Media perspectives

Today's class brought up a good point- we change our attitude towards TV shows, movies, and music based on who is seeing it with us. I know this is true because my favorite movie is Titanic and every time I bring up watching it my friends all start saying it's such a bad movie and asking me how I can like it. Similarly, I think Borat and comedies like that are funny- my friends refuse to watch this with me as well. This is also partly because I have seen these movies numerous times and they do not want to watch them again. This also happens to music- I will be in the car with a friend and a song comes on that I like to which the friend will say this is such a bad song. Sometimes I agree with them assuming they are right on not liking the song. I think this is a very interesting concept- changing our perspectives based on who is surrounding us. My question is how this came about- is this socially created or is there something in all of us that make us want to be liked by everyone and thus agree with them on everything. I think this is also psychological because something in our brain chemistry is telling us to agree with people even if we disagree because otherwise we will not be liked. On a side note here is a link http://vimeo.com/37119711 to a very important and interesting video about Joseph Kony, and man in Africa who abducts young children for his army. This video is only available in 2012 and is going around facebook, which is where I found it. It does not pertain to this weeks class but it does pertain to communications and social media. People are posting and sharing this video to get the word out to raise money and awareness to Invisible Children. This is similar to the movie Paranormal Activity because it is marketed mostly through social media and is now widespread throughout the world. I just found this interesting and thought I would share...