Most Significant Media: 2021
My 10 Most Significant Media: 2021
(in no particular order)
1. Libby (mobile library app)
2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020, video game)
3. AllTrails (hiking app)
4. Naruto (2002-2007, anime)
5. Procreate (illustration/design app)
6. Game Night (John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein 2018, film)
7. Marcelo in the Real World (Francisco X. Stork 2009, book)
8. Fountains of Silence (Ruta Sepetys 2019, book)
9. A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness 2011, graphic novel)
10. Goodreads (app)
I had to google whether apps in general are considered media, which seems like a silly question, but I wanted to be sure. This past Spring semester at BYU, I took Young Adult Literature with Katie Irion and it has probably been my favorite class at BYU thus far. Since I'm poor, I finally got a library card to keep up with the heaps of reading we did in that course. My library card is magical and beautiful and also led me to downloading Libby, a mobile library app that syncs your library cards to one account on your phone and gives you access to all those library's audio books and digitized books. I spent a lot of 2021 listening or reading books from Libby. Some of those titles are listed above: Marcelo in the Real World, Fountains of Silence, and A Monster Calls. Speaking of A Monster Calls, my cousin passed away after an almost 7-year battle with cancer just a few days before I had to read that book for class. If that isn't significant media, I don't know what is. Looking back on these forms of media and the roles they took in my year, I can see how healing media can be if we choose to intake the good stuff.
I love how you talked about how healing media can be. It also became clear to me that we chose very different forms of media, but the concept is so universal. I know how healing music is for me and I can easily see that same passion for literature here! Some media comes at the most meaningful times and they are an anchor for us when trials come.
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