Mediation is a point at which the information collected by a
media company (Newspaper, studio etc.) is edited to somewhat change the
direction of the information in the piece of media. All types of media have
been mediated to get a message across or to represent something or someone.
An example of mediation would be with reality TV. It is
quite obvious that the television show has been edited however, it is not so
clear that it would be edited specifically to change the public’s perception of
the people in the show. In reality the producers would have hours of footage
with the participant of the show being civil and kind to each other, this would
bore the audience so it is edited out. The final product would make it seem
that the people in the show have an new argument by the hour despite the
episode taking place over two or three days. As a result the audience would
view the people in the show as argumentative or generally a bad person despite
them as they have not seen all of the footage.
Mediation is key in creating a person’s viewpoint and can
often change people’s perspective of an event, topic or person.
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