Hyper Reality

Hyperreality effects everyone of us, in the area of music, food, and even phones.
"Hyperreality is a means to characterise the way consciousness defines what is actually "real" in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter the original event or experience being depicted." What this is saying is that what the media tells us gives us an idea of what we think is real, but when we are given the actual product, in this case a cell phone, we find ourselves to be disappointed. This is the case with my phone, which was dipicted to me as a cute, music playing, phone with lots of cool features. As the t-mobile websites states, "The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is the perfect marriage of music and style." When I say the phone on the web-site and how they advertise it it sounded like the best phone in the entire world, but I find you change your mind quickly when you're glad it's under warrenty and they've already sent you two new ones because the screens die.I've only had the phone since June and am finding that I regret the day I first thought my phone was so musically and stylish because I would give anything for my old phone back. It's obvious that not everything is as we see and the fantasy of the things we want aren't always the way the media protrays them to be.


http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Detail.aspx?device=03e32d1d-b4e8-4de1-a5fc-01b1f8bbf3f4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_reality