Consumption

         Watching the video and reading the statics I am sad to say that I see a connection in my own life between the amount of media content that I consume and what I believe to be true about the world. For example, the part about women held especially true for me. I remember thinking in high school that I was out of shape, and being extremely self-conscious about my looks. However, looking back I was being ridiculous. I am 5’7” and at the time weighed 120 pounds. I should have never felt the way that I did. Yet, I felt pressure from society to be thinner. I realize that I do feel worse about myself after watching television or browsing the Internet. Also, I notice the “boys will be boys” attitude in both the media and real life.

         I think it is important that students learn to create multimedia content. However, I do not think it is nearly as important as learning to read and write text. Writing has become so informal and I feel as though it is being neglected. These days, with the massive amount of texting, AIMing, emails, etc, people have become extremely lax in their writing. Abbreviating has become so popular that people actually say L-O-L. Also, capitalizing and punctuation has been suffering. I think that schools should focus first on text writing and the creation of multimedia content should come second.