Repsonse to Classmate (J1-2) (late)

http://manualjc.blogspot.com/2013/11/internet-privacy.html?m=1

Sarah had talked about the lecture we had going over Internet. And when we did the topic of internet privacy came up. She even gave an example of someone on her Facebook timeline being so oblivious to what she posted. Giving out times, locations, and other information has been so prevalent in the past years or so because our younger generations just don't understand that you could get in real trouble by posting things of that nature. Its a disgrace really.
I'm just glad that Sarah had hit this right on the head. Like most people, i forgot about how serious this can be. So kudos to Sarah and try to stay safe out there.

Response to Classmate (J1-2) (late)

http://samwinreallife.blogspot.com/2013/11/response-to-movies-lecture.html?m=1

Sam had put on his blog that he thought the reasons why we still go to the movies is really interesting. I can agree.
One reason that he mentioned was that the movies are an immersive experience. While that is quite true  it's not the only reason we go. Yet it is a big part of it. I can definitely agree on why that's probably my favorite thing about going to the movies. Sam had done a great job on informing others about this topic.

Reponse to Classmate (J1-2)

http://laurenrose01.blogspot.com/2013/11/j1-news-station-1.html

I think that Lauren actually did a very good job on noticing something that was done wrongly on the news station that she watched. The lack of detail would be a huge problem in whether or not the story is news worthy. If there is not enough detail for the story then how can it be super relevant, especially to the people in the area. It's good that she caught this. And because WAVE 3 only shows an average of about 7 stories, most to all of them should be in depth. They aren't according to Lauren. Because of this, you wonder what they do with their time. It's basically commercials, weather, and sports. That won't help anyone in a time of need if something new happens and people need to know about it. The news station then won't have enough time to air every important thing they need to.

The link to this blog post is at the top of the page.

Reponse to Classmate (J1-2)

http://fhblove.blogspot.com/2013/11/critique-of-wlky.html

Alyssa did a nice job covering what the WLKY news station might have missed and may have to fix. What i mean is the shortened amount of time that they have to actually cover stories while on the air. From what i got by reading the blog, was that WLKY spends too much time on some stories so others may not be included. Those smaller stories that aren't included may impact the daily lives of people in the area. Such as the story WLKY didn't share about the bridge crash that backed up traffic heavily that day. I totally agree that new stations need to worry more about sharing the stories that will effect people, rather than fluff.

But one thing that she didn't mention was what principle or yardstick that this violated. If she would have then explained how the critique would've been a whole lot better.

The link to the media critique is found at the top of this page.

Internet (J1-2)

The internet! What a wonderful inanimate object that we have today. You know it's birthday was on the 29th of October, born in 1969. Anyway about internet itself. First can I say it changed society and the way of life for most people in the world. It definitely has changed my life, growing up with all this fancy technology. It grew so fast once released though. Almost instantaneously if you would like. What really caught my mind was that because it did spread so fast, that universities were among the first to have computers with internet access. Or at least trying to have access. Why wouldn't the rich people try to get one for themselves. It probably would've been pointless and the wealthy were probably the ones funding the scholars, but I just wanted to ask and find out. Something else too. How all media is now on the Internet and is effected by it. Because anyone can create their own profiles on about any website, then the world as we know it really isn't private at all and you are being watched almost constantly. At least that's what I get from it, because what you post is out there and you can't just delete it off the www with a click of a button. I guess it has to be whatever though. This was a very interesting lecture and the most I've probably learned about the Internet in my life, so kudos to Mr. Miller.

WDRB Local News (J1-2)

WDRB is the news station that I have been watching recently. They do a fine job at covering many stories in almost all categories. The stories just don't have enough detail in them; each episode averaging an 18 stories each having an elapsed time of 30-45 seconds long. Compared to newspapers, where you have full stories in great detail, WDRB pretty much just uses the headline of each story and about two sentences for coverage. Also with a newspaper you can re-read something if you don't understand it, and with most news stations because their stories are in depth more, you can tune out some parts and still know what the story is about. WDRB doesn't do that or let it happen.

Television (J1-2)

Here we go with T.V. You know this is why radio was demassified. I thought that was interesting; it was inevitable but interesting. I was invented in 1927 and I bet that's something not a lot of people know. Then color T.V. was released in 1946. This lead to more people buying and watching television. In 1948 one million television sets were in the United States. By 1959, just ten years later, there were 50 million television sets. Want to know why this is so great yet disappointing? It's because you obviously could still get news very fast rather than hearing it through the grapevine, by word of mouth. You could also see who was talking; who was reporting the news. But T.V. had kept us inside for longer periods of time rather than getting out into the world to social events. Not going to church every Sunday because it was on T.V., or not going to a concert because you could just as easily stay at home and watch it on T.V.
This makes me almost disgusted about our society today because it has changed and shaped so many aspects of culture and everyday lives of all these innocent people. Just like on the news, it's depressing to hear all this crime. It would still be happening but you wouldn't have to worry about missing the news if T.V. hadn't exploited all of its uses and took them for granted. I agree that, yes, I love T.V. as much as the next person but if we would've invented it later or never had it in the first place, how would our society be today? Can you believe the difference it probably would take?

Movies (J1-2)

Movies, movies, movies. I like them. Honestly I'm one of those people who hate going to the theater. But that's just me. When we had discussed movies though it was pretty cool. Movies can relate to newspapers. They aren't the most popular things to read or watch but people still do read and watch them. I like how they can relate by the genre diversity. Both have that. Also for the movie theaters, they are an immersive experience. Rather than seeing then at home on your small TV screen probably without surround sound, you can go to the theater and see a new movie first before or with your friends on a huge screen, in comfy chairs, and with surround sound that has bass like no other. This is interesting because people pay $9 a ticket for things like this. I mean it can be worth your while but I wouldn't do it. People obviously like it though. The movies is also a social experience which is nice because you can catch up with your friends over a movie before, during, and after. It's a nice experience I agree. And learning about how moves came about and are still popular is quite something.

The Invention of Radio (J1-2)

The invention of radio was something out of this world. It was the first live medium of mass communication. This meant that you no longer had to go see someone or something live in person to hear it live. Also since if it was playing on the radio it meant that the segment was being recorded. If it was recorded you could skip the first live broadcast and just listen to it another day. That changed the world as we knew it.
Radio meant that we could finally listen to more than one thing at once. If you could afford more than one radio the whole family didn't have to gather around the one in the living room or what not. This was amazing and made the creators of the many different kinds of radios money.
Mr. Miller did a very nice job explaining what radio did for individuals world. They made life better and implied that our world was growing in technology. Soon enough T.V. would come along.
Radio also let people get breaking news instantly rather than through the grapevine. Through the grapevine news was usually passed on slowly and changed with however many people it was passed on to. But with radio it wasn't changed and it was recorded so someone could go find the recording and play it back.

Post About a Post About a Post

http://blsj1.blogspot.com/2013/09/will-lake-being-little-harsh-on-syria.html

Yeah sure I might agree somewhat with this classmate of mine but I totally disagree with most points they made. First you obviously had to look at the original blog on Will's page which is also found on the link above ^^. But heres the thing, his blog didn't say anything about attacking Syria because they annoy us, his point was to say we are confused whether or not to attack them because of the chemical warfare usage. His blog was well written and had all information needed. This blog by Brigid was completely off track. I don't think she got the point. I'm not trying to bash her or anything, I'm just saying that she didn't understand what will was trying to say. That ties into our section about mass communication also, by this being an example of a filter in the decoding stage. She just didn't quite understand what was being said, or trying to understand. But back on the main idea that pushed me to blog about this situation. What I'm not entirely sure about is how Brigid thought this was harsh. Maybe it's sensitive subject, I'll never know.

Class Reponse: Magazines (J1)

Magazines, magazines, magazines. How wonderful they are! Even though they are marketed toward certain niches now they are still great resources for reports and fun to read. Some being informational and other for entertainment. They had first introduced investigative reporting, personality profiles, and photojournalism. It's amazing how a single magazine can include all of them though. Journalists, though, have to be watchdogs for the whole world, whatever nation that they are in or working for. This includes doing investigative reporting and personality profiles because the require lots of work. Anyway, at first I didn't really understand the points of having these purposes for magazines. I still really don't but they make more sense now because it makes sense to report like that and dig deeper for more articles. That's sort of on the topic of newspapers and writing. So on the topic of magazines they were the very first type of national media and are a very large part of mass communication. They communicate to almost every one who sees them and read them. With most truth and some interesting loops in them they communicate to all. That I do understand though.

Class Response: Parts Of A Newspaper (J1)

When we learned about the parts of the newspaper I didn't really understand why we have so many and how we actually use them all. But sitting down looking at a newspaper and seeing which parts are which it makes complete sense now why there are so many and how we use them. They keep everything organized. It's amazing of what they can do. And because every paper had each of these parts you can look on any paper that is published and find out where the parts are and how they are used. Mr. Miller did a great job explaining how they pertain to what we are learning about because what came next in the curriculum was magazines. Magazines tie into how articles are placed and published, also with photojournalism. The parts of newspapers also seem important to know because if you were to write an article that was going to be printed you would want to know where it was going and how to write it pertaining to how many people read it or if you want more people to read it while gaining credibility.

Classmates Blogs (J1)

http://insertcleverwebaddresshere.blogspot.com/ This response from another one of my classmates was actually a good, thought of point to. I am also a huge fan of almost any kind of music and when I read this, everything from the previous lecture just clicked. She has a point of making the mass communication of music more descriptive and that a larger audience can understand. To paraphrase what the lecture was about, it was about how music changes over the years and how when recordings finally were invented how it changed so much. Now people can share recording and it's a form of mass communication because it can travel through space and time, unlike older days when you could only hear the music or voices live and in person. I though she made a very good point of this. I had totally forgot and yet didn't quite understand how this effected so many things throughout out history.

Classmate Blogs (J1)

http://mallorysiegenthalerj1.blogspot.com/ I like how my classmate brought up the points of newspapers. I never really thought about it like she had. So when reading this class response it gave me a new perspective. When she mentioned the parts of the newspaper, I totally forgot about those. They really are important though and it's a clever way to put articles in that format. It makes it very easy to read. I personally like all the things she brought up in the response too because they helped me understand more of what the lecture was about and how to bring into todays terms with reading the daily paper and how to go about it.

Class Response: Binary Models (J1)

It's okay that most all binary models that are hot-cool are related. Even though they are they all are still different from one another.
 The main binary model that forms the others is hot-cool. Then branching from that is information-entertainment and elitist-populist. What confused me in the first place is what makes them different. Information-Entertainment falls under elitist-populist though. What elitist companies do is that they want people to know what they should. It's entirely what they think you should know and not much (if any) of what you don't need to know. It's usually news stations that are elitist. They don't care for money, they just want to get important points across. Elitist is NEEDING not wanting. The populist side is for entertainment only pretty much. These companies want money and that's why they are in business. They share un-important information, what you WANT but may not necessarily need.
 Information is elitist and entertainment is populist. I finally understand and when you do it's like something clicks and you know all the answers. And when you think about it for a while you start to question why do we even promote or watch these3 things. Well it's because we care and want to know. Humans are curious, even though curiosity killed the cat, we want to know what's happening in our world today. So I did a little experiment myself. I found it to be true that entertaining shows and channels were a lot easier to stay with than informational shows or channels unless they are showing something that really interests you.
 I also think that how the elitist-populist binary works is really cool. But then there is another model that doesn't really fall under the elitist-populist model. That would be the content-distribution model. This one is different by it relating a lot to the process of mass communication. Content being original thought of ideas which is part of the stimulus and encoding steps. Then distribution being distributing those ideas in content which is part of the decoding and transmission steps. I don't really understand this one as much. Why would we need to learn about it when it's common sense? Honestly, I have no idea. But now pondering upon it, I see the relation to the other binary models. Yet, what do they have in common to mass communication? Aha! See, they all require the steps to mass communication for us to know about them. You can find those is my other post on this blog. But now I see why they are so important to understand so you can relate them to other things.

Class Response: Mass Communication (J1)

Honestly I have to say that mass communication is pretty cool, considering all that goes into it. With the many forms then how you have to comprehend the infromation being spread with the process of communicating.
 First having to think of something to share, in the stimulus stage. Next encoding so your audience can understand. Then sending the message out into the world in many different ways that is technologically imputable as the transmission phase. Then decoding it to understand the message and finally, internalization when you don't memorize what you read but you understand it enough so that you can remember the purpose of it in the first place.
 This was very interesting to me because you know everything has a catch. With these steps to mass communication there are filters and impediments to disrupt the process. Internal filters such as physical disabilities, informational things like a language it's in, and physiological things that go along with personal beliefs/attitudes. Then there are the external impediments, which can include environmental noise, channel noise, and semantic noise.
 It's amazing how complicated it can be to get a message across to people all over the world through time and space. Seems to be more work than wanted by far. But after that the forms you can put your message in are almost endless.
Even though the lecture was kind of boring, once you think about it the options are endless of what can happen. It's really cool.

Navy Yard Shooting. Is It Really What You Need To Know? (J1)

Maybe everyone has heard about the Navy Yard Shooting in Washington D.C. by now. And it's a tragic thing that had happened that shouldn't have. But when you read articles or watch the news about it, shouldn't the information they give you be facts and be important? Well of course! I had ran over an article about this topic and this is what I found.
For one, the news report posted with the article had mentioned that 13 were killed during the shooting while the actual article had said only 12 were killed, along with many other websites and sources with articles on the same topic that were very similar. All had said 12 were killed.
This problem could easily be fixed by just finding out more specific details before writing or airing the story. Or the journalist could just look at others' articles they wrote and published.
In this story they had made the interesting important. There weren't enough concrete facts about what really happened, only what Alexis's life had been like with mental issues and physical traumas he lived through that might have attributed to why he went to the navy yard and shot. The important thing was where, why, how and what happened because of it. This article gave too much interesting that actually made the story boring and not enough fact.
NBC news should make sure their editor is looking over what stories are going out and the information that goes with them. It would make people more likely to read it more and also make the website more credible. This article was very unreliable.
The link is below to share or to compare to other articles.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/17/20542864-navy-yard-shooter-aaron-alexis-was-not-happy-with-america-friend-says