Metamedia

I believe that media in our lives is so overwhelming that we almost block it out. I think we become somewhat desensitized by everything that is thrown at us on an everyday basis. However.... meta media is a common ground for this because we all have our certain opinion leaders that we look to for guidance and almost for shaping our lives. These people are sometimes very close to us, our parents, our teachers, our churches etc. but these people we look up to get a lot of their information for what to think and believe from people in the media such as politicians, newscasters, any higher-up really. These people in the meta media refer or direct us towards other media texts which help to shape us everyday whether we really realize it or not. Where some people might trust entirely in Oprah others might believe everything that happens on a Jerry Springer episode. They say one man's trash is another man's treasure.... I think I might be trailing off somewhat here but the idea is that although we may think we are mentally strong and blocking out different media texts, we actually take them in from people we trust not always knowing where they find their sources. It's almost like instead of doing the homework ourselves we let someone else do it and we automatically trust them for doing so. It is a very awesome thing to know that we are becoming opinion leaders though because we are choosing to further ourselves everyday as students. In class we talked about how we are like 20% of the nation. It is a challenge of our character whether we want to be followers or leaders and we have chosen in a way to be leaders now. We live in a time where it happens to be that a lot of our opinion leaders are in the media. This is okay, we just have to understand where to draw the line, what is black, white or grey.