WHAT IS CRITICISM, you may ask? According to Peter B.Orlik, Criticism is a destructive weapon rather than a constructive tool. There are two types of criticism, Legitimate and Constructive. Legitimate criticism points out defects but describes why certain things are defective. Constructive criticism is more about knowledgeable comprehension or “carefully considered judgment”. All of this connects to us because Media criticism is something that we are all surrounded by and we do every day. Media affects the way we react, and most importantly, the media tells our story! Through our everyday life, people tend to be on their phones most of their day literally everything. Through our phones, we get to share things with our family & friends, we get to socialize and communicate, but also interact. Through all of these four things, we as users tend to be critics. According to Peter B. Orlik, he states that the act of criticism involves organizing, describing, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating. Without us even noticing it, while we text someone or are using social media, we are doing all of these things. During the day of Friday, January 31st, 2020 I was observing myself of the usage of my phone in general. It made me come to the realization that there was a lot of interacting and communicating through these apps. I have realized a lot just writing down how many apps I used during the day, or texting people. After putting together the chart of my media usage, it makes you realize how you start your day, and how you end it and that is by using your phone or some sort of media, like in my case was either Netflix or YouTube. Nowadays it is a habit of ours and we don’t realize it! I started my day by using the Bible App for about 30 minutes, then went on to texting with family members and friends. Throughout the day, I found myself using YouTube and Instagram, but also playing some Candy Crush to get my mind off of things. And finished the day watching some Netflix until I fell asleep.
Media Criticism 