Nicole and the Mass Media...

Most people have no clue how much time they spend consuming the media. If you were to ask someone how much time they spend watching TV a week, or if we were to ask college students how many hours do they usually spend on Facebook their numbers are skewed.

Did you know that the time you spend consuming Mass media is greater than the amount of time a college student spends in class and studying, eating, and taking a shower. Media consumption is the number one thing we spend our time more than anything else next to sleep.

This is because it is everywhere around us, we can't stop it Sometimes we are even consuming more than one media at once.

As we walk to class we have our Ipods plugged in, or are texting someone. The advertisement about Guitars Unplugged catches our eye. We take a look at the scroll on our way into class. The Fight the Frown Commercial is playing in the Cross Roads.

The TV may be on at your apartment, and if it is not most likely the radio is. Media is all around us.

Who Says it's a bad thing?

I definitely don't. I believe the media is good."If there is anything virtuous lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy, we seek after these things" (Article of Faith 13)

Of course there are many things that hurt the world, such as the immorality, and manipulative pictures on TV and shows that give young girls and boys wrong impressions of what they need to look and act like

It has also been brought to my attention that there are some things that are praiseworthy, but not virtuous, for example a movie may be awarded 'best picture' but that does not mean it is a virtuous movie. .

Not everything on the media is bad though There is opposition in all things. (2Ne 2:15)

This is Dr. Call's Media Model

I love the media. It can serve as a social binder, it can uplift and give hope. It serves as a check to the government, it is a tool for us to exercise our freedom, it can inform us and connect us with the world abroad.

As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day-Saints, and a communications major at BYU-I I have learned that it is up to me to consume media that is uplifting, and follows the guidelines in the 13th article of Faith so that I can always have the Spirit to with me.

For my Family Foundations class I taped my family over Thanksgiving break to show appreciation for my Dad. I am not a broadcast emphasis so it is not professional by any means, but this is an example of how we can use the media for good. For his Christmas gift I plan on showing my dad what the family loves about him through this video.

President Kimball said:

“The title Father is sacred and eternal”

I love my dad.

I also have a website to help me with my future plans in my college career as a comm major, as well as for a future career feel free to take a look

http://nicolemrios.weebly.com/

This was the website I made for my Comm 100 class. I wanted to make sure I knew what classes I wanted to take so I talked to the advising office again today and figured out which classes I wanted to take. The Home page explains the direction of my major, with the empahsis and clusters and stuff. As of today I declared my cluster!

I also have been inspired to read continually for the rest of my life. So I am attaching the book list that was given to me by my professor:

Inteliquest’s 100 Greatest Books

Listed in chronological order

Novels, Epic Poems & Legends

1. The Iliad by Homer

2. The Odyssey by Homer

3. The Aeneid by Virgil

4. Beowulf by Unknown

5. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

6. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo

7. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

8. Don Quixote by Cervantes

9. Paradise Lost by John Milton

10. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

11. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

12. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

13. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

14. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

15. Candide by Voltaire

16. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

17. The Tragedy of Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

18. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott

19. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

20. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

21. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

22. The Red and the Black by Stendahl

23. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

24. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

25. Carmen by Prosper Merimee

26. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

27. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

28. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

29. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

30. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

31. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

32. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

33. Camille by Alexandre Dumas Fils

34. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

35. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

36. Idyls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson

37. Silas Marner by George Eliot

38. Middlemarch by George Eliot

39. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

40. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

41. Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoyevsky

42. The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoyevsky

43. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

44. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

45. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (re-read?)

46. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

47. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (re-read?)

48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

49. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

50. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

51. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

52. Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

53. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

54. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

55. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

56. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

57. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

58. Dracula by Bram Stoker

59. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

60. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

61. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

62. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

63. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

64. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

65. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

66. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

67. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

68. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

69. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

70. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (re-read?)

Science & Civilization

71. The Republic by Plato

72. The Prince by Machiavelli

73. The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau

74. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

75. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

76. Das Kapital by Karl Marx

77. The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler

Plays

78. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

79. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

80. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

81. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

82. Othello by William Shakespeare

83. Macbeth by William Shakespeare (re-read?)

84. The Tempest by William Shakespeare

85. Tartuffe by Moliere

86. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen

87. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

88. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

89. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

90. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

91. Our Town by Thornton Wilder

92. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Philosophy

93. The Nicomachaen Ethics by Aristotle

94. Meditations by Rene Descartes

95. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

96. The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer

97. Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

98. Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

99. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

100. How We Think by John Dewey

I wonder how long it will take me to read all of these :)