Thursday, December 17, 2009
home work 30
Sunday, December 13, 2009
No I dont not think advertising to young people should be banned, because I think it would be just a wast of time. I think it would be a wast of time becasue if most young people do not have one thing to follow they look or the next. The video showed a large group waiting on line outside of a concert they had there face painted like they no the mebers of the group would have they face painted, that day most people looked alike and was acting a like, they did a lot out yelling and acted in what looked liike rebelous actions. One they video showed how the group acted when they was one stage everthing they fans were doing became moer clear. The group mebers were throughing things around the stage, they were yelling and they were jumping off of thing. This proved to me that most young follow what ever they think is cool .
so i guess what im trying to say is that, if they stop playing Ipod commericals every time i new ipod came out, yes there would be less people buying a new ipod becuase they would be less awear that a new one came out or what its able to do. So the new Ipod wouldnt be as "cool" because a lot of people wouldnt be no about it, bout something that more people no about would be more "cool". As you saw it in the video.
What specific manipulation techniques work best on the specific insecurities and emotional needs of young people, according to Merchants of Cool?
I think the best manipulation techniques to use to make young people more into something is, to show them that one well know person likes is as well. For example Chris Brown did a doublement commerical were he change the words to one of the song that was on his C.D and put doublement in replace for the words he took out . He also dance to the song . The cammerical had everyone talking about it because Chris Brown made a song and a dance about gum so when you want in the store to buy gum you though about the commercial even if you didn' buy the gum. The video also showed this happening were they were trying to get people to drink sprite so the had a basketball player drink it in the commercial, they thought if peopel see they besketball player drink sprite they would want to drink it as well.
Homestar is cool. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cool)
2) Cool is an aesthetic of attitude, behavior, comportment, appearance and style, influenced by and a product of the Zeitgeist. Because of the varied and changing connotations of cool, as well its subjective nature, the word has no single meaning. It has associations of composure and self-control (cf. the OED definition) and often is used as an expression of admiration or approval.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(aesthetic)
3)http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/elementary/body_image/anatomy_of_cool.cfm
4)http://www.coolhunting.com/
5) http://ardictionary.com/Cool/11949
Monday, December 7, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
What is cool?
I think cool is different for everone, what may be cool to you may not be cool to me, cool is when i see something that i have never seem before something that makes me look two times and say out loud "man dats cool"
Do it matter to you if you cool or not?
no relly, when i was younger i wanted to be cool beand i was because i dressed cool and did things that people around were i live thought was cool. As i got older and had more important thing to think about being cool isn't something that i put time into being i just be .
would you say your cool?
No , i think i'm lay back. I dress each day by the way i feel . I dont try to be any thing im not .
What would say cool is ?
Doing your on thing. It may not be different from every one but you do it beacuse you like it and not because everyone else is doing it, your just doing you and not caring what anyone think.
Do you think you will be cooler if you had more money?
I think i would have much more stuff , but i dont think money can make a person cool i think cool comes from the inside .
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
evens
esther short story
omar short story
Monday, November 23, 2009
the comment i left on brianna short story
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Short story
As i walked into the class room i saw everyone head turn and look at me. You must be the new student the teacher says as she walks over to me. "Yea, i'm Dayshawn" I say, Well Dayshawn you can sit right here in front. "Iight" i say as i make my way to the front of the room. I hate sitting in the front but dame i dont mind because, this has to be the best looking teacher i have every seen. Big pretty brown eyes, hiar to the middle of her back, lips just the right size, cute little noise, and hips just the right size, i would love to see her bend over right in front of me.
It seem like class want to fast. Before I konw it class was over and I was heading to my locker , as i opened my locker to change the books i need for my two classes. As I closed my locker two girls walked up, they were really cute they was wearing skinny jeans and fited T-shirts with some thing on it. With some cute shoes, I love when girls wear shoes i thought to myslef. "I like your shirt" the first girls said "thank you" I replyed. "You the new boy right" the other one said. " yea", "you cute and you play ball right". I say yea but i was wondering how they know this. "thats cool well my name is Keyisha and this is my home girl Toney and if you want yu can eat luch with use". I'm Dayshawn and eatting lunch with yall sounds cool. "iight so come on".
Sitting with keyisha and Toney was cool they had a lot of friends mostly girls coming over and asking me if i was the new boy and telling me i was cute, they also told me that they were goin to enjoy me sitting with them for as long has i can because they know when i meet the team they know i'm not goin to sit with them any more . I told them the never no because i might enjoy sitting with a tald full of ladys over then sitting with an table full of guys. As lunch ended Keyisah and Toney walked me back to class and told me that they thought i was really cool because i was cute but i didn't act stuck up like i know i was cute. they said i was down to earth and layed back we exchanged numbers and agreed that we were friend and we can all chill some times.
Monday, November 16, 2009
cool
Sunday, November 15, 2009
art project
In the house or in the street,
The closes friend to me.
There when nothing else is,
Sing the sweet sound of blazing Hip hop and R&B through littel headphones, so when i'm on the train I won't feel alone.
Helping me with my home work,
five page paper and the red line appears under a word i spelled wrong
"shit " i spelled that wrong ,
It tells me
" Have no fare spell check is here",
so I
1) High light the word
2) Click at the top of the computer screen were i find the word spelling
3) There is the word I was looking for
Always there for me, never leaving me alone,
In the house or in the streets.
42nd street, the big lights and T.V screens that have ever one looking up because they are visiting form a city that has nothing like this .
Always there for me, never leaving me alone,
In the house or in the streets .
My ipod
My computer
the big lights and T.V screens
thats cool with me
Because there always there for me never leaving me alone
in the house or in the street their the closes friend to me.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Digitalization
Living in a world taking over by digitalization has many different meaning. It can mean that everything comes so easy; you’re just a click away from goggle. It can also mean that you are clueless of what’s going on in the really world because you live life behind a computer screen. Many people would agree and say that digitalization is bad but they wouldn’t have a reason for why they think so. Many people would also say that digitalization have a negative effect on teenagers , they would point out the fact that many teenagers spend a lot of free time on social networks such as MySpace, facebook or even twitter , staying connected to their friends other then getting out and interacting with them. People also say digitalization is bad because children and teenagers would often choose it over reading a book or writing a story. When student were asked what they would rather do read books, do home work or play videogames and spend time on the computer. More the half of them said they would rather spend time playing videogames and on the computer, because they spend so much time in school do work on the weekends and after school they just want to “chill” and get away from school. One student said “when I get home the first thing I do is turn on the computer, more so now than ever because most of our home work have to be done over internet, but I’m not going to front the first thing I do isn’t home work I go on Facebook or twitter or whatever and just do my home work when it start to get late or it get really bored”. This quote was said by one student but I know she isn’t the only person that feel s this why. When you ask the question what people think about digitalization you get the same two answers “it’s bad because people use it to much” or “it’s good because it make thing easier “. When you ask that question people never take the time to really think before they answer it , they don’t take a minute to think how digitalization affect them , or to think how can it help them or not or take the time to ask themselves how much time they spend using it and if they think they should cut down . Digitalization plays a major role in our society today, and affects many people. The addiction, staying connected as well as social networking are the reason digitalization is such a major part of our lives.
People spending so many hours a day watching T.V and web surfing, the part that seem interesting to me is that people can just sit for hours and look at one show or be log into one social network. The question I would like answered is what keeps a person interested and coming back for more? The answer is addiction. People can sit on MySpace or Facebook for hours, sometime they would not eat or go use the bathroom because they do want to get off the computer, People go out for the day but before they go they must get on MySpace or Facebook and when they come back no matter how late it is they would not be able to sleep without going on again, they are addicted and most of the time they don’t know they are or even why. Networks aren’t the only thing about digitalization that makes people addicted, also thing like on line shopping. Why go to the stores were you would have to look through the everything to find something you want with the chance you might not find anything at all, when you can just sit at our desktop or laptop and just press next till you find the things you want . If you don’t find anything on one sight all you have to do is go to the next one, It just so much easier. Some people aren’t even addicted to the computer, the internet is their adduction. “Creating a single definition for computer addiction is difficult because the term actually covers a wide spectrum of addictions. Few people are literally addicted to a computer as a physical object. They become addicted to activities performed on a computer, like instant messaging, viewing Internet pornography, playing video games, checking e-mail and reading news articles because all your need are fulfill and one place and they are easier to get your hands on ”, (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-addiction.htm). I believe people get very addicted to digitalization because to makes everything easier, people think why they should take the hard way out when everything you need is just a mouse click away.
Digitalization is great when it comes to keeping people connected, today there are so many way to get in contact with other people. Cell phones, instant messaging, text messaging and the list can go on. Staying connected is one of the biggest reasons that most people are addicted to internet . Internet chatting make it so that you can talk to more than person at a time , and you can also be doing other things on the computer. People often like staying connected over instant or text messaging because it less personal , people find it easier to express their feeling in a texts message or over aim rather then talking in person or over the phone. “Kids are not learning to converse with people directly. Texting enables people to avoid face-to-face confrontation. The worst stories I have heard is someone being fired and dumped over a text message. One girl got fired over a text message, and since she didn’t have text messaging, she paid 40 cents to get fired. Please, find the appropriate time to communicate via text message”, (http://blog.hireahelper.com/2009/06/11/new-generation-of-communication-texting-versus-talking). People like to often say things over text messaging so it won’t become awkord between them and the person their talking to. Using Digitalization to stay connected also has its down falls. People spend less time going out or spend time with their friends and family, because they are giving other ways to be able to check on the m. Another reason why staying connect over digitalization isn’t always great because message can get crossed, meaning you can say something meaning it one way but since the other person can here the way you said they can take differently . That can start big problems and turn into a big miss understanding.
Why do people use social networks? Can’t they just go hang out with their friends or call them on the phone or even text them ? But why limited yourself to talking to one or two people at a time when you can go on Facebook or Twitter and talk to as many people as you want to ? That is the outlook that a lot of people today have on social networking . older people would blame it on teenagers for spending so much time on the networks , but most peoples parents and grandparents are sign up to the networks as well. People sign up to these network to keep others posted on what’s going on in their life’s by putting up pictures of what they did that weekend and so on or to make them self feel important when they see that they have over 5000 followers on twitter . Social networks start out as just good fun for most people but once they start spending time on the network and seeing what it can do, it starts to become more of a life style for many people. People put up a lot of information about them self on social networks, such as their full names, date of birth , were they live as well as attend school and things they enjoy doing. Most people will agree and say that’s not the safest thing to do because just how you are already friends or at least know the people you are friends with on their social networks there are also the people that you don’t know that you are also friends with. By you telling on your information you are making it easy for them to find you. “ The Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported more than 2,600 incidents last year of adults using the Internet to entice children. With numbers like that, you'd think all parents would be hovering over their kids, wanting to know what they're doing online. But authorities say many parents are clueless about their kids' MySpace profiles”, (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/06/eveningnews/main1286130.shtml). This quote proves that just how great social networking can be for keeping you connected to your friends and family . It can be just as dangerous , and that’s we many adults don’t want their kids to have MySpace or facebook pages . Most children go behind their parents back and sign up for MySpace or facebook , because all they are thinking about is how their friends have one and they don’t want to feel left out. They don’t think about the danger they may be putting their self in. Social networking isn’t all bad but it isn’t all good as long as you are aware of what’s going on.
This paper is important because it is warring people of the ups and downs of digitalization. This paper is trying to make them think deeper about digitalization and the affect it has on our society so that when their asked about digitalization their answers aren’t limited to it good or bad they will be able to think and say why they think is good or bad they will also be able to list the pros and cons about it. Although this paper is mostly talking about computers and internet use, digitalization is so much more than that and we are surround it by it every day. Most people have cell phones, T.V, computers, rodeos and so much more. Even living in the city, when you go out to 42nd all the lights and images showing on the big bright screens are digitalization.We are living in a society where we cannot escape digitalization, so we just have to learn how to live with it. We can control how much we use it and how much time we put into do other things.
The connection I would like to make to this paper is a self to text connection, before taking this class and writing this paper my thought about digitalization were very limited. I was always on the internet and didn’t find it to be a big deal. If somebody was to ask me at the beginning how I felt about digitalization I would have be like it’s a great thing when I need something to do and when I need to find out information its always here for me , but I wouldn’t be able to answer with a very deep answer. Before I never took the time to think about how much time I spent using it or if I would be able to live without it or not. I’m not going to front like since I started learning about digitalization, I stop using it or I even cute down the time I spent using it because I have not . The only difference is that know when I use the internet I think about it more. The question we ask each other in class come to my mind, why I’m I so addicted ? why do I care what people posted on my wall or said about my picture ? I feel like I care so much because it keeps me in the circle of knowing what is going on with my friends when we aren’t together. I learned so much through this unite and even though I didn’t stop or cut down on ma internet use is mad me very aware.
Digitalization plays such a major role in our society today that there is no way of getting around it. The tree points I bought up as augments were points that was important or interesting to as we deeper learned about digitalization. The topic of digital is so lager that I couldn’t cover everything but I talked about the parts that that I though affected me the most . The addiction because I can say I was really addicted to internet use , staying connected and social networking use because they have their pros and cons and I just wanted to aware people . we live in a world so big I think it’s room for us as well as digitalization.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
intro
talking about digitalization and streo types people have about it.
Body# 1
The addaction
what makes people so addicted ? and why ? what good and whats bad about it ? Is there even a good or a bad?
Body #2
Staying connected
digital things are used to help people stay connected. with out being together and why it that ?
Body#3
Rap it up, talk about each subject i already talked bout .
Monday, October 26, 2009
h.w 14
I don't read unless i have to but at the same time i dont play video games eaither, but i do use the computer as well as the phone way more then i read. The reading says that reading books is some thing you do alone therefor you are in your own place and isn't interacting with anyone but yourself. On the other hand when you are on the computer the phone or playing a video you are interacking with some thing , and that makes me belive thats why people enjoy it the most .
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
home work 13
He used an allegory to talk about some thing going on today, to make people say thats crazy because they are outsiders looking in not knowing that the book is really talking about tennagers to day. A familiar plot is the real world today. Even though I don't think everything said in feed was right on it did relate to the plot in feed related to the real world. The tragedy of the feed breaking it like if internet just stop working he was trying to say we wouldn't be able to live with out it and i think it would be different but we will be able to live with out it.
2. Feed is written as a tragedy - what are the various tragic elements in the book, and how do they all collide, and is that how your life is too?
3. Does Feed miss the point? Are Titus and crew actually living brag lives and the Professors of the World are just behind the times and irrelevant and scared of something new?
feed is suppose to be an allegory about modern teenage life and i think it's pertty much on point, when it comes to the fact that we as teenagers have everything at our finger tips and don't have to do much to get the information we need. i don't agree with the fact that he mad it seem like its only teenager that is affected by this because there are many grown ups that over use internet just like teenages. I think the book was some what on target but in with everything .
One tragedy in the book was that the girls feed faild and his lost every thing that was goin on nin her head. Another tragedy to me was that all the teenage weren't allowed to think on there own they relayed on the feed to do everything for them .If they ever had to live with out the feed they won't be able to because thats wat keep them going thats want they live on and by. My life wouldn't be like that with out internet because my life isn't run by internet i do other thing then that.
I dont think feed missed the point I just think that he over did it , like made it seem wores then what it is. like all teenagers to day can't live with out it and thats not true. He also made it seem like its only teenagers when it clearly not because peoples moms and grandmoms have myspaces, facebooks and twitters.
Monday, October 5, 2009
On this website a teacher starts to talk about why he thinks facebook is addicting, he talks about the the different up dates . I think he was saying that it can be addicting because it keeps people intoned and let others no whats going on. He was saying people use face book so other people can find out what they are doing when they aren't around each other. with out the updates it wouldn't be every addicting .
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Person # 2: I think it's great because you are able to find out any thing you want to know when ever you want to know it , "google is the best".
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
She answered, you guy now just have more. She says when i was a teenager we only had pagers, and C.D players and then two way pagers came later when i was in my 20's. So i spent more time outside talking to me friends and interacting other then just setting at the computer on myspace or on facebook. It's like you guy's get to interact with out really interacting. When i was younger and my mom said i couldn't go out side it real hurt and my was really bord, now if i tell you can't go out it's no prolem. You just go get on the computer and sign on to myspace,facebook or twitter and you are good , then if i tell you to get of the computer you get off and go on the same websits on your phone or you talk on aim, BBm or you text. Now of days thats what the phones are mad for you to do . You guys are lucky, but i'm not sure if all thr digutal stuff is a good or bad thing.
I think she answered wonderful, she just didn't say or it's very bad the answer that everyone have been giving she kind of did'nt answer at all but she talked about what she did know and how time haved change.