Presentation by undergrads in a Communication course on "Media and Culture", about Taking the Red Pill as shown in The Matrix.

1. Giving you the information to WHAT IS THE MATRIX.
ANSWER.

2. “The Matrix is the
world that has been
pulled over your eyes
to blind you from the
truth.”

3. “You take the Blue Pill—story
ends, you wake up in your bed
and believe whatever you want
to believe. You take the Red
Pill—you stay in wonderland
and I show you how deep the
rabbit hole goes…”

4. “The Matrix is the trap the
world has become.”
“We are already pawns in a modern
technological society where life happens
around us, but is scarcely influenced by us.”

5. CONNECTIONS

6. MAPS
READINGS
PARABLE

7. +

8. What we use
What controls us

9. “Our everyday lives are
saturated by radio, TV,
newspapers, books, the internet,
movies, music, magazines, and
more.”
Answer section relates to map of syllabus description
because even though our society is in the middle of
everything, technology and media influence us and our
actions.

10. Answer section connects to the
parable because the parable
gives examples of underlying
meanings to the Matrix, thus
relating the Matrix to our world.
The answer section expresses
that the Matrix is our world.

11. So What’s Next?
Today our society is controlled by
the machine…
“Social construction of reality…while
reality exists, we must negotiate the
meaning of that reality.”