Todd Gitlin’s take on media is very informative, feeding us with facts and opinions through eye-opening statistics and popular culture references.
I especially enjoyed the chapter on speed and sensibility. It is very interesting to learn how the pace of our lifestyles today is so much faster compared to times before technology. In one part of the chapter, Gitlin talks about speed in films, and he mentions how a scene with barely a cutaway or camera movement for more than eight minutes would probably feel like an eternity by today’s standard. It is true for the most part and I feel that people will just grow more and more impatient because of the fast-paced lifestyles we live in today.
Is supersaturation of the media a good thing? Maybe. We now have multiple resources for knowledge and information, be it true or false. Because our lives are surrounded by the media, we cannot do anything or go anywhere without being distracted by images and sound. Therefore, our minds must be trained to be sharper and quicker because the media overwhelms our lives.
While and after reading this book, I become more and more conscious of the media surrounding me and everyone else. And how it has affected our lifestyles. For example, I visited my little cousins the other day, and I noticed that I couldn’t even talk to them anymore because they were busy watching television shows and playing games, having already entered another dimension.
However, what upsets me is that with all the media and technology surrounding us, we are still not satisfied with what we have; we expect more and we are craving for something better, something more exciting, something to further upgrade this lifestyle we live in now.
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