Media Autobiography

Like every person, I share a love-hate relationship with media. This is my relationship with each of these different types of medias:

Books: My relationship with books has probably been my longest media related relationship. As a child, my mother would read to me every night, which helped me create a love for stories and ideas that incite the imagination. Unfortunately, I don't always have the most time to read as many books as I would like to, but when I do get the opportunity I do try to read a good book or two.

Newspapers: My relationship with Newspapers has been pretty scattered. I went through a period in High School where I would read newspapers for more than just the comics, however, I no longer read newspapers at all. I will go online to read an article from a newspaper source, but I do not read printed news anymore.

Magazines: Magazines for me are something that I absolutely love. I love that the articles are short, simple, and sweet. I also love how much imagery are in many magazines, because I am a very visual person, I can stare at pictures for hours. I often times will catch myself staring at pictures more than reading the articles that accompany them, too.

Movies: Movies are probably the one media that I have the strongest relationship with. My original major was actualy film for scriptwriting, and I have taken numerous film classes over the past 3 years. I think that movies are one of the strongest media outlets for sharing an idea or information, because I strongly believe that through imagery our ideas on things can change drastically.

Recordings: Recordings, or music, is probably my second best media related relationship. I listen to music when I do just about everything. I do school work, researching random things, hang out with people, drive, etc with music playing in the background. I actually hope to one day direct music videos as my career, and I actively will follow the newest music and music videos.

Radio: My relationship with radio is fairly on-and-off. I will listen to it every once in awhile, but I usually have my iPod plugged into my car's dashboard playing what I want to listen to. Sometimes, I will listen to the ratio just for fun, but usually it's just turned off.

Television: Television is another relationship that's fairly on and off. I will sometimes watch it, but I usually do not. If I do watch it though, it needs to be recorded because I hate commercials, so I need to watch it after it has already aired so I can skip through them.

The Internet: I think that the Internet is the most important media aspect that we have today. Without it we cannot do most of what we do, cannot have most of what we have, and don't find out all the information that we find out. Every other media aspect can in some way be incorporated to the Internet, so I think that it's probably one of the biggest things in most of our lives. I know for me personally, I am always online. I find out most of my information through the Internet, and I discover new music, music videos, movies, and sometimes tv shows through it. I also use the Internet to read up on products before I buy anything so that I can read other people's views on it.