Blog 6: Cultural Studies

In this blog I am going to discuss my opinion on the cultural studies theory. I believe that media does play a huge role on how our society is represented, were else would media get the ideas from? society exactly. Without media there is no society to know what are society is, without society there is no media to show how today society is, they go hand and foot. Also I do believe powerful media shape culture because for instance, if an ESPN host goes on air talking about how he dislikes homosexuality and how it is wrong and an sin he will; most likely lose his job, in today society and in media, homosexuality is like a trend and is accepted as a cool thing. I also believe powerful media also forces things like homosexuality, if you watch networks like MTV, VH1 and BET there will always be an homosexual character on a show. It has gotten so bad in today society within media that even kids powerful medias such as Disney, Cartoon network and Nickelodeon have had homosexual parents on their shows. Also social media changes up the meaning of people lives, with social medias such as Instagram were people post pictures on how they are living there life. Sometimes people fake who they are just to build an image on social media to believe that they are more important then others. For instance when I see someone posts a picture on Instagram on yacht in the middle of the ocean or post picture with them driving flashy cars, I get easily influenced. We all do, everyone whats that lifestyle of freedom and doing what they want, social media helps and hinder people towards that idea to have that freedom. To sum my understanding powerful media is society and society is powerful media, media gets all its ideas from society.