Heres a video on Unwanted Sexual Attention, which is what happened to Isabel. This video is from the 80's teaching about sexual harassment and unwanted attention.
Monday, April 19, 2010
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Object Lessons: Romance, Violation, and Female Adolescent Desire By Beborah L. Tolman
I think what Deborah Tolman was trying to say in this article is how young girls are afraid to talk about their sexuality.It is a difficult subject to discuss. The girl Isabel that she interviewed, who is 16, has experienced a lot at her age, and is afraid to think about her sexuality sometimes, because she doesn't know what to think about love and sex, but she knows that she is just trying to figure things out about herself.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
New Media, Networking and Phatic Culture by Vincent Miller
The things that I understand in this article is that the internet affects us more than we think it does. It is world wide, and we can express ourselves in many ways with it. There is writing blogs, and using Facebook, Myspace, DevianArt. There is just so many different things. I agree, that these networks do change the way that we all communicate, but they also allow us to express ourselves in a way too. Vincent Miller says,"One aspect which is particularly important here is the assertion that self-disclosure becomes increasingly important as a means to gain trust and achieve authentic but ( contingent) relationships with others. Giddens argues that late modern subjects gravitate towards relationships which engender trust through constant communication and reflex- ive practice. In other words, we crave relationships that allow us to open up to others, and not just in the romantic sense, because in late modernity, the demand for intimacy becomes ‘virtually compulsive’. " I think what he means when he says this is that we like to constantly communicate with people. With the internet now days, communicating is so much easier than it ever was before.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Fast Forward by Lauren Greenfield
Fast Forward is about the Photographs that Lauren Greenfield took of L.A kids. She wanted to know these kid’s stories and what was going on in their life. She wanted to know their goals and dreams, and how where they are living influences them.
In Los Angeles, media is a huge impact on most teenagers and kids. The whole ideal of living in Hollywood and making it big is was might kids/teens wish for. In L.A, kids/teens want to show off how much money they have. They want to have a lot of materialistic things. L.A. is very diverse city, and many of the kids and teens want to make it big, and be well known in different ways. Some of the ways they want to become famous is kind of disturbing too.
In Lauren Greenfield’s article she said,” a striking commonality throughout was the importance of image and celebrity. As innocuously as throwing the most extravagant party or creating an individual style, as gravely as killing a member of another gang, L.A.'s kids are engaged in the age-old Hollywood pursuit of making a name for themselves. The quest for notoriety has become a rite of passage. At a time of life when young people struggle to form their identities, that struggle is raised to new heights in the context of Los Angeles and Hollywood. Whether it is the desire to be an adult when one is a child, to be a gangster when one is privileged, to be famous when one is unknown, or to look like a model when one does not, young people are preoccupied with becoming other than they are. Los Angeles, in her traditional role as the city of dreams has bequeathed the quest for the dream to her children. The self-consciousness that underlies their aspirations inevitably costs them their innocence.”
What she is saying in this quote is that kids/teens are trying to grow up too fast.
I think Greenfield would agree with Raby’s five discourses. They both discuss how the media influences kids/teens and how it’s making them grow up too fast, and not enjoy being a kid.
I think McMillian and Morrison would respond to Lauren Greenfields book in a positive way. Greenfield is seeing the real teens, and they are letting her know how the media influences them.
In Greenfield’s book, it’s a lot of young people. The oldest in the book is 20 years old, and the youngest is 3 years old. The people that are absent in her book are 21 and over. I think the reason for that is so she can see how young we are influenced by our media, and how it truly effects us.
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
Glee
This is one of my favorite t.v. shows, and when I watched the pilot episode again, I really tried to see what was the message in this show. When I was watching Glee, it's about a group of kids, who aren't very popular, and they are all different. The kids are always the odd kids out in school, and they want to make a change for themselves. When they see the signup sheet for Glee Club, it gives them hope. The teacher who runs the Glee Club, Mr. Schuester, fights to allow the Glee Club, because the kids feel invisible around the popular people, and just in the whole school, even to some of the teachers. There was nothing that I didn't understand.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Hip-Hop in Media by Jared A. Ball Ph.D.
I understood what Jared A. Ball was discussing in his two articles about Hip-Hop in media. In the first article, it was saying how it can be good, but sometimes bad. Africa Americans created Hip-Hop, and it's been popular now for over thirty years. I found this quote in Jared's first article"Hip-hop’s popularity has done nothing to improve Black America’s overall wealth, education, health-care, or certainly rates of imprisonment. In fact, the popularity of hip-hop is used to deny these conditions or explain them as natural to the conditions of African America. It is not to the people that these conditions are natural but, instead, to the condition of being colonized. Popular media and, therefore, hip-hop cannot be changed prior to a societal shift (revolution) in who holds power and how that power is to be wielded." I think what he is saying here, that it's the condition, that we live in, and what the media is trying to tell us. It's not the peoples fault.
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Coming of Age with the Internet by McMillian and Morrison
When I was reading this article, I understood how much we all depend on the internet, and how much we need it, and at some points don't need it in our lives. The internet helps us discover all kinds of things. We learn something new whenever we are on the internet. Could be a news story, going on the website Stumble Upon, and finding some interesting facts about all kinds of things. One of the people that McMillian and Morrison said this about the internet. "The internet has changed my life. I now almost exclusively buy organic foods. I no longer eat red meat because of information I retrieved off of the American Medical Association's Website and from sites authored by various environmental organizations. The web introduced me to my favorite intellectual, Noam Chomsky, who forever altered my perception of the world.(Brian)." What McMillian and Morrison are saying in this article, is that even the internet can change your way of life, because you learn new things. Also with the internet, you have to be very careful too, and know who you are talking to. There have been many predators online, so you have to be very careful on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc. Here's a good website on internet safety. Here is also the website Stumble Upon, so many people use this website, and you can find out a lot of interesting information on all kinds of things.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
A Tangle of Discourses by Rebecca C. Raby
When I was reading the article A Tangle of Discourses by Rebecca C. Raby, the point of her article was the difference between generations among different women when they are teenagers, and while some are currently teenagers. She interviewed grandmothers and granddaughters and asked them their opinions of teenagers. If teenagers are good or bad? Raby discusses how adolescents go through many different changes, which effects how their behavior is towards their parents and others. That is the main point in her article. When Raby was interviewing the teenage girls, she would ask them all kinds of questions about the pressures that they go through, also through their own changes.
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Media Literacy Part 2
Another thing I would like to say about Media Literacy is that in all of the commercials, they are always advertising make up, and things to make you look thinner. They are never sending any positive messages. When young girls see this, they question whether they are thin enough, or pretty enough. When I was looking at makeup commercials, I found this commercial with Drew Barrymore, and they things that she is saying isn't good. " Department Store look" what the heck is that? She is also saying you'll look beautiful with the makeup on. Take beautiful back with tons of makeup, thats an awful message.
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Media Literacy
Here's a website where I found a lot of good information on Media Literacy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4yQFZK9YM
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Unpacking the Myths that Bind Us by Linda Christensen
When I was reading this article, the authors main idea was how child cartoons affect us. She was bringing up Disney movies, Popeye cartoon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all of these things that we grew up watching, and then finding out the meaning behind these cartoons. A lot of these cartoons don't have the best message for children and give them the wrong ideas. Linda Christensen said:
Children's cartoons, movies, and literature are perhaps the most in-flu
entail genre "read." Young people, unprotected by any intellectual armor,
hear or watch these stories again and again. Often from the warmth of their
mother's or father's lap. The messages. or "secret education," linked with
the security of their homes, underscore the power these texts deliver. As
Tatum's research suggests, the stereotypes and world view embedded in the
stories become accepted knowledge.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
When I was 13...
I was very awkward,I didn't have much fashion sense,and I had braces and glasses. I was the average middle schooler. I was in 7th grade. Middle school is always a weird time, because you are trying to figure things out. You are getting older and changing. Your friends also change too. There was always the popular group, the "not so" cool kids, the jocks, and the average kids. I was just average.
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