The reason why I like media is because it got me and my best friend to reconnect. We had been friends for over 11 years but only during the quarantine we got close. When the quarantine began, we started calling each other at least 3 to 4 times a week, either doing homework together or …
Author Archives: Life in Media
Loving Media, Suspiciously
As most people of my generation, I have been exposed to and grown into media when it was advancing at a pace it has never yet advanced and, in turn, when new ways of commodifying media practices often went unchecked and unrestrained. Now looking back it is interesting to see how I fell for traps …
From love to hate and back again
My relationship with media is pretty complicated I think. I’ve been using it since I was eight years old. I would go on forums for girls my age and I’d made a lot of friends. In real life, away from media I was pretty shy and reserved. I had a hard time making friends and …
El Rojo
Is there really an answer? As a teenager growing up in a private and conservative high school in Ecuador, the options you had for your professional future was to inherit your family’s business, be a lawyer, a doctor, or a business manager. All my school friends around me had their future lifetime jobs already secured …
Media as liberation
Up until the development of the internet and other modern media, knowledge was spread locally and in a slow manner. As well as being very vulnerable to national restrictions in publishing and dissemination. I’ve always known how lucky I am to have free access to the internet and its evergrowing amount of information. I was …
P.S. Take My Breath Away
Love is a concept that is hard to fully comprehend. I think that goes for every individual, yet i find myself falling in and out of love with my media. At times, It’s like a bad breakup or one of those “situationships” you don’t know what to do with or feel about, but other times, …
Why I heart my media Since the name of this Blog is “why I heart my media” I will make my contribution about myself and my relationship with media. I was born in 2001 so i fall in the category of digital natives, people who grew up in and around technologies like computers the Internet …
My Media n I
I would want to start this in a modest way, claiming that I have a love-hate relationship with my media, yet I can’t bring myself to do that as most of my everyday life activities happen through various Media, making it hard to hate. What I have come to realize is that nowadays, especially since …
Why I <3 My Media
I ❤ my media because it’s an escape from the real world for me. Wether it’s video games, movies or TV shows, they let me enter a realm of endless possibilities. Beautiful stories, that let you forget about your own problems and responsibilities. I ❤ my media because it lets me interact/connect with so many …
10 things I hate about you
I hate the way you talk to me,and the way you overshare. I hate the way you spread violence. I hate it when you don’t care. I hate your big dump moneymaking CEO’s,and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me addicted,it even makes me rhyme. I hate the …
Why I Heart My Media 