Well it has been a great time writing and researching about the media this past quarter and I have to say that I consume a lot of media every day. It has impacted my life through watching all the different brands try to pull me into buying their products. When I don't have anything to do, I am mostly on my phone or television that increases the media that I consume each day. I have never noticed how much advertising stunts that companies do to get the word out of their new and amazing products.
Being aware of the media's advertising techniques has made myself more cautious and have a better perspective of not jumping to the conclusion that I really want that product just because it's on television or my favorite stars are liking the brand. Before I was always being pulled in and attracted to new products because I would always want to try them because it was something I've never seen before. Another reason is I would use the ad populum fallacy and I would want to go along with the latest food trends. However, my media consumption habits have changed over the semester because I have never been so involved with analyzing the media before, which has raised and increased my media consumption. Another reason is that I wasn't doing any school sports, which increased my free time to watch advertisements on my television screen.
It is important to have media literacy because if we are unaware of the media shaping our perspectives on what to buy, then we would spend our money or follow whatever product was to our liking rather than looking at how good the product/company is.
Through this blog, I was able to look and see a new world around me that I've never experienced before. I was never caught up with the media, so writing articles on this blog helped expand my zone of seeing how the media constructs society and everything that people do or see is altered by the media. Also, I never thought of how many techniques that are used to sell a brand to citizens and the marketing of teens in America.
For the last time, Stay Frosty My Friends and I think this is the end of DT's Frosty blog and I hope you all we will have fantastic day consuming more and more media stunts!
