Socially-constructed reality

 The world is said to be an illusion; whatever we see is not reality. We only assume and believe what we see to be reality. Even what we think is not real. This is so because there are different aspects and beliefs which contribute to that. Our reality is modified by people’s opinions, different cultures and different perspectives. Due to that fact that many groups of people give meaning to everything that is around them, this can be easily manipulated and that is where the power lies.

"The Titanic sinking Scene"

This video is from the movie " Titanic." It is based on a real story which means the sinking of the Titanic really occurred. The film was adapted after the real sinking. This video seems to be real. As the characters in it are feeling scared and the fright is clearly seen. It is a preview of how the ship sank. 

No matter how realistic it may seem, the world produced by any text is construction. This is because our media is mediated. All our access to reality is mediated through the ways we learned to see and understand through representational systems. There is no such things that is unmediated access to the real world. Reality is ‘modified’ not only because the way people see things but the representation also has a hand in whatever is being projected to us. Nowadays, everything is mediated in order for people to understand properly the message they try to pass. Representation helps us to communicate and interact more with everyone around us. Some people may take reality as being part of their emotions. We understand world through representation, thus in a way the world is said to be real as we see things and form part of this world; this reality.  

"Not a transition from “reality” to “fiction”, from “authentic representation” to “constructed image” "- Geoff King