Taking a Look Back on Media
Because this is my last media blog, I wanted to revisit the effect of media on my life, and kind of write a concluding post to end my blogs on this website. From watching videos in class, and other experiences that I've had in life over these past months, my perception of media has changed dramatically. In the beginning of this blog, I went into it thinking that media was for the most part all bad and that it was all toxic. The documentaries in class reinforced this. Most of them highlighted how much time we spend on our phones and how it's not healthy for us to be online all the time. I definitely think that there are negatives to media in general, but I think that if we look collectively at the effect that media has good and bad, using everything that I've experienced in my life up to this point, the good definitely outweigh the negatives. An example of a positive happened last weekend. I went to the regional meet for the NCAA D1 Track and Field Championships. It