Media Analysis Reflection
- Of everything that we studied this semester, what thing or things stand(s) out to you most? What are your big “takeaways” from Media Analysis? Why?
Out of everything we learned throughout the semester one thing that stood out to me the most is the concept that a lot of modern new medias covering news events are made out to scare us about everyday things. This stood out to me because its so recognizable in the news when reading about things like vaccines and their negative effects. From this a big takeaway I learned was to not let the media scare the life out of me. If i intake news like this and become scared of things that are always going to happen, life wont be as enjoyable as it should be.
- To my knowledge, the only schools in the area that offer Media Analysis are Prospect and Stevenson. Do you think other schools should adopt the course? Why or why not?
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I believe that other schools should adopt this course because it teaches kids many things about how to understand why society is the way it is. Throughout this course we learned very useful information, from examining advertisements and how the reel in the viewer to relating old patterns to new ones. Another reason I believe schools should adopt this course is from the final essay. It important to be able to relate the Allegory of the cave story to modern society in order to understand bigger concepts.
- What aspect of Media Analysis did you most enjoy? Why?
One aspect of Media Analysis that i most enjoyed was the advertising unit. Within this unit we learned the different aspects that make an advertisement effective to the many ways to advertise to the people. I enjoyed creating my own advertisement because it used every concept learned throughout the unit into a fun way to review and teach yourself the depths of advertising.
- What skills have improved as a result of your time in this course? What do you think helped contribute to your development of those skills?
One skill that has improved after taking this course was my ability to depict whether a news story is fake news or not. This improved by learning the different aspects that makes a news story false. By learning that false news is not something biased or not something I don’t like along with checking to see if a source is legit or not heavily helped my skills in news intake. Beforehand, I would intake anything that sparked my interest without fact checking it at all. After taking this course my skill to interpret whether a news story is fake or not increased and helped me understand the truths of the news
