G Crystal Media

Length: 1:59
Description: The video discusses the development of technology (especially in the means of social networking) and how it’s contributing to helping us become less physically interactive with our fellow human beings… helping us grow further apart rather than closer together.
Chapter 2: Media Impact
Question: In what ways are social networking sites, such as Facebook, considered a converging communication type of media?
Answer: Facebook combines “traditional yearbooks with community websites, email, blogs, bulletin boards, audio, and video.”

I hate picking favorites, because, i always have more than one to choose from.. but.. One of my favorite movies this year was “The Hangover.” I saw it at the movies through projection format. I didn’t want to see it because i thought the preview was kind of stupid, but i actually ended up enjoying it. I thought it was really funny and entertaining; my favorite part was when the guy with a beard and shaggy hair cut his hand because he thought it would be cool to become blood brothers with the guys. (the wolfpack part).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119646/

Name of Magazine: She Can.
Concept: this magazine will cover stories on successful women (success defined as, for the most part, happy, and in control of her own life). A section of the magazine will be dedicated to women who are still on their journey to becoming successful, including hardships and tips on how to over come them (i.e. college students, single mothers, women making a positive change in their lives).
Readers: 20-40 year old women, mainly minorites, middle-class, interested in education and bettering-oneself, independent, hard-workers.
Competition: many women’s magazines
5 advertisers: local colleges, Express women’s clothing, bookstores, local community organizations, any tech merchandise company (such as HP)
5 articles: “Can You Really Define Success?”, “How She Made It”, “Where She Was, and Where’s She’s Headed”, “How to Tell If You’re Cutting Yourself Short”, “Curves and Clevage are not the only things that radiate with beauty”
Cover: Fully clothed women, with one of their sleeves rolled up, flexing their arms in the Rosie the Rivetor position (parody style, so they’re smiling and enjoying themselves while they’re doing it). Navy Blue-Metallic background, White Block Lettered Title with Black shadow reading “She Can” with smaller lettering below reading “there’s no stopping her now.”

3 of my most personally influential books are:

1) Tom Robbin’s “Jitterbug Perfume”: it taught me that reality is what we make it to be.. if something’s imaginable why not make it possible? In the words of poet Wallace Stevens, “Let be be the finale of seem.”

2) J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”: it taught me that writing can be fun, that writing can be a self-revealing form of communication.. writing doesn’t have to be formal, or ethically sound.. it doesn’t have to make complete grammatical sense.. the pen is a vehicle for the imagination & you can let it run wild.

3) Jhumpha Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”: it reminded me to think of life as a series of growth and development phases.. it’s okay to make mistakes because we’ll someday come to learn from them.

I would like to propose a media research project that helps to determine whether early exposure to sex in the media encourages earlier sexual activity. In order to determine this, I propose conducting a questionaire in which we randomly select American adults from the ages of 25-35, and ask them questions such as “how old do you think you were when you first were exposed to sex through the media (i.e. sex scenes, sex appeal, raunchy pictures, etc.), and actually knew what sex meant?” “how old where u when you think seeing sex in the media began to become a sort of regular-basis occurance?” and “how old were you when you first engaged in sexual activity?” … We might then conduct the same sort of questionaire, except this time, give it to randomly selected American college students from the ages of 18-25 and see if there’s any difference due to the time period in which the adults vs. the college students experienced their childhood. My hypothesis for this would be that the more sex the person was exposed to, and the younger the person was when he/she first became exposed to sex in the media, the more likely that person will be/would be to begin engaging in sexual activity at a younger age.