The uses of electronic media had become a part in everyone's life. According to Xie-Connell (2015), electronic media is the media that one can share on any electronic device for the audiences viewing, unlike static media electronic is broadcasted to the wider community. One cannot avoid by using the electronic media in his or her daily life as the world now is getting more advance. Electronic media provide us with large amount of messages that influence and affect us in many ways. Our media world has changed from one of limited choices to a world of information and entertainment overload (Medoff and Kaye, 2017). In general, types of electronic media includes television, internet and smart phones (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix 1).
Television, which is referred to as TV is one of the electronic medias. Television was invented by John Logie Baird and started in India in September 1959. The invention of television has affect everyone's life. It is one of the greatest miracles in science. Now, one can see live show by just sitting in front of the television, for example watching a football match and also concert. From the very beginning when the television is new invented, not everyone could afford to buy a television. Most of the families only have a radio in their homes. On the radio set, one could only hear the voice by the speaker but on television, one can even see his own picture. However, television makes a big turning point. It makes this world become more advance. Television enables people to get up to date with what is going on through watching news channel. To get to know the newest information from our surrounding, our country and also around the world is not a problem after the invention of television. The invention of television enables everyone for watching geographical channel to increase their knowledge, especially children who feels bored studying at their books. Television, which is an electronic media, leads to diffusion of other cultures. It gets more people to know different cultures from different countries. In a sentence, television is a very good electronic media for everyone which brings educational value. Everyone can also be entertained by watching films and dramas from other nations and countries. It brings entertainment value. It is fun when a group of relatives and friends gathering in a house and sitting together watching television. It can smaller the gap and improve the relationships between them. Nonetheless, this world seems to be small because of television which is a powerful medium of mass communication. One should use television as a good sources to increase the standard living.
The second type of electronic media is internet. Internet is nowadays become an important media for all people as they cannot live without it. Internet creates more convenience and makes things easy for people’s life in many ways. Usually, people use internet frequently for their education purposes. According to Irene Lui (1997), students who use online technology perform better than others. They perform better on comprehension, presentation and on their studies because they would learn new vocabularies and latest information through the internet. Beside that, internet is also used in business. Nowadays, people prefer to run online business rather than doing business face to face with customers. Online business is very easy and convenient to do because we do not need specific places to run these business and would not need to invest more money to develop our business. Moreover, we can deal our business anywhere and anytime. Not only that, we can also keep our personal business files online. We would not have to worry about losing those important files because we can refer to those files in online whenever we need it. Furthermore, internet is also used in entertainment. Entertainment is the strong pillar internet. Many people access the internet to spend their leisure time in Facebook, Instagram and other social media by chatting with others. They also able to become online friends with others not necessarily someone they would ever meet but someone to talk and share things with. Our world of electronic media has changed dramatically since the Internet and World Wide Web first gave us rapid to text, graphics, sound, and even video (Medoff and Kaye, 2017).
Besides the internet, another one of the most useful electronic medias that most of the people own these days is the smartphone. Smartphone is a mobile phone which offers advanced technologies with functionality similar as a personal computer. Smartphone technology has faced tremendous growth in all regions in the world and it has indeed become a very important part of our daily lives. According to Steven Tweedie (2015), people didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. Smartphones are known to give benefits to people who use it but how can a smartphone affect someone's life, especially a student? Firstly, students can take advantages of it in their studies or their business. The smartphone which come with Andriod, Apple IOS and Windows Phone operating system come with educational apps which can be used while students are in college. If it is about business, applications like Skype can be installed which will help students in communicating with their clients on the go. The next positive point of smartphones is
communication. With smartphones communication can be made easily from anywhere at any time. It is even easier that some of the applications like Whatsapp, Wechat and Telegram could allow people to make calls with anyone who is either in the country or outside of it, with no cents spent, only mobile data is used. According to Johnston (2015), a prospective mixed-methods study was conducted in a London hospital that says all emergency surgery team members used Whatsapp for communication for 19 weeks. That shows how important a smartphone is. Lastly, smartphones have become a source of unlimited entertainment. Smartphones have come existence which not only help people in making calls but also allowing us to play games, listen to music and do lots of other stuff that could bring relaxation to students' mind. In addition, smart phones are indeed invented to give people benefits and that is why ones need to be using it wisely so that everyone will get all the benefits it has.
In a nutshell, there are three types of electronic media that could easily affect our lives. One should get the full benefits by using those electronic medias as they provide a window for the world to view many different cultures and other informations that are out of our expectation.
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Appendix 1
Electronic Media Television
Figure 1. Types of electronic media
Internet
Smart phones