Favorite article

3) One of my favorite readings was Me Only Better. I liked this reading because it seemed that you either liked it or you hated it. Personally I found it interesting that the focus was based on gender. I think that once you involve gender in a certain topic it seems to always blow up into a big issue. Sometimes I think that gender issues are the issue itself. Our focus is always on female or male and it makes everything seem like a competition of some sort. In this case it had a lot to do with how women felt objectified on avatar sites. My simple solution is to not participate. We all know that there will be someone or something that objectifies the sexes, so don’t get involved if your one to take offense. We can’t guard against the world at all times or expect the world to simply respect us because we think it should. If we feel disrespected, simply walk away.

Final Post

1) Some of the concepts I found interesting were mainly on how communication has evolved from simple writings on paper to the internet. It’s interesting to see how advanced the human race has become over the centuries. The most important element I liked about the evolution of communication is that we now are using computers as a means to communication whereas it also serves many other functions at the same time. The computer started out as a simple tool to aid in projects or for gaming purposes. Now we can do all that while having a conversation with someone across the world.
2) I definitely learned a lot about how to communicate through vlogging. I didn’t know how to do it before hand and I have to say that it was my least favorite to do. I’m not a techy type of person so the process was a bit tedious for me. What I did like is how you used a blogging site to track our posts instead of the usual school communication system. One thing I think that can definitely improve is the readings. Plenty of the readings were interesting, but after a while I started to feel that I was being redundant in my posts. I know it can be difficult to find other useful articles or journals on media, but I’m glad you let us choose our own to break up the monotony.

Discourses of attention

This article really hit home with me. I work with children and for a couple years I worked with children who have ADD and ADHD. I have taken several seminars on the concerns and history of ADD and ADHD and it never crossed my mind that possibly one of the reasons to the rise in these disorders would be due to television. Although it didn’t cross my mind I completely see why the two are linked. On the other hand I also agree that television or media doesn’t necessarily have a solid link to attention disorders. I clearly remember a list of famous people who had ADD or ADHD and one of them was Beethoven. As I recall Beethoven was not around when television started booming. Though it is a concept to take into consideration, it is plausible to say that television definitely doesn’t help the attention spans of the little ones or the big.

Collective behavior

Collective behavior

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