As I delve ever deeper into the study of media psychology, I become increasingly horrified by the degree to which we are influenced by media. The inconvenient truth is that we are influenced by media, significantly and permanently and despite all our protestations to the contrary.
These two quotes are food for thought:
"Sealed away from crowds,we let the media teach us what other segments of humanity are like and, as a consequence, cannot help but expect that all strangers will be murderers, swindlers, vain celebrities, crooked politicians, and pedophiles, a trend that reinforces impulses to trust only those very few individuals who have been vetted for us by preexisting networks of family and class." ~Alain de Botton
"All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered."~Marshall McLuhan
Yeah--what they said!
~Dawn E. Mc-A aka Dawn McMillan-Austin
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