[Ella Countryman / Media & Society / Bemidji State University / 2026]

Media, meaning, and the systems shaping both.

This blog is part of my Media & Society course. I will use it throughout the semester to publish assignments and work through some of those questions as we look at media, technology, culture, journalism, and society.

I'm less interested in asking what media says than in asking what happens to us when a particular way of communicating becomes normal.

A question I keep coming back to

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I'm Ella, a Marketing Communication and Communication Studies student at Bemidji State University. I am interested in what happens underneath communication: the systems, expectations, platforms, and patterns that shape how people make sense of one another and the world around them.

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