I Want To Work In Mass Media
In eighth grade, I was one of the few persons in the class without a smartphone. I didn’t have Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp or Twitter. I felt isolated, inferior, I wasn't fully connected with my classmates. Finally, that Christmas year, my parents gave me my first smartphone, a present that completely changed my life, forever. At that moment, I got access to a new dimension, a digital world that would become as much important and essential as my authentic reality. At that moment, I became a full mass media consumer. I daily spent about two hours in front of a television screen during dinner and lunch, watching series, reality shows, news reports or athletic events. I listened to the radio for an hour when my dad had to drove me to soccer practice; we loved discussing the show's topic and guessing the quizzes' answers. On Sundays, at my grandmother's house, I read the local newspaper and my grandad's favorite sports magazine, which was the main subject of...