What is Media?
In general, "media" refers to various means of communication. For example, television, radio, and the newspaper are different types of media. The term can also be used as a collective noun for the press or news reporting agencies. In the computer world, "media" is also used as a collective noun, but refers to different types of data storage options.
Computer media can be hard drives, removable drives (such as Zip disks), CD-ROM or CD-R discs, DVDs, flash memory, USB drives, and yes, floppy disks. For example, if you want to bring your pictures from your digital camera into a photo processing store, they might ask you what kind of media your pictures are stored on. Are they on the flash memory card inside your camera or are they on a CD or USB drive? For this and many other reasons, it is helpful to have a basic understanding of what the different types of media are.
The biggest concerns with these kinds of shows are the affect they are having on young adults, teens, and children who are still forming their attitudes about life and social realities. Research has been done to identify how college students are affected by media messages about body image. According to Durkin et al (2007), frequent exposure to idealized images creates body comparison tendencies that have been shown to directly affect the level of body dissatisfaction among women.
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