How media effects us

In our everyday lives we are constantly consuming media in many different form form TV shows, to new article, bulid bords, art, and social media sites are just the beginning of examples. Media is created with the intent to make us feel, think, and behave a certain way. With this being said it is explect that over the long term it must affect is in at least a few ways, and in fact there are are many possible negative affects.

Media can cause a peron to generalize what us happening in the world and creat a fear of missing out. Media can cause fear of the world and becomeing a victim of crime. Many people believe that it crime rates are increasing in Canada and that the chance of becomeing a victim of a violent crime is high when in fact it is the exact opposite because of how things are presented in the media. As our accesses to media increases our ability to become addicted to it increases. We learn a lot of what we consider normal from what is prosented in the media, this means that all the media you cosume is violent and has negative veiws towards certain groups of people you accpent it to be the same way in society even if it is not.
You can minimize the negative affects that media has on you by becomeing a critical consumer of media. This means actively asking the who made this, why would they have made this, and why it is being shown to me in this manner. It is important to think about a realize the how the media is makeing us feel think and behave in a certain way.