The Internet, A Final Culmination of All Things Media

Assignment 5 for Mass Communication

The internet has managed to accomplish what all previous forms of media have only dreamed of, conveniently packaging news, books, television, radio, movies, and music into one endless and easily accessible gateway. It has created an age of content distribution unlike any before, never has the sharing of ideas been so easy. The internet may possibly be the death of the recording and radio industries, but it allows for a much greater array of artists to become exposed to a wider variety of users, thus economically spreading wealth across the music industry. Because of the internet the subjugation of news has been radically overturned and will continue to diminish in the future. Other media forms such as television and film are likely to make a transition towards online distribution but with stricter regulations. Overall, all media forms are or will eventually be assimilated into the glob we call the internet, but the ramifications can only be discovered with time.