106: (1) What is Media?

What is media?
Any message that is sent.

Three reasons for sending media:
1. Entertain (Ha-ha)
2. Inform (Ah-ha)
3. Persuade (Do this!)


1. Entertainment Media. This form is meant to be fun for the audience.
Examples of Entertainment Media:
Video Games
Fiction Books
Movies
TV Shows

2. Informative Media. This form of media is meant to teach the audience new facts.
Examples of Informative Media:
Non-Fiction Books
Encyclopedia
Dictionary
Newspaper
TV News (should be informative!)
Public Service Announcements or PSA's
Discovery Channel
Noggin
Sesame Street
Between the Lions

3. Persuasive Media. This form of media is meant to get the audience to believe the author's opinion point of view.
Examples of Persuasive Media:
Speeches
Editorials
Commercials
Advertisements or Ads
Billboards
Flyers


NOTE: Sometimes media can be in more than one category:
Infomercials are informative commercials
Product placement in movies is an ad inside the entertainment
School is both informative, entertaining and persuasive.