May 2008
3 posts
Part II of Final
The first three sentences of Practices of Looking say, “The world we inhabit is filled with visual images. They are to central to how we represent, make meaning in the world around us. In many ways, our culture is an increasingly visual one” (1). My new found media literacy has made me realize how much truth there is behind that statement. I have not only begun to understand the concept of media,...
Blog # 11: Media and Me
I was watching television commercials the other day and I realized how much media encompasses my life. I had always known before that it was a large part of society and I was able to recognize media when I saw it but this was the first time I really thought about how much it effected my life. It is all around me and is an aspect of all that I do. The photographs in my room, the books I read, the...
Blog # 10: The First Television War
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Woodstock; 1969 Kim Phuc running through the streets of Vietnam John F. Kennedy is considered to be the “First Television President” and the Vietnam War is associated with being the “First Television War”. I was researching for a history paper and preparing for my exam when I realized the profound effect that media had on...