I am Abbey Swift and I am a senior here at UMBC. I play on the Women’s Lacrosse (http://www.umbcretrievers.com/) team here and I am a Media and Communications and American Studies major. I come from a big family and I love spending time with my family and friends.
My media habits started at a very young age. I have three brothers and two sisters and my mother was a stay at home mom, so in the early morning I would watch the news, then her favorite morning talk show was Regis and Kelly and I loved watching that with her as well. At night when my family was done dinner my mom would watch the evening news and then Entertainment Tonight was always on at 7, so we had to watch that. My two older sisters have two different interests when it comes to their media habits therefore I got both spectrums. I was influenced by one who loves celeb gossip, reality television, and primetime TV where as my other sister likes to watch and be updated with worldly and political news. Since I look up to my older sisters I have, I guess followed in their footsteps when it comes to media habits because I always wanted them to think that I was cool.
I would say that I have pretty good media habits. I at least try to get all aspects of the media because I love reading about celebrity gossip and I really enjoy watching the daily evening news. Since I watched the news as a kid it makes me feel at home while being at college. The only thing that I wish that I was more “in-tune” with when it comes to the media is currently I would like to be more informed with the new president and worldly news. I have been trying to stay up-to-date with most recent news with our new president, but I have trouble keeping up with it. My goal for this year is to learn more about this topic and stay interested in it. Also, I believe that has a lot of impact on people’s lives. The things that people see on television or hear about in the news influences how they perceive people in the media.
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