Media is all around you on a daily basis, no matter what you are doing there is some form of media there. While you are driving and you have the radio on, or listing to a CD, or even passing by billboards, you are consciously or sub consciously taking in many different forms of media. What role does media play in my everyday life? Well I am a huge sports fan generally speaking. Every time I watch a sporting event on a TV or listing on the radio, there is advertising consistently throughout the games. In baseball each inning is “brought to you by” something. Media is not only limited to advertising, but it is the media that brings the game to me pretty much where even I am. Do we mostly consume media or do we mostly create it? Well this is a question that could be answered many different ways, but I think the everyday American mostly consumes media for the simple fact that media is everywhere you go. Even if you help create media, you are still consuming media while you create or partake in it. We consume more media than we could ever possibly create, because there are so many companies within the general word “media.” What do I want out of this communications class? Well first and foremost I want a better understand of communications and the media, so I potentially go on and get a fun well paid job. Knowing this is a basic beginner class I want to “consume” the basics of this field to build on with more advanced classes.
