CPCF 1F25 Blog Response: Media Impact on Others

Upon reading posts from some of my colleagues and it goes without saying that we definitely agree that the mass media has impacted on views of the world, and how this affects us in our everyday lives. When comparing to my own post I noticed that I had a very two sided view, upon reading some other I feel like many of my colleagues had pretty negative views on the media without looking at some of the lighter elements of it.




In Veronica Field's (http://veronicatmeow.blogspot.ca/) post I noticed that she too felt that the mass media had affected her from a very young age, especially in regards to body image where she says " I'm too tall to be a runway model, too thick to wear the cute dress that Zooey Deschannel wore on the cover of Cosmo a few weeks back, and that my skin is too pallid to even bother trying to put cover-up on every day". She also has the struggle that many of us deal with based on the media's perception of what beauty is. I also felt her post to be something that I could relate with as well since we both seemed to have a knack for Sailor Moon




In Ryan Mallat's post (http://ryanmallat.wordpress.com/) he talks about how he views the media as a vessel of persuasion which I find he uses the best example of when President Obama was running for election where he goes to say " all the news stations could talk about was how great Obama was, how he was a great leader, and charismatic. " I feel like media definitely did help out with Obama's campaign as he used media extensively and in the end result he did en up winning.




While reading Kevin Shen's post (http://kevinshen94.wordpress.com/) he talks about how the media kind of instills this notion that only new things are "cool" and that anything other than that isn't and somehow irrelevant. My favourite example is when he talks about Apple products and how people feel that the new product is a must have, he goes to say "the new iPhone 5c, it is exactly the same as the iPhone 5, but it comes in many different color instead of the standard black and white. A phone having color is nice, but is it really worth it to spend a few hundred dollars for a paint job?". I feel that Kevin is spot on with this one, there really isn't a need to keep upgrading every time something new comes out. I myself still have the iPhone 4S.




All in all I feel like my colleagues and I few the media in similar ways but we do not all view it the same way, as I learned many of my colleagues had a lot of negative things to say about the media. I myself still feel that the media affects us negatively, but I still think that the media provides a lot of positive things for us as well.