TUTORIAL QUESTION 1

1. Explain how the influences of mass media extends beyond what we know to include how we relate to the social world.
Nowadays some may hold the opinion that using mass media,including television,radio and newspaper obviously influence on the thoughts and behaviors of people,but others think that what people think and behave in daily life has nothing to do with mass media. As far as I am concerned,I agree that television,radio,newspaper more or less affect in shaping people's ideas

2.Fill in the elements of the 'media and the social world'model below and briefly and explain how they relate to each other. ( blank version of the model )
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3.How does the presence of media affect your life ? How would it be different without the mass media ?
media affect our daily life. like television, twitter, facebook, newspaper, it affect our life because we need media to know what happened around us, like from the newspaper, we could get information about what happened in our country, politics, and certain issue. how it would different without mass media? limited information, we can not get information immediately, not knowing whether the information is credible. 

4.Overall, do you think the growing presence of mass media in our lives is a positive or negative development? why ?
sometimes it could be positive and also negative. positive part from mass media is we could get information from media like from radio, we could know which way to avoid traffic jam when we want to go to some place. the negative is from television, like the kids under age. they may be watch something not good like WWF/RAW or something that can be a bad influence to their daily life.

5.How do you think the presence of television has changed family life ? Do you think the spread of internet will have similar effect?
the presence of television has changed family life because, peoples are more often to spend time on watching tv, for example, when we at home, and there is something happen within the country like earthquake, tsunami, a family watch it together and discuss about it. i dont think that internet will have a similar effect, because internet is more complex than television, and it more individual. 

6. what do you think the most significant media development in your lifetime. why?
i think internet, because i spent more time with internet, example like google, when i dont know something, just search on google and we can get the information as soon as possible, youtube, facebook, etc.