crich1

johnson's essay

2007-04-27T18:24:10Z

i consider myself an experienced gamer. i love games, and i always have. it's not even the point of winning or losing, it's getting to that point that is so much fun. i started with monopoly with my older brother, which i might add is extreamly competitive and to this day (although he is 21) throws a fit if he doesn't win. i woudl play this game for hours and hours and i never could win (my brother was also really good at any game he played) but trying was the most fun even if i didn't win. in johnson's essay he talks about games and the affects on the minds of children and even adults that play the games that they play. he beleives other than hand-eye cordination, that these games have nothing to offer. well now that i have moved on from monopoly to the improved technology of x-box and playstation and sometimes i'll throw in the nintendo wii, the excitement of the journey that you take to learn the game and hopefully make it to the end is still there for me. im interested and become more social with all my friends that like to play these games too. im not trying to say that johnson's wrong, but maybe that i only partially agree with him. yea reading can improve many skills that ou need, but sometime you need a load off from that tiny print and all those books that you are forced to read. i beleive that if kids were not forced to read, they would like it. i hate to read, unless it's a cosmo, only because i had that A.R. crap shoved down my throte for years. if you made reading non inforcable the kids would find it themselves just like they found games. all in all i think that johnson doesn't really discover why people become addicted to these games, he just grazes the tip.

crich1 @ 2007-04-27T13:56:00

2007-04-27T18:09:23Z

Reading the caputi essay i didnt't realize how much women are actually objectified in certain media representations.we see it in movies, commercials and magazines, sex is everywhere we look. why is pushing the envelope such a trend now? women and men alike seem to want to do the next best thing; something that has been never done before in popular media. im not sure if it's for the salary, but im not sure i would want to be displayed in such a derogitory way. as a woman, i am to the point that i am outraged to even think that i once thought that this behavior is normal. a young girl trying to look older? seen it. a commercial for lotion that shows a woman's naked body to depict smoot skin? seen it. i've seen it all and never thought twice about it. and i feel ashamed to admit that i know that my self included with all young women, we all feel that we must imitate to go along with this horendous norm. i beleive that our generation is becoming completely oblivious to these women that are being portrayed as objects. it's like how many items of clothing do you have to take off for it to considered lude or crude? when do we draw the line? are we already so far past the line that we can't even retrace our steps to get back to a conservative point of view? and why is that having your clothes on conservative? i thought that's wear clothes were supposed to go.

Savan Essay

2007-02-22T03:48:25Z

As long and strenuous as the Leslie Savan’s essay, “What’s Black, Then White, and Said All over Again,” the lady did know what she was talking about. After reading this essay, I couldn’t believe my awareness of these ridiculous happenings of advertisers using “Black Talk” to their advantage. Lately on T.V. commercials that I have noticed was a recent string of Sprite commercials. Coca-a-Cola, the company that produces sprite, has seemed to reach an all time low. It seems as though that less than thirty years ago Coke-a-Cola wouldn’t even feature a person of color in relation to their product. Now however, commercials featuring up and coming rap artist are featured in a battle royal against one another to see who gets to say the slogan “Obey Your Thirst”. I know times have changed, and that it is way more acceptable now to use “Black Talk”. However, I agree with Savan, in that why just ten years ago was Ebonics or AAVE so rejected if just a little later we are going to use it to our advantage to make money in advertisements. Still to this day, Ebonics is still not taught in class rooms. Ebonics is shunned away from being taught properly. I don’t understand how we can use it in almost every advertisement in the media, but not let students learn about it. If your going to slam something all over newspapers, T.V., and any other type of media, why not let people know where it originated from or any other facts for that matter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwSDOex2Cis

blogging

2007-01-18T07:21:22Z

As I began my search for these so called pieces of “media revolution” that can change “politics, business, and culture”, I had already obtained a preconceived notion that these opinions of the general public were all just a waste of space. Random, babbling angry and non-educated persons that needed a psychiatrist more than a website to work out their dissatisfaction with the United States, or even global problems filled my thoughts on what “blogging” really was. However, my opinion has slightly been altered to a more open minded approach as I began to read David Klien’s “Blog!.” David Klien concludes from his findings that every person has a voice, whether a gibberish talking imbecile, or a PhD graduate, all of us have a voice, and now more of an opportunity to say it aloud.
Many blogs that I have researched confirm the many ideas of Klien. All bloggers, it seems, authenticate the ideas and the wide variety of opinions of the public, and conclude that all should have their say. Blogger’s like the argumentative factor of blogging; being able to say what you want while insulting the more widely accepted media, however, provoking thought amongst the readers. “The Corner,” a popular online bank of blogging is very diverse in topics and ideas that it’s plethora of writers correspond to. Finding this site on the ever so popular Google, I reviewed one in particular written by Katie Couric, a very popular news journalist and anchor, called “Katie: A Woman At the Table,” discussing the lack of women impact and leadership. Expressing her opinion, but not being argumentative, in my opinion, refutes Klein’s idea of bloggers “gather[ing] and report[ing] the news. Instead they utilize the news gathering resources of traditional media and then apply ideas, opinions…” (blog! 241). This blog is taken from experience and can be appreciated by skeptics such as myself. Couric is basically stating observations and concerns as could be true to many other bloggers. Klien, on the other hand, doesn’t give the option of experience; education, yes Klein does state that blogger’s may be educated; however he does not mention the option of experience.
Reading these short essays and taking a more open-minded approach to internet reporting, I have recognized the arguments for and against blogging as Klein as done, but still however, think I’ll rely on the professionals to give me the story, just not the opinion.

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp