So we have come to the last blog entry of the semester---kind of bittersweet if you ask me. As much as I can not wait for this semester to be finally over with, I'm glad I was able to do this for homework assignments throughout the semester. I've never blogged before, and it was a nice change in pace to not have to write so formal all of the time. Now, on to the article.
I was a little confused after reading the title of the article, and then reading the article. I thought it was going to be an article about Barack Obama and how he used social media throughout his ad campaign back in 2008. While, the author did mention that briefly, that is pretty much all she said about it. This article focuses on her experience with social media and how our culture, with the help of social and mass media, have created stories for ourselves; and we represent ourselves on social networking sites like FaceBook, Twitter, flickr, etc. (453). After going into an explanation of how we represent and create ourselves identity through these sites online, she broke down organizing our stories into 4 different organizational categories:
1. Temporal Organization
2. Social Organization
3. Semantic Organization
4. Geographic Organization
I think that the most popular of these is the social organization, and you may be agreeing with me when the first thing that pops into your head is FaceBook or Twitter. First came Facebook which at the very beginning had a very limited access to it--only college kids were able to get on it. Now, everyone can get on it, you can update what you're doing throughout the day if you want, you can show the world the thousands of stupid drunken pictures you take every weekend in college, or high school....
Twitter has even become so popular in social media that all you have to do on twitter is tell us about yourself...any time of the day, and you can change how you feel any minute you could possibly want too. Now I am on facebook, but I keep my pictures to where only my friends can see them, I don't have a twitter account, and I think documenting every single step in our lives is a bit much for these social networking sites. Call me old fashioned but people can do what they want because these networking sites are just going to get more complex, bigger, and less private...and me? Well, I personally like to leave a little mystery still to a person that I meet without him knowing every single detail of my life, what about you?
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Luder's article: Conceptualizing Personal Media
This article wasn't the most exciting to read for me, maybe it just may be because it's the 2nd to last article I have to read/blog about in the semester and I just have Christmas break on my mind--who knows!
This article pretty much just talks about the main characteristic of personal media and then comparing it to mass media and what the influences are. Personal media includes things like Ipods, Ipads, blogs on the Internet, etc. I think that in maybe the long run, and in the future, personal and social media will have a drastically changing effect over what we consider to be mass media, but I think that for now, mass media will still consist of watching television shows on an actual TV in someones house, or watching DVDs in a DVD player. social and personal media are still fairly new (within the past decade) and haven't taken the huge leap yet at affecting they way we view mass media. In time though, only some aspects will change with mass media. In particular, blogs, and webisodes I believe will have a strong impact on mass media, because they are already starting to take a big jump in being viewed (i.e. YouTube). We talked about in class a couple weeks ago that YouTube was just celebrating their 5 year anniversary of being up and running, and a lot of blogs, amateur videos, etc have been added to it. Even in class last week, we watched Neil Patrick Harris' Dr. Horrible movie that was released in 2008---only 2 years ago. It had started out as a webisode and pretty much set the groundwork for future webisodes to come. With that being said, all of this is less than 5 years old, so I would say for now, we're ok with the changing ways of mass media, but within the next 10 years, we will be looking at a whole new way of looking at mass media, and connecting it with social and personal media.
This article pretty much just talks about the main characteristic of personal media and then comparing it to mass media and what the influences are. Personal media includes things like Ipods, Ipads, blogs on the Internet, etc. I think that in maybe the long run, and in the future, personal and social media will have a drastically changing effect over what we consider to be mass media, but I think that for now, mass media will still consist of watching television shows on an actual TV in someones house, or watching DVDs in a DVD player. social and personal media are still fairly new (within the past decade) and haven't taken the huge leap yet at affecting they way we view mass media. In time though, only some aspects will change with mass media. In particular, blogs, and webisodes I believe will have a strong impact on mass media, because they are already starting to take a big jump in being viewed (i.e. YouTube). We talked about in class a couple weeks ago that YouTube was just celebrating their 5 year anniversary of being up and running, and a lot of blogs, amateur videos, etc have been added to it. Even in class last week, we watched Neil Patrick Harris' Dr. Horrible movie that was released in 2008---only 2 years ago. It had started out as a webisode and pretty much set the groundwork for future webisodes to come. With that being said, all of this is less than 5 years old, so I would say for now, we're ok with the changing ways of mass media, but within the next 10 years, we will be looking at a whole new way of looking at mass media, and connecting it with social and personal media.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Dawson Article
In this article that I read for my class today "Little Players, Big Shows" I found it very interesting to how popular watching TV series and short videos on cell phones have become. I probably am the last person who should be talking about this, because I should admit right now that I am one of the last few people in the world that doesn't own a smart phone, or have Internet, or anything like that on my cell phone. I know, shocking right? I actually have never once had Internet on my cell phone...my roommates have the iPhone and I don't even know how to work the stupid things. Yes, you can say I'm behind on the technology.... anyway, Dawson in this article asks a question that I started thinking about yesterday and it was "Do these smaller, handheld screens even qualify as televisions?"
I would have to answer that question as a big fat NO from me. First of all, why would anyone want to watch TV from something that small of a size?! I went home to my parents house over Thanksgiving break...where my dad has his precious 65" TV. It so happens that on Monday night, the bulb goes out, call on Tuesday to order a new part, and the guy says it won't be delivered to us until the following Monday. I'm freaking out, my mom is freaking out. How am I going to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday!? The answer to that question is : My dad brings in the old 13" TV we had stored away in our garage. How sad I had to sit so close to the TV to see what I was watching. A cell phone screen is even smaller than 13 inches! I believe that TV was made so that people can enjoy watching them on a normal size from the comfort of their home. When you're out and about and not at home...don't watch TV. Watching webisodes, and YouTube, and reg. TV shows on the go has become so much apart of our life because we are too busy in today's world. If I am out of my house and running errands...I'm going to run errands or shop, or whatever without feeling the need to be on my phone watching the latest webisode from college humor. When I go to work, I work...I don't feel the need to watch TV or surf the web on my phone. It's become an addiction to people! TV should not become a "mobile lifestyle" because anytime that I want to watch TV, I will do so comfortably on the couch, in my parents living room, with their 65" TV. I'll keep my cell phone to talking and texting only, thank you.
I would have to answer that question as a big fat NO from me. First of all, why would anyone want to watch TV from something that small of a size?! I went home to my parents house over Thanksgiving break...where my dad has his precious 65" TV. It so happens that on Monday night, the bulb goes out, call on Tuesday to order a new part, and the guy says it won't be delivered to us until the following Monday. I'm freaking out, my mom is freaking out. How am I going to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday!? The answer to that question is : My dad brings in the old 13" TV we had stored away in our garage. How sad I had to sit so close to the TV to see what I was watching. A cell phone screen is even smaller than 13 inches! I believe that TV was made so that people can enjoy watching them on a normal size from the comfort of their home. When you're out and about and not at home...don't watch TV. Watching webisodes, and YouTube, and reg. TV shows on the go has become so much apart of our life because we are too busy in today's world. If I am out of my house and running errands...I'm going to run errands or shop, or whatever without feeling the need to be on my phone watching the latest webisode from college humor. When I go to work, I work...I don't feel the need to watch TV or surf the web on my phone. It's become an addiction to people! TV should not become a "mobile lifestyle" because anytime that I want to watch TV, I will do so comfortably on the couch, in my parents living room, with their 65" TV. I'll keep my cell phone to talking and texting only, thank you.
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