In reading Ch. 2, Ellis (2010) stated:
Children today are connected to the world. A generation ago, pen pals wrote to each other using "snail mail." Today they correspond instantly through the various avenues of the Internet. News is instantaneous. I remember talking to an elderly woman who told me that when her great grandmother was a child living in Oregon, the family received the news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination several days after it happened. Today we know immediately about earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other events taking place around the globe (p. 46-7).
Media affects our lives immediately.
It affects our perceptions about the larger world
It affects our beliefs.
Children today are connected to the world. A generation ago, pen pals wrote to each other using "snail mail." Today they correspond instantly through the various avenues of the Internet. News is instantaneous. I remember talking to an elderly woman who told me that when her great grandmother was a child living in Oregon, the family received the news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination several days after it happened. Today we know immediately about earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other events taking place around the globe (p. 46-7). Media affects our lives immediately.
- News coverage is constant. The other day Mubarak resigned from his presidency, and within the hour, we were already discussing the occurrence in class. Weather on the Ones gives you weather updates every 10 minutes.
- Communication is instant. I might have spent the entirety of June 2010 in Mérida, México, but that didn't stop some people from cyber-stalking my every move from afar.
- Everyone's business is available to everyone.
- Threat to written text!
It affects our perceptions about the larger world
- Some news sources are skewed to the right.
- Some are skewed to the left.
- This skewed information gets written down as part of history.
- We're using skewed textbooks to teach our children.
- Google will take over everything.
- Literacy is not required to watch the news on TV or a news video online.
It affects our beliefs.
- We believe true and untrue things based on who we choose to listen to. They're all skewed.
- It is common (and some would venture to say acceptable) to dump your significant other using Facebook, google chat, etc.
- People want to know your every single thought and move. Ana Gates just ate pizza. Ana Gates just ate pizza again. Ana Gates just barfed her pizza. Ana Gates is now sipping ginger ale.
- Snail Mail is not worthy. (Long Live Snail Mail!!)
You've made your point loud and clear. Long live the snail! I'll expect a letter addressed to me upon your leaving good 'ol MC as you conquer the world.
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