Aidan’s Media Blog

I would say that I’ve always consumed a lot of media, but writing this blog has made me think about how much I’m really immersed in it. I probably spend anywhere from one to four hours on social media or youtube daily. Outside of that, I live in a semi-urban neighbourhood within walking distance of school, so I don’t see much in the ways of advertising or media on a day to day basis. I also frequently discuss televisions shows or video games with my friends, though how much depends on what has come out recently and how much homework I have. Media can sometimes cause me to delay getting work done by distracting, and generally makes me less productive. Being aware of my consumption hasn’t really changed my interactions with the media, as I still just about never buy anything because of an ad, but it has caused me to see marketing campaigns as more deceptive and often manipulative. My media consumption habits seem to have changed a little this semester, as I think that I’ve gotten bett

Since this is a blog about media, I basically have free reign to talk about whatever as long as it's technically media. And Buzzfeed is very TECHNICALLY media. I should preface this with saying that I literally have only gone on Buzzfeed once prior to writing this article, and it was only to find a good clickbait author name for a certain media blog I did. I have heard stuff about quizzes, so I'll be analyzing language and the general millennial culture that Buzzfeed employs. First a cheese quiz to determine my personality type. Off to a great start, especially given that the title of the quiz is "We know if you're an introvert or an extrovert based on you cheese preferences." That's just creepy phrasing paired with an incredibly dumb premise, but it does make you curious and want to click. Turns out I'm an ambivert, which is according to Websters: not a thing, but according to Buzzfeed means I'm somewhere in between. My best guess is that this is

So even though we won't have a new president for almost six  two years, various politicians have already started announcing their candidacies. Two republican candidates, including our current president, as well as 23 democrats. Despite almost all of the democrats standing no real chance of winning, news outlets like CNN seem to have learned from the 2016 election and are giving surprisingly equal coverage to all the candidates. Trump got all the press the first time around because he was the most controversial figure, but now people are realizing that all that coverage is what allowed him to win, and that they can't just ignore potential candidates. For instance,  this  article is about John Hickenlooper disavowing socialism, even if he's nowhere near as popular a candidate as Biden or Harris. In addition, outlets like the New York times are offering  article s about every candidate in equal amounts, so that people know which one's beliefs most closely align with thei