Unit 11: Emergent Media

After completion of the class, Emergent Media, I can truly say I have learned some important ideas that I will take with me in all my future endeavors. This class lead me to take an in depth look at media and the effects it had on me without my awareness. Moving forward can say that I definitely take a better look at media in terms of advertisements, social media, and sports. I consciously ask myself what the media wants from this interaction and what I want out of it. Overall, regarding the class itself I really liked that it was provided completely online. This worked really well with my demanding senior nursing classes. I thought the breakdown of units and the future deadlines was also helpful because I could plan my workload according to what worked best for me. I think that content that I really liked was pertaining to media messages and then sports. If I had to implement a change in the Emergent Media class I would change the amount of social media case studies and do some different projects. Although I thought that doing a few social media case studies was very helpful in terms of media usage from different accounts I found them repetitive after a few. I think the addition of different projects in place of the case studies would be something I would have enjoyed. In my opinion, the timing that I took this class couldn’t have been better. Especially with the Coronavirus pandemic going on currently. I think that the addition of how fake news effected this time for us could be added to the course as well. Overall, I surprisingly really enjoyed the Emergent Media class and I think I learned things that are useful to know about our society today regardless of my nursing background.