During our first class, we were asked if media affects the way we think? The answer is yes. It affects us all as individuals the minute we wake up and go about our day to day lives. This is a very interesting class that has opened my mind about the word media and what it truly is. Before taking this class, to me the word media meant, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the evening news. I have learned that it is anything that a human can externally use. That is very deep. I am a music producer, I enjoy taking photos, and making music videos. If I was told in the past that my music is a media, I feel I would have achieved a lot more goals that I set for myself. I would have focused more on the benefits of music and how my producing will affects people. By focusing more on the benefits, I feel it would that have put me more in a creative space maybe, maybe not. Here are a few benefits of music, therapy for pain, it reduces blood pressure, boosts immunity, music enhances intelligence, improves memory performance (I am not too sure about that one, because I play a lot of music and I will find it hard to retain things LOL) music improve body movement and coordination. So has we can see media also affects the way we feel. I feel in some situation people use media incorrectly which causes a negative effect. All the hype about a major blizzard was negative media that affect me emotionally and financially lol. My wife drove me crazy for a day looking for a snow blower, we went from store to store and then spending $750 dollars from our savings. The media had a huge influence on her and it cost us close to $900 on supplies and preparation.