How the Internet Effects Me.

I used to use the internet a lot, to get on Facebook mostly. Now though, I only really get on to do research or something school related. Once in a awhile I will get on and check Facebook, but not as often as I used to. The internet can be useful and to some extent teach you something, but we have to know how to use it wisely in order to learn form it. Media sites can keep us updated with what is going on but so can going out and actually seeing it too. The internet can be to some extent isolating. I used to be isolated, but now that I narrow my time spent using it I started to figure more out on my own.

News

CNN had a news story about O.J. Simpson and him loosing bid to toss conviction of robbery and kidnapping chargers. I think klosterman would take this as real because everyone knows Simpson as a criminal for awhile. Especially from the trial of his ex wife's death. He was found guilty for kidnaping and robber on 12 counts and 33 years in prison. This sis something that will be talked about or remembered for awhile.
Another CNN news story I watched was about a woman who payed her taxes in ones and pennies. Klosterman would take this as meaningless because it doesn't affect anyone but the people involved directly. Yes it would take time to count out 11 thousand ones, but it won't be talked about by people in a few years.

Millenials

The movie knocked up is a good example of one of the things that makes this generation a millenial. A lot of teenagers or even adults are having children before marriage. And some are not even in a relationship with one another. Some the baby can make them fall in love with one another. Some it does the opposites  and they choose other options such as raising the child seperately and having joint custody. It is  becoming a bigger and bigger things to raise children seperately and parents going through divorces. It is one of the struggles most face in society today.

Major Point With Reality Television

Klostermans reading on reality televison made a major point that real people are becoming archetypes of what they see on T.V. This is saying that people that are not on the reality televivison shows are going throught the same things as the people who are on the reality television shows. This is a big reason why the reality shows are so popular. Teen mom is a popular reality show and has been on for years. It is relatable to other teenage mother or people that got pregnant at a young age and went through the same struggles. Watching a show that we can relate to or have some intrest in due to our own lives is different than watching a show we have no background information on or cant relate to at all. Bing able to relate to something is way more interesting. Reality television shows will continue to be a big hit if they can relate to what is going on with real people.

Country and Hip Hop/ Rap Music

A big topic and reading we discussed in class last week had to do with accidental racist. We discussed it in relation to the songs we listened to in class. The country songs we listened to we listened to if we could sing along with it my the end, talking about love, relevance, or whether it tells a story. To me it was easy to tell what the songs were talking about. The rap songs or hip hop music I would have to really pay attention or listen to a few times to really get to know what was truly being said. A lot of what was being talked about in hip hop music is guns, gangs, fighting, and pants hanging down. Many people frame rap or hip hop artist as these types of people as possible bad people when we are just framing them as what they talk about in their songs. Until we really personally know someone we have no right to judge them. To me I think it is alright to raise a point in a song because it makes people interested and gets them thinking.

Intertextuality

In the reading "Bootleg Culture" it talks about mash-ups and how they are made by combining two songs together to make one song. We listened to a few examples in class of mash-ups and it was neat to hear how nicely the songs went together it is almost like the beat from a song can go with lyrics to a handful of other songs and still sound decent. Mash-ups are starting to make a hit in todays culture. Mash-ups use intertextuality in their songs. We can find intertextuality in our music, in movies or even in books. An example of intertextuality with movies could be where they make a movies about a plane crashing and people having to survive on an island and then make another movie with the same kind of idea, but it may go differently. Its like one is feeding off the other. Intertextuality is found all over our culture.

First Half Of The Semester

Advertising is huge to today's culture. We see advertisements everyday on billboards, Internet, in the media, etc. it is not long before one thing can become a huge thing. What is popular today may not be tomorrow. Things change and new things come out. Our lives change we don't even notice it happening. Some of us learn and accustom our live by what we see around us and advertisement plays a huge roll in that change. 

Marlboro Man is the guy that advertises for cigarettes. He is popular for his advertising. In his commercials he was always adventurous and full of energy and that made us who are viewing
think by smoking Marlboro cigarettes we will feel the same. It doesn't show the negative aspects or harms that it would cause. Advertisement can make us think something is good for us or will make us change in a way that will make us happy and that is not always true. Advertisements are meant to sell, but we can't always believe what we see.