Reflection of Audrey's Post

I found Audrey's post to be the most interesting post I have read so far because it was beautifully thought out with examples from a movie that clearly addressed what Audrey was trying to address. I also loved how creative it was. I agree that the immersive experience was clearly captured in the movie based on Audrey's description alone. I found it interesting how Audrey used an example of a packed ice cream parlor from the movie to illustrate how people went out more in comparison with now where we stay inside watching television all day.

I had never thought about how ice cream parlors and things like it must have been far more busy then than it is now. This clearly demonstrates the effect of television where people spend far more time inside. To see this post click the link below:
http://audreysjournal-manualjc.blogspot.com/2015/10/movies-vs-television-class-response.html

Reflection of Piper's Reflection of Radio

I liked Piper's reflection on the radio lecture. I agree with her idea that the history of the radio is interesting. It was odd how some of the first few radio stations were basically advertisements. I do not believe it is group communication because you do not have to be in the same room or even be able to give direct feedback, though. I would not have thought that the first mass communication created using radio ever was created by a priest. When I think about it, it does make sense because priests were far more prevalent then than they are now, but I had never taken the time to consider this to be a possibility.

When I read the second half of Piper's post, I was surprised to learn that the oldest radio station, KDKA mainly just had "local traffic updates, news, and weather. I actually share the perception of radio, and I thought KDKA would have had music.

Overall, I found Piper's post very interesting and very well thought out. I agree with what she says for the most part, also..

To find Piper's post, click the link below:
http://thenewpipertimes.blogspot.com/2015/10/radio.html

Response to Lucy Calderon's Response to Movies

I like Lucy Calderon's response to the lecture about movies because I can relate to what she says. I also enjoy the movie theater very much because there is a kind of cultural aspect that goes with it where it is a social event. I enjoy the immersive atmosphere very much, and, unless being highly disrespectful, people do not interrupt this immersion. Because of this, movies can really impact people. This is probably why people spend so much money on product placement in movies. People must have the same feeling that this is what reality is like, and so product placement must work well. Also, when people see products over and over again they remember the products and will likely buy them at the store.

The link to Lucy Calderon's blog is below:
http://livinginthefastlucy.blogspot.com/2015/10/another-response-to-lecture-8-movies-i.html

Response to Wesley Lynch's Post

Like Wesley Lynch, I do believe that there has not been enough coverage of candidates that will soon be elected, but, unlike her, I believe that the politicians that should be covered are the people running for governor. This has not often been the case. With the election being just next week, it would be expected to have more news stories about the candidates, but there are not enough. I think that this is even more important at the moment than covering the presidential candidates because the election is so soon, while the presidential election does not take place until next year. Voters need to be informed of the news worthy information about the candidates and their policies. This is relevant. IF they covered these candidates more that would help with the elements inclusive and watchdog, and the yardstick local relevance for reasons mentioned above and many more reasons.

For the post, click below:

http://wesizzle.blogspot.com/2015/10/wlky-lacking-presidential-election-news.html

Reflection of Jane Schmidt's Post

I have read Jane Schmidt’s post about how WDRB’s tops stories have not been important on a large scale, and I agree. I have also noticed that many of the top stories are crime news. There are four top news stories out of ten that are crime “news”. That is forty percent of all of the top stories. These stories are a problem because they go against the yardsticks and elements of journalism.

One of the yardsticks it goes against is explanation. This is because these stories typically only address what happened instead of the overall problem of crime, which, if reporting on the latter instead, would make a story that could be considered “big-picture reporting”*.

It also goes against local relevance. Though crime news it typically local, it does not “directly concern”* the “viewing/readership area”* that the news organization covers. This is because it only affects those who are friends and family of the person who committed the crime, the person who committed the crime, the victim, and the victim’s friends and family. The friends and family could most likely find out the information from the police or others who have learned of the situation. Crime is too common for one specific crime to be reported on.

It even goes against elements, such as inclusiveness. Crime news is not comprehensive and proportional. There are people that believe that crime has gone up in America, when really it has gone down because of crime news’ prevalence in local TV news. This is disproportionately negative and therefor against inclusiveness.

There are so many reasons Schmidt was right about WDRB and crime news, but there are still so many more news organizations going against the yardstick and elements in this way. Around the same amount of WLKY’s top stories are about crime. These news stations should follow in the lead of the Courier Journal, whose headlines had far fewer crime stories pretending to be news. If they absolutely need to fill air time with crime because they had nothing else to report on, they should at least address the fact that crime new is, based on the yardsticks and elements of journalism, not news.

If you would like to read Jane's Post, click on the link below:

http://janesblog101.blogspot.com/2015/10/2nd-six-weeks-wdrb.html

*These quotes are from the ten elements of journalism and the seven basic yardsticks of journalism handout.

Responce to Leisel's Radio Post

I found Leisel's idea that we needed to learn more about the effect of the radio very interesting. I, myself, thought of a way that radio could effect culture in my post about the radio discussion. What I said was that radio helped to influence the culture of music because of Rock, while Rock saved the radio when it had to use demassification. I had also mentioned how this was one of many factors in bringing people together through similar interests in music. I had not, however, considered that it brought people together when they sat around the radio, listening to it. This could bring people together by also providing them with similar interests. This happened when people were brought together by magazines. People became literate because it was something to discuss in the same way people become more enriched in different kinds of music to have something to discuss and relate to.

I found the poetic rise and fall of the radio as Leisel portrays it to be in her post to be very interesting. For something fall for the same reason it rose in the first place is very ironic. This rise and fall pattern has been in place throughout all kinds of methods of mass communication. The newspaper rose as it was new technology, and fell to the internet, which is becoming new technology. The magazine rose for the same reason, then fell to television. The radio rose in the same way and fell to television also. Television rose in the same way, and is falling due to Netflix, Hulu, and the internet in general. This is the pattern of the rise and fall of types of media.

I find Leisel's post very intriguing. To find it click the link below.

http://fleurdelisten.blogspot.com/2015/10/class-discussion-radio.html

Reflection of Radio Discussion

When people ask me what kind of music they like, they typically do not like the answer, "I don't know." This is because music has so much impact on an individual, it is easy to relate to someone based on their music preferences. Being someone who needs a plot to be interested in a song and listens to Broadway music along with many songs few have heard, I typically do not relate to people by their music taste. Others do, though. I have seen it throughout my new time here at Manual, and, especially, my time at what I affectionately call "Nerd Camp".

There must be a cause for how music became so easy to share that people from all over the United States, joined in a camp, could listen to the same songs and relate based on them. I learned this cause in journalism class when discussing the radio, and, previously, the mass communication of music.

The idea of radio actually started as an idea for more direct communication. Scientists tried to create what was basically a phone. Tesla invented a version of the radio, but did not patent his invention until years after he invented it. Years later, with a most likely updated version of the radio, a priest named Fessenden had the novel idea to use the radio to reach a greater audience than people previously used the radio for. He broadcast things for his parishioners.This kind of communication caught on, and soon companies started selling radios for their channels that were basically ads for their companies. These became popular and it became a scheduled form of mass communication.

When the first baseball game was reported live, it sparked the start of reporting live through the radio. (An interesting side-note: some radio stations listened to others reporting the game and said what the others did.)

When radio stations finally had to use demassification because of the audience and talent that moved to television, they realized they could do something television could not do well: play music. Channels emerged dedicated to music. This help spread music and influence culture. Rock was classified as too inappropriate by many adults, and teenagers listened to the music anyway.

Without radio, there would be records that people could play and experience songs from around the world, but radio made it more convenient to listen to those songs. Radio helped influence people's dedication to music. Rock saved radio, but without radio, the same Rock culture would not exist.

The reason why people can relate to each other through music is because music is now universal. Through the previous lesson's idea that music could be a mass medium and the way it became one, and the radio spreading Rock, we can now relate to this beautiful mass medium.

Response to Jay Farrow's "Response to Lecture"

Unlike Jay Farrow, I was completely shocked to learn that the average American household watches seven hours of television daily. I do not understand how people with jobs and/or school have time for this kind of behavior. In the part below, he mentioned television's omnipresence, and how they set cultural standards. It would be very easy to deduce that television affects America with such a dramatic statistic. I completely understand how television can, like Farrow said, "help convince people that things are normal or 'not normal'". I, too, as he later states, "never really noticed all of these things about television until this lecture." Television has become so accepted in American culture that many hardly even think twice about it.

I just accepted that color television was a reality until someone told be at one time it was not. It was not that I thought it always existed, I just had never thought about why it existed until thing. This is many times the case, especially when people are very young, when something is taken for granted. This, in a way, helps prove the omnipresence of television.

I enjoyed reading Farrow's post. If you would like to read it as well, click the like below.

http://jaytfarrow.blogspot.com/2015/10/television-response-to-lecture.html

Television Discussion Comment

Television is one of the most prevalent forms of mass media. There are many ways that, because of this, it has influenced society.

One of the more notable reasons is that people stay inside more. Because it is now on twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, people can easily have the television on for long periods of time to a channel and there almost always be a program. People have been spending much time watching television, attributing to the obesity epidemic in America.

This "omnipresence" of the television leads many to wonder what might more psychological effects might it have. One of the ways television effects someone is that, through repetition of ads, people are more likely to remember a product. This has caused people to buy said product.

On a more dramatic turn on that effect, politicians cannot win without ads. People will not know who they are if they do not have ads. This real problem could be fixed if Americans started actually researching the issues of the politicians to make sure they truly agree with the policies of the politician they plan to vote for, and to make sure the other candidate is not a better choice. This will probably not be the case, though, so people need to be cautious of the effects of campaign ads so they can participate in America's democracy with more knowledge and with more informed votes.

The fact that so many Americans do not vote at all is also a problem that needs to be address with knowledge of how political campaign ads work. The constant use of negative ads targets liberal voters. The more negative ads there are, the less likely people are to vote. This helps conservatives because they are more likely to go to the voting booth no matter what. People, especially liberals targeted by this tactic, need to be aware of it (the tactic). If people are not participating in the democratic process by doing things to help the policies they agree with, then the point of democracy, which would be to represent the people, would be lessened.

Another way television can influence politics is how politicians need to get money. Without enough money, they cannot run ads. This can put politicians in the pocket of the wealthy. People with a lot of money can help fund politicians that will represent America the way they want it run. This makes many want to please the wealthy so they be funded by these wealthy people. Something needs to be done about this like it is done in numerous other countries.

Television has done amazing things, but it has such a big impact on society, and people need to understand this to fully be prepared for its effects.

Movie Discussion

I found the movie discussion very interesting because I enjoy learning about mass media. I really liked learning about the importance because it is interesting how American culture developed. One example of how movies influence American culture is it creates a kind of social hierarchy based on when someone sees a movie. The sooner someone sees the movie, the more important that individual may feel because of these cultural standards.

Something else I found interesting is learning about why movie theaters are still popular when television shows are far more convenient. I had not thought about this before. One of the reasons people go is because of the immersive experience. This means that movie theaters try to make people feel like they are in the movie. I have actually experienced this before. If a movie looks very well done, I might see it in a movie theater instead of at home, renting it from Amazon. When movies look less exciting, I will probably wait for them to come out on Amazon.

I also found learning about how movies did not feature adult topics in earlier products was very intriguing. Now these topics are everywhere in American society. When movies had to use demassification, one of the ways they did it was by adding more adult focused content. This was working very well abroad. Movies made more money after this, and influenced culture.

Binary Models Reflection

I found binary models particularly interesting because they appear in many places. Binary models include hot and cold, elitist and populist, information and entertainment, and content and distribution. Hot means the form of communication requires full attention, and cold means it does not. Elitist means that a media organization that is not primarily about profit, and populist is a media organization that’s objective is money. Information and entertainment are self-explanatory; they mean that the form of communication informs or entertains. Content means that a company makes the product, and distribution means that they buy the product and gives distributes it.

There are many examples of these models. Books are examples of hot, while music is an example of cold mediums. This is a model where its two parts cannot be combined.

Elitist and populist organizations are also everywhere. An example of an elitist organization is NPR. They have articles that they think are important and do not try to make as much money as possible. An example of a populist organization is CNN. Though they are a legitimate news station, their main goal is to make money.

An example of information communication is an article about who won the latest election. An example of entertainment communication is an article about the friendship between two animals.

Examples of content are the publisher and the printing company. Examples of distribution are the warehouse the books are stored and the book store.

There are many cases of these models merging. Disney, through conglomeration, does not only make their content, they also own channels so they can distribute their products and create more of a profit. This is an example of a company being both content creators and distributers.

Because there are many places these binary models are found, their relevance to my society made this topic very interesting.

Response

I have read Mattie's paragraph about seeing adds for ABC and ESPN on Disney Channel. I found it interesting because I had not realized ABC and ESPN were even advertised on that channel. I too had come to a realization when I heard the lecture about conglomeration.. I have seen the show Once Upon a Time and often wondered how they got the rights to some of the characters on the show. I asked my friend about it and she told me Disney owned the show. I had assumed that Disney owned the show and not the channel. It was only until I heard the lecture that I finally understood that Disney had bought ABC and that is how they own the show.

http://www.datsomattie.blogspot.com/2015/09/conglomeration.html

News Media Critique

In the politics section of CNN's website, there is an article about the unlikely friendship of Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump. This goes against the yardstick for newsworthiness. This is the case because it not only is not a core topic, meaning it was based on "human interest", but also will not have a "direct and lasting... informational impact on a wide audience."*

A way to change this article to help the reader is to move it to the "entertainment" section of CNN's website. Because of this, they would not have to meet the standards set by the seven yardsticks of journalism.

*This quote was from gradethenews.org

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/18/politics/chelsea-clinton-ivanka-trump-2016/index.html

Response

I find Piper’s view point on magazines very interesting. She said she thought of One Blue Wall when discussing what General Magazine contained. It contained serialized fiction, children and adult fiction, personality profiles, and investigative articles. One Blue Wall has many literary works, though I do not believe they do not contain investigative articles nor serialized fiction as she said in her reflection.  I, too, found myself thinking about One Blue Wall when discussing General Magazine in class. I believe this is because people who are interested in literature are part of the niche that is One Blue Wall’s audience.

http://thenewpipertimes.blogspot.com/2015/09/magazines.html

Magazine Relfection

I found the lesson about magazines* and how they revolutionized literacy in America very interesting. I remember talking about why magazines are still popular, which was because of demassification and therefore they created content to appeal to a niche. I agree that demassification had much to do with this, but there must have been other factors involved.

Unlike newspapers, magazines can reach a farther audience. This is one factor I believe has made them still popular. They can reach anyone that has a specific interest, which involves the concept demassification. Still, without the ability to sell magazines anywhere, it would be much harder to have a large enough audience when magazines target a specific niche.

Though magazines and newspapers differ in that magazines have a father audience, while newspapers are local, they do share traits that kept them around. One in particular is that they are physical. Because of this trait, they can easily be shared without paying for a phone or computer. Teachers, especially in younger grades have been known to ask students to cut out photos in magazines to create a collage. This can only be done because magazines are physical. Someone could also lend another their magazine easily, while someone lending another their phone would be depriving them of their main form of communication.

Another aspect of both magazines and newspapers are that they are nonlinear. That means that someone can read the middle of the magazine, skipping topics in the front. Though there are more ads proportionately in a magazine than in a television show, the reader can easily skip them.

Demassification may be the main reason that magazines are still around, but there are other factors that play a role in their existence.

*The term magazine first meant “store”. According to Google, it “was often used in the mid 17^th century in the title of books providing information useful to particular groups of people”. General Magazine was the title of the first magazine for the more modern definition. 

Psychological Filters Reflection

I find the discussion about mass communication very interesting, not only because of the intriguing nature of any topic related to journalism, but also because of its relevance to the modern day world. YouTube, which was the first example of the process of mass communication, is filled with videos that people from all over the world post and many viewers. Mass communication, because of its relevance, is very important.

The process of mass communication is stimulus, encoding, transmission, decoding, and internalization. There are many ways to enact these five steps, as there are many forms of mass communication.

In the last step, internalization, there are filters that prohibit the audience from actually internalizing. Filters are very interesting because they come from internalization itself, unlike impediments that only block the communication in the encoding, transmission, and decoding stages.

There are three kinds of filters: physical, psychological, and informational filters. Physical means "I cannot". That means a person physically cannot internalize the form of communication. Psychological means "I will not". This means that the reader has a bias against what is being communicated. Informational means "I don't understand". This means the audience is not clear as to what is being communicated.

Psychological filters are interesting because they have to do with people's opinions. I find human nature very interesting, and since this topic has to do with human nature, I am intrigued. There are many examples of psychological filters throughout America. There are many people that choose not to listen to scientists when they uncover evidence that disproves their claims. In fact, though around 97% of scientists believe humans greatly affected global warming, far less of the general population agrees. This is an example of a psychological filter where the audience refuses to listen to the form of communication, which is data that proves humans greatly influenced global warming that is shared online.

Mass communication is very important, and therefore very intriguing. There are many interesting parts to this topic that have not been thoroughly addressed, but I still believe that psychological filters are the most interesting parts.

Reflection

I found it interesting on the day in which class discussed the influence of the printing press that there was such a huge impact on the world. I particularly found the split of the Christian religion because of this invention to be interesting. The influence of the Catholic Church was so great that people's lives were centered around it. For it to be split into many sections because of this new knowledge that people have received is so very intriguing.

I am still confused about one part of this topic. Since Martin Luther, the man who pointed out the flaws of the Church, was a priest, he would have already been literate. How, then, did the printing press making literacy common have an effect on the split?

It may be because when he wrote the list of these flaws, a greater number of people could read it. They could also read the bible and realize that what he said was true. This would influence a greater amount of people to come together and create a new Christian religion.