Mass Media and Mass Communication connected to movie 2012

Mass Media and Mass Communication affected by 2012

The many different types of mass media and mass communication connected to the movie 2012 are the movie itself, the Mayan calendar, articles, blogs, and discussion rooms and sites.

There are a few different ways that mass media has been connected to the mass communication of the movie 2012. A few examples are the movie itself, which even by watching the trailer shows that because of the Mayan calendar says that the stars or planets axis will move or tilt a certain way to where the planet will end. The company producing the movie is produced by the Mark Gordon Company. The producers of the movie were Harald Kloser, Mark Gordon, Larry Fanco and the director of the movie was Roland Emmerich. Another form of mass media/mass communication that is connected to the movie 2012 is the Mayan calendar which supposedly says that the world will end on December 21, 2012 from meteor showers, tsunamis and earthquakes. The movie does play a huge role as a form of mass communication because from reading the article “2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist” young kids have even wrote e-mails to experts, saying that they “are too young to die.”  This article is also a helpful form of mass communication because it proves what real Mayans believe about the Mayan calendar for sees.  Also many other articles have been written in expression to the new movie 2012, many people are either fearful to the end of the world or others don’t believe it to be true. Mass media’s such as blogs and discussion rooms have also been used to discuss findings of the Mayan calendar.

There is somewhat of a controversy associated with the movie 2012 and what the Mayan calendars for sees. Many believe what the Mayan calendar for sees is true and they are afraid that the world will end in the year 2012. This is an impact on lots of people especially younger kids that don’t really understand what is going on. For this a fearful situation just like what the article “2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist”. Many of us that are older don’t believe this to happen because of many other controversial issues. For example the Y2K was a big controversy that power was going to go out, everything electronic was not going to work. I remember I was still pretty young still in middle school and I wasn’t really sure what was going on or what to believe. I still remember that day and nothing happened, it was still the same. I feel that the whole controversy over the 2012 end of the world is not going to happen. From reading these articles and hearing what true Mayans living today have to say about the situation. They have also said that there is nothing to worry about and that nothing will happen. Even though there are other things like astronomer that say the stars will align to do something that happens only every 25,850 years, I still don’t believe it will happen.

I think that the reason the movie was created was because it has such a great plot. Just by watching the preview or trailers to the new movie you think to yourself what if that were to really happen. The movie puts such a great impact on your mind because of the great graphics and storyline of how people would react to a situation like that. I believe that the movie is the biggest form of mass media to create the mass communication to the Dec 21, 2012 anticipated end of the world. It is amazing how mass media and mass communication is affected by a movie like 2012. It changes our prospective on the future, it gives us fear, but after Dec 12, 2012 we will have more hope than fear. Again we will look back on this day just say that it was another anticipated day for the world to end. I think that in the future another controversy just like this will occur.

Reference

http://angel.lwtc.edu/section/content/Default.asp?WCI=pgDisplay&WCU=CRSCNT&ENTRY_ID=DC7E21D342B74982898D943C649276A0

http://www.fandango.com/2012_114792/movieoverview

http://www.whowillsurvive2012.com/

http://www.ancient-world-mysteries.com/mayan-calendar.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-maya-2012_n.htm

http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/what-will-happen-in-2012.html

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