Reflection: My Relationship with Media
This assignment and course have affected me more personally than most other classes I have ever been enrolled in. Through evaluating my relationship with media, I have learned and internalized three key lessons. First, not everything is accurate or truthful. While this seems obvious and I don't remember a time when I actually believed everything was real, I was surprised by how much I trusted faulty sources. Large corporations and media companies do not have our best interest in mind, and manipulate us in order to serve their own interests, even if that means spreading manipulative and toxic messages that inaccurately portrays reality. Second, I feel as if I have come to truly recognize the impact that media has on our individual behavior and who we are as people. As we interact with media, it shapes our wants, desires, and how we act. While interacting with anything can influence us, media is specifically designed to control what we want, how we want it, and how we act. This magn
