What Is Media

Omnipresent (social media – the degree of saturation within this moment)

Development 

Influential

Editing

Rhetoric

Cultural appropriation and identity – control over various spectrums

Reception of media (perception)

Media is power and ethical responsibility

“The  media are not so much ‘things’ as a places which most of us inhabit, which weave in and out of  our lives. Their constant messages and pleasures seem to flow around and through us, and they immerse most of our waking lives”. Cranston and Stafford

Constitutive of identity and sense of self

Media is partly ‘the reality’, it can only go so far to a perceived truth.

Our lives are, to a more extensive degree than we care to think, infused with a process of inscription, producing printed or written traces or working from them. the omnipresence of these documentary or textual precesses is now being entered by the technology of computers –Dorothy Smith

Instead of categorising media time to real life time maybe the debate should be the amalgamation of both.