Technology and Advertising 

I interact with technology on a daily basis. I use my laptop to watch videos and catch up on recent events as-well as play games and do homework. I also spend time on my phone doing may of the same things while also catching up on social media. Once and a while I also watch TV or play on Xbox on a larger screen. My time spent on technology is spread across may devices for many different activities. Overall technology plays a big role in my live for both work/school and entertainment.
Advertising is a large part of modern media consumption. One interesting thing I noticed about the advertisements we watched was the critical nature and even hypocrisy of the ads. One ad criticized the beauty industry and the standards it placed on women. The ad however was itself advertising beauty products for a large personal care and beauty company. This seemed hypocritical and was a very interesting example to look into more deeply. This surprised me but made more sense and was more common the more critically I looked at advertisements. All advertisements are ment to make you participate or buy into a product or service. Even if the ad is criticizing other adds, companies , or economic ideas, it is still an ad itself. This idea was also discussed in our group discussion and gave me a new perspective to intemperate advertisements.

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