Anne's+Journal

OCTOBER 11th, 2011 My experiences with __media__ are so vast that I can not list them all, but all I can say is that media is EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE. My morning can start out with __media__, with the radio turned up to the fullest (even if everyone is sleeping). The radio is crowded with advertisements trying to sell me products. I honestly don't even pay attention to half of them! For example, an advertisment for mcdonalds and their song "I'm lovin' it" does not have any affect on me. Sure, everyone knows the song to be involved with mcdonalds, but it doesn't bribe me to come eat their food. Also, i see __media__ at school. Everyone has ipods and cellphone nowadays that can beconnected with facebook and stores to get updates on new sales and deals. For example, I personally signed up for "Aerie's A-list club" and I recieve text messages at least twice a month saying something along the lines of "come to aerie and recieve 20% off on your next purches by october 9th 2010!" I would try to stop the text messages if I wasn't so lazy! That's the thing these days though, teenagers are TOO lazy and we are the number one target for most companies. We just absorb all the media like a sponge and don't see the bigger picture of how its affecting us! I swear, all of our marks are going to go down because of our phones that distracting us and how we always check up on it every 5 minutes. Another example of __media__in my life is on the computer. I, myself am on youtube. I love to sing and putting videos of covers of my favourite songs and seeing how many viewers and subscribers I have(check out my channel! []). There are over billions of people who put videos up and who are in a partnership with youtube and get paid for every hit they get on a video. I think all of our goals is to become known for something, and that means the more unique, the better. My experiences with __media__ are very interesting and the more I know about it the more ovbious it appears to me. 
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PEEP CULTURE... what is that? It is exactly how it sounds. People are peeping into your life, and they can see a lot of it if you do not be careful with what you're exposing of yourself. We've all become little attention seeking monsters! It drives me crazy how there are so many people on the internet trying to become famous. In the video, it seems as if we act different infront of a camera. We tend not to act like ourselves. I believe that if we keep broadcasting and accumulate more views then we will have the question " what's next? what can I do to top my last video?" and will adapt to this crazy lifestyle. These days "facebook" "twitter""tumblr" and "myspace" is the number one hot spots for everyones to stay connected and see whats happening in eachothers lives. I think that it's great to be connected online and to post pictures and things you'd love to share to your friends, but these days we all have people we do not know on our friends list. There are so many creepy people out there but we don't think twice about the consequences that can come with them. We're all becoming zombies who check their phones and computers every 5 seconds and if we have a free second then we take our precious time to go peep into someone else's life. This is sick. I hope that this generation does not become a big mess up. The attention seeking monsters we are will currupt us so much and change who we are so I think peep culture is definatly a negative aspect.
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My experiences with media  were far unoticed until this course opened up my eyes to the corruption and the way that media affects us. In the picture underneath it explains how one person or group is controlling our society and we are just following. It's a wierd concept in how we are being controlled in a way and it's scary to me! The society is strong and what one person does, the other tends to follow. That is how trends are started. Fashion has become a representation of who we are and which vibe we want to give off to others. There is one style these days that is a choice, to be hipster. Hipster style is clothing that is more vintage bringing back the hippi appearance with a relaxed attitude. There is a more arsty style, with pants called "Jeggings" which is a very neat concept of leggings that have the allusion to appear as jeans. These pants or any other tight pants (leggings, tights) would be normally be seen with a more flowing top that does not fit the body tightly at all whatsoever. Music these days has been changing drastically in the past years too. Music was truthful and honest, but now it seems to have taken a more subliminal approach to getting through to the audience. Whatever is on the radio, is usually what is popular in the society, and if you listen closely to the lyrics then you may hear words or phrases that are completly ridiculous! It's more about partying, drinking, and most importantly sex.
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The aspect of "celebrity" is very glamorous. When I think of the word "celebrity" I think talent, awards, and riches. I feel like these people we call "celebrities" are supposed to be our ROLEMODELS and that they are expected to be perfect. The truth is, the media presents them in a certain way and then we hear about their "drug addictions" or how they "cheated on their wife" and then the perfect image is ruined. They are normal people just like anyone else, but their life is too public. The media tried to find out every juicy detail so they can make it a big deal in the magazines! wow... imagine living a life with almost no privacy. Without celebrites, the gossip in magazines or entertainment shows would not have a job. The "celebrity" seems to be anyone off the street that is decent at singing, acting, dancing, etc. These days, you can make anyone sound better with technology or change someones appearance by what the media shows you. For example, singer T-pain. Does he truly have talent? If you listen to his music you can't hear his real voice you just hear autotune. ANYONE could have that voice with the touch of a button! Sometimes i wonder how they got in the position they were and if they are happy with all the fortune and fame.
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When I'm just walking on the street, just casually strolling alone the sidewalk... I look around and of course i'll see advertisements of people for remax real estate or other stores. I feel like advertisements are jumping out at me for my attention! It's amazing how well advertising companies can invest so much time and effort to put all these advertisements everywhere. I was recently looking through some news on the computer and it seems as if RIM blackberry company was have trouble. The "blackberry mesenger" had stopped working globally and the public had an enormous frustration. I have a blackberry and my messages were not being sent to the people i needed to notify right away and I was also frustrated. Blackberry sales are declining and the Iphone is being the better alternative. RIM has apparently now stepped into territory where many other major companies have in the past years, also known as "crisis management" in the public relations industry. It's caused by a series of events, that could seriously damage the companies reputation and sales. I personally think Blackberries are great and fast, I just hope that the problems fixed and I don't have to see RIM go out of business. I feel a sort of compassion for RIM's from all the stress and competition in this world. A man working for RIM says, " We're committed to restoring the trust that we've worked so hard to earn over the years." Some good advice they say in the article is "As soon as you know there's a problem, come out and say, 'We have a problem and we're working on it and it will be fixed soon,'" said Shah of New York-based Evercore Partners ."You let the consumers know you are completely focused on this and they're the most important thing in the world."
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