After reading everybody's comments and ideas about media, I discovered that the central, basic idea exists-there is good as well as bad. Visual and digital media seemed to have the most opinionated comments out of the four types of media. I think this can be attributed to the fact that visual and digital media are omnipotent and encompass almost every aspect of our 21st century lives today.
Since the title of this course includes the words digital media, I found it appropriate to describe my love/hate relationship with it. Can you even imagine a day completely unplugged? I honestly cannot remember the last full 24 hours I went without some sort of digital or social media-it was probably a time when I didn't have service or a Wifi connection.
So, I love how connected people are as a result of digital media. In my opinion, it's done very interesting things for humanity. I think it enhanced our need to be social, but then it has also made us less social during real-life interaction. Case in point, some families sit down at the dinner table but can't seem to put down their smartphones and get off Facebook. I find it a bit ironic.
However, digital media has done great things for society. It gives people a voice that might not have had a voice in another time. It has allowed for self-expression, creativity, and individuality. It has opened a whole new world for education and tools that can be used within the educational setting. Almost every form of digital and social media can be used within the classroom. This gives all students an advantage in the increasingly technological world, especially students from our more rural areas.
I truly believe that for every negative effect we see from social media, something positive will offset it.
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