The media and the effects that it has on us as a whole is a very bizzare aspect to try and wrap your head around. It’s something that we never think about, but we all get trapped in the obligation to adapt to the media. I don’t think it is a veery good and healthy way to live but the way modern day society is, it’s hard not to be apart of the media and the behavior that comes along with it. This has never really been a problem for past genertations because we are the first genertation that solely relies on technology and social media. Nobody has ever experienced that before us so this is all a big change for us that is becoming the new norm.

Whenever I think of Media effects and behaviors, I always circle back to the Stanford Prison Experiments. One of the coolest and most intriguing things to learn and research about. Basically, the people running the test found people to participate in this experiement. All students. Half were guards and half were prisoners. Randomly selected. All of the students figured that being a prisoner would be way better than being a guard but that wasn’t the case at all. The prisoners were very poorly treated and not given good care at all and the guards were very aggressive. You weren’t allowed to touch anybody but those rules were bent a lot throughout the whole experiment. The prisoners quickly became very edgy and unsure of the whole situation. In a very creepy way, it seemed to get more real and more real as the experiemnt went on until the prisoners actually felt like real prisoners and the guards actually felt like real guards. The people taking place in the experiment became very stressed and worried when in reality, they were in the downstairs basement of a Stanford Lecture Building. They transformed the whole basement to look like a prison without any of the students knowing. I also watched the documentary on Netflix and thought it was really good.

The film we were assigned for this week was called the “Human Behavior Experiments”. I really enjoyed this film as I have never seen it before it was assigned. It really shows how humans react and how we can change so quickly. It concentarted a little bit on the Stanford Prison Experiment, which was what really caught my eye. It goes into detail how people handle media effects and changes that are thrown upon us. How certain settings and moods, atmospheres that can change us in so many ways.

I think the media effects us in numerous ways but I think its very pivotal to our life. We may not even know it because it is such a norm now but our generation has completley grown up with this. Always having certain icons change how we act, dress, talk. It all effects who we are as people. Not only does the media change us, it changes everything around us.