Journal #2- media

This week in class we watched a video about students in university and how distractions affect them. This video caught my attention because it is so true. University students today face a lot more distractions and problems than students 20 years ago. 

Students today face the distractions of t.v, music, and Internet. Also, the media messages hidden in those three major distractions. Students do not even notice what they are getting sucked into. Simple messaged are being hidden, like body image, and what they SHOULD be wearing. Things like that cause students to focus more on what people think they look like or seem like more than they focus on their future. I know that all the media messages affect me very much as a high school student. Images on t.v have me sub-consciously re-thinking my own body image, although I am an athletic healthy sized teenager. 

All in all, this all got me thinking the danger in how powerful the messages in the media are.