Answer To: Instructions For this assignment, analyze and evaluate who owns your media. How do these companies...
Sharanya answered on Apr 17 2022
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Who Owns My Media: Reflections
Socrates questioned the "propriety and impropriety of writing", expressing his fear of a new medium, the same fear expressed by later generations at the wake of a new medium. However, it is a truth now universally accepted that our lives revolve around the media. As technology developed, media evolved into newer avatars, remediation happened, and finally came digital media that wholly altered our experiences. With mobile technologies and smart appliances, digital media has become our permanent companion, often even in our sleep.
With such ubiquity of the digital media, what was once personal became more public. The more we share our content (information) online, the more we let media conglomerates gather it to use back on us to advertise their products and services. The question, therefore, is whose media is it, ours or theirs? In a study named the Middletown Media Studies, it was found that our use of media is twice that of what we believe and that we often use more than one media at a time. While it is natural for media use to increase with its spread and easy availability, how this has altered interpersonal relationships, making our lives nearly transparent, is of serious concern.
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