This week we had talked about how media can give you some wrong message and make you believe that’s true. And how power can severely effect people’s behaviors.

The documentary we watched in class about the prison experiment from Stanford really shocked me. The experiment is about make half of the random participants to be prisoner and  the rest of the participants to be the guard. The experiment restored the real since of the prison. At first, participants act like what I anticipated, they still acted like normal people outside of the prison. However, the guards start to feel power and things gets changed really fast. I am really shocked by how short they use to incorporated in to the character. Prisoner start to believe they are real prisoner, and because there’s no rules and interference, guards starts to abuse their power, the fake prison even gets more crazy than the real prison. People’s reactions to power really surprised me, the participants knows this is not real but they still gets serious because of the power they have.

The another example of power is people believed in what phone call says with no proof. A manger of a fast food restaurant gets a phone call from a person who claim to be a cop. He sounds like it, so the manager just believed it. He did what the ‘cop’ told him to do, which is to search one of the employee. There’s more unreachable things the ‘cop’ told the manager to do after the first one. And the manager didn’t even remember to check if that is a real cop. He was scared by the power. From a onlooker’s point of view, it is really hard to believe that really happened, but we are not in the moment, that’s how power and media can effect people.

What we can’s avoid these days is there always fake news, people are not likely to check the source of the news when they saw something really shocked them. Publisher sees that and use that when they edit their new in order to get more attention for their article.  It is really easy for people to believe what they saw on internet or any media, people already get used to moving fast right now, it seems like wasting time to check the source. We shouldn’t underrate the power of the media. When you have some negative thoughts, you will be more easy to be influenced by the media.