Different Platforms of Media
August 31, 2016
Journalism 1, one of the first J&C classes I have ever taken in my life, has proven to be one of the most instructive and informative classes in my educational career. Each day we learn more and more about the world of journalism.
Today, Mr. Miler taught us about the different ways we could convey the same topic with different media. We, as groups of three or four, picked one card that would say what our platform would be . One group used a notecard, another an iMac, the third an iPad, another a white board, one group presented orally, and the final used a poem. This taught us that one such topic, such as a television article can be presented or told about through several means of media. I found this interesting because realizing that there is hundreds of ways to present your discoveries or ideas to people is useful. I also found that being able to understand each and every one of my classmate's media choice helped me see which ones I can relate or understand better.
This showed me that there isn't just one, single way to get a message across to your audience, there's several. Each group had it's own way of conveying a topic but every group had the same topic, an article by Jerry Mander about why television is and never will be a neutral media source. Listening to my piers present their ideas about what Mander was conveying through his article made me understand that we all understood this topic and had the same conclusions. The only difference was that we had to present it on different media platforms. Listening to my fellow piers share their ideas helped me understand topics in the article that I didn't notice or even comprehend.
Something I agreed upon with my classmates is that there are many forms of media but some are just better to understand than others. I personally reacted better to the poem because it obtained my attention and told it in a quick way that I did not have to memorize or retain much information, except the information deemed worthy to be in the poem. There were also several other media that I had a positive impact with, such as the drawings on the white board. This helped me understand what it looked in a physical format.
This lecture and presentation of my piers helped me understand and process the many ways media can be conveyed to a group of people, either from technology, your mouth, or drawing on a board. There's several ways, which is the beauty of communication.
