Cari373's Blog

These are the catagories of my sticky notes and my group name is “The Fab 4” or “The Fantastic 4″…we had been talking about which name to use. 

Audio

• Music
• Video
• iPods
• Radio
• Songs
• Podcasts

Film:

• Movies
• Cartoons
• Commercials
• Television

Social Media:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Myspace
• Blogs

I feel like audio, like music as well as radio advertisements have had a huge impact on our society today.  When a song plays, we often don’t really think about the lyrics, we just like the way it sounds and thus we remember the words.  That influences society because each generation has a type of music that is popular.  The 1960s-1970s had soft rock.  The Beatles, The Beach Boys etc.  The 1980s had harder rock that had a bit of an electric sound to it.  Wham, Van Halen, etc.  The 1990s had more girl groups and a teeny-bopper sound.  Backstreet Boys, Ace of Base, etc.  And now, the 2000s, we have a ton of rap that this generation really likes.  Kanye West, Chris Brown, etc.  So, with each genertaion the music changes and that has a huge impact on society.  People often dress the way that their favorite bands do.  I like how some of the girls in my favorite group, Sick of Sarah, dress. 

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/99916/music_through_the_years.html

I really like Credo because it offers many different reference tools such as encyclopedias, dictionarys, biographies and quotations.  I have used it in the past a bit, so I feel comfortable using it. 

I found The Digital Dialectic: New Essays On New Media, edied by Peter Lunenfeld on eBook, but for some reason it won’t let me read any pages past 100…do you know why this is?  I need to review it and I hope this does not affect my grade.

The main source I use for my news is www.msn.com.  I always go there when I need to find out what is going on around the world.  I don’t bother to read USA Today or any other newspaper because it’s just unnecessary.  “Why waste paper?” I always think to myself. 

Not too long ago, I watched a video where Jack Utko talked about newspapers and how they are dying out.  People no longer want to pay for day old news and advertisers don’t want to either.  Also, people have become more environmentally conscious and no longer want to print things on paper when they can just open a computer and get the news that they want from there. 

While Jack Utko makes a good argument that making the newspaper more visually pleasing would sell more copies, I believe that we are heading in a direction away from paper all together.  The future has a lot in store and in the way of news and advertising, we are making advances in technology rather quickly.  I know that when I turn on my iTouch for example and head to Safari, I get ads right away for various products I have never heard of.  I just exit them of course, but they are still advertising in my iTouch.  Other applications have ads on there too.  Not only that, but when you watch a music video on youtube, they try to sell you the song that is playing by popping up an ad for that on there as well.  Advertisements are everywhere!  Billboards, tv, internet, etc.  Wherever you go, there are ads for something!  Getting rid of newspapers all together would save trees and I believe help our industry because people could then learn how to type all the information into say “Word” and have it posted to online web sites that people could have access to.  The big question would be “how do these sites make money?” And that would be something that would need to be figured out.  Whether by a fee you would pay to read the information or by advertisers paying to have their ads all over the place, there is always something that can be done to fund a site like that. 

Imagine what the future has in store for advertisements and news.  Here is a link to a clip from the film “Minority Report” starring Tom Cruise.  It takes place about twenty or thirty years in the future.  I have a feeling that this is what we are looking at in the way of advertising changing as well as newspapers.  In the very end, notice how the people are reading USA Today and it has moving pictures.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5u3axLhMqE

And here is the Jack Utko link: http://www.ted.com/talks/jacek_utko_asks_can_design_save_the_newspaper.html