Week In Review # 3

After the discussion in Tuesday’s class, about relating real life stories to movie and show plots, I have been paying more attention to it in my daily conversations. I agree with the class discussion that it is a good thing that American’s use plots to explain their stories. Relating television plots to ones’ story makes it easier for the receiver to understand. If the person in the conversation was not in the situation explained in the story, perhaps this is a way for them to understand exactly what the person is explaining. These shows serve as a common ground.
I disagree with the class on custom media being “bad.” I think that regardless of how many stations people have they still only watch the stations that interest them. For example, I only scroll through stations that I like to watch. These stations are the same station. Rarely do I scroll through all the stations, instead I instantly turn to MTV, VH1, CBS, TLC, NBC, and ABC. I think custom media gives the real purpose of what you said the media was there fore, “to serve the viewers.” By giving custom media, shows that people want to watch that are in their interest, the media is fulfilling their goals. This will also help with advertising. I support the coming about of custom television.
Ever since Thursday’s class I have been question why people do not see internet as a source of media? There are still groups sending a mass message out to large groups of people. Searching web pages is like searching television stations. The purpose of the internet is to spread a message to a large group of people. What would make the internet not a source of mass media?

Shira