Technological Change, Media, and Education
• Recent years have seen the emergence of multimedia, linked to the development of the Internet and the construction of an information superhighway.
1. The online world either enhances or supplements existing face-to-face interactions.
2. The spread of Internet technology will lead to increased social isolation and atomization.
In this article, I will explore how the Mass Media is a potent educational force in India, which serves to maintain and expand unjust systems and violent attitudes. Like schooling, the mass media is used to support the coercive power structure of a techno-industrial elite (be they corporate or governmental). Like schooling, the mass media undermines our existence as complete and unique human beings, and tells us instead that we are needy, deficient and homogenous. While ‘entertaining’ us, it complements the education system in urging us to consume and consume to fill our empty selves up. It thus reinforces institutional dependency on professionals and experts, while simultaneously devaluing our creative potential, our hands-on labor, our local relationships, and our own life stories. Like education, the mass media has had, and continues to have, serious effects on our psychologies, our ecologies, and our cosmologies.
Indeed, the parallels between the mass media and the education system are striking. It is becoming increasingly clear that the Mass Media educates; for many people, it is a far greater source of information about the world than textbooks or academics. (How many times have we heard, “Maina T.V. pe dekha. Is liya voh sach hoga” ? (I saw it on T.V .therefore It must be true.) At the same time, the education system can be seen a form of mass media. Specific tools (curriculum, teachers, examinations) are used to convey messages (about progress and development, in particular) to a large audience. The ‘mass’ nature of education is especially apparent now, given the 93rd amendment to make free and compulsory schooling a fundamental right.[1] Moreover, both the education system and the mass media view human beings as ‘masses’, faceless, nameless, context-less units, who need information to save them from their own ignorance. With so many similarities, it is clear that probing into the violence of the mass media can strengthen our understanding of the education system as well.
Mass-media is probably the most performing way to get informed. Any kind of information educates in a way ore another. The level of how verdict is the information is very relative, that's why when information is used for educating young generations it has to be reviewed and maybe adapted to some norms. Mass-media offers information in different form: news papers, magazines, radio, TV, etc.
Internet, became the most large and rapid source of information. Today it concurrences with other means of information and offers more than a news paper can offer. You can use Internet not just for informational or educational purposes, it ca be used for buying and taxes paying,etc.
But at the same time Internet information needs to be checked more than any other, because there are no considerable limitations of the information is posted.