media allows me to be in touch with my friends and family. when i moved to amsterdam i new no one. not a single person. thanks to many internet communicators i am able to talk to my loved ones every moment i want to, i need to. moving for studies abroad definitely wouldn’t be an …
Author Archives: Life in Media
A Dysfunctional Relationship
Instead of using the term ‘double-edged sword’ as I have seen many of my peers use, I opted to use ‘dysfunctional’; I chose to do this because referring to media as a double-edged sword would mean that media itself is hurting me but I believe we are just hurting ourselves. Its a bit like saying …
Why I <3 My Media
I see how my media shapes accordingly to what I lack. If I lack entertainment (I am bored in other words) I can watch Netflix. If I am homesick, my media becomes something else. It is a platform to communicate with family and friends. If I am out of the loop, my devices have all …
We are all protagonists
Stories allow us to communicate and empathise. They are a safe mechanism to gather people around a bonfire and amuse them with our narration. In response to our human need, social networks have quickly become the ideal place to tell stories: more specifically our story. Social media tell about us or rather: our own version …
to love or not to love
Media nowadays is either seen in most cases as a levianthan power that will ruin your life and if you use it too much, you will slowly see yourself fade away from society( For me i dont believe that is the case). Or as a woundeful tool of communication and entratainement You see, I love …
Media Stockholm Patients
It was the first time in nineteen years that I had been so far from home, a full 7,833 kilometres. I could not find anything familiar in this land and loneliness clung to me. In the two months I’ve been here, I’ve barely spoken my mother tongue. I began to miss home. And because of …
Ik ”houd” van media
Liefde is een breed begrip en kent ontelbare definities. Media is overal en kan niet uitgeschakeld worden. Door media ligt letterlijk de hele wereld aan je voeten. Het biedt je de mogelijkheid om binnen een paar seconden contact te maken met je geliefden, die wellicht mijlenver van je verwijdert zijn. Neem bijvoorbeeld de app Facetime …
Why I heart my media
I realized that I only started thinking about my media and its impact on me when I start taking this course. As I was brainstorming for this blog post I noticed that media has been benefiting my life since a very young age. I found it interesting that I’ve never reflected on my love for …
Media saved my life
I am 19 years old, turning 20 in December. At the age of 17 – the end of my junior year in high school – I started experiencing chronic pelvic pain. It was getting worse over time. Ultrasounds, colonoscopy, SIBO test, lab tests all came back normal. The symptoms lasted for over a year and …
‘The Importance of Media in my Life, and How it Enables me to Remain Connected to my Ancestry’
Media has played an extremely important role in my life, and has done since the moment I was born. As a child born in the 21st Century, the significant role that media was going to play in my life was inevitable. Throughout my lifetime, I have witnessed the release of the first smartphone, and the …
Why I Heart My Media 