What is media studies?

Before watching the first lecture of MDSA01, i thought we would be talking about all the social media around us such as websites that include Facebook, Twitter, etc.

However, after watching the lecture i realized that a media does not only mean the things that we watch on TV or on the internet. The definition given to us was that a media is information that  comes to use through some indirect channel or medium. Most people in our day and age, particularly our generation is surrounded by social media more than ever, and it is no surprise that we only think of social media when hearing about media studies. 

My thoughts after watching the lecture was that media studies is for us to learn about the form of communications that humans have had since a long time ago. The quote "We make our tools, then our tools make us." by Marshall McLuhan (1964) is very true in a sense that the things we make, such as a watch, helps us to be able to know the time and make life more efficient. At the same time, we are being bounded by this watch because of the time - everything that we do in our daily schedule is all depended on time, and that comes from the watch.