Entry #9. The Power of Media

 

In todays topic I plan to speak about media as a whole. What is media how does it effect you and me, and why is it so good at persuading the masses? First let's break down what media truly is, when you think of media the first thing that comes to mind is social media. This is originally how I perceived the word but as time passed and I did my research I came to learn that media is a much larger concept. To better understand what I am talking about I will list off some of the different types of media the population consumes day to day. The first being television, then on to radio, newspapers, magazines, Digital media, social media, the internet, music, movies, etc. As you can see the list goes on, if it is a way for you to consume information it can be considered a form of media. But how does this effect us humans you might wonder, well that is quite easy. The human brain is a just a sponge, a sponge waiting to soak up information and mesh it all together without the information gathered previously. As time goes on your brain will start to develop and adapt, our brains will begin to tell us what is right and what s wrong, what is true and what is false, and all this circles back to what we learn through media. Media does such a good job and persuading the masses because that is its intended purpose, media was developed to spit information at you in large swarms until certain topics and ideas stick. Eventually we find what we believe to be right and what we enjoy and build upon that idea. Media as whole is a powerful yet dangerous tool, we must know when to step away from the mass media and reflect on our ideas and think logically in order to keep a level head. That is all for today, see you in the next one!