Past the overwhelming initiation of this new cyber reality to my technology naive existence, I am starting to feel the direct consequences of media in a way that I have never before. I have always observed media, noted its progressions and gladly reaped its benefits. However, somewhere between reading Dolly Magazines and ‘Googleing’ Perez Hilton, Media turned into something I am completly unsure about.
I have literally felt my mind expand in this process of blogging, networking and connecting. I see it leading me into another realm, and I can not imagine there has even been a time in history where progression has moved as rapidly and evidently as it is right now. But with every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The negative effects of media have never been more clear. Over the last few days I can safely say that most of my time has been spent making a blog, creating all the accounts, linking, joining all the groups needed, getting accustomed to the UNSW website and searching for a job on the internet. And I have hated it. The weather is perfect but I did not go to the beach, I did not go into the university itself and meet other people in my course, I have not met the faculty face-to-face, and I have not gone to employers with an attempt to dazzle them into hiring me. I have not had time to do so, because I am here. I understand that this has been set up for communicational and interacting purposes, but with up to 93% of our communication being non-verbal how can this by any means be considered interaction?
People say that magazines, television shows and celebrities influence how we “should” be, but with the digital world under our finger tips we control how we should be. These websites allow us to be whatever we want to be, but sadly whatever we want to be sometimes isn’t what we are. As we play around with display pictures, settings, comments and blogs, we tell ourselves it’s to express who we really are, but all we’re doing is creating a superficial representation of who we really are.
So maybe media is the last field I should be entering, but the fact of the matter is I have no choice but to learn media and technology. Without it I will literally fall of the face of the Earth. I won’t get a job, I’ll lose contact with my friends and I would fail university because I would have no idea how to check my assignments. I thought I had a passion for media, but I am now stuck in a place of confusion. As I watch people gain unity through their disunity on this new system I become more and more scared.
I know this blog has taken on a different tone from the majority of the other blogs I’ve read, but we can’t all feel the same. I don’t love media or technology but I’m trying to because I want to active in society, and if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em.
