Blog #7

Open! Reflect on the different ideas related to media that we have discussed and that you have researched. You may write about anything related to the concepts we've examined this semester. Remember our goal: to be informed consumers of the media.

This has class taught me a lot about target market and the american core values. By learning these two concepts I am now able to see what advertisements are trying to get across and who they want to buy their product. It is really easy to see what American Core Values they are pointing at during their advertisement and I see ads and marketing techniques in a different way than I had before. The target market is a little harder to point out in ads but it has helped me become an informed consumer by figuring out who the target is. For the teenage group as the market they usually use the American Core Value of material comfort. During the teen years it is almost like the more you have the "better" you are!

Another important concept I have learned from this class is the mass impact that the media has on our society! While doing the research paper, I learned how large of an impact just pictures of models have on both males and females! There could be a certain phrase, picture, or song that affect people drastically and you may not even no that the media is influencing you!

The media has such a large impact on everyones life, and you don't notice unless you take a step back and examine the details.