These blogs have all been about theories of media exposure and theories of media impacts and their relationship to the BP oil spill that happened in April of 2010. There are quite a bit examples that can be drawn from the oil spill and related back to both theories. But more importantly, all of these examples are relevant and give perfect instances of how these theories really do relate to our everyday lives. I believe that people do not realize how much of an impact the media has on us, and it’s to our determent. Without understanding how what we watch and read everyday affects us, how is it possible for us to make educated and informed decisions about real life issues, like offshore drilling? However, it should be said that it is hard for us to understand exactly how the media impacts us without taking a class like this. I would not realize this if I weren’t in this class, but I am most certainly glad that I am. I feel as though after completing this project and studying, in depth, theories of media exposure and impacts I can now view media without being as affected by some of these models that I learned about.
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