December 2007
1 post
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November 2007
4 posts
Advertising Vs. Reality →
Along with watching a movie about advertising in class, it is evident that deceit is something that occurs in advertising. This is significant when it comes to media literacy because these deceitful ads are out there in the media. In the movie, the main character tries to come up with ways to sell the product, but it is clear that he does not really care for the potential consumers,...
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end →
Since we have been working on Flash, the site above is a link to a popular Flash presentation. These types of media displays can be microcosms of a bigger reality. Several different countries were addressed in the video. Essentially, the video is mocking a lot of different things involving them. Some of the things being mocked were just small silly jokes like how Australia has kangaroos. More...
October 2007
9 posts
Communicating Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/jobs/07pre.html?_r=1&ex=1192680000&en=42d88a4193b3c3b5&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin This New York Times article highly relates to media literacy because it deals directly with messages being sent through e-mail and indirectly with the words we read on the web. Something I found particularly interesting in this article was when it explained how...
Rear Window and CSI
In the scene I have chosen from Rear Window, Mr. Jeffries is trying to make sense of the salesman’s actions. Mr. Jeffries’ evidence that possibly indicates that the salesman has murdered his wife are that he no longer hears her nagging, he no longer sees her there, the salesman mysteriously leaves during in the middle the night, the salesman ships away a trunk, and he sees the salesman washing...
September 2007
6 posts
Second Life Snapshots
To see snapshots, click on the links. https://elearning.marist.edu/educator/temp/michael.mahoney/ensc101l113fall05/students/julianne.sadowski1/colorfulkk.bmp This shot was taken at some sort of beach resort place. The colors are nice and I could even hear the fire burning. There was an option to lay down or not and so that is what I did. I guess if people are creative enough, people can make...
Media unseen/Now seen
In our technological society, we are bombarded with multitudes of media images. With this information overload in effect, it is not surprising that we do not fully absorb all of it. However, this is not necessarily due to the fact that there is so much that our minds cannot simply handle it all, it is also due to us selecting what we notice and do not notice. Brett Phares’ Your...