Conscious/Cognizant Media

Ever since taking a class about race, gender, and media I have been using the conscious/cognizant media avatar. I learned a lot about the role media plays and about how many devices are used to make people think a certain way. It opened my eyes to the really dark side of my major and passion; I have forever since been changed. I feel that I am on another plane of consciousness because I am not as susceptible to the many ills and I am willing to digger deeper than the surface story. I almost always give a negotiated reading of the major stories, especially in pop culture stories. It upsets me to see how many people simply take what is given, make their own nonsense and distribute it like truth. A senseless cycle that forcibly excludes the more pressing stories. Playing into the hegemonic machine that powers the fabric of oppression, we are continually led into an abyss of misinformation. This leads to a dangerous way of socialization, accepting falsehoods as truths and passing them onto the next generation. It is my belief that this socialization only furthers the divide between the haves and the have nots. And I also believe that one of the most effective ways of countering this is to make people aware of the things that they can not see. Shed light on stories that have not been heard which is, in a sense, shedding a different light on things that are already known. It is the responsibility of those equipped with the knowledge to have agency and spread the information through whatever means.