Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Democracy 2.0
A great way to start my rant is to get the word "bullshit" out of my system! Politics is just that, bullshit! No matter how much we stay informed as a whole we will never know the undivided truths of these candidates. Some of these candidates are great people but are just not fit enough to run a country, but that doesn't matter, its popularity and money, that's what buys presidents. I just love the definition of democracy,a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. But is it still this? Or is it just what the governemnt is telling us to buy into. We the people make all the decsions for this country but do we really? or is it just a defined group in the politicans pockets that control whats really going on. I just want to know...
Thursday, September 24, 2015
OTM: MEME SUCKERS
As someone who uses the internet all the time, memes have taken over. Whether on Facebook or Instagram, you see them everywhere. Are we really judging people off of a picture with a few idiotic words over top of it? It hits a large audience and without proper knowledge you can fall into this trap as well. These memes are ridiculous and are taken out of context and given a whole new false meaning. Immigration has been the recent topic of memes with false meaning behind them. Stop dehumanizing these refuges and get a life!
Physical: People are cropping images and making refuges look bad and dehumanizing the're true character.
Psychological: It makes people think differently about the topic, in this case refugees.
Social- These images are shared all over social media and people depict what they want from it, from taking it in the wrong context to actually understanding that its complete BS.
Cultural- It plays a huge part in a cultural aspect because these are people from different countries, not just people but refugees. There is so much more to a story behind one picture.
Temporal- Refugees have an affect on the world, because it is a trending topic right now in world news.
Physical: People are cropping images and making refuges look bad and dehumanizing the're true character.
Psychological: It makes people think differently about the topic, in this case refugees.
Social- These images are shared all over social media and people depict what they want from it, from taking it in the wrong context to actually understanding that its complete BS.
Cultural- It plays a huge part in a cultural aspect because these are people from different countries, not just people but refugees. There is so much more to a story behind one picture.
Temporal- Refugees have an affect on the world, because it is a trending topic right now in world news.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Learning 2.0
This certainly wasn't the most interesting topic, but since I am a member of higher education I thought it would be fit to talk about it. I believe education is important and in today's society without it you wont amount to much. It is a lot easier to learn in this generation with this magical tool called the "internet". You can gain so much access and knowledge with the internet and collectively become a student "online" without even entering a classroom setting.
My position: Education is super empowering,and I challenge everyone to get some form of education whether it be high school, trade school, or a university. I've learned a a lot of valuable skills in schools, but I've also learned a lot of useless items as well. All in all, I believe school should be an can be impacted more to help kids connect.
My position: Education is super empowering,and I challenge everyone to get some form of education whether it be high school, trade school, or a university. I've learned a a lot of valuable skills in schools, but I've also learned a lot of useless items as well. All in all, I believe school should be an can be impacted more to help kids connect.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
OTM: 9/11 Museum
I remember when 9/11 happened, I was in the 1st grade frantic as I saw the second tower fall on national television. I didn't quite grasp how big of a deal it was until I got older. I took it as more of a movie type of feel, I knew something bad had happened but it just didn't feel real. As I got older I realized the severity of the issue.
For me having a museum to revisit the history of the carnage, gives a sense of closure. If I had family involved in the devastating attack I would love to visit and pay my respects. Hell, I want to visit now just to see how America has built itself back up. I love how Gladstone makes you visualize the museum and gives you a feel for it .
Physical- The museum was built where the towers fell,and opened 10 years later to the public.
Physiological- The museum plays a huge role in memorializing the lives lost in the attack, and also giving closure to those who witnessed, or family's that were effected.
Social- 9/11 was so powerful, and it brought are country together for the first time in a long time. This is the feeling you get when you enter the 9/11 museum, Togetherness.
Cultural- Culture is a touchy topic. Muslims were discriminated against after the attack.We needed to ALL be together as one after such a huge attack on American soil.
Temporal- 10 years after the attack, the museum was opened and it gave people different opportunities to look at it. Some where upset it even opened, others wanted more knowledge, and some just wanted closure for their loved ones.
For me having a museum to revisit the history of the carnage, gives a sense of closure. If I had family involved in the devastating attack I would love to visit and pay my respects. Hell, I want to visit now just to see how America has built itself back up. I love how Gladstone makes you visualize the museum and gives you a feel for it .
Physical- The museum was built where the towers fell,and opened 10 years later to the public.
Physiological- The museum plays a huge role in memorializing the lives lost in the attack, and also giving closure to those who witnessed, or family's that were effected.
Social- 9/11 was so powerful, and it brought are country together for the first time in a long time. This is the feeling you get when you enter the 9/11 museum, Togetherness.
Cultural- Culture is a touchy topic. Muslims were discriminated against after the attack.We needed to ALL be together as one after such a huge attack on American soil.
Temporal- 10 years after the attack, the museum was opened and it gave people different opportunities to look at it. Some where upset it even opened, others wanted more knowledge, and some just wanted closure for their loved ones.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
FaceBook Campaign: FITSZN
Page Name-https://www.facebook.com/FITSZN
Mission- FIT SZN's mission is to provide each client with a personalized diet plan, and workout regimen, improving health and fitness for all ages, all year round.Because every season is FIT SZN.
Communication objective- At 19 years old I woke up one morning and looked in the mirror. That look I gave myself changed my life forever. I was sick and tired of being overweight. Through my trials,and failures I came up with a diet and workout plan that I could follow and now I can provide YOU with the same services I provided to myself. I know its hard, but remember how bad do YOU want it. This is more than a Facebook campaign this is a lifestyle change!
Audience-
Pamela- Pam is a 39 year old women, she came to me because she wants to drop 15 pounds before her big 40th birthday in three months. Pam isn't exactly the healthiest eater,let alone never having come to the gym before. I will train her and shed unnecessary body fat and jump start her to a healthy lifestyle change.
Michael- A young man who is at a healthy weight for his age, and height came to me because he wants to put on muscle mass. With my intense training and increased protein meal plan,it will help increase strength, definition, and muscle size, in just a couple of months.
Jordan- Jordan,a college football player, originally came to me to keep him in shape but ended up tearing his ACL. After surgery and rest he came back to me for light rehab exercises and maintaining his already impressive strength.
Ashley Madison Mayhem
Ashley Madison, a website designed to help married people preform adultery, was breached by hackers in an attempt to collect personal information, including credit card info, names, and emails. They succeeded breaching over 30 million users. The hackers threatened to leak all information unless the website was shut down immediately. The hackers called the impact team kept good on their promise by sending out threatening emails to users demanding payment or they would share information to the spouse.
Government officials, and other very important figures were also caught red handed using the disturbing site. What makes it even more intriguing is the websites female population is only 8%. Of the 8% the IP addresses were tracked and they were the same! These "females" on the websites were actually just bots to get men to pay to engage in erotic messages. Gladstone again cracks the code!
Physical: The physical harm is a broken home due to infidelity, as well as identity theft due to leaked information.
Psychological: Being paranoid about your information being in someone else's hands. Trust issues from your partner.
Cultural: From a cultural standpoint, its every race partaking not just a particular race.
Social: If you sign up for this type of website, your social relationship with your partner must not be good. You want to feel socially accepted and feel good about yourself.
Temporal: These men and "women" want to feel a spark away from their partner, and feel a sense of power.
Government officials, and other very important figures were also caught red handed using the disturbing site. What makes it even more intriguing is the websites female population is only 8%. Of the 8% the IP addresses were tracked and they were the same! These "females" on the websites were actually just bots to get men to pay to engage in erotic messages. Gladstone again cracks the code!
Physical: The physical harm is a broken home due to infidelity, as well as identity theft due to leaked information.
Psychological: Being paranoid about your information being in someone else's hands. Trust issues from your partner.
Cultural: From a cultural standpoint, its every race partaking not just a particular race.
Social: If you sign up for this type of website, your social relationship with your partner must not be good. You want to feel socially accepted and feel good about yourself.
Temporal: These men and "women" want to feel a spark away from their partner, and feel a sense of power.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Racsim 2.0
I personally liked this video because it forced you to look at all angles of the issue. It's loaded with historical facts, and rulings. It also made me take a deep look in the mirror and view my own self, being young black man in the midst of all this madness takes a toll on you, and makes it realize how much more frieghting things really are, you're one police siren away from being the next CNN story.
As for the relationship of social media, and racism, I feel like social media influences racsim both positively, and negatively, but at the same time sheds a global light on racsim. In these times you can watch a video on facebook that captalizes racsim and people will still comment derogatory messages. Its sad but a very true reality. Welcome to America in 2015.
As for the relationship of social media, and racism, I feel like social media influences racsim both positively, and negatively, but at the same time sheds a global light on racsim. In these times you can watch a video on facebook that captalizes racsim and people will still comment derogatory messages. Its sad but a very true reality. Welcome to America in 2015.
Roanoke Shooting
I wanted to focus my attention on the opening story of the show, the shooting of the two Roanoke,Virginia reporters. A brief summary of the shooting for those of you who are out of the loop,the suspect, Vester Flanagan also known as Bryce Williams on air was fired from the WDJTV station some time ago. It is said that the "boiling point" for Flanagan was the shooting in South Carolina last month killing 9 African Americans. Last week Flanagan showed up to a live broadcast, not only shooting and killing Alison Parker and Adam Ward but uploading it to Facebook. He later fled the scene, taking his own life after police chased him down I-66.
Gladstone sympathized very much and even used rhetorical questions, asking if video games, or even social media were to blame. She then makes a valid point stating social media is for everyone and at this time this is how we get our news, especially as of lately the latest police brutality news. I love when Gladstone says "Lunatics have cameras, luckily the rest of us to do" now let that resonate for a second. We cant always stop the action of the crime depending on its severity, but we can use our footage in the court of law, and help in defense.
I personally side with Brooke Gladstone on this topic because she was passionate and detailed with her statements. I like how she viewed opposing angles and abruptly stopped them with a stern "NO". For example she said "is it video games?" Of course not, millions of kids play shooting games every year and don't go out and commit crimes, especially of this severity.
Physical: Vester Flanagan shot and killed 2 former co-workers of the WDJTV news station on live TV
Psychological: Flanagan set out to do this crime. This wasn't a spur of the moment killing. He had interior motives behind this.
Cultural: From a cultural aspect, Flanagan reported he was discriminated against, and it was brought to a head with the South Carolina church killings last month. This was definitely a factor of race.
Social: I personally feel that for someone to do this type of crime you have to hate in your heart. Its very apparent he felt as if he was not socially accepted in his workplace.
Temporal: Vester Flanagan wanted to feel power, and by his definition of power was killing these innocent people on live TV. He wanted to "get back" at Caucasians for the police brutality to African Americans, South Carolina shooting, and loosing his job for discriminatory reasons.
Gladstone sympathized very much and even used rhetorical questions, asking if video games, or even social media were to blame. She then makes a valid point stating social media is for everyone and at this time this is how we get our news, especially as of lately the latest police brutality news. I love when Gladstone says "Lunatics have cameras, luckily the rest of us to do" now let that resonate for a second. We cant always stop the action of the crime depending on its severity, but we can use our footage in the court of law, and help in defense.
I personally side with Brooke Gladstone on this topic because she was passionate and detailed with her statements. I like how she viewed opposing angles and abruptly stopped them with a stern "NO". For example she said "is it video games?" Of course not, millions of kids play shooting games every year and don't go out and commit crimes, especially of this severity.
Physical: Vester Flanagan shot and killed 2 former co-workers of the WDJTV news station on live TV
Psychological: Flanagan set out to do this crime. This wasn't a spur of the moment killing. He had interior motives behind this.
Cultural: From a cultural aspect, Flanagan reported he was discriminated against, and it was brought to a head with the South Carolina church killings last month. This was definitely a factor of race.
Social: I personally feel that for someone to do this type of crime you have to hate in your heart. Its very apparent he felt as if he was not socially accepted in his workplace.
Temporal: Vester Flanagan wanted to feel power, and by his definition of power was killing these innocent people on live TV. He wanted to "get back" at Caucasians for the police brutality to African Americans, South Carolina shooting, and loosing his job for discriminatory reasons.
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