Why I Heart My Media

Talking about this topic, I would like to bring about a phenomenon: mobile-phone addition. This issue was widely discussed in the world. To which extent, media via technology influenced human beings. Even though the fact, there are more and more traffic accidents caused by using a phone, we as phone users just can’t hold back our demand and desire for phone. To some extent ,It may reflect a truth which is we love media and cannot live without her.

For me, I am crazy fan of media. I need to contact people and acquire knowledge everyday. I cannot leave media alone. To be specific, I am involved with media life. I can imagine that one day, my phone is out of power and the internet is not workable, it may drive me insane. Media is democratic for us to communicate with each other easily and conveniently. People share their personal information and get to know each other well.

If something bad happened, such as a car accident, we cannot leave media itself alone. We have to use our phones to call an ambulance. Ironic. So, we cannot say NO to media.

 

 

YIFAN FENG

Waarom houd jij van media? – Ik besloot deze vraag te stellen aan mijn vriendinnen in onze groepschat. Binnen 10 minuten had ik al 6 appjes terug. ‘Je blijft op de hoogte van belangrijke gebeurtenissen.’, ‘Je kunt goed en snel communiceren.’, ‘Je kunt er inspiratie opdoen.’, ‘Je vindt er veel nieuwe, nuttige informatie.’… De oneindige mogelijkheden van media bleven maar binnenstromen. Het feit dat ik überhaupt de mogelijkheid heb om al mijn vriendinnen in een keer te bereiken, is voor mij al een van de belangrijkste redenen waarom ik van media houd. Ik kan via media ontzettend snel in contact komen, en blijven, met mensen van over de hele wereld. Of dit contact nou gaat om een grappige video op Facebook, een gekke fotosessie via Snapchat met hondenfilters of direct app-contact met familie en vrienden: media zorgen steeds weer voor een lach op mijn gezicht.

Rosalie Eppink

We have witnessed the efforts and changes that media have made in our world , we get news from newspapers and send massages through mails in old days ,but now we can do everything we want through smart phones and the internet. I’m so curious and interested in such evolutions made by media and technologies , and I’m eager to explore our world(both real and virtual) through media . For example , if I want to travel somewhere , I can use apps to buy the cheapest air ticket as well as booking hotel rooms and we can choose the most enjoyable places and service by checking the feedbacks shared by other tourists on the app. What’s more, I want to use media to improve our lives and myself , that’s the reasons why I love media and choose to learn about it.

In 2016 was ik samen met mijn broertje een maand in Californië en na twee dagen ging mijn iPhone opeens kapot. En raad eens wat? Ik vond het helemaal niet erg! Ik voelde mij namelijk onafhankelijk van de media. Zoals dat nog een beetje het geval was toen ik klein was – ik ben stiekem ook erg blij dat ik in 1996 ben geboren en nog heb meegemaakt hoe het was toen de invloed van de media nog niet zo groot was als nu.

Als ik nu echter denk aan die maand zonder mobiel in Amerika, was dat onafhankelijke gevoel eerlijk gezegd nogal naïef van mij. Inmiddels is het mij ook wel duidelijk geworden dat de media tegenwoordig overal en altijd om ons heen zijn, ook al doet je iPhone het even niet. En ondanks dat ik niet echt zeker weet of ik dat idee nou helemaal het einde vind, ben ik wel erg blij dat ik vandaag de dag in een paar simpele klikken toegang heb tot bijna alle films en op een positieve manier verdrink in de enorme hoeveelheid gemakken en haast oneindige mogelijkheden. De mogelijkheden die ervoor zorgden dat ik op de computer van ons hostel in Los Angeles mijn ouders via de mail kon vertellen dat mijn broertje en ik er gelukkig nog waren. En dat vonden mijn ouders ook wel fijn!

Indy van de Poll

As a Media and Information student I should have multiple reasons to love my media. And I do, but I also hate it. Often media platforms such as Instagram makes me anxious and self-doubting. When newspapers are full off headlines of shootings, terrorist attacks and natural catastrophes it makes me want to shut off my phone and my laptop and crawl into a dark hole where I can’t see or hear and nothing bad happens. But if I would do that I would loose so much more than just the bad things.
Living in another country than my friends, family and boyfriend can get pretty rough sometimes. Not being able to spend time with them, hug them and share our joys and sorrows together physically and mentally is excruciating, but being able to connect them at least in some kind of way is making it a whole lot easier. I can call, text, email and send Snapchats to my beloved ones. I can open my Instagram or Facebook and see pictures and statuses they are posting about their holidays, new haircuts, new jobs etc. Getting connected to the people in my life is just one click away.
Just a week ago my family hosted a dinner with my cousin, grandmother, aunt and my boyfriend. Living here, I miss these kind of gatherings. Thanks for media I was spending time with all of them through a video call. I’m thankful that we live in a time where media has gone so far that the only way to get connected to people abroad isn’t just sending letters.

Aino Huuskonen

… it gives me the possibility to connect with people from all over the world, anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

I have gone through several situations in my life where I was genuinely thankful for the existence of phones, laptops or any device enabling people to connect with each other. A personal, striking example, for instance, was when I was traveling the world with a friend of mine for five months, being almost 20.000 kilometers away from my family and friends. This was when I really started to embrace technology and the many advantages that come with it.

However, when we were staying in hostels with a really bad internet connection (which happened pretty often), I really started to become aware of how media can actually influence people. I constantly caught myself checking my phone for a possible internet connection and instantly felt bad when I realized that there was none. This might also be one of the negative sides of this “addiction”, as some people might want to call it.

I still find it fascinating how social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp or Skype for example, facilitate the contact between people who are worlds apart. Being physically separated from somebody you love does not necessarily mean that you cannot spend time with them, no matter how far apart you actually are. It might not be the same as genuinely being in the same room and having physical contact for instance but it in my opinion, it comes pretty close to that. Sending a snap, sharing a picture on Instagram, talking on Skype or Facetime with your loved ones; there are so many ways to connect, sharing happy as well as sad moments.

All in all, media is a real life-saver in my opinion, especially for students or anyone who is away from home but likes to catch up with family and friends from time to time without having to travel ages to see them.

-Jil Meyers

There are many reasons to love Media. For me personally, I love the way Media makes people think outside the box. It makes them see and appreciate things they never did before. I admire how much you can accomplish with just one photograph, video, or even just a post on social media. To express what I mean I chose to use a video from YouTube, a mashup video of movie trailers from 2016.  Every shot, every angle of the camera, every second in this video makes me appreciate Media even more!

– Nanda Mohamed / 11845910

There is so much to hate about media, that I find it difficult to think about something that I actually like about it. I hate that I constantly check my snapchat, just to see if somebody sent me a ridiculously filtered selfie that I honestly don’t care about. I hate that I check who has viewed my insta story. I also hate how I get mad when someone leaves me on read. But then I think about my family and friends, who are approximately 1192 kilometres away and I know why I love my media. I love how I can contact them every time I need or want to. I love how my mom can send me a picture of my dogs when I ask her to (no joke, I’m obsessed over my dogs) and I love how my best friend can FaceTime me and blabber about what happened to her over the past few days. Without that sort of communication it would be way harder not to miss home (and your pets) so I guess that I love my media mostly for the possibilities it provides in terms of communicating other people.

Natalia Dercz

As an international student the number one reason why I love my media is because I can contact the people I care about anytime. For instance, it doesn’t matter the distance whenever something bothers me I can contact my family easily(as long as I have wifi connection).

But the most significant fact is that by carrying a tiny device I am able to carry with me “tones” of information all the time. I can check my emails, my grades, the weather, pictures, the news and so on. We buy expensive mobile devices, for example, and we carry them in our pockets every day. However, we underestimate their “powers” by considering ourselves clever just because we press a button and get limitless information. The real strength is not that we hold a device of 1000euros but the capabilities that this gadget offers. Through these capabilities people have a chance to choose how they are going to use their devices for their own benefit. So, we can conclude that a device is literally the extend of people’s hand since it completes their abilities.

So beside the fact that media eliminate distances and make communication fast and simple(excluding cases with technical problems) one more reason why I love media is because they give me the feeling of a super hero who holds the “world” in the palm of her hand.

Lia Kaliatza

When Mark Deuze asked us to write/post something about why we ❤ media I was a bit uninspired.

Not because there are no reasons to ❤ media, but because there are so many; how do you write about something that is everything?

But yesterday I found my answer.. My iPhone, which already had some flaws and a broken touchscreen, would not switch on anymore. I tried everything; two adapters, 200 clicks on the homebutton  etc. This may sound a bit cliché but I literally had to ”survive ” a day without my phone and I was a bit in shock (and maybe even een little ashamed) about my behavior.  I knew it was broken and I knew it would not switch on, but I automatically grabbed that stupid (<3)  thing every 10 minutes.

That evening I went to a party. Don’t get me wrong because I love it when you’re at a party and no one uses their phones and yes I can have a great evening without mine ,but this is what happened; shock one, I brought the phone with me.. ( why would you take a broken phone with you to a party…? I have no idea either)  but shock two is that something deep inside of me was a bit ”unsatisfied” about the fact that I wasn’t able to take selfies and post them on Snapchat that evening. Why the hell would you care about something like that, right? Because I know it’s stupid and I couldn’t handle the fact that I thought like that.

When I came home I decided to give it one last chance. I grabbed my phone, grabbed my adapter and guess what happened.. yes, it switched on. Why wouldn’t it at first? Because the socket I tried that afternoon had an ”issue” (and  I tried another one this time).   It was as if my freaking phone tried to teach me a lesson and wanted to make me realize that I’m an addict.

And from that moment I realized why I ❤ media; we just can’t live without it anymore. I truly care about my phone (also a shout out to my laptop btw) and I know it sounds pathetic, but I’m 100% sure that I’m not the only one……. So I want to come clean and say:  yes I share bullshit, yes I’m a FaceBook stalker, yes I’m a party snapchatter, yes I use filters and yes I follow Kim Kardashian. But there is nothing wrong with that.

 

Madelief Sienema