"For me and my circle of friends, I would like to say that the media has little to no effect on myself and I make my own choices." This is something along the lines of what I might of said when I was in middle school, in my social studies class, learning about media and how it works in my life. Today, I don't personally hate or love the media, but I know what it is, and where it is going in my life. To quote an anonymous individual who thought of the morals of guns in the world, I go on to apply it to mass media that, "Mass media has been a critical tool in history. Since its creation it has been praised and denounced and carries moral responsibility. To understand the use of mass communication is to better understand history. "
Since this is my first blog entry for my mass communications class, I should say how the eight types of mass media are intertwined in my life helping me be who I am. Out of all eight, I will start first with magazines!
Magazines have been in my life since I was a kid. I really liked magazines compared to books because I liked the tone I got from reading them versus books, kind of like how I disliked learning from my teachers in grade school in comparison to my mom and dad. I think this will be good foreshadowing to how I feel about the other 6 types of mass communication because I don’t necessarily like them all! The other big reason I liked magazines is because it incorporated pictures in literally every page! From ad’s and headline photographs, they spoke more to me than the copious amounts of text that follow them. In some cases I thought when things were long and wordy it was to cover something up, to derail you, to make you believe something is true. Perhaps this is why people love to read novels and get lost, but I personally haven’t read one in a long time since it really does not have pictures! Newspapers on the other hand, I have a different view.
Newspapers along with books, radio, really are not too big in my life. Even internet news, or eBooks, or net radio does not all to interesting to me! When I think about it, I chose not to because they are too easily forged. News papers can have a story that totally contradicts a picture, or they just pick one that fits the article best. Books don’t really show me what it was like; it tells me what it is like, normally from one perspective too. And for radio it is just an audio book that incorporates tone to sway my thoughts. In comparison to television, and video recordings, and movies, they show how it really is, well most of the time…
Certainly anything in the media can be fabricated and my warm feelings of video documentaries, television broadcasts, and most certainly movies can be a bunch of smoke and mirrors to mislead me, but my preference is to see the footage, not read the report. What I have really liked is video documentaries with captioning so I can see the sights the videographer wants me to see and listen to the narration of the shot and read along to keep my vernacular up to satisfactory levels. I have grown up with public television ever since I was a kid, and I most certainly loved the programming as a kid, now I find it rather silly I was captivated by such ideas but they seeded in me to subconsciously question to understand how our world work or even the universe! At least how it comes together for my life and the ones I care for.
But for now I’ll keep all of that deep thought on the back burner of my enormous imaginary thinking stove and think about the more important things at hand that are prudent to being successful in the social world I live in. I think it would be neat to the readers to know my academic goals are and that is to complete either a Nursing degree or a Speech Communications degree. In the end I think they will be both fun to dabble in just as long as I chance to live the life I want. But that will be for another blog entry!
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