May 2008
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Media Literacy
1) The first thing I think of when I think about my newfound media literacy, is the way I look at adverisements now. I’m now looking at advertisements with a crirical eye, and things such as a billboards, or commercials, catch my eye more so than they used to. 2) The second thing I feel like I took from the course was the ability to look at media cricically. This goes for movies,...
April 2008
2 posts
Glamour
I thought that the line in the book that said “we want what she has precisely because it appears to be beyond our reach.” In terms of glamour in the book, it says that the photo’s of Marilyn Monroe are glamourous because we want the phtotos because they are out of our reach. Basically we want what we cant have. This applies to the movie because the main character is going crazy...
The uses of a brick
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March 2008
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February 2008
10 posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_We_Can →
The wikipedia page for the “Yes We Can” video shows some of the celebrities (not all, a few are left out) that make an appearance, and it gives you some background info about the video. It says this video has appeared on ABC News, in Time Magazine, which labeled it “brilliant”, and I found it in an edition of Rolling Stone. So it is getting widespread publicity, and it...
Television Hero
In television today, there are not too many heroes in the generic sense of the world. But a hero can be found anywhere, and can be considered a hero for many different reasons. In the case of my hero, LeBron James, he is not your normal television star. An NBA player usually does not steal the television spotlight, but James is a larger than life superstar, and at only twenty three is the most...
Video
The video today was a great example of how advertising is based on feeling. Freud was the driving force, developing the notion that humans were driven by their natural impulses. Freud claimed that humans are naturally aggressive and have natural sexual drives. He believed that they came from our animal background. This fueled Bernay’s advertising experiment, which ended up very...
January 2008
1 post
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