On March 22nd I assigned the class an activity. The activity was to split up into four groups and explain different images using different traits and characteristics of New Media, What I had hoped to accomplish was to prove that New Media could only be learned and taught when interacting with it and also to be able to identify the traits of New Media

I felt that the activity was successful because most of the groups were able to use all eight traits to explain their image. It didn’t take any lesson planning to teach it either which proved that by interacting with the media they were able to teach it.

I learned a few things from the activity including that people take Disney music and turns it into a club mix.  It also reinforced my understanding of the characteristics of New Media.

I would take this further by comparing lessons taught about New Media using a text book and lessons taught by people who interact with the media and compare the results of those learning from it.

After reading the articles, I see how things change for media culture. The more technology we have, the easier it is obtain information. Think about it. We all get information nowadays from videos, articles, pictures and so on. We are all presented with the same information so it’s easy to get it as soon as it’s global. With the media, there’s a great example I like to use which is the Hip-Hop culture. With the media, it has shown that hip hop culture is now considered popular culture. It’s the most popular music, it has it’s impact on language, clothing, art, etc. The majority is partaking in the hip hop culture and it’s all because of the media. It’s what we see everyday and it’s what we hear. Even athletes take apart in it as well. Lebron James usually posts Instagram videos of him promoting artists with new music to help them out with marketing and exposure. It’s how things go now. The easy access is taking for granted and I think it’s because we are so used to receiving everything at a fast pace. Other countries don’t have the perks that we have to look up what we want on the internet. A lot of other countries either don’t have the technology or just have restrictions due to their government. In the United States the government will let us know what they want us to know but you can literally find almost anything you need to know on the internet.

In the world that we live in today, media is taking over. As society and the world changes, so does media. We get a lot of our information like news, videos or important things from mainly social media sites like Facebook and Instagram.

The articles talk about how media changes the way we view other people based on culture or even their appearance. We get to understand how other people live or why they do the things that they do. There is also this thing of “cultural appropriation” where people copy others either look, speech or something that is  not their own. That is happening a lot now with the white girla wearing cornrows, braids or even the faux dreads. It also helps us to relate to people more once we understand where they come from.

I feel as if as long as the world changes so will media. All types of media will be there to capture the next best thing and they want to be the first ones to put it out there. Every day there will be new trends up or different news for us to follow. Media will always be around until the day everyone does or until there is no more Planet Earth.

Being in a technology driven society, it is obvious that we are advanced in media literacy. After reading the first article by Elizabeth Thoman, the idea of how advanced we are in media is demonstrated with the example of how we get our information.  According to Elizabeth, not only do we gathering our daily information through words on paper, we also get it through “powerful images and sounds of our multi-media culture”.  For example, news about politics and events in our society can be found in videos and articles on social media platforms; some of these platforms consist of Instagram and Facebook.

Reading article two, Eight traits of the new Media Landscope, I noticed that it was basically justifying what was spoken about in the first article. A few examples are provided by Henry Jenkins, the author of this article, explaining how and what the internet is being used for today. One trait mentioned was appropriation. This trait is based on how easy it is to copy, repost or quote other peoples pictures and videos from their page. Another trait that was talked about was networked. In this part of the article, Jenkins just speaks about how each social media platform is connected in one way or another. Also speaking about how people are able to communicate with each other whether it being on a more personal level through direct messaging or on a more public scale.

In my opinion, we as a society are very advanced with the technology we have and how we are using it.

Joseph Singh

March 22, 2018

Jonah Brucker Cohen

MCS

Class 8 Writing Post- Media in a Changing Global Culture

Due to the fact that we live in a western society, I feel like we are very updated. We are being more urbanized and have access to much more then say a under developed country around the world or maybe a small town some where in America. With, in can infer that maybe those people staying in the under developed country won’t know about internet maybe or know about trending videos. Because they cannot access the internet because of their conditions, they wouldn’t be on up side of Global culture that is changing.

After reading the article by Mark Pagal called “Does Globalization mean we will become one culture?” it made me open my eyes a bit more. I mean this in a sense that yes, we all have out differences in our cultures and against other cultures, but when it comes to tackling problems and working together in a time of need everyone would come together to solve the problem. And even if there isn’t a huge crisis or problem that needed to be solve, that one culture wanted to explore and find out more about each other, that would be possible via the internet, via Social media, via Travel. And if we ever had to just become one culture, internet social media and travel will help aid into the smoother transition. By having those 3 things, it kind of takes away the “I wonder, and assumption” factor of finding out something about someone else. And with that, transitioning would be much easier and smoother, but that’s if we were ever going to transition into one huge culture. Which I highly doubt. Ultimately, when it comes to media in a changing global culture, I see it as duel evolution. As we continue to progress and create new things and evolve, Media is going to do the same. So rather than working against it, we should all just go with the flow.

All three articles had great points. I agree with the first article about media literacy and how as technology is changing the way we learn. They go on about how now we have to learn a lot more then just reading and writing. Also how without reading and writing it is hard to use the technology now. We are advancing so quickly that now we see mostly images instead of print. This is changing the culture and its becoming a culture of images.

In the third article I like how they used the example of starbucks and how globalization is turning us into a homogeneous culture. On how everything is starting to become westernized everywhere. He uses the example of starbucks because they’re are over 20,000 starbuck shops in the world. This goes to show how much we are changing and how things spread easily into this one culture.

Finally, I would agree with the media literacy and convergence. The way technology is changing and we are trying to follow it. The way kids are learning is so much different then it was when I was a child. Now children learn threw games online or even through videos.  Tv shows and movies are advancing as well , children now are more intelligent and they are more tech savvy. That goes to show media in a changing globalization.

I found that I could relate to this week’s topics because I felt that it related to things I want to do in the future and my career path.  I found the reading about Media Literacy to be especially interesting. We live in a climate where Media Literacy is a necessity in the ever changing work force and so the way we view and teach media literacy must change as well. I found interesting the idea that to teach Media Literacy we have to interact with it and use it in different ways. One can not just sit in a lesson and be taught media literacy but instead would have to connect with it on multiple levels and ingratiate it in one’s lifestyle.

The last article “does globalization mean we will become one culture” was very interesting. The writer talks about the possibility of globalization turning into a homogeneous culture. He uses Starbucks as an example. He states how each year there’s new identical stores serving cups of near identical coffees, your morning cappuccino is the same no matter whether you are sipping it in Tokyo, New York or Bangkok. Something as simple as that brings us together globally. He also goes more in depth and talks about technology being a reason that we become one culture. Although I do agree that all this new technology does bring us closer together culturally, I still don’t see us eventually becoming one big culture because we still have our differences.

Another article that I felt was pretty interesting was the article that talked sbout multimedia world changing the foundation of education. One thing that stood out to me was the phrase “screen-aging.” This phrase is what they use to call the current youth generation. In this article it states that screen-agers experience the world not in physical boundaries but as an instant global network of wireless connections and interconnections. This reminds me of our younger generation and how they are going to grow up to be screen- agers. As we all know younger kids are so attached to their electronics and it only seems to get worse as technology expands.