The lecture on the 6th of March was all about the impact media has had on the world and how it has been the topic of positive and negative discussion surrounding how healthy it is for someone. The prospects of laziness, desensitization and aggression are all issues that are brought up, but it encourages creativity,  help educate children on more obscure topics that are not touched upon that often in schools, and allows for more interactions in group-related environments around subjects like television, video games, or online content. We also talked about the paranoia surrounding media even going so far back to the 1800s when Jane Austins Gothic novel ”Northanger Abbey” seemed to aggressive for the time.  But then things changed drastically with the arrival of the 19th century and the emergence of ”mass media” and the growth of literacy took the world by storm. Even back then, media still managed to connect people when massive events occurred. The biggest example at the time was the famous ”Red Barn Murder”. It influenced broadsides, plays, vaudeville’s, films and even musicals. The invention of cinema also came around at this time, through the Lumiere brothers film ”L ‘ Arriv’ee d’ vn train Au”, which involves a train entering a station and the passengers leaving. Though this seems basic now, back then this technology was foreign to the world, so the public was somewhat horrified by the experience. This helped fuel the panic surrounding the negative impact that media had on the human mind.  Examples of people  who try to portray the evil of television were  Marie Winn with her book ”The Plug-in Drug” and Gustav Le Bon’s ”The Crowd: A study of the popular mind”. They focused on the simple nature of the contraption and how it could be leading people into a  lazier style of life. We also talked about the communication models, like the Aristotle’s Model of Communication and Lasswell’s model, where both focused on attempting to structuring how a conversation or form of communication should play out, involving the receiver, communicator and the messages in between. The media continues to grow and develop as the world develops along with it, and with it comes new forms of interactions between people involving internet and the various ways of communicating online. It is this ever-evolving nature that makes the media seem dangerous to some and intriguing to others and this is why it will always be relevant.