Intro

Who do you think you are?

What is your role in media consumption, critique and/or media making. How much of who you are is measured against media examples and images? How much of our common experience involves shared mass media images, events and stories? Use several media examples to illustrate your description of your relationship to media.

Can you think of ways that the media covers activists, acts of resistance and protest? How do you feel about this relationship? Use examples to illustrate your answers. Your blog post must be at least 4 paragraphs and you must include at least one link and ONE IMAGE.

Like almost everyone from Generation Y and Generation Z, I have an Instagram account that I check often. I follow models, artists, fashion brands like Gucci and Balenciaga to stay inspired and stimulated because I am a creative personality type. I usually find out about news through social media more compared to newspapers like the New York Post.

I would say media has sculpted me a lot. I love watching movies and have started to follow the works of directors like Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Tim Burton. I have integrated many personality traits from movie characters into my personality like Miranda Priestly’s posh attitude from The Devil Wears Prada. I also attribute my love for Victorian fashion from watching movies like del Toro’s Crimson Peak and Tim Burton’s Alice.

I usually find out about mass shootings and protests through mass media and social platforms I use. I think I am more active and open to receive information when this political climate began. I, for one, consider myself an environmentalist and I care deeply about proper waste disposal, recycling, and the condition of our planet so I follow and consume eco-friendly products on Instagram such as The Body Shop and Innisfree.

https://www.thebodyshop.com/en-us/about-us/our-commitment/enrich-product/environmental-footprint

In the age of technology and increased usage of social media, I think people are more prone to to criticism when they commit an act deemed to be political like kneeling during the national anthem. Whether you are a conservative republican or liberal democrat, I feel like anyone is subject to immediate publicity and scrutiny whether you are celebrity, politician, or ordinary civilian. I definitely do feel like some people are trigger-happy when it comes to protesting and are just looking for ways to galvanize people into siding with them to gain attention or they just want to be right (for e.g. people who wanted to boycott Pepsi when Kendall Kardashian did a commercial with Pepsi). In this political climate, identity politics has been dramatically raised to an unignorable state especially when it comes to gender. With one click, the entire world can make you or break you. What you put out there can ruin your life.