I'm Cristina and I'm currently a sophomore majoring in psychology. Some interesting things about me are that I work part time for a private preschool as a teacher's aide throughout the week, and I'm a dancer. I serve as a dancer in my church's dance ministry and recently picked up a position teaching young girls in our girls ministry, which we call the Daisies. Oddly enough I'm not going into teaching, but I am going into child psychology to hopefully treat children with mental distress and disorders in the future.
My role in the media consumption, critique, and media making could be seen as extensive. I've always been a shy girl since I was young. Later on I developed a form of anxiety known as social anxiety, where it becomes hard for me to be around a crowd of people let alone speak to anyone. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Tumblr are the only sources of social media that I'm very active in. Growing up the internet became my escape and I saw value in it because social media gives people a platform to speak their mind freely to the public on various topics they're passionate about. Facebook became the place I spoke my mind of religious tolerance and to promote the values, specifically, Christianity teaches after becoming one when I was 18. Instagram was where I shared my passion for photography of everyday life. Tumblr is where the bulk of my personality was created, such as my style, music, outlook on life, art designs, dancing, etc. Social media can be a very useful tool, but only when used right.
The media, especially mainstream media, does a great job on covering the events taking place but not so much the whole story. For example, one of my favorite authors Christine Caine and her husband have became first responders for a campaign called the A21 which is to stop human trafficking in the 21st century all over. Caine happens to be an Evangelistic Christian who simply tries to help these young girls and the religion talk stays in the closet. There are various secular news sources neglect to mention, not her faith, but the motivation that started the wheels in motion for taking part in this campaign project. It covers the general story of how they have a passion to do God's will and help give refuge to these girls who have been put into slavery. But what caused the passion to spark in their hearts? People have began to boycott these kinds of media sources. The Real Passion Behind The A21 Project
I find it all terrifying. How do we know what the media is covering is the full story on situations that are serious and concern us? How do I know that the bomb that went off in central America is simply an unfortunate event and not one event that will turn into a series of unfortunate events? How do I know that pro-life activists aren't just protesting peacefully but are making women who have had abortions feel as though they created the ultimate crime or even trying to shut down these useful planned parenthood facilities? These things are important to know the who story, but only obtaining half of these events won't help us in the long run. They tend to not only exclude, but to fabricate. Last semester my English class were going on a trip to the MoMA in New York which happens to be near Trump Towers. I was hearing all kinds of crazy stories of it being dangerous to walk by and to be around, as I'm walking to go home I realized I didn't even hear or see a single protestor. When walking by Trump Tower I saw a simple protest which looks mainly peaceful, no rioting.
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