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• Commented on 96.3 NOW Convergence and Fan Culture
  Would 96.3 NOW actually be a hegemonic structure? The fans can vote for what music they want to hear, but only in the context of the stations preferred tastes. The NOW will only play music from artists who represent the...
• Posted Fantasy Sports Culture Convergence to Media Literacy Section 001 Fall 2011
  Culture convergence applied to American Ideal and described by Jenkins made me think of fantasy sports as a culture convergent. Although fantasy sports do not really rely as heavily on love marks and product placement such as American Ideal, there...
• Commented on Blog Response: Catch up/final paper ideas
  That is a pretty interesting topic Danny. I usually go out for Black Friday, but I did not this year. I do not really ever go for the items that the retailers want me to buy either, I usually know...
• Commented on Post DQs for Tuesday here!
  Shaw briefly towards the end of the essay touched on the stereotype of the "gamer." The stereotype of a "nerdy" forty year old man that drinks Mountain Dew and eats Doritos was kind of painted with her reference to the...
• Commented on Final Paper
  Rachel, your topic sounds very interesting. I have a passion for Hip-Hop music as well. I cannot think of a genre of music that has become so universal such as Hip-Hop. In America, China, Germany, and tons of other countries...
• Commented on Sports affects on lower-classes
  Sorry, I kind of went off on a tangent. But, it would be more of a compare and contast with the aspects of dress and attitudes surrounding sports when applied to the working class. I plan to compare images, in...
• Posted Sports affects on lower-classes to Media Literacy Section 001 Fall 2011
  I will be doing my final paper for this class by doing an analysis of sports and how they affect people of the working or lower classes. A few people in the class maybe familiar with the old sports clichés...
• Commented on War Made Easy Response
  Danny, your prompt on the biased or objectiveness of the media is interesting. I somewhat agree that news cannot be objective at the same time though, if journalists would present both sides of the matter and not let their own...
• Posted Analysis of Documentary to Media Literacy Section 001 Fall 2011
  Solomon in the documentary War Made Easy states how the United States media portrayed the wars in the Middle East in the early 2000s as patriotic. Although, the medium is supposed to be objective with their coverage of major events...
• Commented on Post DQs for Thursday here!
  As the blog illustrated how the newspaper is a "dying" medium I could not help to think of Paul Star's comment on how this development now further allows corruption. It does help to have several mediums delivering messages of importance...
• Commented on Sports Blog
  Danny I think you bring up a good point about parents forcing their children into sports. I was going to bring this up in-class but we did not really have the time. There was this quarterback for the Oakland Raiders,...
• Posted Sports Have A Place in our Society to Media Literacy Section 001 Fall 2011
  As I was growing up I was involved in many sports baseball, football, basketball, wrestling, boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, karate, and swimming. Sports definitely played a big part in my life growing up, however it was not the biggest. I...
• Commented on Post your DQs for Thursday here
  Anybody whom has ever watched sports has heard the cliché "Oh this community has relied around this team". It’s usually a team that’s community has gone through some hardship. When the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010...
• Commented on Killing Us Softly Blog Prompt
  At the beginning of your prompt you stated that that upon paging through magazines you ignored the provocative advertisements in the magazine. However you continue to say that Kilbourne kind of pointed out to you how sexualized these ads really...
• Posted Apple iPhone: "Touching is believing" to Media Literacy Section 001 Fall 2011
  My advertising example was an advertisement from Apple for the iPhone. It contains a hand with the pointer finger extended touching the iPhone. The back ground is dark the only illuminated object is the iPhone and the hand touching it....
• Commented on Post Thursday DQs here!
  In "The Pornography of Everyday Life" Jane Caputi argues that media today is sexualized. She uses examples of Calvin Klein commercials, however I do not necessarily buy her argument. I am sure in the 60s and 70s there were sexual...
• Commented on Transgender Blog 10/21
  The definition of gender by Remy was something I did not really put into my thought process during the lecture. But, now that you brought it into your blog I have to agree with both you and Remy. Gender does...
• Posted Remy Response to Media Literacy Section 001 Fall 2011
  What surprised me the most about Remy's lecture was the variations between gender, sex, and orientation, as the triangle on the board represented. It does seem like many different combinations can be conformed out of just these three. There are...
• Commented on POST THURSDAY DQS HERE!!!
  Semantics brings up some good points about the actual definitions of those words. One thing that was brought to mind is involving a working definition of the two combined. If, someone is transgender or transsexual and they have sexual relations...
• Commented on Blog Response: Research
  That is really cool Danny. I love UFC and watch many of their Pay Per Views! I bet researching was a lot of fun for you. I agree though that it's completely unnecessary with some of the comments the fighters...
• Posted Working-Class Men in Sitcoms to Media Literacy Section 001 Fall 2011
  I did my section two paper on the portrayals of working-class white men in network television sitcoms. The two shows I primarily focused on were All in the Family and King of Queens. I realized well I was thinking about...
• Commented on POST THURSDAY DQS HERE!!!
  The article “Heroes of Assimilation” describes many aspects of how people with disabilities are viewed in our society. There are many famous people with disabilities that stand up for causes to possibly find cures for their disabilities, i.e. Michael J....
• Posted Sucker Punch to Media Literacy Section 001 Fall 2011
  Hey y'all I watch this really good action film last night called "Sucker Punch" directed by Zack Snyder, the director of "300". It gives a really good representation of post-feminism. The main characters are all women in a 1950's mental...
• Commented on Response to Stern161
  I agree with your answer to Stern 161. Another thing I thought of during our class discussion on Thursday was the marketing aspect of the video. Alicia Keys is popular amongst mostly black or African American teenagers and young adults....
• Posted Hip-Hop and Words to Media Literacy Section 001 Fall 2011
  In response to taftx030, I definitely think that the older rappers like Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z are really only putting on a front for the audience to maintain their reputation in Hip-Hop. When they first started gaining attention from rapping...
• Commented on Post DQs for Thursday here!
  The class discussion today about the Snoop Dogg video I found pretty interesting. It seemed right away just because Snoop was posing as a pimp and had all these women around him we questioned if this made him, or black...
• Posted "Describe the emotional expectations of men" to Media Literacy Section 001 Fall 2011
  Katz describes how the media portray to men that they should be "tough" almost emotionless human beings and if they have any of these emotions that they should "bottle them up". They should become "stoic" as he describes the persona...
• Commented on POST TUESDAY DQS HERE!
  I believe it was media theorist Marshall McLuhan whom wrote a theory that describes how people that consume a lot of violence in mass-media have a disprotionate view of violence in reality. Therefore, if all syndicated Television shows put together...
• Commented on Response to Blog Prompt- Feminism
  I found her points convincing as well. She brings home the argument about "fantasies of power" with the examples of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Elle from Legally Blonde. I also like her writings on enlioghtened sexism. I think another...
• Commented on POST THURSDAY DQS HERE!!!
  Hey y’all What did everybody think of “Raunch Culture”? I never really took the time to realize how much sexually related material is in our culture. When I was reading about the “Girls Gone Wild” crew and how they kind...