Why I Heart My Media

When I was a child, I love watching TV and listening to the radio. I decided to go to a media major after I got in the college. The reasons that I love it is because I like things, which are created everyday by different stories. It can fill the curiosity of mine.

It is remarkable how our society has been capable of continuously stumbling upon amazing, new discoveries in the world of media. Without these innovations our economy and personal lives would be considerably altered. I appreciate these advancements in our modern techonology mainly because of the things it allows me to do. This includes being able to be in constant contact with my friends and family. No matter the distance between us, we have the ability to keep in touch and maintain a close relationship as though we were never separated thanks to the inventions of long distance calls, text messaging, and skype. Another reason I am so greatly for our advancements in media is that I am capable of producing images such as the one linked with the unimaginable resources provided for the use of photography and capturing memorable moments and marvels with a simple snapshot. All in all, even though our society most commonly takes the world of media for granted, having these technologies provided for us is one of the greatest pleasures and our world should be ever so thankful.

Media is a great tool to let your ideas hit a public platform. For me I use media as a way of communicating ideas that I have and am passionate about.

Today’s class Mark raised a point that we required more from media and less from people. Do we really care less about other individuals? I doubt that. Actually media is excatly a way we care about others. It enables us to know what people that we care about are up to, how are they doing through every texting and signiture they send and pictures they upload, etc.When I skype with my family and friends from the other side of this world, it’s really phenomenal to realize that we are seperated by a screen!!!!!! One thing amazing about media is that it literally brings people closer!

Why do I love my media you ask? Over the weekend at the tailgate, I lost my new Droid X2 smartphone. I never realized just how worthless I was without my smartphone until now. Its truly amazing how much they are capable of and how much easier they make my day to day life. Wish you were here DROID, missing you very much.

I love media because my culture demands it. That being said, I am completely fascinated by media and the ways we interact with it as a culture. For example, although interacting with my peers in person is real life, there are many situations where it is easy to forget that the person you are interacting with is a PERSON. Walking around campus today with my earphones in, I realized that I viewed the people walking around me as no more that objects I need to avoid walking into. I also work in customer service and it is easy to sometimes feel as I’m viewed as a robot designed to make my customers happy.

However, when viewing people’s facebook accounts, I find myself thinking of them as people again. What have they been up to as told by their recent pictures? Who have they been talking to? I love media because it is something that is ever-changing and ever-evolving. We are in the future baby!

Why do I love media?

I love media because school is difficult. Without Google, countless hours of my life would have been spent pouring over chemistry and physics textbooks trying to find answers to questions that can be answered in three seconds on Google. Yahoo answers or answers.com are some of the most useful tools I have used in my schooling so far, people just as confused as I am sometimes getting answers that are straightforward with terminology that anyone can understand rather than textbook terminology that doesn’t always make clear sense.

nuff said..

I love media because it allows me to keep in touch with the ones I love. It also allows me to see things in my life that I would otherwise not have the chance to see.