1. The Obama Deception was a movie that was made by Alex Jones that was trying to inform and persuade the public about Obama and his followers. While watching this film, I was very interested in what Alex Jones had to say. I felt that Jones pronounced what he had to say in an amusing way, especially using a megaphone to be heard. Throughout the entire movie, Jones was comparing Obama to our previous Presidents and what they did when in power. Obama is just a figure head who is controlled by others in the government along with major power and profitable corporations.
2. From the second that the movie started, your brain was completely overtaken by the music. The eerie music that was played constantly throughout the film truly took control of our brain. The limbic brain is affected by music and pictures. Jones has definitely done his research on how the brain works. He utilized the music along with adding in graphic footage that also deeply affects how we think. Jones also used his own voice which is low and dark to narrator the movie. All of these pieces that affected the limbic brain allowed the view to be convinced that the government and Obama aren’t working to make good in our country.
3. Throughout this film, Jones used countless persuasive techniques that moved the viewer. The most memorable technique would happen to be the use of symbols; Obama himself. Obama was targeted for this movie because he is our newly elected President, who happens to be the first black President to run our country. Obama has promised us great change for our country; however Jones portrays Obama as a puppet for the Wall Street tycoons and major corporation bigwigs. Jones used testimonials in order to back up his own thesis. He was able to obtained interviews from rappers to everyday people to previous government workers. That way he is able to target each different demographic. Plain Folks was also a strong persuasive technique throughout The Obama Deception. The average Joe was always placed in the film to prove how much they approve of Obama and what they expect out of him since he was running in the election. Group dynamics was one of the main techniques that held this film together. I couldn’t tell you how many times I saw a group of people rallying against Obama and trying to bring down the elite powers. Straw man was another technique that was used influentially. Even though Obama has only been in office for a few months, Jones identifies all of the promises that Obama made when running for President and that he hasn’t fulfilled them yet. Strength would be the last technique that Jones uses extremely well. Without strength within himself, Jones would not be as well known as he is at rallies, in the news, and with government officials. He has been able to create a certain reputation about himself through his strength.
4. After taking several media classes, I know that you can’t believe everything you hear especially if you only listen to one source of media. But Alex Jones was very convincing of his opinion through emotional transfer. He was able to set up the entire film to convince the viewer that they should fear Obama and the elite powers. Because Jones has done his research about his topic and creating an influence film, he was able to pace this film with production techniques to fit the context of information. Jones was able to place in visuals that connected to what he was saying and informing the viewer on. Since Jones was the creator of The Obama Deception, he has created ownership for the film and no one was there to stop what he had to say. The last general principle Jones used was value messages. Value messages were within the film to get his opinion across to the viewer. I felt that he placed so many value messages in the film so the viewer could connect to the film and agree with Jones.
5. In our technological world, you can find just about anything on the net. Jones is a very savvy man and placed his film on YouTube, that way more people can access and view it. With just a little advertising that this film is available on YouTube, people can then watch the film for free, on their own time, rewind and fast forward to wherever they’d like. This is the biggest technological shift I believe that is apart of The Obama Deception.
6. Before watching The Obama Deception I had never heard about the Bilderberg Group. Jones really didn’t elaborate about who or what the group did. So after researching who they are, I found out that the group consists of influential people, who are mostly politicians and business people who come up with secretive conspiracy theories. The group doesn’t give out times or places where they meet, nor do they give out information on what they are discussing. The New World Order was another organization that I had never heard before. They are an extremely powerful and influential group than plan and hope to run the world through a self-governing administration. The group meets in secrecy also consists of powerful politicians and powerful business people from all over. The Trilateral Commission is also another eye opening organization that hasn’t been in the daily news or has been talked about in great detail.
7. Now that I have read all the books for this course and been able to reflect on this film by Alex Jones. Our Project Censored 2009 book relates extremely well to The Obama Deception. All of the stories within that book have been censored to the media in various different ways for many different reasons. Jones and the authors of PC are trying to inform the general public of the secrecy going around in our own neighborhoods. Without these types of people, the other sides of stories would never been heard or seen.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
My Ten Media Revelations
1. Epistemology
Epistemology is the complex study of the nature and origins of knowledge (Postman 17). In short, epistemology is the perception how to decipher knowing that from knowing how. In our society, we hear something and many times we assume that the information is correct and factual. People in our society also don’t do their own research and only take the media’s statements into consideration. Now that I have been more educated about epistemology and the media, when I hear the news I can ask myself; What is true? How do I know, what I know? What do people know?
2. The 3 Brains
Before taking this class, I had no clue that those who work in the media industry focus on everyone’s three brains. Learning how our brains worked along with how advertisers and producers use that knowledge to get their message across. Our brains are made up of the neocortex, limbic, and reptilian. Each section of our brain reacts differently to sounds, pictures, instincts, and thinking. Postman summarizes that television undervalues epistemological topics due to the way the media portrays what you view. The Persuaders illustrates that brands tend to persuade their target markets without the use of the neocortex.
3. Public Relations
PR is just way to use persuasive language. Public relations is the very opposite of advertising. Advertising is suppose to cut through the clutter; PR is suppose to be invisible. Over 50% of our news that we are in contact is PR. PR comes from a large corporation that has an agenda or propaganda. While reading Feed, there is a great example of PR and how corporations use their power to their target. On page 158, if you spoke to your friends about the great taste of Coca Cola one thousand times, you got a free six-pack of it. The kids would do it for hours thinking they could rip off the corporations.
4. Media and our Society
The media controls our society, lives, and how we communicate. Each new invention in our technological world, the media promotes and cultivates how we use it in our lives. Feed is a perfect example of how media affects our lives. Just as in our lives, Feed also uses Internet slang in the characters everyday chatter. In our lives we use, lol, brb, wtf, etc. In Feed they use meg rad, unit, mal, omigod, etc. Both fictional and non-fictional, the conjunction of media and how we speak reveals our society and our values. Media and Society, elaborates to the reader that language is never impartial and that it always reflects a portion of society in a particular way (215). As of now, the world is now trying to fit their life statuses in 140 characters.
5. Privacy
Now that I’m graduating I have been trying to limit my personal information and pictures on the Internet. Once something is on the web, it will always be there for someone to access. For example, say you had a picture of you on Facebook that was of you smoking an illegal substance, your future employer could very easily see that. Corporations or whomever, don’t need special permission to look at your life on the Internet. Just like in Feed, companies like FeedTech can search and look up your hard drive’s contents without any repercussions.
6. Media and the News
Postman clearly states that one of his primary concern with television is that it has made everything entertainment. Because everything is entertainment in his eyes, the news isn’t really telling the facts, just amusing the viewers (Postman 112). Major corporations control the media and what the public will hear. After reading Project Censored 2009, the general public has no idea what the media portrays and reveals to us. I found it extremely interesting that the daily news is all about celebrities and their lives, when we so much more happening in the world that affect our own lives. Anderson’s book Feed, makes note that the news which is entertainment is to keep our society happy and at ease rather than informed of the world news.
7. Social Networking
From when I began college until now, social networking has reached an all time high of users and websites. After reading Clive Thompson’s article, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”, I have realized the ins and outs of social networking. Being linked to internet, your information is able to be read by anyone. Users of Facebook can almost “stalk” you through pictures and users of Twitter can see your status updates minute by minute. Social networking has slowed down our physical contact with others which has even made us lazier than we were. Thompson says that it is harder to hide your real self on the internet because people can track you through these sites. Which I believe is extremely true, people should be aware of what information is on the internet especially when it pertains to them.
8. Google and our Society
Reading Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, I realized that we rely on the internet for just about everything. I can remember being in elementary school, learning how to use the card catalog in the library to find books, magazines, and encyclopedia’s. Nowadays, like Carr stated, we all spend a lot of time on the net searching for these different types of mediums. Google has simplified the leg work of researching information. Now that we are lucky enough to have a place like Google, I wonder if young children still learn how to use a card catalog?
9. What a Small World
While I’m sitting here at my computer, I can search the internet for a movie time, look up a recipe, go on Facebook and Twitter, and send text messages or make a phone call on my cell phone. There is nothing that can hold you back from doing what you want to do through all these types of mediums. Postman has made it known that these important events are now made us for pure entertainment. I couldn’t agree anymore with what he believes. Media Society states in detail that technology has to adapt with the society in order to be accepted (320).
10. Media and the Future
Living in today’s society, I have been very lucky to experience great technologies that will keep our world ever-changing. It’s hard to believe that the technology that we have now has obtained so much power in such a little time. I can remember using dial up internet when I was in middle school and now if you don’t have internet on your cell phone you are out of sync with what is going on. To imagine if in twenty years we could have chips placed in our body like in Feed. Or the fact that finding out information about anything is possible in a very short amount of time. Media Society elaborates that the internet could actually connect the people and the government together. Where will technology and media take us in the next twenty years?
Work Cited
Anderson, M. T. Feed. New York: Candlewick P, 2004.
Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid." The Atlantic July-Aug. 2008. 3 Sept. 2008 .
Croteau, David, and William Hoynes. Media/Society : Industries, Images, and Audiences. New York: Pine Forge P, 2002.
Philips, Peter, and Andrew Roth, eds. Censored 2009 : The Top 25 Censored Stories Of 2007-08. New York: Seven Stories P, 2008.
Postman, Neil, and Andrew Postman. Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006.
Thompson, Clive. "Brave New World of Digital Intimacy." The New York Times 7 Sept. 2008. 15 Sept. 2008
Epistemology is the complex study of the nature and origins of knowledge (Postman 17). In short, epistemology is the perception how to decipher knowing that from knowing how. In our society, we hear something and many times we assume that the information is correct and factual. People in our society also don’t do their own research and only take the media’s statements into consideration. Now that I have been more educated about epistemology and the media, when I hear the news I can ask myself; What is true? How do I know, what I know? What do people know?
2. The 3 Brains
Before taking this class, I had no clue that those who work in the media industry focus on everyone’s three brains. Learning how our brains worked along with how advertisers and producers use that knowledge to get their message across. Our brains are made up of the neocortex, limbic, and reptilian. Each section of our brain reacts differently to sounds, pictures, instincts, and thinking. Postman summarizes that television undervalues epistemological topics due to the way the media portrays what you view. The Persuaders illustrates that brands tend to persuade their target markets without the use of the neocortex.
3. Public Relations
PR is just way to use persuasive language. Public relations is the very opposite of advertising. Advertising is suppose to cut through the clutter; PR is suppose to be invisible. Over 50% of our news that we are in contact is PR. PR comes from a large corporation that has an agenda or propaganda. While reading Feed, there is a great example of PR and how corporations use their power to their target. On page 158, if you spoke to your friends about the great taste of Coca Cola one thousand times, you got a free six-pack of it. The kids would do it for hours thinking they could rip off the corporations.
4. Media and our Society
The media controls our society, lives, and how we communicate. Each new invention in our technological world, the media promotes and cultivates how we use it in our lives. Feed is a perfect example of how media affects our lives. Just as in our lives, Feed also uses Internet slang in the characters everyday chatter. In our lives we use, lol, brb, wtf, etc. In Feed they use meg rad, unit, mal, omigod, etc. Both fictional and non-fictional, the conjunction of media and how we speak reveals our society and our values. Media and Society, elaborates to the reader that language is never impartial and that it always reflects a portion of society in a particular way (215). As of now, the world is now trying to fit their life statuses in 140 characters.
5. Privacy
Now that I’m graduating I have been trying to limit my personal information and pictures on the Internet. Once something is on the web, it will always be there for someone to access. For example, say you had a picture of you on Facebook that was of you smoking an illegal substance, your future employer could very easily see that. Corporations or whomever, don’t need special permission to look at your life on the Internet. Just like in Feed, companies like FeedTech can search and look up your hard drive’s contents without any repercussions.
6. Media and the News
Postman clearly states that one of his primary concern with television is that it has made everything entertainment. Because everything is entertainment in his eyes, the news isn’t really telling the facts, just amusing the viewers (Postman 112). Major corporations control the media and what the public will hear. After reading Project Censored 2009, the general public has no idea what the media portrays and reveals to us. I found it extremely interesting that the daily news is all about celebrities and their lives, when we so much more happening in the world that affect our own lives. Anderson’s book Feed, makes note that the news which is entertainment is to keep our society happy and at ease rather than informed of the world news.
7. Social Networking
From when I began college until now, social networking has reached an all time high of users and websites. After reading Clive Thompson’s article, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”, I have realized the ins and outs of social networking. Being linked to internet, your information is able to be read by anyone. Users of Facebook can almost “stalk” you through pictures and users of Twitter can see your status updates minute by minute. Social networking has slowed down our physical contact with others which has even made us lazier than we were. Thompson says that it is harder to hide your real self on the internet because people can track you through these sites. Which I believe is extremely true, people should be aware of what information is on the internet especially when it pertains to them.
8. Google and our Society
Reading Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, I realized that we rely on the internet for just about everything. I can remember being in elementary school, learning how to use the card catalog in the library to find books, magazines, and encyclopedia’s. Nowadays, like Carr stated, we all spend a lot of time on the net searching for these different types of mediums. Google has simplified the leg work of researching information. Now that we are lucky enough to have a place like Google, I wonder if young children still learn how to use a card catalog?
9. What a Small World
While I’m sitting here at my computer, I can search the internet for a movie time, look up a recipe, go on Facebook and Twitter, and send text messages or make a phone call on my cell phone. There is nothing that can hold you back from doing what you want to do through all these types of mediums. Postman has made it known that these important events are now made us for pure entertainment. I couldn’t agree anymore with what he believes. Media Society states in detail that technology has to adapt with the society in order to be accepted (320).
10. Media and the Future
Living in today’s society, I have been very lucky to experience great technologies that will keep our world ever-changing. It’s hard to believe that the technology that we have now has obtained so much power in such a little time. I can remember using dial up internet when I was in middle school and now if you don’t have internet on your cell phone you are out of sync with what is going on. To imagine if in twenty years we could have chips placed in our body like in Feed. Or the fact that finding out information about anything is possible in a very short amount of time. Media Society elaborates that the internet could actually connect the people and the government together. Where will technology and media take us in the next twenty years?
Work Cited
Anderson, M. T. Feed. New York: Candlewick P, 2004.
Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid." The Atlantic July-Aug. 2008. 3 Sept. 2008 .
Croteau, David, and William Hoynes. Media/Society : Industries, Images, and Audiences. New York: Pine Forge P, 2002.
Philips, Peter, and Andrew Roth, eds. Censored 2009 : The Top 25 Censored Stories Of 2007-08. New York: Seven Stories P, 2008.
Postman, Neil, and Andrew Postman. Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006.
Thompson, Clive. "Brave New World of Digital Intimacy." The New York Times 7 Sept. 2008. 15 Sept. 2008
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Pros-Twitter has opened up another great aspect of the WWW. Twitter allows you to practice how you want to say something in 140 characters. Twitter can also allow you to follow anyone who has a Twitter account. With Facebook, you need to be accepted as a friend to see what that person is doing. Twitter also has a great search engine. You can tailor your search to exactly what you want. Twitter can also be used on through your cell phone, that way you are always connected.
Cons-Twitter can be very invading. Twitter can be seen by anyone, there is no privacy for those who would like it. Zaitchik’s point the lack of words that people are using, is very true. New technology has already shortened the amount of words or even letters we use. Twitter now uses websites to shorten URL’s so you can say more in your tweet. I know from a personal stance that my cousins all write improper sentences and use the internet lingo. It’s very hard to keep up with Twitter unless you have a cell phone with internet capabilities or a laptop near you all the time.
I haven’t Tweeted that much myself however I do like reading all of the tweets. I only go on Twitter when I have down time from my homework or I have a few minutes here and there.
Cons-Twitter can be very invading. Twitter can be seen by anyone, there is no privacy for those who would like it. Zaitchik’s point the lack of words that people are using, is very true. New technology has already shortened the amount of words or even letters we use. Twitter now uses websites to shorten URL’s so you can say more in your tweet. I know from a personal stance that my cousins all write improper sentences and use the internet lingo. It’s very hard to keep up with Twitter unless you have a cell phone with internet capabilities or a laptop near you all the time.
I haven’t Tweeted that much myself however I do like reading all of the tweets. I only go on Twitter when I have down time from my homework or I have a few minutes here and there.
Monday, April 13, 2009
I definitely agree with many ideas of Tom Hodgkinson’s that were in “With Friends Like These…” I most definitely agree with the idea that we don’t need to have a computer or the internet to connect us to people. Facebook makes it easier for us to find people and keep in touch with many people. It just makes the users of Facebook lazier. We don’t use the phone anymore or even write emails, we only seem to use Facebook to send messages to our friends. I know from my own experience of Facebook that I may have many friends on the site but it doesn’t actually mean that I keep in touch with all of them everyday or even every week. Most people I know use Facebook for just looking at photos and happen to over use it. Facebook is now just another place where you are bombarded with advertisements. Wherever you go, you can’t avoid advertisements by small or large companies.
Another concept of Hodgkinson’s that I found interesting, was the fact that Facebook is hard to escape. When Facebook first started, was only available for only college students, then high school students, and now its available for anyone. My mom and my aunt are users of Facebook now, it’s crazy. I know for like people like my mom, she has been able to find old friends from college and even high school. Without this technology she would have probably never found them, but there has been too much focus on this one site.
The youtube video is very humorous and very true. We all have been guilty of just friending someone because you saw them on campus or saw their site. Why would you poke someone!? I really don’t get it and the movie portrays that. I really don’t think anyone gets why there is a poke button. I definitely agree with their video. They leave there video vague of Facebook and what goes on Facebook.
My own Facebook experience happens to be similar to the other birthday experience. I know that on my birthday, I haven’t actually received many calls since I have had Facebook. I always get messages on my Facebook wall rather than an actual call. It just shows how we function in our society. We are all so connected to the net and this particular site.
Another concept of Hodgkinson’s that I found interesting, was the fact that Facebook is hard to escape. When Facebook first started, was only available for only college students, then high school students, and now its available for anyone. My mom and my aunt are users of Facebook now, it’s crazy. I know for like people like my mom, she has been able to find old friends from college and even high school. Without this technology she would have probably never found them, but there has been too much focus on this one site.
The youtube video is very humorous and very true. We all have been guilty of just friending someone because you saw them on campus or saw their site. Why would you poke someone!? I really don’t get it and the movie portrays that. I really don’t think anyone gets why there is a poke button. I definitely agree with their video. They leave there video vague of Facebook and what goes on Facebook.
My own Facebook experience happens to be similar to the other birthday experience. I know that on my birthday, I haven’t actually received many calls since I have had Facebook. I always get messages on my Facebook wall rather than an actual call. It just shows how we function in our society. We are all so connected to the net and this particular site.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
PC Chapters 11-15
Chapter 11
I couldn’t agree more with the beginning of this chapter. The authors blatantly state that we cannot obtain the truth from any media sources. Americans have been faced with the decline of wages over the last thirty five years. I found out that 50 million or more Americans lack healthcare that results in the deaths of 18,000 people per year. If more Americans actually heard this news the way they hear about Britney Spears and her family daily, things may actually change. I really loved how this PC chapter quoted Postman, “As a result the US has become the best entertained and least informed society in the world.” Which couldn’t be less true. Without reading this chapter, I probably would have never been informed about the Truth Emergency Movement.
My question is…Why aren’t Americans more informed about these media activist through other forms of media?
Chapter 12
Reading this chapter brought back feelings about my own personal family experience with Veteran’s Healthcare. My grandfather served over 30 years in the US Navy. The last few years of his life he was deemed 100% disabled by the Veteran’s Hospital and he needed constant care by professionals. Unfortunately my grandma wasn’t able to fulfill his medical needs and she put him in a Veteran’s Hospital in Central Jersey to get the attention he needed. She would visit him everyday and make sure he was being cared for properly and was comfortable. I can remember visiting him at the VA, it was very dirty, carelessly run, and many vets there had no one like my grandma to speak up for them. It was very hard to see the poor conditions these veterans were living in. To think that these people served a good portion of their lives for our country and the way we repay them is with awful living conditions and medical services.
My question is…Why doesn’t our country give veterans the rights and services that they deserve?
Chapter 13
After reading chapter 12, thinking about the lack of veteran’s healthcare, no wonder the government has to spend so much money on recruiting. So many people are 1, afraid to go into the service at a time of war, and 2, people have seen the lack of government aid that their grandparents or great grandparents receive. Just in 2003, $4 billion was used just for recruitment. A great deal of this money is used on recruiting children in high schools. These recruiters know how to appeal to adolescents because of the exposure of violent video games and images; recruiters are able to capture them with false pretenses.
My question is…Is it really appropriate for military recruiters to promote enlisting in any armed services at such a young age? I’m 21 years old, graduating college, and I still don’t know what I want to. How can an 18 year old know if they really want to serve time for their country?
Chapter 14
9/11 will be a day in our lives that will always remember where we were when it happened. An investigation of the events should have been conducted right after the towers went down. 9/11 has certainly changed everything. The past eight years I feel like the media has just filled us all up with ideas and facts that are exactly true. As Americans we should be told everything so it’s black and white. However, the media has presented most of this material in a very gray way. After 9/11, I can remember President Bush talking on TV, saying that our nation and world has just been split into two sides, good and evil. Once Bush said that, most people I knew claimed to good because they didn’t want to be seen as evil.
My question is…It’s been eight years since this tragic event, why haven’t we be informed what really happened? I feel as though the government should at least tell the families who lost someone that day what happened.
Chapter 15
This chapter outlined more questions in my head about our government and how our system works. Just because we have all of this power doesn’t mean we should only use it for our advantage. There are plenty of countries out there that need extra help that we could give to them. If our country was able to help some of these countries, some of these problems like the deforestation of the rainforest or problems with our neighbors in Mexico and Canada.
My question is … Why does our country feel as though they have the right to just jump into any country and do whatever?
I couldn’t agree more with the beginning of this chapter. The authors blatantly state that we cannot obtain the truth from any media sources. Americans have been faced with the decline of wages over the last thirty five years. I found out that 50 million or more Americans lack healthcare that results in the deaths of 18,000 people per year. If more Americans actually heard this news the way they hear about Britney Spears and her family daily, things may actually change. I really loved how this PC chapter quoted Postman, “As a result the US has become the best entertained and least informed society in the world.” Which couldn’t be less true. Without reading this chapter, I probably would have never been informed about the Truth Emergency Movement.
My question is…Why aren’t Americans more informed about these media activist through other forms of media?
Chapter 12
Reading this chapter brought back feelings about my own personal family experience with Veteran’s Healthcare. My grandfather served over 30 years in the US Navy. The last few years of his life he was deemed 100% disabled by the Veteran’s Hospital and he needed constant care by professionals. Unfortunately my grandma wasn’t able to fulfill his medical needs and she put him in a Veteran’s Hospital in Central Jersey to get the attention he needed. She would visit him everyday and make sure he was being cared for properly and was comfortable. I can remember visiting him at the VA, it was very dirty, carelessly run, and many vets there had no one like my grandma to speak up for them. It was very hard to see the poor conditions these veterans were living in. To think that these people served a good portion of their lives for our country and the way we repay them is with awful living conditions and medical services.
My question is…Why doesn’t our country give veterans the rights and services that they deserve?
Chapter 13
After reading chapter 12, thinking about the lack of veteran’s healthcare, no wonder the government has to spend so much money on recruiting. So many people are 1, afraid to go into the service at a time of war, and 2, people have seen the lack of government aid that their grandparents or great grandparents receive. Just in 2003, $4 billion was used just for recruitment. A great deal of this money is used on recruiting children in high schools. These recruiters know how to appeal to adolescents because of the exposure of violent video games and images; recruiters are able to capture them with false pretenses.
My question is…Is it really appropriate for military recruiters to promote enlisting in any armed services at such a young age? I’m 21 years old, graduating college, and I still don’t know what I want to. How can an 18 year old know if they really want to serve time for their country?
Chapter 14
9/11 will be a day in our lives that will always remember where we were when it happened. An investigation of the events should have been conducted right after the towers went down. 9/11 has certainly changed everything. The past eight years I feel like the media has just filled us all up with ideas and facts that are exactly true. As Americans we should be told everything so it’s black and white. However, the media has presented most of this material in a very gray way. After 9/11, I can remember President Bush talking on TV, saying that our nation and world has just been split into two sides, good and evil. Once Bush said that, most people I knew claimed to good because they didn’t want to be seen as evil.
My question is…It’s been eight years since this tragic event, why haven’t we be informed what really happened? I feel as though the government should at least tell the families who lost someone that day what happened.
Chapter 15
This chapter outlined more questions in my head about our government and how our system works. Just because we have all of this power doesn’t mean we should only use it for our advantage. There are plenty of countries out there that need extra help that we could give to them. If our country was able to help some of these countries, some of these problems like the deforestation of the rainforest or problems with our neighbors in Mexico and Canada.
My question is … Why does our country feel as though they have the right to just jump into any country and do whatever?
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
Thompson’s article “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” provokes the readers opinion and idea of what we use in today’s society. These new pieces of technology in the social marketing world will either bring us to something great or unfortunate. Technology has allowed us to publicize what we are doing, whenever we want, however we want. .
Because of Facebook and Twitter we can let the world know what we are doing, whenever, according to Thompson there is both good and bad to this.
Pros: This new technology is able to chronologically list your status, allowing people to understand you through time. No technology has been able to do this before. It’s like a storybook and everyone has the ability to use it. When you using Twitter you are only allotted 140 characters or less to your status. So before writing out what you want to publicize to the world, you have to carefully consider how you are going to say what you want to say. Many people have been able to keep in touch with old friends and what they are doing in their lives.
Cons: Privacy. Facebook has given their users privacy settings and having them in control of their account. That way if you have specific content on your page that happens to be private to the public, you can make sure that a strange doesn’t know that information. On the other hand, Twitter doesn’t have the same settings as Facebook. Anyone on Twitter can see what you are doing, whenever they would like. Some of the information on these sites isn’t useful at all. I really don’t care to read that someone is hung-over or eating a sandwich. These sites can also be used to embarrass or a way to gossip about one another. There happens to be more in life than party pictures and seeing who broke up with whom.
Ambient awareness are all these new forms of communication through new networking sites. People are now able to list out their lives through a new public forum. I think that there are pros and cons to the new world of ambient awareness. I’m a user of both Facebook and Twitter and I know I spend way too much time on Facebook. I always think about deleting my account but I know if I did I would be out of the loop. I don’t know if I agree with Thompson’s idea of the effects of using these sites as therapeutic, at least not yet. When I use Facebook, I mostly use it to see what my friends are doing through their pictures or status or as a distraction from schoolwork. I have never signed off of Facebook and had been in a better mood or even calmer. I usually feel like I wasted time that I could have used on my work.
Because of Facebook and Twitter we can let the world know what we are doing, whenever, according to Thompson there is both good and bad to this.
Pros: This new technology is able to chronologically list your status, allowing people to understand you through time. No technology has been able to do this before. It’s like a storybook and everyone has the ability to use it. When you using Twitter you are only allotted 140 characters or less to your status. So before writing out what you want to publicize to the world, you have to carefully consider how you are going to say what you want to say. Many people have been able to keep in touch with old friends and what they are doing in their lives.
Cons: Privacy. Facebook has given their users privacy settings and having them in control of their account. That way if you have specific content on your page that happens to be private to the public, you can make sure that a strange doesn’t know that information. On the other hand, Twitter doesn’t have the same settings as Facebook. Anyone on Twitter can see what you are doing, whenever they would like. Some of the information on these sites isn’t useful at all. I really don’t care to read that someone is hung-over or eating a sandwich. These sites can also be used to embarrass or a way to gossip about one another. There happens to be more in life than party pictures and seeing who broke up with whom.
Ambient awareness are all these new forms of communication through new networking sites. People are now able to list out their lives through a new public forum. I think that there are pros and cons to the new world of ambient awareness. I’m a user of both Facebook and Twitter and I know I spend way too much time on Facebook. I always think about deleting my account but I know if I did I would be out of the loop. I don’t know if I agree with Thompson’s idea of the effects of using these sites as therapeutic, at least not yet. When I use Facebook, I mostly use it to see what my friends are doing through their pictures or status or as a distraction from schoolwork. I have never signed off of Facebook and had been in a better mood or even calmer. I usually feel like I wasted time that I could have used on my work.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
PC Chapters 7-10
Reading this book has really opened my eyes. After I finish this book, I really want to read Project Censored 2008!
Chapter 7
Because of our media and how they project words and phrases, whenever we here the words “Palestinians” or “Hamas” people think terrorist immediately. The US did not just think this one their own. Many media sources have made Americans think this way, the word Palestine, is quickly related to violence and terror. The Gaza Strip is a topic that is talked about a lot but not in great detail. I feel as though whenever I here it being talked about, I never gain information that actually informs on what is going on over there.
My question is: Why does our society listen and rely on our media’s information so much?
Chapter 8:
Like a few of the other girls who have already written on the blog, I too am very interested in this chapter. I was also told by my mom that I needed to receive this vaccination because it would protect from HPV and cervical cancer. I know when I got the vaccine, I had a very small idea what it was doing for me and why my mom thought it was so important for me to get. I too thought that if I received the Gardasil shot, I would be the ONE LESS that has the chance of HPV or cervical cancer. But in reality, the vaccine just prevents only a few of the viruses. Like many things, people just listen to a commercial and don’t do their own research on the topic or product. The company promoting this product doesn’t lie about what Gardasil does or but they weren’t very open with all the details.
My question is: Why doesn’t the FCC control more of what companies say or promote to the public?
Chapter 9:
As a marketing major, I know that all marketing isn’t bad marketing. A great deal of the media does influence our society in not great ways all the time. But there happens to be a great deal of good marketing out there. Chapter nine was full of stories that either questioned marketing or who made these marketing campaigns. It’s hard to believe that these stories are true and made it to the public. Many media sources have been able to avoid their own problems or PR disasters.
My question is: How can the average obtain the real information and regulate lies from these major corporations?
Chapter 10:
After reading this chapter I did my own research. It was amazing to me that there was a list of countries that had executive orders. Many of the countries that I researched had very little information about the arrests or executions when the actual happening occurred. Most of the stories were published many months after it happened. It is very scary and disappointing to me how governments believe in their own people. I feel like they don’t have any trust within us or how we perceive media.
My questions is: Do we really live a democratic society?
Chapter 7
Because of our media and how they project words and phrases, whenever we here the words “Palestinians” or “Hamas” people think terrorist immediately. The US did not just think this one their own. Many media sources have made Americans think this way, the word Palestine, is quickly related to violence and terror. The Gaza Strip is a topic that is talked about a lot but not in great detail. I feel as though whenever I here it being talked about, I never gain information that actually informs on what is going on over there.
My question is: Why does our society listen and rely on our media’s information so much?
Chapter 8:
Like a few of the other girls who have already written on the blog, I too am very interested in this chapter. I was also told by my mom that I needed to receive this vaccination because it would protect from HPV and cervical cancer. I know when I got the vaccine, I had a very small idea what it was doing for me and why my mom thought it was so important for me to get. I too thought that if I received the Gardasil shot, I would be the ONE LESS that has the chance of HPV or cervical cancer. But in reality, the vaccine just prevents only a few of the viruses. Like many things, people just listen to a commercial and don’t do their own research on the topic or product. The company promoting this product doesn’t lie about what Gardasil does or but they weren’t very open with all the details.
My question is: Why doesn’t the FCC control more of what companies say or promote to the public?
Chapter 9:
As a marketing major, I know that all marketing isn’t bad marketing. A great deal of the media does influence our society in not great ways all the time. But there happens to be a great deal of good marketing out there. Chapter nine was full of stories that either questioned marketing or who made these marketing campaigns. It’s hard to believe that these stories are true and made it to the public. Many media sources have been able to avoid their own problems or PR disasters.
My question is: How can the average obtain the real information and regulate lies from these major corporations?
Chapter 10:
After reading this chapter I did my own research. It was amazing to me that there was a list of countries that had executive orders. Many of the countries that I researched had very little information about the arrests or executions when the actual happening occurred. Most of the stories were published many months after it happened. It is very scary and disappointing to me how governments believe in their own people. I feel like they don’t have any trust within us or how we perceive media.
My questions is: Do we really live a democratic society?
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