.Facebook has effected the rise of social media as it was one of the first ever social media network. It has also been a way to advertise and it has enabled brands to promote their product through social media for free instead of advertising on TV, I think Facebook owning Whatsapp and Instagram is not fair as they are companies that have found users and success but Facebook bought them out. Also I think it is quite worrying if Facebook owns the majority of the social media industry as Facebook will essentially control everything and all the content we see on social media.
Myers-Briggs Test
Today, we did the myers-briggs test which is a personality test based on questions that the test asks you about everyday life and social situations. At the end, my result was the mediator. The mediator is kind of like the peacmaker and a very diplomatic person. I kind of agree with this however some aspects are not 100% right
Reflecting on everything i have learned since September
Since September, I have learned a lot of new things about media. We first started off learning about online, social and participatory media and we studied Zoella. I learned a lot about how she targets her audience, how she portrays herself and her brand and the type of content she makes. I have also learned a lot about different media theories such as Propps, Maslow, Male gaze and Todorov. These theories have helped me to understand what techniques are included in a lot of different medias. After we moved on to advertising and marketing and studied three of our CSPs- OMO (a print advert from the 1950s), Galaxy (moving image advert) and REPRESENT (moving image advert). Here we learned about the Golden Circle theory. We also learned a lot about the different codes and conventions included in adverts. After that we went to magazines- where we did Tatler and Reveal and learned about different elements of the magazines such as mastheads etc. We also made our own magazines with an article, advert and front cover which i really enjoyed doing. We then moved on to televison and our CSP- Dr Who. I really like Dr Who so it was cool to watch the very first season of it and study some of the characters, storyboard and iconography in there.