Media has a huge impact on our society as a whole. It influences our everyday lives, informs us on the new updates of the world, and keeps our society connected. We’ve shown the impact of these fields by posting information expressing different aspects of that particular career field and how that job is intertwined with media. We believe it is important to know the influences of media on our everyday lives. The evolution of technology and media outlets has become a necessity to our fields and make them what they are today.
Overall, all of these fields are very important in today’s society. Each affects us in so many ways resulting in different feelings or emotions. The overall task of these career fields is to communicate with the public through different mediums of technology. We’ve been able to share our learnings through this project, which has let us grow as students and future workers. There are so many new ideas and concepts that have been taught to us through the sources we have explored. This project has let us enhance our knowledge and love for our preferred fields and helped us expand our appreciation for these jobs. We have also been able to inform others of what we’ve discovered in hopes of inspiring others to pursue these fields or any field they choose. The blog has let us learn, teach, and discover what we really want to do after college.
Jobs constantly change over the years and new advancements are made. Due to these improvements we, as a community and society, advance as well. While we grow as a community, our perspectives, beliefs, and ways of thinking shift. Technology and media can control us in a plethora of ways. It can alter the way we feel about people, to what we do on a day-to-day basis. We’ve learned through our blog how media actually plays out in today's society. We have been able to learn more about our preferred communication fields and how they affect the public. Journalism, marketing, and media and info are fields that we, as citizens, come in contact with everyday. By exploring more about these fields, we have learned the impact they have, been introduced to new terminology and the ethics that one must follow to be successful in such a job. We have been able to enhance our knowledge about our future career opportunities and what we must do to be the best.
The field of journalism is underrated and usually a hot topic for negativity, shown through the post “Not the Worst Jobs of 2016.” This field has been changing throughout generations. It’s shifted from newspapers all the way to mobile phone apps. This field is probably the one that has changed the most out of any career field. It’s also very important to the public, whether they know it or not. It’s where they get all their information from and it helps shape their lives. We turn on the TV and watch the news, open the news app to read what’s happening, and check social media to see what the hottest topic. It’s all journalism based and made to influence us explained in the post “Reporting from the front lines with mobile journalism.” The field of journalism is a strong field that is still relevant in today’s society. We turn to the news when scared or want to learn some new information and the field of journalism is really what fills those needs. This field of communication is very important and there’s a lot to learn about it and how it plays a role in our lives.
The great thing about majoring in communications is that it gives such a broad range of possible career choices. That could be ranging anywhere from working with broadcasting, audio recording, production or even public relations. When looking at the evolving music industry you can see the countless amounts of changes over the past decade. With everything turning digital and the new advancements in technology, it has impacted the music industry in numerous amounts of ways. Whether it’s how an artist can positively influence their fans or viewers online, coming up with creative ways of releasing one’s music like through commercials or different marketing strategies on promoting your “brand” or music on apps like Instagram, and the new inventions of online streaming platforms, explained in the post “What Changed the Music Industry.” Online streaming platforms like Pandora, Apple Music and Spotify have led to the recent boom in the industries revenue, shown in the statistics in one post called “The Industry's Revenue is Predicted To Skyrocket.” But some may worry or argue that the beloved use of vinyl is a dying “breed” if you will. The recurring theme that’s been presented is how everything is evolving and the ways of media and technology are creating huge ripple effects in every aspect of our chosen major, communications.
When working with advertising and communication, one must have creativity, consistency, patience, and hard work. The concept of marketing/advertising is to get a message and or product out to the public. Marketers want to make sure people are aware of a product and the benefits or even the negative effects of a product. We address our message through a handful of ways. We market through media, newspapers, radio, billboards, and more. As a society we depend on the method of marketing to guide us through our daily lives. Due to media marketing/advertising, we become informed on products we may need in the future, new deals, what new restaurants to try, entertainment, and much more. In the blog post “7 Key Strategies That You Must Learn from Apple's Marketing” you are able to see and understand different strategies companies take to be successful in marketing their products. While reading this article you are able to understand why the marketing world take specific steps to bring their product to the top. Marketing is such a powerful platform to have and using such methods has become a necessity around the world.
The field of media and information is another necessity that is, in fact, fueled by journalism. This field involves all aspects of life and allows people to connect and share ideas, concepts and begin trends. Social media plays one of the biggest roles in society today. Before social media, we had no way to effectively, collectively contemplate ways to live. On the opposite end of the spectrum, social media tears relationships apart, stirs up arguments about social, political and/or economic issues, and creates war between different ethnicities, races, religions and many other types of groups. Social media is very deceptive and manipulative yet attractive because although it creates problems, it is a natural human response to desire other human interaction. It establishes figures whom social media users respect and trust to guide them for whatever reason. In our blog post “Artists and Media and Sponsorship” you can observe our take on that. In some aspects, social media can be used as a marketing tool that perfectly advertises products or services to millions of users. The blog post “#8 Practicing your knowledge” shows this.
