Dependency Theory
I primarily use the internet for interacting with friends and family via social networking sites, the ones I use on a everyday basis are, whatsapp, instagram and snapchat. However, I always tend to find out news through social media rather than on a news channel or online newspaper because everyone tends to post about any major news, particularly celebrity based gossip. Furthermore, I also use the internet to help me with my coursework, e.g. research, definitions, thesaurus. On the other hand, I also use the internet to do online shopping frequently. In addition to that, I tend to watch movies online or catch up on TV shows I've missed. I also watch YouTube videos which are beauty related, e.g. makeup tutorials.
We are dependent on the media to a very large extent. I believe this because majority of the people use social media for interactions and we also are socially aware of what our friends and families are doing which makes us in a way more addicted to our phones as we constantly want to be up to date. This also links to news, we turn to social media to find out any major news and then turn to the net to read more or get to the depths of a story.
We have become more dependant on the media because as I said previously we tend to use our phones to communicate with others, not by calling them but sending them a quick message on social media. Additionally, technology has become more advanced drastically over the past 10 years making it so simple to tend to the media when wanting to socialise, find out something, news etc. Its become very easily accessible and we have become a media saturated society.
The telegraph theory does support the dependency theory as four out of five people under the age of 25 feel 'lost' without their phone. By contrast, just three out of five people over the age of 25 said that they would feel 'lost' without the internet and one in three adults surveyed would choose the internet over television which again further implies how dependent we have become on media and technology.
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