Media Literacy Fall 2012 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012-08-13:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458 2012-12-19T21:42:35Z Movable Type Enterprise 4.31-en tweet 3 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.381208 2012-12-19T21:41:37Z 2012-12-19T21:42:35Z For those of you who haven't seen Shameless, it's... wonderful. Please do!! If you don't pay for showtime, you can watch online :0) Email me if you have questions! Bryan331@umn.edu... Kelci Bryant https://twitter.com/Kelci_Bryant

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Just notice what the camera focuses on when it uses adjectives like "beautiful" (flat stomach) RIDICULOUS ... #MLFall2012

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]]> Extra Credit Blog tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.381185 2012-12-19T18:47:12Z 2012-12-19T18:59:16Z Andrejevic's article is a very interesting concept to think about. He talks about the technology we have today, the future, and how we it affects us as a society. One of the biggest technologies today is social media. Now it... schar067 Andrejevic's article is a very interesting concept to think about. He talks about the technology we have today, the future, and how we it affects us as a society. One of the biggest technologies today is social media. Now it is nearly impossible to find a person who does not have some sort of social media. Facebook has over 1 billion members and its only growing. Also, an interesting point my dad talked to me about is that employers actually are more skeptical of potential employees if they do not have a Facebook because then they think that they are hiding something. The episode of How I Met Your Mother was a very good example of the problem with technology in our world today. Ted tried to stay away from using social media to get a better understanding about the person he was dating but in the end fell to the pressure. This is exactly how people are in real life now. As soon as a person meets a new person they immediately look them up on Facebook and can then see many of their likes, dislikes, photos, and etc. It will be interesting to see just how far social media goes, especially Facebook, and if it will be a larger or smaller part of peoples lives.

]]> HIMYM & Andrejevi - Extra Credit Blog tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.381170 2012-12-19T15:48:42Z 2012-12-19T15:54:13Z I was very pleased to have a screening of How I Met Your Mother in class. I just started watching this show a couple of weeks ago, so I am still trying to familiarize myself with the characters. Andrejevic states... Dee Perez I was very pleased to have a screening of How I Met Your Mother in class. I just started watching this show a couple of weeks ago, so I am still trying to familiarize myself with the characters.

Andrejevic states how easily we are able to access information on the Internet, even about people. This is true, because after this, I found myself entering in names and you could easily find out information about someone's location, how many kids they have, or what school they went to, simply by typing in the first and last name on Google. It came up with websites just as "Family Tree" and "My Life." If you want to gain further information, all you had to do was pay a mere fee of about $9.99 or $19.99 depending on the website.

Relating Andrejevic's article to the How I Met Your Mother clip we watched in class, they are both very similar. Robin, very weary, was trying to find out about a girl's identity on the internet. However, at the end she found out she was actually a good person. This implied that Ted messed up the chance of dating a nice girl. This proves that looking up information about someone all the time isn't necessarily a good thing. It can lead to bad things. Unless you are definitely second questioning yourself, I wouldn't look up information about someone, or even go on a date with them.

]]> Extra Credit Blog tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.381144 2012-12-16T02:13:24Z 2012-12-19T02:22:19Z After discussing and going over the first half of the mystery vs history episode of How I Met Your Mother, I was really interested in finishing it. I was so interested in the episode because it made a very good... schue291 After discussing and going over the first half of the mystery vs history episode of How I Met Your Mother, I was really interested in finishing it. I was so interested in the episode because it made a very good point that now days we are so technologically dependent. I feel people these days are losing abilities that people had before all these new technologies came out. I feel that I have lost some abilities of mine because of this culture, I have become so adept to texting instead of calling someone or meeting face to face to discuss something. I don't feel I have lost the ability to converse but I do know some people who seem like they have. This has been because our technology has made everything so much easier for people instead of the old days where people had to work for it. I felt this episode really connected to the article for these reasons.

]]> Extra Credit Blog on HIMYM and Andrejevic tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.380948 2012-12-15T00:08:23Z 2012-12-15T00:25:45Z I found that this article had many points that made sense once I thought about them for a while, but the article itself was written in a way that was sort of confusing. After we had our class discussion and... weis0673 I found that this article had many points that made sense once I thought about them for a while, but the article itself was written in a way that was sort of confusing. After we had our class discussion and watched this clip from HIMYM, I really began to understand the full meaning of what Andrejevic was saying. This show is known for talking about real-life issues that happen in our current world. From the media, to relationships, and even just simple interactions, this show has got it covered. I personally have watched every episode of HIMYM, and have seen this particular episode several times, but I never analyzed it the way I did after reading this article. In the episode, Ted is trying to find his soulmate (nothing new), but this time he wanted to try something different. Instead of looking her up on the Internet, he wanted to try to relationship without social media/the web being involved. He ended up failing at this and losing the girl, but it is interesting to see that he really had trouble with this.
Andrejevic talks about the positive and negative sides of "iCulture" becoming so popular. He talks about a site where authors can contribute anonymously, but still get their work out there. To me that relates to how social networking works. Yes, a name is usually attached to someone's account, but the premise is mostly the same. Many people put up information that they would not necessarily share with people in real life - in a sense being anonymous. Rather than being totally anonymous, they are now allowing people to find many things about them- true or not true. Just like in the HIMYM episode, Barney and Robyn find out things about Ted's love interest that were definitely not true, which is why he took the plunge to look her up himself. While there is a lot of information that can be true, many things can get twisted, and I think it is important to try and retain as much privacy as possible. The Internet is a great place to share ideas and talk with other people, but privacy is a big issue. We also lose the sense of a good relationship because we rely on the Internet to give us our answers. Just like Ted did with his relationship, we can strike out too if we don't value face-to-face relationships and privacy.

]]> HIMYM and Andrejevic tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.380807 2012-12-13T17:58:15Z 2012-12-13T18:19:43Z Comparing the How I Met Your Mother episode "Mystery vs History" from Season 7 to Andrejevic's article on iCulture was very interesting. I love the show HIMYM and it was so funny because those characters are so distinct and Barney... limxx267 Comparing the How I Met Your Mother episode "Mystery vs History" from Season 7 to Andrejevic's article on iCulture was very interesting. I love the show HIMYM and it was so funny because those characters are so distinct and Barney and Robin would definitely do that to Ted. In a world these days, all people do these days are really sit around with their smart phone. Just yesterday I actually went to a premiere screening of The Hobbit (which was great!)and they actually don't let you take your phones in the theatre by the order of Warner Brothers, and body scan you, it is intense... but while my friend and I were starting we were talking about the Tolkein books, and every time we didn't know something I would reach into my bag.. try want to google it, but before I grabbed my bag I remember I left my phone in my car.. haha so yeah, instead of just using a phone, for the original purpose of a phone to phone someone.. we use it for so many other things with its advanced technology, some for the better and some for the worse. With any form of connection, we can search for anything with our fingers and these capable phones. Robin and Barney demonstrate this through this episode.
As Andrejevic talks about how the freedom on the web is limitless is very true. People can put almost anything on the web, from false info to wayyyy exaggerated info. which is scary because now we don't know what to trust. Also if we ever meet someone new, my friends love to facebook search them, for almost any amount of information (single? mutual friends, interests? school?, city? and so much more that facebook frighteningly allows us to give out, and of course we cannot forget the public photos..) which is one of the reasons I don't have a fb. With many pros and cons of this advancing technological world, fb for me seemed to have way more cons. As the characters of HIMYM got smartphones their conversations at McLauren's just died down as they were preoccupied by them at the table. As Robin found out that girl's identity on the web but in the end she was actually a great girl, Ted messed up the chance of a relationship with a great girl. So even with these new advancements doesn't mean we should always use them. (such as the phone gps satellite tracking on phone spouses can use to find the spouse from Andrejevic's article). These kinds of things can lead to bad turn outs..

]]> Extra credit blog entry- Andrejevic tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.380312 2012-12-10T04:41:30Z 2012-12-10T04:47:40Z I was excited when we were going to tie in the Andrejevic reading to a clip from "How I Met Your Mother" because I just started watching this show about a month ago and I find it hilarious. I also... Alex Sims I was excited when we were going to tie in the Andrejevic reading to a clip from "How I Met Your Mother" because I just started watching this show about a month ago and I find it hilarious. I also really enjoy when teacher's are able to apply material to something that genuinely interests me in my personal life, it definitely makes me appreciate the article more. Anyways, I thought that the article had some really good points, specifically regarding the internet. I think that our generation has taken the whole using the internet thing a little too far and the limits in which we have for trusting things that we read on the internet are slightly out of control.

Andrejevic talks about how easily we are able to access information regarding many things on the world wide web, but specifically, and even more scary, how we are able to access information about people. Ultimately, you can discover anything you want about people in a matter of seconds on the internet, but to decide if it is reliable or not is up to you. The character in the show that we watched in class in faced with a similar situation and ultimately caves in an uses the internet to find out information about a girl.

This State Farm commercial reminded me of this situation so I thought it would be fun to post it, here it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmx4twCK3_I

]]> Extra Credit Blog Brent Stensrude tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.379376 2012-12-06T00:57:53Z 2012-12-06T00:58:27Z Extra Credit Blog Andrejevic's writing address the technology that we have today, what we are developing, and how this affects us as people and as a country. He discusses the implications our technology addiction could potentially have and the downward... stens148 Extra Credit Blog


Andrejevic's writing address the technology that we have today, what we are developing, and how this affects us as people and as a country. He discusses the implications our technology addiction could potentially have and the downward spiral that this love for interactivity could lead us to. Technology interferes with the way people interact and well as some potential democracy. In the screening of how I met your mother, this same scenario was in a way played out. The character continuously needed to do "background checks" on all the potential people he was going to be dating. It showed how easy it is to get any one persons information simply by doing some research online. While this may have been a little over done, considering my personal skills anyway, it was not far from the truth. If you know what you are doing and where to look, you can pretty much track any one anytime and discover what they are doing, and what they have done. He was so addicted to doing background checks of people even when he promised not to he still ended up doing it to the woman he really wanted to meet. He ruined his chances with her thinking she had killed 3 husbands when in reality she was an amazing person. This shows how accurate Andrejevic is as he considers our addiction to technologies and surveillance of one another. I wonder if people actually do this before they go on dates with one another? I know it's possible to subscribe to websites that allow you to do background checks and receive information on people. It's kind of scary to know that something as simple as creating a Facebook or Twitter can lead to all or a large portion of your personal information being sold to or looked at by basically anyone, whether it's for demographic use or marketing operations.

]]> Iculture Blog Brent Stensrude tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.379250 2012-12-05T17:50:51Z 2012-12-05T17:56:08Z The author has described countless ways in which our technology has been increasing . From social networking, to secret GPS and camera tracking. Andrejevic, seems skeptical of many things that the government is doing and I thought it was interesting... stens148 The author has described countless ways in which our technology has been increasing . From social networking, to secret GPS and camera tracking. Andrejevic, seems skeptical of many things that the government is doing and I thought it was interesting the way brought social networking and social inequality together? I saw something the other day that said, "If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal." This article reminds me of this. What is the author saying we should do to fix it? Is he worried about increased government control?

]]> iCulture Blog and DQ tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.379136 2012-12-05T05:43:32Z 2012-12-05T05:53:51Z As I read Three Dimensions of iCulture, by Mark Andrejevic, I was immediately able to relate. The nike iD part first caught my attention, because I considered getting them actually. For an price of about $100, I would be able... limxx267 As I read Three Dimensions of iCulture, by Mark Andrejevic, I was immediately able to relate. The nike iD part first caught my attention, because I considered getting them actually. For an price of about $100, I would be able to get my own customized shoes, but I realized it wasn't worth it. Just as much as it'll satisfy me with my own personalized shoe, I would also be helping Nike as a walking billboard. Wearing that shoe would show that someone actually did the Nike iD and how positive it turned out, also nike would soon learn that me as their consumer like these kinds of designs as their show, it gives them an easier job of seeing what the public likes. People often don't see that something may be for the benefit of the commercial. A smaller example I can relate to is that a lot of companies give out stuff at expo's and shows, (such as pens, water bottles, lanyards, flashlights and more) all free, yet with exception of their logo printed in big font of whatever that free thing was, also maybe a short conversation with that representative. As the form of interactivity grows in media through politics, culture and commerce, there may be benefits, yet more hazards. Tough we may think that these new inventions are beneficial, they are used in manipulative ways as well. Andrejevic gives the great example of the GPS systems on our phone where parents could track their children, yet if this is what the world has invented, what stronger and confidential things are they using without telling us. (Big Brother is watching us..) People could use this in criminal methods, such as to rob a house by tracking when someone leave, kidnapping somewhere when they are alone, people spying on others and more. Our interactivity with companies may be fun but they benefit from our time and fun. DQ- Are people aware of this trade off between interactive methods and the users?

]]> Blog Post and DQ 12/5 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.379174 2012-12-05T05:40:25Z 2012-12-05T07:35:43Z Mark Andrejevic's article Three Dimensions of iCulture was fun to read because it dealt with recent trends and issues involving the internet and how it's turning marketing on its head. The most intriguing part to me was when Andrejevic wrote... Paige Bystrom Mark Andrejevic's article Three Dimensions of iCulture was fun to read because it dealt with recent trends and issues involving the internet and how it's turning marketing on its head. The most intriguing part to me was when Andrejevic wrote about DJ Dangermouse's "The Grey Album" and the cease-and-desist order he received from EMI. Because of this cease-and-desist order, people rallied together to support the remixing artist and raised even more awareness about the album.

A while ago I read an article that referenced how different America and Japan are with their creative freedoms. The creator of a Japanese virtual pop star spoke at MIT about opening up the pop star to her highly creative fans. Fans made art, fan-fiction, music, lyrics, poems, games, etc. all based on this pop-star. "The idea was to compare that approach to the practices of a company like Disney, which would be more likely to sue anyone who attempted to create their own versions of a Disney property. "The students came up to me afterward and said, 'He really gets it. The future is about open source,'" an MIT professor said."(Wired) This article also spoke about how when the creator decided to let the public create their own image of the pop-star, her awareness increased drastically just from word-of-mouth.

So returning to Andrejevic's article, he makes a point of how everything created in America needs to be licensed or needs permission to be used for anything at all. Choosing to relieve these binds on creative fans could do wonders for a company. It would bring about a whole new type of interactive marketing. When a fan can shape a brand to match their own desires they are more likely to become loyal to the brand and, like Andrejevic stated, they will do the marketing and research for the brand.

My discussion question is this: Do you think there is a way that this sort of creative freedom could backfire with a brand? Can you think of any examples?
Can you think of any brands that could implement this idea and benefit from it?

Wired Article Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/mf-japan-pop-star-hatsune-miku/3/

]]> Blog and DQ 12/5 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.379128 2012-12-05T05:30:23Z 2012-12-05T05:37:21Z In the reading titled "Three Dimensions of iCulture" written by Mark Andrejevic, he discusses the many different ways in which technology can be incorporated into our society today, and in many fascinating and innovative ways. I was fairly familiar with... Alex Sims In the reading titled "Three Dimensions of iCulture" written by Mark Andrejevic, he discusses the many different ways in which technology can be incorporated into our society today, and in many fascinating and innovative ways. I was fairly familiar with the product Nike iD created by, obviously, Nike, however, I didn't know/realize the many different benefits that they specifically reap from doing this. I found it to be quite fascinating that they are able to base so much research off of the specific design choices that people make when they are choosing to create a shoe on Nike iD. They are more or less able to run a free, constant, extremely accurate focus group. When they are able to see what is popular when kids, people, etc design their shoes, they are able think to themselves what colors would sell best in the shoes that they create to sell for real, and I just find this to be so brilliant. I also find it great because I can completely relate to this because I truly feel like when I am shopping sometimes that I think to myself, "I would buy this if it came in this color instead of this one!". It's so funny how the world works in that way. I am sure that there are plenty of companies that do similar things to this and I think that its brilliant.

DQ: Do you think that iCulture has truly made a large impact on the retail world? If you do, what do you think has had the largest impact? If not, how do you think that iCulture can help the retail world progress in the future?

]]> Three Dimensions of iCulture Blog & DQs tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/elia0039/myblogelias//16458.379108 2012-12-05T03:15:15Z 2012-12-05T04:50:00Z The Andrejevic article describes the modern ways which technology is used to connect people. The article argues that modern technology interferes with the ways people interact, for an example online shopping takes away the sales clerk/customer interaction when an item... joh08991 The Andrejevic article describes the modern ways which technology is used to connect people. The article argues that modern technology interferes with the ways people interact, for an example online shopping takes away the sales clerk/customer interaction when an item is bought in person. Another way technology takes away from human interaction is possibly of knowing where someone is or doing with out personal dialogue. Much the selling point of the the false advertisement example of the Forget-Me-Not Panties, we can now track and monitor where our family members or friends are just by using GPS signals via Foursquare or Facebook. & now all phones have built-in GPS devices which signal which is used to track the location of the phone. The joke behind Forget-Me-Not Panties is still an out there idea, but the tracking device which is the selling point of the fake ad is already accessible to the general public, whether they use it or not.

Andrejevic also argued that this advance in technology becomes a way we can become more personal. His example of NikeiD shows an away where technology provides a personal services that was never possible before, giving Nike customers the ultimate customer services by giving them everything they want. An additional example is also a public interactive billboard in Times Square. The last time I was in NY is this interactive billboard in Times Square which showed photo-booth pictures of their customers which were taken in their store and then instantly posted on the digital billboard. I thought this was a cool way for a retail store to draw in their customers and at the same time advertise their brand.

On a more serious note-- instant messages, pictures, and videos which are readily available to anyone made possible with the technology of a cell phone creates a lack of anonymity. As mentioned in class, anyone can share a message or photo publicly through social networks like twitter. The messages or pictures received often times can be taken out of context and their messages are easily misinterpreted, most often due to credibility of the source.

Taking a look at both the good and bad the personal and impersonal sides of technological one can only take away this, whether we want it or not we now have made it possible to have unlimited access to information, whether this information is pertinent to our daily lives remains debatable. But one thing's for sure, technology will never be able to replace human-to-human interaction-- Although some of us wish it would.

DQs: What will be new in which advertisers and media moguls will capitalize on the ability to instantly send messages out for the public to see & could this inundate us with too much unfiltered information?

Do you think that the idea behind customization remain, will this be the way of the future and could we be allowed to show our "true" personality through our clothing?

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