Week 1:media autobiography

The television was the first type of mass media in my life. I have always liked watching shows and movies that entertain me. I started off watching cartoons and movies wich have impacted my life and how i am as well as other people. My views of the world, other countries and how people are like come from television. People watch their favorite actors or favorite athletes and they want to be like them. I never really liked reading books when i was young. The only reason i read in elementary school was because it was homework. I can remember reading one book on my own time in middle school. I read East Side Dreams and I thought it was a good book because it was about where I grew up in, San Jose. After that I read a few books but up to today they haven't had much impact on me. I'm also not a huge fan of newspapers. They're good for reading about global issues or even just local news. I would read about shootings and deaths that occur locally or the week's weather, but other than that, I wouldn't look through the newspaper. The only reading I enjoy are in magazines. I would look through car magazines all the time, mostly at the pictures but I would also read the articles on them. I would read about the owner or the car and how much work was put in to the car. A lot of the information that I know about cars come from articles in magazines and I always wished I would own a nice car when I grew up so these magazines have really impacted my life. Every day I would go to school, I would listen to the radio in the car. My favorite station has always been 94.9 because I always like their music. I like the radio because it always talks about news, the whether, and even traffic reports. There are advertisements that have persuaded me to purchase things like a cellphone or mp3 players so the radio is a big thing for me. The most important form of mass media to me is the internet. It has literally everything! I have always used it to help me with homework and reports throughout school. I would check my grades online and that would help me to do better in school because i can keep track of how i'm doing. Socializing webites like Myspace would help me keep in touch with distant friends and family. Most of my shoes and clothes come from online sources. I buy all of my shoes and some shirts off of websites so the internet is my main form of mass communication.