Unit 2: Blogging

Most people find their news information in the same place they post pictures of themselves, social media. In today’s society most everything is done through media. During my time listening the the classes lecture material I realized one part was really interesting. When talking about messages through media and factual or social information, social information, or beliefs is something that is already driven into media but we don’t realize it. There are norms all around us, how we dress, what we post on Instagram, and the words we use to talk to each other. I found this really interesting because its an idea that is already put in our everyday life but we never stop to look at it. Another interesting thing I found this week in lecture was about personal locus’s. This idea is really true and can be very different person to person. What drives my social media interests, like style, famous people, and interior design, is not what drive my boyfriends social media time, sports, news, and famous athletes. This drive or personal locus, although might equal out to be the same time each day, shows that each person is coming to social media to get something different out of it. Already, this media class is opening my eyes up to how I myself use social media and how I control the messages I receive through it. This blog is actually a really good example of a different type of “message” that we see. This is also a good example, of how we shouldn’t trust everything thats put on the internet because just like on the blog, people can put whatever information they want on here, true or false. I think that this blog will keep me accountable to be self evaluating my media literacy through the remainder of the class.