What Media Do You Use Everyday?
– Social media (Youtube, Reddit, Instagram): Information, entertainment
– Streaming sites (Netflix, Disney+): Entertainment
– Games (Halo Infinite, ect.): Entertainemnt
– * Books (Star Wars, Star Trek): Entertainment
– Phone/Computer: Entertainment, information
– Messenger: Social, connecting with others
Choose 3 Platforms and do Research on them:
- Youtube:
- Owned by Alphabet Inc (Tech company)
- Based in California
- Mission statement was ‘Broadcast yourself”, although it has been removed from their website
- They collect data on their users to feed them content tailored to their tastes (and also to sell to advertisers)
- Probably no philanthropic endeavors, although Alphabet may on some occasion
- Instagram:
- Owned by Meta (Tech company)
- Based in California
- Goal is to help connect people together online
- They collect data on their users and sell it to advertising companies for profit
- No philanthropic endeavors
- Star Trek Pocket Books:
- Owned by Simon and Scheuster
- Based in New York City
- Does not collect data on their users
- Creates other novels aside from star trek ones, so has a wider user base
- No philanthropic endeavors
Apart from your uses, do the media have any other affordances?
- Instagram and Youtube could also be used for informative and educational purposes, as well as sharing your own content and broadcasting to others, but I prefer to use it for mostly entertainment and watching.
Is there a hierarchy of your media?
- There is a hierarchy to my media, I do need a phone/device to use all of the forms of them (I could purchase star trek books physically but I don’t)