Popular Culture Media

In class we discussed how popular culture media pertains to our culture and one point that stood out the most was how popular culture media is unhealthy. Jersey Shore was a good point, people don't go out and party everyday they get up and go to work or school. That show is a made up scripted "reality show" and I put reality in quotations because it's not what you do in everyday life. Steven Johnson pointed out that his nephew helped him figure out how to play the Sims game; it's a game based on balancing your city, how to make your city a good place to stay by having jobs and good security. The Sims game would make us more aware on how we could elect better people for our country because we know (or the people that play the Sims game) know more about planning and providing for our city, state, and country. These days no one plays The Sims game as much as they did when it came out most people are either playing Basketball games or War games and the war games these days are terrifying there's more blood and you can see that killing is more precise then it was when you played the duck game on Nintendo. In high school teachers refuse to update the way they teach because that's the only way they know how to communicate. Students use Spark Notes and end up reading a book that they have for half a semester in just a few hours because of Spark Notes. Ryan who was being Cyber Bullied learned how to kill his self from a website. Teens text while their driving because they feel like they can do both, they don't think about dying they think about getting the message out. Popular Culture Media is not making us any healthier so that's why I think it's unhealthy for us.