my media reflection
Over the course of this semester, I am beginning to realize that media isn't just on my phone anymore. It's everywhere. It's on the television, buses, magazines, bill boards, and so many more. With this, I believe that I consume over thousands of forms of media each day. I don't think that this is necessarily a bad thing, but it's not also a good thing. I think that media can have both negative and positive effects. First off, media helps me to be informed in political issues and most definitely pop culture. Secondly, media allows me to be sucked into something and not have any control over what I see or do. For example, I could be sucked into a brand, say Nike, and be obsessed with it. This is because of how the Nike brand had built themselves out to be something to strong and dominant, that they are now creating a cult-following. Media does this to people. Media allows for people to become fully immersed into a world that they can no longer control, where companie...
