Modernizing our technology and advancing into the future is happening day in and day out with our public furniture and appliances. The Jetsons meeting the Flintstones sums up just how far we can go from primitive to futuristic in the blink of an eye and how we become so attached we are unable to break […]
The Beatles Effect
The music scene has continued to promote uprisings in many different areas, bringing up devotions of fans to continually follow icons around and devote their lives toward them as if they were the individual’s parental figure. Creating a new kind of faith in which groups of individuals religiously devote their times and lives into diving […]
We Can Learn From South Park
Keeping up to current date events, people in media or limelight, or just a big dominating focus in our world we tend to go toward television when looking for assistance in directing us to enlightenment. The article Television Teaching: Parody, The Simpsons, and Media Literacy Education by Jonathon Gray, describes in great detail how a […]
Advertising & Parodying Go Hand In Hand
Pocking fun at how advertising is distributed can be easy and make those who distributed the commercials moronic for creating an advertisement as that. The Simpsons, (Matt Groening, 1989 – Present) Family Guy, (Seth MacFarlane, 1998 – Present) and South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone, 1997 – Present) consistently poke fun at advertisements attempting […]
Media Grammar Literacy Through The Eyes of Films
Media literacy appears in three different forms according to Meyrowitz’s article, Multiple Media Literacies, showing many in different ways into our very subconscious’s with the multiple questions that get asked, mainly “on what grounds these forms of media are portraying?” Media content literacy focuses on the messages being sent toward the audiences viewing the media, […]