Does media reflect life? Does it influence choices?
It does seem more interesting in the age of Google. SEO is supposedly based on content you write to attract human views, which improves search engine ranking, but there is some circular logic and reinforcement of this loop in that as a human writer, you probably look up what terms people search for, then write accordingly. Seems to be something similar with the images people post and get found by search engines.
So does Google reflect our choices? Influence us? Both?