Sunday, September 26, 2010

Radio days are OVER?

Technology has had a great impact on how the customer and the consumer enjoy the music and radio. Today with the creation of the iPod and all sorts of mp3 devices many times people just opt to download the song of their show in contrast with before that they would loyally wait by the radio to hear their favorite jam. 
 


Today many people only listen to the radio as a consolation either they have no iPod or no means of getting a CD created. With all this new technology that has come into circulation the radio days are practically over, unless you listen to radio stations online. But not all is negative towards the radio in some places people still listen to it regularly, iPod has some what made radio a bit more reachable for this new iGeneration by making some of their models have radio stations that run in the FM transmissions. Still i believe that mp3 players have taken much of the audience that is could have been of the radios if not for them. 

In the 1920's radio was practically the source that kept the public informed and also help people keep together in their family household. as soon as other technologies started to come into play all of this started to change. As soon as the TV came into play many people started to use that as their source of information I mean who doesn't want to see moving pictures rather than just listening to a voice out of a box. People want to see the persons face and no longer hope and wish that the person's voice really matches their imagination being. just like for the boy who imagined the person as a great big hero but it turned out to be a person smaller than his father. Radio had it's time of glory unfortunately today its is just another item that some people take for granted many of them rather listen to song after song than have the Dj's title and skill be repeated over and over in every effect that can be put on a voice.   

Sunday, September 19, 2010

MEN=BLUE WOMEN=PINK

Before we go into school or have friends sometimes our only teacher is media weather it is on television or on the radio every time we listen to these sources we grab a bit of what we want our personality to be.

Ever since we have been part of the media we have in one way or another acted the way that the media portrays the person that we want to be. As children when we watch television we are automatically assigned the colors that we should love girls have to use, have, breath pink and on the other hand boys have to hate anything with flowers or with pink, they have to play with trucks that are blue and must wear blue.

As we grow older media also helps with our thinking a certain way or acting a certain way, even as gown people we still might act the way our favorite character acts on Glee. We like that character we want to be like them we also do it to see if the people around us act the way people do on television and have the happy ending that the protagonist has, which most of the time doesn't happen. In one way media does this is by always showing the stereotype of girls and boys, girls will always be the one that cries or is in any kind of distress and either it's because of a boy or a boy is the solution, and in comes the masculine non sensitive knight in shining armor  ready to help his damsal in distress. This is the scene that is always seen in movies kids shows you name it and as people see this they choose the role that they have to play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9TzEFyhHb4

In the video above my emotions are very strong and i show what i really feel which many times on television many men don't do, they just stay quiet and wait for another damsal to came along.
In the end we are all our on character and its better to act the way we want as long as we are happy with it who cares with it is not what media says we have to do as long as ME= WHO I REALLY WANT TO BE

Sunday, September 12, 2010

FRAMING YOUR IDENTITY

Framing is the one reason that people fear to be who they really are for when they act in accordance to something that is not associated with how society views them most of the time they are shunned upon.  In order to be accepted many time we have to be chameleons in order for people to like us, and some of the time they are mostly those people that live in the frame of what in society is viewed is correct. Framing also makes people view other races cultures or sexes in a certain way for example many of the times when it comes to locking the doors some might say "Lock the door because a black man might get in" when a child or someone who is not really aware of thing hears this they will from then on also think that the only kind of person that breaks into peoples houses is a black man. Framing in my opinion is just another word for prejudice and should really have nothing to do with the way you view another person for in the end they might not fit the frame set upon them by society.


In this picture u see an asian about to stab a Mexican, in many ways this is a step out of Framing. Not only is the person with the knife an asian but she is also a woman which in many cases is the victim and not the attacker. In this case when i posted this on a social network one of the comments was " What an Asian stabbing a Mexican" which in fact made me see how the framing of me being a mexican male is of being the person who attacks the defenseless asian girl. Woman in the media always turn out to be the victim the damsel in distress not many shows portray them as the killers or murderers. One show who is all about breaking that image the Mexican show "Mujeres Asesinas" killer woman. In the promos the Actresses state their name and say I am a murderer which at first hearing sound very strong coming from a a woman's voice. Mujeres Asesinas now in it's third season portrays the many ways women step out of the role of victim and become as many people call them monsters. Once more framing comes into play women aren't suppose to kill they are suppose to be a mother, daughter, wife but never a killer I believe this show steps out of the frame that woman have and makes people see that not all women like to be the victim.