Theories and open debate on media

Theories and open debate on media

Not confined to the extent of theories, the media always faces (and is open to) criticism and social
scientists always keep this debate open as how best media could be used to improve functioning of civil
society and promotion of democratic sense and practices.
In their view If people's knowledge, understandings, capabilities, and actions are manufactured, it
simultaneously follows that they can be developed, improved, and individualized in proper (idealdemocratic)
circumstances.
Among these circumstances, proper communication networks are inevitable.
Because of new developments, the relationship among the state, private sectors, markets, and civil society
profoundly changed during the 1980s.
In politically and economically advanced societies the change is based on new information and
telecommunications technologies, which affected the media industries in terms of economic restructuring,
and on a new social and political environment, as reflected by media contents.
A basic question is: Who gave media the right to do the things they do?
Like to investigate wrongdoings by public officials, to delve into the private lives of public figures and to
report on the shortcomings of government and institutions are all forms of the criticism media face all over
the world.
Purpose of talking on this topic is to make people linked with mass media to understand the relationship
between media and society and how the media is understood by the scholars in the society.