Media Effects

Reading this chapter on Audiences It got me thinking about how much what I watch on TV effects me in my life? When I watch a certain movie and I really it, it tends to stick with me for a few days and I think about it a lot.  But I never want to go and act like the person in the film, it doesn't effect me in that way! I saw twilight recently and I don't want to go be a vampire now! haha 

But it did get me thinking about other types of media and how that effects me.  For instance I like to follow celebrity gossip (I know lame) but I do...That effects me only in that I tend to know whats going on in that world and am often telling my friends did you hear about so and so haha and it just gives us something stupid to talk about for a few minutes.  I also like to see what people are wearing cause I am interested in fashion like that and I love shopping so if i like a certain outfit someone is wearing in a picture, I might try and find something similiar...It's not that I try to dress like a celebrity because I don't and I really don't like when people do (big sunglasses etc) I am just using that as an example of how the media effects me, because I can't really think of another way it effects me in life.  I was just curious how the media effected people if just in thought or physically etc.  

It also got me thinking about a research paper I did for my comm 396 class on celebrity endorsements of products.  If a celebrity uses a product are you more likely to trust that product and use that product than if it was just a no name brand?  I think celebs effect us more than we think.