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Bryan Adams - Canadian Artist

April 19, 2018

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"Media Have Commercial Implications"

Media Literacy - Today and Tomorrow

Some very important information that I found while watching the two videos were that on average a person spends 10-12 hours a day on the media. That is half your day wasted. In today's society, media is taking over everyone's lives because it is so addicting. It is very hard just to focus and filter the "good media," meaning that there is so much media from many different perspectives that it is not possible to remove all the negativity. I also found out that it is important to target all audiences and how they view things, but at the same time, it is not possible to cover each point of view because there are so many different people with opinions. Therefore, people just need to be accepting of others opinions. Lastly, the media can be both beautiful and dangerous. It can be beautiful because there are so many different things that it has to offer, but dangerous because like I said, it can become very addicting and consume your lifestyle. Speaking for myself, I spend ...

"The Medium is the Message"

Our example was found on Facebook.com, but in order to get the link we went to the site where the video was originally posted, which was abcnews.go.com. The title of the video is "Trump holds listening session with students on mass shootings." Hallimah Abdullah wrote this piece. This is about several families and survivors who are demanding safety in schools to create a recognizable change. These real life bystanders have a meeting with president, Donald Trump, in hopes that something will be done to create a safer enviroment for not only children/teens, but teachers and other staff as well. Some ways we think this example connects to the phrase "the medium is the message" are, t he way the message is percieved does not allow you to voice your own opinion in the sense that, you feel sorrow for these people and with that sorrow comes a feeling that you wish you could have done something to prevent what happened, therefore you also believe that something needs...

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