Cone Effect :: essays research papers

          First of all, my definition of the cone effect is this a theory inwhich all media content is exaggerated then direct through a publication orbroadcast that carries advertisements to individuals with differentperceptions leading to a "perceived media reality" which is incorporatedinto everyday life. I believe this gist we are media, media is us, and weare one. If we would all take a look at our lives we are just a jumble ofrepresentations. In my opinion, from the moment we are innate(p) to the daythat we die we are media. We are born a certain sex boy or girl. Thatrepresents something. Boys wear blue girls wear pink. This symbolizes toeveryone what we are. We dont know we are boys or girls until someonetells us. We have set and defined expectations for our lives, as well asways that we must act. From that day forward we select our media from ourlives, our families, friends, and literally everything we come in contact with. Everything we do and everything we see leaves some trace of animpression on us and represents something to each of us. Thats why Ifeel that media is us. Media is everything. We are just representations.           It makes me very frustrated to think seriously about this. It makesme doubt everything that I have had to believe as a outgrowth of society. It makes me question countless things in my life. It made me think aboutlife in general. What is reality? Truthfully, I dont know if there is a way toanswer this question for everyone but I think we all need to examine ourlives in general and the everyday lives that we live in and question them. Everything we do or say has a representation so again, that is media. It isall around us. It is everywhere. Most places we dont raze know that it isgoing on.     In my inspection of my life and the media that surrounds me I havefound media to be almost everywhere. It is everywhere. Almost everything Ihave and use has labels on it from clothes to food. Some things even haveadvertisements of other things on their labels. All of these productsrepresent me. I wear these clothes because I like the way this brand looksor I postulate to belong to a certain group so I wear similar clothes. I eat certainfoods because someone introduced it to me or it is the brand that I like.