Monday, November 29, 2010

How Media Affects Society.

How does the media affect us in our day to day lives?  social scientists say that the media affects us four ways, agenda-setting, norms/culture, modeling, and apathy.

Agenda setting is pretty much saying if its in the newspaper, on the TV, on a magazine, r the news is broadcasting it anywhere at all, then it is news, if the news is not talking about it then it isn't new and probably isn't worth mentioning.  Norms/culture is media that defines our lives and is trying to get people to have the same values, trying to get people to think and act in one cohesive unit, they're brainwashing us! 

 Modeling is media that is trying to get us to act a certain way, its like a TV cartoon of spiderman, kids who watch that are going to try to act like spiderman, thats one example, think of the other shows out their or the newspapers, or the magazines, the TV, anywhere you look people are trying to tell you to act a certain way.  Apathy is saying that it is enough to know about an issue or a problem, but it would be overboard to try to do something about the problem.  but its also the media's fault at this point, they are telling us about an issue but not necessarily giving us the information on how to solve the issue.

i agree with most if not all of the statements of this blog, the media is telling us about issue in ways we should act and what we should set our values as, and as for problems they are telling us about certain issues but not about others or how to solve other issues that are occurring everywhere, the media is affecting us in many different ways

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

GoogleTV

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this blog is about how googleTV users are being blocked from using NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox from viewing video's on their sites though their TV, all the viewer would have to do is type in a web address on their TV with their remote and BAM. connected to the internet through their TV, although when you try to watch a video clip from the said websites above on google TV, you're blocked from it,, saying its incompatible with the device.  Mark Cuban said "I personally cant think of anything stupider for the big broadcast networks to do than give their shows to google for free. "




i found this article very interesting because the big broadcasting networks are competing with googleTV for viewers, i found this interesting because it seems that google is now coming up with everything to get their name out, TV, computers, you name it, google probably is advertising on it. 


 It surprised me by the fact that google has actually made a googleTV and people are trying to view NBC,CBS, ABC, and Fox through GoogleTV.  This information is helpful because if i ever have GoogleTV (which i wont) i wont go onto the said websites and try to view videos. i have no experience with googleTV, i have never even heard of it. i think news media is changing drastically, now we can view news on TV, computers, radio. anything! i get my news from the paper!

Monday, November 8, 2010

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