Blog Post # 3

Blog Post # 3

      There has been so much that I have noticed differently as a student in this course. I am concentrating in Psychology but my minor is in Communications, and prior to being in this course I never ever noticed in media everything that I notice now. I never analyzed media like I do not before it was just receive everything and not notice the little details whether it was news, television shows, documentaries, and social media. Now I have to admit that I pay attention to the semiotic concepts to those signs that tell us, the audience, what is trying to be transmitted to us that we ignore. 

     From all those different examples we were shown in class I learned how to watch a television series and actually point out things. Watching Sherlocks and learning how to semiotically analyze a whole episode was so exciting for me. I have learned something very important from Dr. Johnson and something she erased "So what?" So what if there is thunder in this scene? So what if the woman is dressed in black? So what if the room is empty? Asking myself this question provides me with a significant amount of answers to those signs that I have ignored in the past. Now I look at an advertisement, a magazine, and a commercial and realize that there is a message behind this. I realized that without noticing there is more to a product than just selling this actual product. For example, now I realize that there is a reason as to why the model who is wearing a cute skirt is thin and does not have a different body image. That is because semiotically analyzing this those signs are there to send us the message that today every girl should be skinny and that if you are not the skirt will not look good as it does on the model wearing it. 

    Marxism taught me that there is a hierarchal status that exists in media. I learned that if I am watching a series each character has a different role and they are all different. As well as learned how ideology in media has a great impact without even realizing it. 

  Learning so much already teaches me that there is more to media than what many including myself can even imagine of.