A Closer Look

Welcome to my media analysis blog!

This section is a blog composed for my senior class, Race, Gender and the Media: A Methods Approach. Throughout the Fall semester, we are to write a blog post about what we learned in the week’s readings, videos, podcasts, etc. The first five blog posts are written for the first half of the course, and the later five posts are in the second half of the course.

As both a journalism student and media consumer, I want to share how important media literacy is in a progressing and healthy democracy. Understanding how messages are made, which voice is the loudest and who is silenced allows us to critically examine what we see and hear, rather than just looking and scrolling. These posts show not only what I’ve learned through our class, but also my own reflections as a student of journalism.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog posts and my analysis of our weekly learnings. I hope it encourages you to look closer at the media surrounding you and think about how it shapes identities, cultures and stereotypes in our world today and in the future.