I choose to relate the cultivation theory to an medium such as a t.v. show. The cultivatation theory assumes that media systems like conventional broadcasts tv deliver a consistent message to a mass audience. It argues that mass media exposure cultivates a view of the world that is consistent with mediated "reality". The real world experiences combine with the televison worldview over time when real life experiences confimrs the emdia the effects intesnsifies through a process of resonance.
I feel like shows like Rehab with Dr. Drew, and the show house, it gives people a chance to realy relate and think okay if they can get threw this than so can I. Like in Celebrity rehab since they are marked as "celebrities" ( even though they aren't A listed celebriteis, they are still well known) to see people go threw their problems and hear them talk about it and their struggles i think it gives people/ viewers a way to relate. Become more understanding and almost feel for them and experience their pain and emotions as if it was theirs as well.
The show house is like having every disease out their shown, wich is informative. The characters have each a specific role and is very relatable. Just the other day my mother was teling me how she can relate to the main character, and that she sees alot of her self in him..... myy oh myy what has the media done, just exactly what the show watned to do.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
found the article
Alright so I have good news, I found the article... cool
My thoughts and feelings about Mulculn. Power to him. I agree and disagree with some of his points. He believed that " the medium is the message" and that the dominent media at any given time in society determines the basis of social organization and collective life. Yes, true that makes alot of sense but just cause he said that doesnt mean its true. I agree to it to an extent. I kinda feel like the media is a way of letting everyone have a form of connection to eachother and just getting everything if people wanted to out there. I dont think its a bad thing, I kinda feel like or the way i took it as atleast like it was a bad thing that hte media is doign this. I think giving hte exposure of thigns threw the media helps others to for example with trends and styles. It can make one idea into another idea and than just explode into something great, good, consumer worthy and than everyones happy. I also think that society has more of an impact than the media does on forming hte society. If we dont like it than its gone, if a majoirty of us like it thann its stays for however long someone invents somethign new and what not.
Moving on. Next point. He mentions how new technologies and forms of communication are changinggg the way humans acting and thinking. WEll, duh. I again feel as if he sees it as a bad thing. Anything that we learn or see, experience is going to change the way we think and are acting. I think its a good thing in some ways. MOre information is being sent out more knowledge more power and maybe less nieve people.
I just think we are all pleasure seekers and yes can and are lazy. WE want and need constant comfort and pleasures of any kind. Anything htat is goign to stimuliate that part of the brain we will do. Wheather it is trying to invent new technologies that makes life just easier. We are an age of technology its just the way things are going we want to improve and of course with improving comes many flaws. WE can't go back in time its just hte way things are. Anythign that is goign to be like a quick fix a click away, a dial away,and what not. Fast, easy, We will consume it there is no denying it.
Last point im goign to chit chat about.
How the computer doesnt simuliate the let side of the brain, the left side of the brain is more for math reading and all of that good stuff. I think it does. I read alot of things on line. Infact my banking info is online, theres some numbers for ya hence math. I know he means like actualy doing a problem but I dont know I do alot of reading and writing online so I dont realy get what he is trying to say about computers.
My thoughts and feelings about Mulculn. Power to him. I agree and disagree with some of his points. He believed that " the medium is the message" and that the dominent media at any given time in society determines the basis of social organization and collective life. Yes, true that makes alot of sense but just cause he said that doesnt mean its true. I agree to it to an extent. I kinda feel like the media is a way of letting everyone have a form of connection to eachother and just getting everything if people wanted to out there. I dont think its a bad thing, I kinda feel like or the way i took it as atleast like it was a bad thing that hte media is doign this. I think giving hte exposure of thigns threw the media helps others to for example with trends and styles. It can make one idea into another idea and than just explode into something great, good, consumer worthy and than everyones happy. I also think that society has more of an impact than the media does on forming hte society. If we dont like it than its gone, if a majoirty of us like it thann its stays for however long someone invents somethign new and what not.
Moving on. Next point. He mentions how new technologies and forms of communication are changinggg the way humans acting and thinking. WEll, duh. I again feel as if he sees it as a bad thing. Anything that we learn or see, experience is going to change the way we think and are acting. I think its a good thing in some ways. MOre information is being sent out more knowledge more power and maybe less nieve people.
I just think we are all pleasure seekers and yes can and are lazy. WE want and need constant comfort and pleasures of any kind. Anything htat is goign to stimuliate that part of the brain we will do. Wheather it is trying to invent new technologies that makes life just easier. We are an age of technology its just the way things are going we want to improve and of course with improving comes many flaws. WE can't go back in time its just hte way things are. Anythign that is goign to be like a quick fix a click away, a dial away,and what not. Fast, easy, We will consume it there is no denying it.
Last point im goign to chit chat about.
How the computer doesnt simuliate the let side of the brain, the left side of the brain is more for math reading and all of that good stuff. I think it does. I read alot of things on line. Infact my banking info is online, theres some numbers for ya hence math. I know he means like actualy doing a problem but I dont know I do alot of reading and writing online so I dont realy get what he is trying to say about computers.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
I'm just being honest
So honestly, I attempted to find the article that we had to read. I know this is not what we were suppose to do, because I cant find the article, that I was suppose to read and write about. In my attempts I wanted to do a blog because I have to. ( so professor. jones I did try to email you but for some odd reason I have bad luck with many situations, including my email. Please be understanding and take in consideration my situation and my initiative for still acknowleding my homework and doing this blog. Thank you)
Since in class we have talked about many situations with the media including the effects of video games, like world of war craft, second life, and other entertaining "video games" that People engage hours and hours in. I ended up having an intellectual conversation with a fellow student and their major and how they feel like the media mainly video games that intrigue us to the point where we dont live out our "real" lives effects their aspect on the major they are going into and why people are the way they are ( example obesity in up and coming generations). I also will add that this fellow gentleman was an phys Ed major and had believed that it isn't mainly genetics that is making a majority of us ( younger ones mainly) obese but its the parenting in letting the children spend hours and hours at a time with only excersizing their thumb muscles.
Yes new tehcnology and special effects can take our breath away, but it could also seems to put our lives at jeopardy! With our health, social skills, and our overly all warped perseption of whats real and whats not.
Little by little their could be less and less children outside, and more of them inside zoned out to a t.v. screen. The parents need to change, and gym in schools must be more informative with health foods, and just intense.
Since in class we have talked about many situations with the media including the effects of video games, like world of war craft, second life, and other entertaining "video games" that People engage hours and hours in. I ended up having an intellectual conversation with a fellow student and their major and how they feel like the media mainly video games that intrigue us to the point where we dont live out our "real" lives effects their aspect on the major they are going into and why people are the way they are ( example obesity in up and coming generations). I also will add that this fellow gentleman was an phys Ed major and had believed that it isn't mainly genetics that is making a majority of us ( younger ones mainly) obese but its the parenting in letting the children spend hours and hours at a time with only excersizing their thumb muscles.
Yes new tehcnology and special effects can take our breath away, but it could also seems to put our lives at jeopardy! With our health, social skills, and our overly all warped perseption of whats real and whats not.
Little by little their could be less and less children outside, and more of them inside zoned out to a t.v. screen. The parents need to change, and gym in schools must be more informative with health foods, and just intense.
Friday, October 31, 2008
chapter 13 questionn
After reading chapter thirteen a few thoughts came to mind. The one that stuck out most in my head because im learning "social learning " in my psychology class was the whole idea that media can change, our behavior and or perception of ideas, people, places, and ect.
It stated in the book about that one experiment that these people did were that they took several children, put them in different rooms and had them watch a film. All the films were of this child beating up a bo bo doll of some sort. Each film had a different ending. One was the child getting a "spanking" at the end, the other got rewarded with candy, and the last one only showed the begining. ( Keep in mind that all of these kids were choosen at random no particilar reason for which ones went to wich film race, gender, was not a huge role in where they went in for the films). They than had the kids go into a room where that same bo bo doll was. The kids who watched the film that in the end they were rewarded, beat up the dolls, where the kids who saw the film that got a spanking didn't touch the doll unless they were already violent kids, and the kids without an punishment or reward ending did the same with the doll as it was shown in the film, beat it up.
In my question that i thought up of was Does the media effect out percetipions on other parts of the world? Example: Does the News, and more movies portray the south as a bunch of hillbillies, lunatics, man eating, KKK worshiping, illiterate human beings.
There has been man times in movies such as The Texas chain saw masacare, taking place in Texas, where they were portrayed as that. In the news when describing someone from the south they would emphisisze the fact that they were "uneducated" and what not.
Could the media be injecting fear to us in the north, and skewing our percetion of how it is down in the southern states excluding Florida. This goes into my Hypothesis. I think that the media is portraying the south in an inhumane way. The media wheather it is in films, the news, television shows it is setting our attitudes, and perceptons on certain places, people, and ect.
In my "method" for testing out this idea of mine, I would do the same as what was done in chapter thirteen to the children with the violence of the film they watched. I'd also do a experimental research.
I would have people in different rooms where a film was being watched. One film would be representing all hte negative sides of the south threw clips of the news, movies, and shows. To see if it would end up injecting fear, violence, or just a skewed percetion of the south
and than the second film would be of the south but injecting positive happy thoughts about it. Showing the southern hospitality, down to earth, intelligent people in it and parts of it.
Than I could either have them fill out a questionere about the south, and or have them go out down south or be presented with different "actors" who are of southern "looks" and see how they would interact with them. This would help me see if they interacted differently because of the film and if it had changed there percetion on it and what not.
The media i believe at an early age molds our percetion and views on thigns, since we aren't always able to go out in the "real world" to see and actually experience what is there. It its our other way of education source of thigns around the world. If it is misrepresented than forever will it be in our minds/ percetion of what was told to us if it is our only way of knowing how it really is.
It stated in the book about that one experiment that these people did were that they took several children, put them in different rooms and had them watch a film. All the films were of this child beating up a bo bo doll of some sort. Each film had a different ending. One was the child getting a "spanking" at the end, the other got rewarded with candy, and the last one only showed the begining. ( Keep in mind that all of these kids were choosen at random no particilar reason for which ones went to wich film race, gender, was not a huge role in where they went in for the films). They than had the kids go into a room where that same bo bo doll was. The kids who watched the film that in the end they were rewarded, beat up the dolls, where the kids who saw the film that got a spanking didn't touch the doll unless they were already violent kids, and the kids without an punishment or reward ending did the same with the doll as it was shown in the film, beat it up.
In my question that i thought up of was Does the media effect out percetipions on other parts of the world? Example: Does the News, and more movies portray the south as a bunch of hillbillies, lunatics, man eating, KKK worshiping, illiterate human beings.
There has been man times in movies such as The Texas chain saw masacare, taking place in Texas, where they were portrayed as that. In the news when describing someone from the south they would emphisisze the fact that they were "uneducated" and what not.
Could the media be injecting fear to us in the north, and skewing our percetion of how it is down in the southern states excluding Florida. This goes into my Hypothesis. I think that the media is portraying the south in an inhumane way. The media wheather it is in films, the news, television shows it is setting our attitudes, and perceptons on certain places, people, and ect.
In my "method" for testing out this idea of mine, I would do the same as what was done in chapter thirteen to the children with the violence of the film they watched. I'd also do a experimental research.
I would have people in different rooms where a film was being watched. One film would be representing all hte negative sides of the south threw clips of the news, movies, and shows. To see if it would end up injecting fear, violence, or just a skewed percetion of the south
and than the second film would be of the south but injecting positive happy thoughts about it. Showing the southern hospitality, down to earth, intelligent people in it and parts of it.
Than I could either have them fill out a questionere about the south, and or have them go out down south or be presented with different "actors" who are of southern "looks" and see how they would interact with them. This would help me see if they interacted differently because of the film and if it had changed there percetion on it and what not.
The media i believe at an early age molds our percetion and views on thigns, since we aren't always able to go out in the "real world" to see and actually experience what is there. It its our other way of education source of thigns around the world. If it is misrepresented than forever will it be in our minds/ percetion of what was told to us if it is our only way of knowing how it really is.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
movieee religouseise (sp??)
okay so, i decieded to go see the movie. I want to say is that i enjoyed it and if anyone has free time on their hands and wants to spend 10.50 on it, its worth it. Comical and informative.
I really enjoyed the fact he talked about the three major religions, Christian, Jewish, and Muslims. The one thing that i wish he did was talk about the jewish religion and muslim religion equally as he did about the christian relgion in the documentary. The point i think he was trying to get across ( or atleast it hought he was) was to basicaly in a sense get rid of relgion, or show that its all a bunch of " bull". I understand that and can see how things are stories. But that just brings total chaos if people really knew that. The point of relgion in some aspects is to prevent chaos.Yet its so ironic, because look at the world today in the 21 century. CHAOS EVERYWHERE! even in your daily life with any struggle your battling threw.
The one thing that i coudl say i disagreed with him was bout the whole miracle thing. I mean yeah it could be councidental but there as been things that have happened to me, just like the guy who mentioend the asked for rain adn ten seconds later it poured, have happend to me. I dont know if its timing but its really really really funny how things like that work out, and like i dont think it was councidental. Just at that moment, the right moment God just so happend to be listening to you. I agreed that he doesnt think hes AlWAYS listening to you( ex: santa claus bringing presents to everyone, and god listening to you segment in the movie) but just may want to show that he is there... maybee. haha who realy knows. just like bill was saying WHO REALLY KNOWS?! and i guess we wont really ever know. If it makes someone feel better and gets them threw the day than hey, let them belive what they want, cause its too late know to change what has been done.
and i dont think any religion is better than the other, to think that is just silly, and to think that youll go to heaven over someone else because your religion is better... i mean... come on. So in the end i enjoyed the movie, got me thinking, didnt change my views completly on certain things, but made me realize that we are all corrupt in a sense.
I really enjoyed the fact he talked about the three major religions, Christian, Jewish, and Muslims. The one thing that i wish he did was talk about the jewish religion and muslim religion equally as he did about the christian relgion in the documentary. The point i think he was trying to get across ( or atleast it hought he was) was to basicaly in a sense get rid of relgion, or show that its all a bunch of " bull". I understand that and can see how things are stories. But that just brings total chaos if people really knew that. The point of relgion in some aspects is to prevent chaos.Yet its so ironic, because look at the world today in the 21 century. CHAOS EVERYWHERE! even in your daily life with any struggle your battling threw.
The one thing that i coudl say i disagreed with him was bout the whole miracle thing. I mean yeah it could be councidental but there as been things that have happened to me, just like the guy who mentioend the asked for rain adn ten seconds later it poured, have happend to me. I dont know if its timing but its really really really funny how things like that work out, and like i dont think it was councidental. Just at that moment, the right moment God just so happend to be listening to you. I agreed that he doesnt think hes AlWAYS listening to you( ex: santa claus bringing presents to everyone, and god listening to you segment in the movie) but just may want to show that he is there... maybee. haha who realy knows. just like bill was saying WHO REALLY KNOWS?! and i guess we wont really ever know. If it makes someone feel better and gets them threw the day than hey, let them belive what they want, cause its too late know to change what has been done.
and i dont think any religion is better than the other, to think that is just silly, and to think that youll go to heaven over someone else because your religion is better... i mean... come on. So in the end i enjoyed the movie, got me thinking, didnt change my views completly on certain things, but made me realize that we are all corrupt in a sense.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Medium That Has Changed My Life
There has been many "mediums" that have changed my life over the years. Such as my cell phone. My first cell phone that I had was when i was 13. It is basically very much a part of me. It might as well be a legimet on me. When I dont have my cell phone I feel lost and uncomfertable. The feeling of not being able to contact the outside world and no one being able to contact me, absoutly drives me crazy and scares me a bit.I have lost my phone for a few days and it has been broken for several days as well. I really didn't know what to do with myself when i dont have my phone;even if i am not using it. Without it i felt so lost. It is almost like a security blanket in a way. LIfe without my cell phone is now considered "weird" and much so an everyday necesity to me. It just has to be with me or atleast in my range to see it. The cellphone is a huge medium that has changed my life.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Time magazine photoograph
The photograph that i choose to do was of a surviving cancer patient. Some backround history of him is that he is 55, he had oral cancer and was diagnosed on March 2008. His name is Robert and he has never smoked a day in his life. He went to go get tested one day and turns out he had to get 30% of his tongue cut out. He is now going threw speach therapy and hopefully after the feeding tubes and speach is better he can go back to becoming the teacher he was before this fiasco.
I really like this photograph alot. I like how the backround is grey, and he is holding an black umbrella. On top of all of that he is wearing a bright yellow t- shirt. I feel like the photographer, is trying to send the message of even threw dark times there is always a time to shine threw. It wont be long until the rainy days pass;somethign along the lines of that. It also gives of a chance of hope in the picture with Robert ( the one being photographed ) smirking. He just seems happy to beable to have positive outcome out of all of this chaos. It reminds me of that song " rain drops keep falling on my head, because im free, nothign is worrying me ". I get that whole sense out of it too. I get a sense of that he is calm threw all of hte chaos going around him.
( the picture wont paste on the blog but here is the url to it.)
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1840640_1763948,00.html
I really like this photograph alot. I like how the backround is grey, and he is holding an black umbrella. On top of all of that he is wearing a bright yellow t- shirt. I feel like the photographer, is trying to send the message of even threw dark times there is always a time to shine threw. It wont be long until the rainy days pass;somethign along the lines of that. It also gives of a chance of hope in the picture with Robert ( the one being photographed ) smirking. He just seems happy to beable to have positive outcome out of all of this chaos. It reminds me of that song " rain drops keep falling on my head, because im free, nothign is worrying me ". I get that whole sense out of it too. I get a sense of that he is calm threw all of hte chaos going around him.
( the picture wont paste on the blog but here is the url to it.)
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1840640_1763948,00.html
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