Blog #2

    I think that there are several different forms of media that have shaped our society for the better.  The one major form that shaped our society i feel is paper.  When paper was finally introduced it was a faster and more efficient way to pass information along.  People dont have to use rocks and chizzle out words and phrases, it also meant that people had to cut information short and not have all of the details because it took too long.  Along with the addition of the printing press, it lets information be more acessable and passed along in mass groups much easier than it would have before.  

In the two articles from the Washington Post, it shows how media and technology have made our society more reliant on these types of media and also how our society may not be as smart as it can be, because we are so reliant on media.  I agree that with all of these new media and communication devices it basically does everything for us where we may not have to use our brains as much to figure things out.  Like now our cell phones even have gps systems built into them and i think that it is pretty pathetic that Americans and our sense of directions are so bad that we need a GPS system in order to get from point A to point B.  Granted these different types of media and communication help out alot and make life easier, but i feel like they also make our society "dumber" and now we dont have to rely on our intelect anymore all we have to do is punch it into a machine and we can just follow that step by step to figure things out.  I also do not buy when people say that playing video games helps us learn in a different way,  i think all that is, is a excuse for us to me lazy and depend on different forms of media to entertain us.  I think its crazy that i never see kids playing anymore, everyone is inside on their guitar hero or their x box.  Now because media is so big and it plays such a huge role in our lives that it forces people and especially kids to basically be addicted to it.