How Occupy Wall Street Changes Everything

16 01 2012

1) With the Occupy Movement, the 99%’s interests can no longer be ignored. A political power with the force of millions has been created and issued invitations to a new world.

2) The Occupy Movement is a horizontal power because there is no chosen leader, each member has equal power, which fractures our status quo because we have never had a political group like this. The People’s Mic is an example of new media.





The World Need You to see it with Fresh Eyes

16 01 2012

1) I feel the media tends to paper over the war in Iraq. There are several, less popular vehicles that seem to focus on a much truer war than I feel is generally shown to us in the news. The media tries to facade the truths of war in order to keep the people in support of its government.

2) In most cases, we are expected to ‘sit back and enjoy the show’ with our government, because we are aiming to elect competent leaders to take over for us. Times such as if in a group project a leader is not stepping up is when you can ‘grab the wheel.’

 





What is New Media? Vin Crosbie

16 01 2012

1) The three transportation media are land, water, and air. The difference between a transportation vehicle and a transportation media is that vehicles are used to convey use of media.

2) The three communication media are the Interpersonal Medium, the Mass Medium, and and ‘New Medium.’ Some examples of communication vehicles and media are a TV or radio used to convey mass media, or an e-mail being used to convey Interpersonal Medium.

3) Interpersonal Medium:

Pros:

  • Each participant has equal and reciprocal control of content
  • Content can be individualized

Cons:

  • The equal control degrades into cacophony as the number of participants increases

 

Broadcast Communication:

Pros:

  • Can simultaneously deliver message to almost infinite number of people

 

Cons:

  • Message can not be individualized to receipeant
  • Content controlled only by one person

 

4) Individualized information can be simultaneously delivered to an almost infinite number of people

-Each of the people involved have equal control of all content

Without technology, this would be an unaccessible medium, such as the sky.