Blog #7

The coolest concept that we have explored so far this year in our class is deffinately the argument of media affecting the culture, or culture affecting media. There are so many arguments for both ways that both have seemed to be true at different times. Media deffinately affects culture. We see the new things on commercials and we go out and buy them. The advertisers appeal to what we value in America and make us go one step further and buy their product. On the same note, media bases a lot of its advertisements off of our core values. We see many things involved in advertisements. Whether it be a a youthful star used to advertise sports, or a rich successful buisness man driving a car. There are so many ways that both media affects culture and culture affects media. At the begginning of the year I was almost convinced that media was only affected by culture. I simply didn't understand the knowledge that was behind the media. Almost everything is carefully planned out to get us, the consumer to buy our product. Sure we do have an impact on what is being shown in media, but also we are basically owned by media. We are told what to buy, we are told how to act, and some times we are even told what to think. This argument is very interesting, its answer is not set in stone, and that is what makes it an interesting topic.