After today’s discussion in class about mediated images and tragedies like the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina, I remembered this image I had seen about a year ago. This image represents a lot of what we were discussing in class in regards to images taking on a greater meaning over time than their original […]
Extra Credit Post: The Avengers
Before I even begin this post, I would like to point out that usually I agree that many aspects of media are over sexualized and that this is an issue in our culture. With that being said, on this particular topic, my overall feeling is that a lot of people are being far too over […]
Enlightened Sexism – Week 7 – Unit 3
Susan Douglas’s article “The Fantasies of Power” discusses the media’s current approach to feminism, which seems to be, instead of to ignore it like in the past, instead, say that it was achieved its objective totally. For many years, both men and women could learn “their place” by simply turning on a television set. Blatant […]
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
Though there is no shortage of brand related material to discuss when thinking about the Super Bowl, I would like to focus on one specific commercial that I believe captures the overall concept of brand bombing in itself. The entire point of brand bombing is to take the choice out of the equation. The article […]
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
An issue that has troubled the media industry for a long time is the barriers to entry that are presented by large cinema circuits for films to make an appearance in theaters. Currently there are only five major cinema circuits that show movies in the US (there are more than five but these are the […]