up with the trend.
The type of media they will usually be using are newspaper, TV News and radio.

            The social group for the media workers are usually using the media device that are great with performance. They usually need to create high quality graphics in order to present them to the other media consumers. Advertising are evolving along with time too, as you looked back to the older times TV advertisement with today TV advertisement, the difference can clearly show that today’s ads have included a lot of graphic techniques that are impossible to achieve at the old time. This social group will usually use the PC or laptop with high performance.

            Last but not least, the college student social group are usually the most up to date group. This social group’s media usage are also the most variety one. Most of the college student in average will spend up to at least 4 hours of internet surfing a day in order to help their assignment and also be a part of the social networking activity. The more the time they spend on the internet the more the technology trend information they will be getting, this may lead them to have more desire for the lastest technology.
The media device the college student use may vary from smartphone, PC/laptop, tablet and so on…

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