I, like many raised during the boom of the internet
takeover, dedicate a good chunk of my life to exploring the web. I started
using the internet like many kids, playing games and chatting with friends. At
that time the internet wasn’t as huge as it was then, you had to work a bit
harder to do basic things we now consider essential. I grew up during the heart
of the Myspace era and I watched the rise and decline of Facebook as time has
gone on. And I love every second of it, as soon one who got a decent balance of
both, the internet and the outdoors, I can appreciate both. My personality type
is more on the creative side, and being able to learn photoshop at a young age
certainly helped in that.
In college, I am a
Media Arts major, and with my job, I must create media, I do this mainly with
photography or video media. Media plays a huge role in my life and future
career. Websites like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter allow all of us to be
able to converse with anyone and everything, getting all types of information
and opinions. I try to only watch and read things about important modern events
but in the scramble of information I find myself reading about the latest music
gossip and whatever celebrity drama twitter deemed as important that day. I
wouldn’t say I was a ‘slave’ to the internet or my phone but I know I would
100% prefer having it on me.
I feel like the
media will either make or break your protest. Peaceful protests can either be
portrayed and friendly or evil, an example of a movement/protest that was
considered peaceful would be the ‘Me too’ movement. A movement that has dealt
with a lot of criticism and some is considered evil would be the ‘Black Lives
Matter’ movement. Both considered movements yet the two are on different sides
of the same coin. Media deeply controls how we view people and movements. I
feel this is mainly because of the news channels behind the stories who are
typically biased in nature, and lean into one side or the other. I feel it is
important that we can learn to get our information not only from the big news
shows but also the smaller sources. Sources you can find on Twitter or YouTube.
I understand the debate over the fake news on the internet, but you have to
take the news you read online with a grain of salt as well as the news you hear
on the television. Most of these smaller sources don’t have a lot to lean back
on, so they can’t typically afford mistakes. When I am watching big news
channels and a huge news story is published about a tragedy, it leaves a bad
taste in my mouth when a commercial for Oxiclean comes on right after. I don’t
want to be too hasty to judge, because I do understand that everyone must be
paid one way or another but there are times that I feel it gets out of hand.
A smaller news
show that I have been following for a couple years now would be ‘Phillip De
Franco’s’ news show he has on YouTube. He posts Monday- Friday about the big
and small topics around the world. I choose to watch him along with the other
news channel because he is unbiased on topics and doesn’t lean too much to
either side. Now he does have commercials on his videos, but like he was
explained in his videos when it comes to certain events he will take off commercials.
He also does not show the name or face of anyone would commit a tragedy to not
give them any more notoriety.
Phillip DeFranco Video 9/10/18
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