I have always had an interest in politics I enjoy reading the New York times and Cristian Science Monitor, I like making fun of Fox news and waking up to NPR. Politics has played an incalculable part in my development and I know that the different media sources that I was exposed to have directly effected my views and opinions on most things, but especially politics. This is what most interested me about this course initially, how do we form ideas and how are those ideas then spread and accepted into culture. I knew little to nothing about the cannon precious to this course and was pleased to find that the cannon provides a perfect case study for the cultivation of political thought, as well as how access to different ways of communication
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Though I haven’t actually seen the show I do know people who have been heavily influenced by it and are avid watchers. The fact that there can even be an intellectual political piece written on a television show, proves the influence that media has on politics and the influence that politics has on television and other forms of media. It is indisputable that the position of the written word has changed since the introduction of a digital age, with internet, 24-hour news streams and the use of social media as a platform for political ideas. It was interesting to see these different forms of media intersecting to form a more holistic argument on the way different power dynamics can interact. Each form has its pros and cons, writing seems more concrete and more respected, represented by the cannon which is composed solely of the written word; while often digital media, especially narrative based fictional television, is cast off as a waste of time. Writing on the other hand can often times seem like an outdated form of expression, while television allows the watcher to form a connection to not only words but images as well. A merger of these two proves the universal influence that politics has on our world. This class has taught me that no matter the medium politics and the questions it raises about power, structure and equality have been and will remain to be an integral part of our
Though I haven’t actually seen the show I do know people who have been heavily influenced by it and are avid watchers. The fact that there can even be an intellectual political piece written on a television show, proves the influence that media has on politics and the influence that politics has on television and other forms of media. It is indisputable that the position of the written word has changed since the introduction of a digital age, with internet, 24-hour news streams and the use of social media as a platform for political ideas. It was interesting to see these different forms of media intersecting to form a more holistic argument on the way different power dynamics can interact. Each form has its pros and cons, writing seems more concrete and more respected, represented by the cannon which is composed solely of the written word; while often digital media, especially narrative based fictional television, is cast off as a waste of time. Writing on the other hand can often times seem like an outdated form of expression, while television allows the watcher to form a connection to not only words but images as well. A merger of these two proves the universal influence that politics has on our world. This class has taught me that no matter the medium politics and the questions it raises about power, structure and equality have been and will remain to be an integral part of our