In the article “More Work for Mother,” Ruth Cowan explains how the American home had become industrialized. Over the last century and a half, the rise of modernization for people’s homes has changed dramatically. The advancements that were supposed to make a person’s life easy or more manageable were actually a double-edged sword. A good […]
Cultural Imperialism
Gray states in his article, “Imagining America: The Simpsons Go Global,” that the definition of cultural imperialism as a “process of social influence by which a nation imposes on other countries set beliefs, values, knowledge and behavioral norms. While he uses the example of the Simpsons, I believe that I have found another television show […]
South Park Pokémon Parody
In layman’s terms, a parody can be described as an imitation that is exaggerated in order to create a comic effect. In the reading by Jonathan Gray, Harries defines parody as involving “recontextualising a target or source text through the transformation of its textual (and contextual) elements, thus creating a new text. This conversion–through the resulting […]
Media Grammar and the Internet
It is no surprise that when people get bored, they tend to surf the internet. It may be a distraction from work or maybe to just kill time. Many people that have browsed websites such as Buzzfeed for a long enough period of time may wonder how they had ended up at their current destination. […]