Welcome: Welcome to my personal blog. I send out special greetings to everyone enrolled in PAF 494: Media and Public Affairs. I look forward to learning and growing with you in the subject matter we are about to dive into together. I hope that my participation in this course helps contribute to your success in some way. I anxiously await all of the discoveries that are waiting to be made by all of us, and I wish you all the very best.
About Me: As you already know my name is Deneene, but what you probably don't know is that just about everyone calls me Dee, and you are welcome to do so as well. I am taking this class to help enhance my knowledge regarding media and public affairs as I have had an increased interest in the news media, media as a whole, government policies, and how citizens of all societies interact with each other and how they react and respond to media influence.
I am an author and a poet, I have a passion for people and technology. I have published three books in the last month and I have three more books coming out over the course of the next two months. I used to host an inspirational radio broadcast, and I may get back into broadcasting through Internet radio once I complete this course. My interests include ongoing education, writing, music, entrepreneurship, and cooking. My spirituality and my family are the most important things to me in the world. I'm a single mother of two wonderful children. My daughter Aveanie is a senior at ASU studying education and speech and hearing science, and my son Caleb is a sophomore in high school who is an honor student highly involved in sports and music (he plays three sports and five instruments).
I have a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology from Prairie View A&M University, a Master's of Business from ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business, and I am currently pursuing a Master's of Graphic Information Technology at ASU which I hope to complete this December. I am pretty much your average every day individual working on extraordinary things that I hope will better the world even if only in a small way. I would like to go into business for myself within the next year and I plan to use my education, determination, personal life experience, and the extra time I have from being laid off from my job to accomplish this. The title of my blog is Deneene Says... which is also the title for a book of original quotes I just published. I look forward to meeting and sharing in the human experience with all who dare to open their lives to me.
Here I Am!
"Live life grand enough to make it good." - Deneene A. Collins
My Definition of Media Influence: We exist in the thriving Information Age where technology has provided the availability and possibilities of more types of media than has ever been known in history by mankind. Not only do we have newspapers, television, and radio, we have the Internet, film, videos, social media, and more. The way that people get news and gain information has dramatically changed over the last decade even. According to Dictionary.com, influence is defined as, "The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself."
With that being said I would have to say that I define media influence as the use of any type of medium to cause an effect on what people think, do, or believe. At the rate in which we are all bombarded with new information and news information, I wonder how many of our beliefs, views, and actions are actually truly our own. Having studied marketing strategies, I've learned about the techniques used to get people to purchase certain products or buy into particular philosophies. We exist in a time where branding is big among businesses, and a child that can't even read or write can call a business establishment by name simply by viewing its logo. I can remember jingles from commercials I heard twenty years ago.
My brother used to be an executive at Pepsi and he told me they start targeting lifelong clients with their branding in early childhood. All I can say is that the power and the influence of media is far beyond the average person's comprehension. Once upon a time I learned that to think is to create and we as people generally only spend five minutes a day creating something new in our thoughts. Everything else is via memory; we tend to act and react based upon what has already been placed in our minds. If this is true, we all need to take a serious look at media influence especially as it pertains to political issues, world issues, and government policy. We live in a nation with a government that is supposed to be for the people, by the people, but we may come to find out that it is really for the government by what the media influences people to believe and do. Are our actions our own or are we governed by the subliminally executed tactics of mass media? I don't know, but I'm looking forward to learning more. May freedom yet ring before our eyes and in our ears.
Contact Information:
email: deneene.collins@asu.edu
website: www.deneenecollins.com
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