From my time spent in this class, I feel as If I have honed my media literacy skills. While I don't consider the knowledge I learned specific to a concentrated focus of mass communication, I believe my basic understanding of how journalism, media, and mass communication blend together. From this class, I now have a broadened perspective of my surroundings, as my extensive use of the internet has almost hard fixed itself as a permanent aspect of my life; this creates an enormous window for mass communication techniques to be applied to me while I'm indulging in my time spent on the internet. I am now more conscious of the media I am absorbing while I'm surfing the web.
This is a talk show that is bases now through YouTube due to the popularity of the convenience of watching new and entertainment online instead of using television. I think it is interesting that there is a huge amount of people who use the internet for all their sources of media.
Individuals have been protesting in Hong Kong for a more Democratic government system, mostly due to education I believe. In an effort to contain the citizens' demands, the government is desperately trying to censor all media that is related to the protest. The government has deleted a huge amount of content from Chinese websites as well ordered all forms news to ignore the protest as a whole. It saddens me that the government in Hong Kong is so set on keeping its citizens contained rather than listening to their wants and accommodating to them.
