### communication:

Medium
* All Mediums are psychic.
* All media absorb mitogenetic rays fairly readily
  - are metaphors of the body
  - mediums eventually die or change shape
* Many mediums lend themselves to the expression of instant, spontaneous emotion.
* Media Promote a balanced and non-stereotyped portrayal of women in the media
  - There are many different types of media
* Media also act as a check on local government in the United States
  - seeks to shape audiences into political constituencies
* Media are ad-driven businesses
  - businesses with corporate interests and commercial implications
  - businesses, commercial enterprises
  - cultural institutions
  - extensions of our senses
  - important in focusing decision-makers on importance of data
  - mass communication vehicles, like magazines, newspapers, outdoor, radio, and television
  - mass-produced messages that shape dominant cultural representations
  - primarily businesses driven by a profit motive
  - sources of ideas about society, but so are other sources, such as travel
* Media are the forms of communication associated with particular ways of representing knowledge
  - largest employer in the world
  - physical forms in which a message is incorporated and displayed
  - things the teacher uses to show to, or work with, the class
  - thus the vehicles of cultural communications
  - become tools of both oppression and resistance, of both entertainment and enlightenment
* Media can also refer to the various types of data communication, such as video, audio, and print
  - vary in their ability to handle time
  - be liquid or solid
  - create a sense of sharing and belonging or a feeling of exclusion and isolation
  - have a direct influence on political and social issues
  - lead people to the right or wrong directions
  - promote an unrealistic image of how people look
  - provide fact, fiction and perception
  - consumes more time in an American child s life than any other activity except sleeping
  - creates public perception
  - defines happiness by consumption and progress by global business
  - enables even smaller ethnic minorities to survive with distinct cultural identity
* Media have biases which make certain things easier and others more difficult
  - huge impact on culture
  - social and political implications
  - the power to reach out and directly influence the minds of average people
  - unique aesthetic forms that are closely related to content
  - helps create stereotypes
* Media is mass produced and provides information which can act as a source of social control
  - non-carcinogenic
* Media literate people know how to act
  - seek alternative sources of information and entertainment
  - use television for their own advantage and enjoyment
  - often influence each other
* Media play a critical role in raising environmental awareness
  - crucial role in the life of neo-Pentecostals
  - critical social, cultural and political roles in society
* Media plays a role in shaping our view in what is considered normal and what is considered deviant
  - very vital role in making or breaking the careers of cricketers
* Media plays an important role in labeling Roma population as criminals
  - setting the environmental agenda
  - instrumental role in communication
  - produce information and entertainment
  - usually detach feelings from sexuality, too
* More media means more surface area where particles can be captured.
* Most media are also dependent on corporate advertising to finance their activities
  - starts with words and simple drawings on paper
* Some media also contain dyes or chemicals that select for a desired organism
  - are small pieces of huge corporations
  - retains small quantities of anions , negatively charged ions, in addition to cations
  - use more than one form of information
  - mediums believe they can see ghosts
* appear to be capable of conjuring up spirits of departed friends.
* are additives which alter or enhance the characteristics of the colour
  - environments
  - liquids
* are located in seances
  - stores
  - people who exhibit psychic abilities when aided by a nonphysical spirit entity
  - psychics
  - states
  - substances
  - transmissions
* claim to have psychic powers and extra sensory perception
  - help individuals communicate with deceased friends and relatives
* get their information through thought patterns comeing into their conscious minds.
* is instrumentation
* specialize in knowing how to interpret the visions and the knowing.
+ Open content: Software :: Art :: Free content
  * Any media can be open content, from text and pictures to video and sound.