Impact of Media

Media has impacted in so many ways, just in the aspect of providing me with my major. In my personal life I think its help me make more connections with people I now call friends, but it’s definitely had negative effects as well. In my job or any job really it’s help with advertising and engaging the consumer. I’d say over all it’s had a positive impact on my life, but it is not without its flaws. For instance, there have been times when chatting on Facebook for example it was the medium that became more important than the message, which caused many problems, because the message was not becoming clear between myself and the other person. Other times I will be so connected to phone or ipod that it’s an extension of my body, and I will what’s going on around me. I also found myself trapped in the “global village” like Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. The desire to know at all times what people are doing is exhausting, which can be an agreement for technology determinism, because just a few years ago society wasn’t concerned with knowing who was doing what and how with, and where. If they did, they simply asked now we stalk people. This is way I think smartphones are more structuralism, because they are the response to the social “need” and change, that we are all creepers now. This is why I can’t really pick one of the other, because I don’t think there is a definite one.