Reflection
In my first blog post, I talked about how much media I consume, but to recap: I consume a lot of media, particularly television, movies, comedy, podcasts, and music. This impacts my life because I’ve become very attached to these aspects of media which I consume. However, being aware of my media consumption has given me a new perspective on a lot of what I consume. Even though I still consume the same amount of media, I find myself thinking more often about the constructed messages of different types of media. Specifically when it comes to commercials, my new knowledge about advertising has given me terms and names for advertising techniques used to persuade me to buy a product. These are things that I experienced before this class, but now that I have more information about them, I am able to see through them more and not be persuaded as easily. Having this media literacy gives me the ability to analyze and deconstruct these hyper-constructed and often negative messages that comp...
