INSTRUCTIONS: The links below take you to video clips from Reel Society, a unique movie that brings sociology to life through the use of actors and scenarios involving life on campus, in the community, and within the family. These clips allow you to explore a wide variety of topics and issues, including culture, socialization, marriage and family, inequality, race and ethnicity, deviance, the media, social change, and more.

View the videos, answer the following questions below and discuss your answers with your classmates and instructor.

1			Mass Media: WPNR Staff Discuss Television Broadband (3887.0K) Dial-up (746.0K) The Reel Society characters argue about the positive and negative aspects of television. What is your view on other forms of mass media, such as the Internet, radio, movies, or books? Which form of mass media, if any, has the most redeeming social value? Compare and contrast the ways that television and the Internet have affected your life. Is the impact of these two forms of mass media largely the same? If not, to what would you attribute the differences?