blog 9 ideologies and the media

This week, I thought the concept of ideology was a very interesting term.  We discussed in class that it is a system of beliefs of how the world should be ran.  Comparing this also to the topic of media that we talked about this week, it was hard for me to understand ideology actually.  I think that media shapes so much of the world and shows us what they want us to see and believe.  That sounds like they are shaping our ideologies to me...? The definition of media we talked about was the means for delivering impersonal communications to a vast audience.  We also went over the one way media, from media to mass.  Example would be watching a movie or reading a book because there is only one way of communication.  And there is two way media, back and forth from media to mass, examples being Facebook or Twitter.  The world depends so heavily on media.  Think about all of the people that have to read the newspaper with their coffee every morning or how many millions of us college students sit on twitter or Facebook instead of writing our papers or listening in class...  It's a crazy amount of time and reliance on the media.  So back to my confusion... how is it that we, as individual people decide the worlds ideology when we have so many things thrown at us every single day that could be leaning us a different way because of how media is portraying certain things?

I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed earlier (imagine that!) and came across this picture and thought it would be perfect for this blog!  Make sure you pay attention to the details and it portrays my point exactly!