I never really noticed how much of my life has been exposed to all kinds of media even from day one. When I was younger I can still remember watching TV. Sitting In the car with my mom and we’d be singing songs along with the radio. Looking back now I can definitely see that a lot of my childhood was shaped loosely by what the media portrayed.
I love reading books. I can definitely say that books are my most favorite types of media. Through out the years of my life, I’ve gotten so many books from garage sales, book stores, people that I’ve created my own life library. The idea that a person can create a story to teach a lesson or just to write a story to captivate our imagination always amazes me. Through out my young and now adult life I’ve always carried a good book with me.
With television as a young child I remember always watching it after school. Now that I’ve gotten older I chose not to watch it so much. Solely for the purpose that I believe that the media in TV is very one sided. When I say one sided I mean it in a sense that the media makes people feel that they need to look a certain way or buy certain products to be accepted in society.
Recordings and newspapers were never really in my life. My parents came from the Philippines so anything that wasn’t visual images and had too many words really wasn’t a necessity to look into. As I’ve gotten older I feel that the newspaper is a dead technology I mainly use it for the funnies.
I love watching movies. Movies to me are like books. There are so many different movies that are visually stimulating. I really love anything dealing with a story.
The internet to me is probably mostly used mainly for reference or school work. To me the internet is just a jumble of information in a big box. The one this I dislike and like about it is the fact that anyone can put there own ideas whether true or completely false.
The Radio and with magazines have been parallel with my life never really important influences though. I feel that they never really change much but just in the fact how commercialized they are and how much mainstream influence they have.
I love reading books. I can definitely say that books are my most favorite types of media. Through out the years of my life, I’ve gotten so many books from garage sales, book stores, people that I’ve created my own life library. The idea that a person can create a story to teach a lesson or just to write a story to captivate our imagination always amazes me. Through out my young and now adult life I’ve always carried a good book with me.
With television as a young child I remember always watching it after school. Now that I’ve gotten older I chose not to watch it so much. Solely for the purpose that I believe that the media in TV is very one sided. When I say one sided I mean it in a sense that the media makes people feel that they need to look a certain way or buy certain products to be accepted in society.
Recordings and newspapers were never really in my life. My parents came from the Philippines so anything that wasn’t visual images and had too many words really wasn’t a necessity to look into. As I’ve gotten older I feel that the newspaper is a dead technology I mainly use it for the funnies.
I love watching movies. Movies to me are like books. There are so many different movies that are visually stimulating. I really love anything dealing with a story.
The internet to me is probably mostly used mainly for reference or school work. To me the internet is just a jumble of information in a big box. The one this I dislike and like about it is the fact that anyone can put there own ideas whether true or completely false.
The Radio and with magazines have been parallel with my life never really important influences though. I feel that they never really change much but just in the fact how commercialized they are and how much mainstream influence they have.
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