Sydney's Media Blog

Topic One: 1. What I found most interesting was that when GirlTalk remixes a mixture of songs and uses their sounds to make new music. But, even when remixing new songs out of old songs it is still infringing on copyright laws. An example from the documentary was “is art off limits?” (RiP) They are basically saying that when the future cannot use the past music to create new stuff, it suppresses creativity and when you suppress creativity, there is a lack of growth, and creates a static music community. 2. In my experience this is very similar to what we do in a lot of writing classes. When I write a paper I do research online and look for new facts and quotes to spice up my paper. Using other people's work, legally, can give a paper depth, instead of it being dull. 3. A concern I have with this documentary is that their is a fine line between using music and creating your own stuff and copying and selling music. I have grown up knowing stealing is wrong and that downloading son...

Topic #2 T.V. Show: Shameless Show Website: http://www.sho.com/shameless DESCRIBE the program: 1. I watched “Shameless” on 07/19/17, at 6pm, on Netflix. 2. The genre of “Shameless” is drama, it is an episodic series, but the type of episodic series is chapter show, where they have the same characters throughout the season. Chapter shows are also “self-contained stories that feature a problem, a series of conflicts, and a resolution” (Media Essentials). In the show “Shameless” the characters are continuous and they normally have a problem that is solved within the episode. 3. The storyline of the particular episode,”Pilot” season one,episode one is the episode I watched. The storyline is about a family called the Gallaghers, it is a family of basically six, the mom left, and Frank has other children, but I will talk about the main members. The father, Frank (William H. Macy), is a drunk that is very selfish and does nothing but bad things to his family. And then there are Frank’...

Topic One: Using Instagram I already follow the clothing brand, Aerie, which is an affiliate of American Eagle Outfitters. Aerie primarily focusses on underwear, bras, swimwear, and some other products. They use social media to reach out to young women all around the world and spread their message of body positivity, empowerment, and loving your real self. On their Instagram page I immediately saw “real” women modeling. They are not your regular models, most of the women are people who are wearing Aerie products, tage aerie in their post, and their images get used on the Instagram account. Their are women from multiple cultures, plus sized women, skinny women, tons of women who have not been photoshopped or perfected. From reading the book I believe that Aerie is using a hidden-fear appeal because many women feel self-conscious in bathing suits and underwear. They are selling things that “A campaign plays on consumer’s sense of insecurity” (Media Essentials). But, instead of using ...

TOPIC ONE: I follow TIME on twitter because it gives my feed some news and events that are happening around the world. I follow HUFFPOST for more news and celebrity gossip because I like to know who's marrying who in the celeb world. I have also followed BUSINESS INSIDER to get corporate news and surround myself with some business type stuff because I am going to be majoring in business. A Tweet that I liked today was on the business insider page and was about how spam, the canned meat product, is a very successful business story. It was so successful because it had addressed a real need and also hit Americans emotionally by tapping into ingenuity and resourcefulness. For a food product that is not very healthy and appetizing it was cool to see how the spam business boomed here in America. I feel that social media has enhanced my ability to participate in our democracy because social media has given me access to new ways of communicating with groups of people around this cou...