Reflection on the course

It's almost end of the semester! I can't believe we are almost done for the english media studies. Actually I'm really sad that I'm writing this course reflection, however throughout this course I really had learn many things about media. Starting from conspiracy theory, media speak, media triangle, manufacturing consent, media myth, stereotypes, Brands and products, and etc. Even most of the thing were really new to me, they were interesting to learn, for example when we learned about the lunar landing conspiracy, I was really surprised and wonder, if that is really false information that is created by the media. Those kind of lessons helped me change my perspective towards the media.

Out of all the most important thing I learned from this course is the 6 main thing about media: everything is a construct, what is said is only half of the story, media is our reality, Everything comes down to money, whoever owns the biggest megaphone wins, monkey see money do. These were our main elements used through the course, they helped us to connect to main idea that each unit tried to tell us. For example when we learned about the racial stereotype, by watching a movie crash, we could connect to the idea that "whoever owns the biggest megaphone wins" that we are used to see all those stereotypes due to the effect of media, because even that movie was created by the media, it is them who has power and make us to see what they wants us to see. Likewise those were really helpful element for me to learn many things about media, and even I don't take English media again these concepts will guide me and sort of give right perspective towards media

I remember when ms Meret talked about the blue and red pill we could take like in Metrix, that if red pill offers the truth and blue pill offers to quit, I think it was good choice for me to choose the red pill and had chance to see the truth. This course worked as my shield to be free from slavery by media and now I could clearly see media in right perspective, I hope many other people in the world realize this fact as many of us are surrounded by the media and we should remember it is our responsibility to see through curtain beyond the media.