Web 2.0 is YOU.

I think that literacy has changed and it is not just constricted to pen and paper anymore. I think that in the future there will be many new mediums for literacy. Technology is definitely going to be more prominent in the future and it will effect everything we do, such as reading and writing. Web 2.0 is making us think how technology has changed the way we communicate with people and how that has changed throughout the years. Theres so many new ways that we can now communicate with people, and its not just face-to-face anymore. We cant text, we can facebook, we can imessage. It makes us think how technology is going to grow in the future.

A Look At Music Videos

Taken from YouTube

The music video I chose to do is One Thing by One Direction. 

My initial reaction to the music video was "WOW! These guys are so beautiful! And the song is so upbeat and catchy!"I thought the music video was very fun and candid, and it resembled The Beatles and The Monkees . It was very natural and had no real structure to it and it was just One Direction out in London having fun and being themselves. The song is initially about a guy who likes a girl and he's trying to get recognized by her and get her attention but his attempts go unnoticed. I think that they created this music video to show that the guys in One Direction are just normal people like you and me. That they are very fun and new and something that we havent seen in the music industry for a couple of years now. I think the theme of the video is just to live life and have fun, to enjoy being young and appreciate it while you still can and that life is what you make it so make it enjoyable. I do not think that this music has any religious ties to it. I think that the music video was loosely inspired by The Beatles. One Direction do have similarities with The Beatles, and they embrace it. Even though I love the music video,  I dont think that the song lyrics really go with the music video. Theres not really a storyline behind it but I think the upbeat-ness of the song matches the tone of the music video. I love the song and the music video makes me even love it more. It also makes me love Harry, Niall, Louis, Zayn and Liam more. 

Media and Self Esteem

1.  Why do you think people are portrayed this way in the media?


I think people are portrayed this way in the media so that people will buy products. They want to make consumers think that if they buy and use this product, they will look like the models who use them too. Magazines tells us that if you look a certain way, that you can have it all, and that you can attain this certain look if you use what they are trying to sell you. 


2.  How are you affected by the images you see? 



I am saddened by how young people today are so engrossed and invested in wanting to look "beautiful" to fit in. What is the definition of beautiful? If media were not around to tell us what we think we should look like, would our perception of beauty be different? Media uses our insecurity in ourselves so they can make money and it angers me how easily people fall for it. We should love ourselves instead of constantly thriving to get that unattainable beauty that they portray in the media.

3.  What can be done to reduce the amount of young men and women that are 

     negatively affected by these images?

Companies should advertise their product on more realistic models instead of super skinny, long legged, tan models. They should encourage us to love who we are and appreciate what we have instead of what we aren't and what we do not have. All of us need to stop comparing ourselves and start accepting who we are. This is what god gave us and we should appreciate it.

4.  What would your reaction be to a magazine cover where the subject isn’t   

     all glammed up?  Is this a possible route that society should take?  Why or

     why not?

I would be thrilled if there was a magazine cover where the subject was all natural, without the make up and the photoshop. It would make a statement that beauty is not everything. Although I think that society should take this route, I find it unlikely that this will happen soon.  We live in a generation where the need to fit in is so essential to people and that we would buy anything to be part of the crowd, and companies know this, so they use it to their advantage.

                                            Taken from YouTube.