Thursday, November 19, 2009
Using Media More Responsibly
The concept I thought would be tremendously useful is the concept on “Using Media More Responsibly” (Trenholm, 2008). I believe these tips in becoming a conscientious and more considerate media user will help people out a great deal. The first tip that Trenholm suggests is to know and understand that the media does affect us. We need to recognize how big of an impact that the media has on us and be able to judge what is true and fair. Secondly, most of the time when the media gives us facts, we tend to believe them right away, which often become to lazy to process what they are telling us, and instead just believe them. We need to understand what is going on around us and question what they are telling us. This will help us become more aware and knowledgeable, which will ultimately cause us to demand more truthful facts. Another tip is that most of us have issues with talk shows and other forms of media, however we never do anything about it, which causes more distasteful talk shows. We need to start to raise our standards, being aware and doing something about these unpleasant forms of media, will help us become more responsible media consumers. Lastly, by understand the distasteful form of media and rejecting it from our daily lives will cause us to want to find out other resources to use instead, more tasteful entertainment, perhaps. Being able to use these tips will help us become a more responsible and caring media user. I believe that these tips can help us out in a sense we might top watching and wasting our time with the junk on television.
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I too think this is very good advice from Trenholm. One issue that I believe was briefly talked about in our text is the affects the media can have on our self image. Although there has been some outcry about too-thin models or not enough diversity represented in advertising, models continue to not represent the average women and minority groups still under-represented. Although I realize that not everyone could or should be a model (just like not everyone could or should be a doctor) I think it is important for consumers of this media to be aware that these people are not supposed to be representative of what a women should look like and question our societies' beauty ideals.
ReplyDeleteBefore college, I never thought to be critical of media sources. I always took it for granted that news sources were unbiased asnd always told the truth. I wasn't aware of the amount of opinion that influenced media sources. This reflects the idea that everybody has their own opinions and this is even bigger whn there are whole organizations that have this idea. People get these people and use them to support their ideas. Now I am aware that media sources are biased and am always critical of what I watch on the news.
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