My interest in the media stems from always wanting to know more. The question I always ask myself when reading or watching the media is “what else?”. “What information can I learn this time?”
I view media in general as a teacher, offering many different perspectives and facts on past, present, and future events. In high school, I watched more video tutorials for math than I can count. In the world we live in today, the media is so easily accessible that it is almost impossible not to learn from it. Even when I come looking for answers to questions online, I usually learn more than I bargained for. Obviously, I hope to find the answer to whatever problems I am trying to solve (whether that be academic or pertaining to my life) but I love learning more than I intend to. The question “what else” inspires me to keep digging. My competitive side wants to know more than anyone else, and my curious side gives me the motivation to do so. I like to do my own research on topics I’m interested in, so that I get to choose what perspectives I learn from and be sure that I am learning relevant and true information. However, I do like to talk to others about my findings in the media.
When viewing media, I hope it can answer my initial questions with another, so that I never run out of things to learn.