Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Reflection Paper- 11/22/2020

January 22, 2020
The Ending
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Hey people, welcome back to the blog, with your favorite blogger, Noelle. Over the course of the past few months, I have gained lots of knowledge of media and its effects.  In learning things about media, I have looked over the roles that media has played in my life, and the more and more I think about it, the more I realize it almost consumes me.  Every time I hear a buzz, I immediately look towards my phone, for what I think is going to be only a second but ends up being at least thirty minutes. This happens not only when I hear a noise, but when I see a glow or am away from my phone for what I interpret as too long.  I never think of it when I have my phone, but when my phone is taken or is being unused, like during a class, I can see a drastic change in how productive I am and can be. It reminds me that I probably am not a procrastinator, but I am just someone who feeds into media. During nights that I have lots of homework or things that must be done, internally, I know that I should give up my phone, but the media and the way it is presented tells me that I need it to succeed.  If it was not for my critical thinking class, I may have never came to this realization and just felt that I truly needed it as I have never really analyzed the way in which the media presents itself. This awareness allows me to now be able to put my phone away when needed and remind myself that it will all be there when come back after a few hours. Previous to this class, I never really thought of advertisements as media, which now seems super silly, but I just thought of media as the social media that I used, shows and movies.  After analyzing and really learning about the media out there, I am now more aware of why I may feel like I “need” something, when in fact it is probably because the advertisement I saw for it told me that I would fit in or some silly thing like that. I have found that a lot of media and what it portrays is super obvious once it is brought to your attention, but it can be super deceiving. Keeping a journal of the media I see on a day to day basis reminded me of the ‘why’ in which advertisers put into things. Although a lot of my media blogs were on similar things, I think it really helped in that it showed I was making changes and slowly moving to being more aware.  These slow changes that are being made throughout my daily life enables me to be the best consumer I can be. I can make decisions about what I want, not based off of the way in which something is portrayed, but in what its true effect and impact it will have on my life. For example, a lot of commercials for Disney plus have been popping up, portraying that if I were to get it, I would almost become a child again as I can see all the things that I used to watch once again, not that I am not a child anymore, but you know what I mean, and if you do not know what I mean, I have just grown up more as everyone does as time moves on. Overall, the media does not seem like something that anyone would necessarily agree with due to all of the problems that it has, but it is kind of crazy that not many people notice any of the flaws in which it contains and think of media almost as a savior, and I am not saying that I am except from this although I am now more aware and am getting better about noticing the unjust errors in which media contains.  This shows how important it is for one to take a class or learn about media and its truths so everyone can be more aware and hopefully fight against these injustices. Anyway, I probably will not post on here ever again but it was nice writing and talking about media! Peace.

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

I guess I like Madison and Vine- 01/14/2020

January 14, 2020
Obsession of Madison and Vine
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Image result for season 2 episode 18 the office       Hey people, welcome back to the blog with your favorite blogger, Noelle. So I found something brand new that no one has ever talked about before. Just kidding, I bet I got you. But basically I was watching another great show, The Office, and I spotted Madison and Vine. Also, real quick, I know that The Office can be depicted as super degrading of women, but if you want to look on the bright side, I think it more so highlights the flaws in our society of the way lots of men treat women. By doing this is can open other's eyes up and they are having fun by doing it because its a show. Anyway, back to my Madison and vine thing I found in The Office during season two episode eighteen. During this scene Pam has a bag of Jolly Ranchers during a bring your kid to work day. A little bit later Pam gets the kids to talk to her. By doing this, it makes Jolly Ranchers seem as though their project will solve your social problems and will allow you to make more child friends. Kind of creepy right. This link might work if you want to buy the episode and see the scene that I am talking about. If you get scammed though that's not my fault, I have not used this website nor will I ever. Everything you do is at your own risk. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779510/

Sunday, January 12, 2020

Misrepresentation- 01/12/2020

January 12, 2020
Misrepresentation
Image result for rachel pregnant friends       Hey guys, welcome back to the blog with your favorite blogger, Noelle. So in my critical thinking class, we watched this video about the portrayal of women in media. Something that was brought up about women in media was how women are less valuable after they have a baby. After spending time thinking over this topic that was mentioned, I began immediately thinking of the television show, Friends. Although I love the show, I cannot deny the negative aspects and stereotypes that it holds over many things such as gender roles. In the show, Friends, there is this specific episode that comes to mind where Rachel is pregnant and is not showing but when she goes on her date, she gets dumped because she told her date that she was pregnant. Just the thought of being pregnant over powered her personality as the man was focused on her body. A similar instance happened in a previous episode when there was some confusion and and she ends up talking with her ex, Tag, and he is telling Rachel how much she wants to be with her but the second she tells him that she is pregnant, he dips. This is just so degrading in that it presents women as worthless once they are pregnant or after they have had a child. It is extremely degrading as this journey a women goes through can be one of the hardest thing that someone may go through and it makes it seem like they are worthless during and after this journey. If you want to see this episode you can find it, it is season 8 episode 2. The link at the bottom is a more detailed plot description. Okay, bye. https://friends.fandom.com/wiki/The_One_With_The_Red_Sweater

Friday, January 3, 2020

Free Choice (Week 4)- 01/03/20

January 03, 2020
Analysis of a Show
Image result for wizards of waverly place season three episode 12       Hey people, welcome back to the blog with your favorite blogger, Noelle. So recently I have been watching Wizards of Waverly Place, and I have realized that a lot of their episodes contains messages relating to the time. For example in episode twelve of season three, "Detention Election," the children are having a school election for the different hierarchies that the school held. As the children are to vote, there are a few that decide that they do not vote because they think it is cool. In the end, the people end up voting. Their vote ends up making the largest difference. In real life during this time, there is a presidential election that is to come in a few years in the United States of America. This show is important to the upcoming event as it explains to the viewers, who are usually teenagers of this time who are turning of the voting age, so that when the time comes they can see that voting is cool and each vote truly makes a difference as seen in this episode. I found a link to this episode that you can click on at the end of this blog, but I am not to sure how good this link is. A better place to watch this episode would be on Disney, but you do not need to if you do not want to!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x50relz