Reflection

Media Culture at the start of class made me think of a sociological perspective. How does one view the society they live and how has media influenced that society. This concept has been touched upon but their has been so much more discussed over the past few weeks. Despite me being a technophile, I never though about how video games, cell phones, and the creation of other technology changed my lifestyle and the world around me. The main concern from most of the readings deal with the idea that media and technology are going to lead us to ruin. To an extent I feel that they are right. However, we have just began scrapping the surface of the other side of the coin. I am trying to remove tone and tempo from the texts as I read them, so I do not get wrapped up in the negative image that the author is painting. It is not easy though because it is so easy to get wrapped up in a doomsday story. People in general, I believe at least, find it easier to connect with the negative than the positive because they lack faith in society and the negative out come in turn becomes the easier of the two to understand and believe. Which makes me wonder about did media and technology build the frame in which this house of anger/fear/frustration is built upon.


I would like to return to the ideas of art and image eventually and maybe redo our group work at the end to see how our perspectives have shifted. Image and art , for me, are important because we live in a very visual world and the image, which a few authors have discussed, is the guiding light that aids in the construction of a person psychological schema.


The timing of the class was killing me but that has been resolved for the second half of the semester, no worries there. Other than that.. I had no real solid idea on how this class would go. I had some foresight from last semester but this is a different ball game.