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Thursday, February 20, 2014

A Response to "Our Digital Lives" TED Talk

The TED Talk "Our Digital Lives" was very interesting to me. I had no idea that women are driving social networks! We are the ones spending the most time on sites like Facebook and Twitter (and of COURSE Pinterest). Apparantly, I may be able to get hired more easily by media companies searching to gain more money by reaching their growing female audiences. 
This is exciting! As we all know, media has an obscene power over us all; it influences how we think, act, view others, and interact in the world. 
What sort of impact could women like me have on the powerful media scene? If we put our minds to it, I know we can begin to change centuries-old gender stereotypes. Already, gender stereotypes are relaxing. Of course, Rome wasn't built in a day, and the media won't give up stereotypes before it's audiences do. However, the relationship between media and it's audience is not just one-way; maybe the members of the audience (in it's broadest term) could influence the media we are surrounded with almost every moment of our lives.

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