Edwin Vega
Mr. Ken Carpenter
MMC 1000
December 5, 2011
Media of Mass Communications
The Media of Mass Communication class has greatly affected my thoughts on my future career plans. At first I considered myself extremely lucky that Valencia College was offering a class that had to do with my major, so I told myself I had to take it. As the course went on, I loved the whole idea of having to read the WSJ, post Blogs, and learn about the media, for a moment I did; however, I got a little tired of the Love Medicine book and the WSJ due to the fact that the majority of the portion I had to read was a bit uninteresting. The whole experience in the class increased my understanding of the media and opened the doors for new stuff like reading a newspaper every day, which I never did in my life. Even though the experience in the class was a great one I am going to finish my A.A at Valencia College and not take any journalism classes at Valencia because I am going to do it at UCF, I was just getting my feet wet on the field this semester.
I can say that I am a mass communication consumer and that the whole world is. The media is everywhere and some way or another someone in the world has and will invest on some type of way on it because mass communications is one of the biggest factors that make the world go round. Media of Mass Communications makes people come together and have a better type of communication around the world with the internet, radio, magazines, television, newspapers, film, advertising, and many more. Media is everywhere and without it we would be pretty doomed in every way possible.
The three major things that I have learned in Media of Mass Communications are how to blog my own work, how to read a newspaper properly, and a lot about what is happening with new technology throughout the world. The first time that I had to post my essay was very interesting because I never used blogger before and did not know the program existed, I’m old school and always try to turn in a hard copy, but blogging is way better to show your work. Reading the newspaper The Wall Street Journal was a great experience because I never had picked up a newspaper in my life and didn’t even know where to begin reading with so many columns of paragraphs and now I enjoy reading newspaper once in a blue moon. Finally most importantly I learned about the hottest topics in the world and technology that continues to reinvent itself.
Reading the Wall Street Journal is way better than a text book in every way. Having to pay only thirty dollars for the subscription was pretty uplifting to my pocket. Moreover the news paper is constantly advancing itself every day coming out with new stuff and textbooks only do that at certain times and for this field we need resources that are constantly upgrading, so the students can be up to the date in the media world; therefore, when the Wall Street Journal is compared to a textbook, the advantages of the newspaper are way higher than a book. Also the assignments on textbooks are narrower to as the WSJ the teacher can be more creative with the assignments and have fun with it. I prefer the WSJ one hundred percent because it has it has suited me in every way possible.
