Media Dependency 2
If you haven’t already noticed, I am obsessed with the Media Dependency theory. For my senior project (see entry below) I went without any media for a week. I was a hermit. Interestingly enough, Oprah just did this episode about wasting. Wasting what, you ask? Anything. The episode was titled, “What would you dare to live without”?
Whether it be energy, food, time, heat, money, etc. This episode had so much basis in Media Dependency that I just had to watch. (As a side note, they never referred to this term, but it was implied).
This family above, had to live without any luxuries for a week. No TV, video games, cell phones, plastic water bottles, no take-out, shopping, Internet, radio,etc.
http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200804/tows_past_20080417.jhtml?promocode=incl20080417TD
What are your thoughts? Could you go a week without these things, or would you crack, like their daughter did?
