Class highlights

First, I would like to say that I really enjoyed the class, learned a lot and it was fun. I had a couple if aha moments during the length of the course. One was when Andrew was presenting his  presentation. I was not aware that companies would go through the trouble of pretending to be green in order to better sell a product. When i sit and think about it it makes complete sense but I had never noticed or really cared enough to question it before. Another good moment I had, was when I was researching my own topic. I was surprised to find out that video game violence is not the cause for violence among kids. The violence "epidemic" is nothing more than a frenzy that was thought up, created and mass communicated by the media. I thought this was interesting and it made me wonder what else is the media pushing without factual scientific backing. Overall I enjoyed the class and I would recommend it to friends.  

Death of LimeWire!

Lime wire after being used my millions of people for years was finally shut down this year. The users of Limewire would most of the time download and share copyright material. The owners of the web service are currently being sued for copyright infringement.

Twix - Get The Girl

Propaganda in advertising

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This ad uses oversimplification because its implying to the audience that a Twix bar will solve a complicated situation like getting  a girl. It also uses Slogans. "Need a moment? Chew it over with Twix". Both of these techniques are used to appeal to peoples humor. This makes them like the product and eventually remember it at a store and buy it when they see it.   

Internet

So I just looked at the list and wow was I surprised. How many are there? lets see.... A LOT! There must be roughly 200 websites listed. I'm not very big on the internet and use it for essentials like email so I don't know many of these sites. I did recognize Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Yelp. Out of those I only use Facebook and Yelp. I found it funny that this website (Blogger) is not on the list. I did see Bloggster on there but Im under the impression that they are to different websites ( I might be wrong). I hadn't heard of Lafango until I saw on someone else's Internet blog post and they mentioned it. Is a website were you share music.  When I found it on the list I looked it up and liked it. I'm going to give it a try since I still use Limewire to get my music. Since I don't use social websites much its hard to think of an incident. Although, for my birthday this year, Facebook really helped me get the word out to all my friend about the party and it made it easier than sending everyone a txt message.

How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?

Length 2:18

A satiric short video about the decline of print news.

Chapter 4: Newspapers Chapter 10: Internet

Quiz: Would you say that this news casting is poking fun at the importance of or irrelevancy of print newspapers in todays world? why or why not?

Answer: Subjective answer and would be correct if answered in an analytical manner.

Movies

My favorite movie of 2009-2010 is titled Shutter Island. I had already read the book and decided to give the movie a shot. I'm usually disappointed when a book is turned into movie but I absolutely loved this film. I would have chose this same movie as my all time favorite because I liked it so much but ill change it up. I like a lot of movies but one of my all time favorite is titled American Me . I like this movie because it depict a sad reality in the Hispanic community.