Welcome to Intro to Media and Digital Culture – Fall 2016!

How has media effected us as a society? Is this positive or negative?

In the designated articles, “Clinical Report—The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families” and “How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism” we can comprehend that the Media is proven to be both beneficial and a source of corruption to the generation of today. Media is not a bad as what these articles have shared. I believe Media should be viewed as a positive platform in which individuals can share, explore, view, and grow as a person. All of these media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat all can be used for financial passive and residual gain if one has built a large client/viewer base. The world of today is based all around the Media and with the world today… it cannot be avoided, it will only continue to evolve and transpire. Media creators and technicians year by year are on a mission to build financial gain by a constant upbringing of something new to the table for consumers, where things would be more user friendly, appealing to the eye, luxurious, informative, etc. Media can transform people from the large amounts of information they would have access too on the Internet. What I find most interesting within media is the fact that you can have access to many different methods and strategies in which a person can build themselves. Anything that has to do with self-building, motivating, and change of perception for the better or a positive proven approach a person can attempt to try… I am in full supportive of it. In life people are not given an instruction manual in which they should live life a certain way. With the media, I feel it gives individuals a better chance and opportunity to find self-empowerment and become the powerful person they were always meant to be.