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 most people in this generation I have the normal social media accounts, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Pinterest. I think that I am someone who is not dependent on what the media shows me. I am someone who does not actively spend much of my time with social and regular media because most of the time what I see on social media does is not helpful and is just a distraction. I find that media is a helpful tool to communicate and join the world together; however, I also see it as a way to either cause fear, tension or make someone believe something that is false, which we call “fake news”. Like when people make same sex marriage seem like a sin and that these people should be locked away from the rest of the world. I use social media to gain knowledge and to communicate with friends and family but, my life at this point does not revolve around it. I do not have a twitter account and rarely use my Facebook or Instagram because the media that is used through there does not always give me insightful or helpful information.

            Everyone finds their own way to communicate with the world. Now a day because of the media and recent technology people are always connected with the internet. People use it to communicate with each other and to state their opinions. I myself have been influenced by what I see through the media. It inspires me to be myself and not be afraid to make new friends and show the world what I have to offer. There are stories of how people become friends with someone halfway across the world with the help of the media. Media is always around us and most of the time it helps shape us into better human beings.

            When you look at how the media covers protests their either shown in a positive and motivational light or make it seem like a crime. People have the right to protest and yet sometimes the media only covers what they want people to believe. An example would be that all police officers are hateful and corrupt and try and stop people from protesting their beliefs. This is a lie because yes, there are some bad police officers, but there are many more that are good, who try to help people and protect others.

I believe that the media most of the time is used to show how people stand together to change what it considered “normal”, yet fight against what is unjust and unfair. They portray these activists as people who are standing united for a cause they believe to be unfair and should be changed. An example is the protest for same sex marriage that occurred years before the law was passed. The media showed how people would not stand for being treated like they were committing a crime when they believed that they loved someone of the same sex. It also showed how hateful and disrespectful people who are against same sex relationships are. I believe that the media does try and show all sides of a story and the fact that they show protestors is a positive light is what I believe the media was first created for; to help people know the truth.

           

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