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(OK, thanks. Here's my email address: randolin1@gmail.com)
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Sept. 10, Friday
7:00 am - tuned in to NPR/VPR to listen to news and weather.
7:30 - browsed Huffington Post for the latest headline
8:00 - Switched to CNN/MSNBC
9 am - Work. Checked email
10 am: Streaming Video: Drupal initial set-up at Lynda.com
8:00 pm Read essay on Notes of a Native Speaker by Eric Liu
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Sept. 13 & 14 - Graden work
Orchard gig. Sang jazz, samba and latin songs with Red Thread band
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Monday, Sept 15
7:00 pm tuned in to VPR
8:00 read book Inquiry, The Power of Books
9:00 Work, checked email
3:00 pm Read book on Arts and Social change
9:00 watched news MSNBC online
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Tuesday, Sept 16, 2008
7:00 pm Tuned in to VPR, news and weather
9:00 Work, check e-mail
5:00 Read Book by Croteau and Hoynes: Chapter 2, The Economics of Media Industry
Leah Goldberg
Professor Glover
Media Studies
5 September 2008
Media Memoir
Running to the TV set on a Wednesday at 8pm was a normal thing in the Goldberg family household. Well for the young impressionable girls at least. This meant that Dawson’s Creek was on, a great show filled with teen romance, sex and drama. And I was an addict. This show came on at a special time for me. After many years my parents gave us kids back cable television. For many years my mother shut it off because she said we needed to spend more time outside in the summer rather than sitting in front of a TV.
Every week I would get wrapped up in the new drama of who is dating who, well because in Dawson’s Creek the relationships turn over rate is like that of Starbucks workers. This was being watched at a very impressionable age, when adolescents was knocking at my back door. I question today whether the show really gave positive outlooks and ideas of what relationships are suppose to be about, not only the male and female relationships but also friendships in general. Sadly yes I could actually relate to these characters because at the same time this show was going on I was participating in the harsh world of middle school girls. Girls really would stop being your friend over the pettiest things, and talk behind your back. So I really loved watching this show because I could get lost in the worlds of other teenagers like me. Now I can’t say the same for the men around me.
At this point in time I had two much older brothers, one was finishing high school and the other was in college. I have vivid memories of certain bass lines and “scents” if you will, coming from their rooms when my parents weren’t home and they were suppose to be watching me. The walls covered in band posters and flyers, with the occasional fuzzy black light posters they had. My brothers were both surrounded my Phish, The Grateful Dead, a plethora of jazz artists and the whole festival scene itself, the scene of psychedelics and art. I did always wonder why the two (drugs and music) went hand in hand. At the time I couldn’t understand.
One brother in particular I can remember trying to have dreadlocks and wondering at that age, what they hell is he doing to his hair. It took me a few years later to realize how much drug use and the whole music scene, really go hand and hand. It really has its own “fashion”. Its own crowd and followers, as does so many different media types.
I find it fascinating how two different people can take one thing such as say the band Phish. One person could really sink himself or herself into the whole scene and try to understand or feel the music through drugs and through festivals and looking at it as a giant party. Or you could take someone like me who loves and is a huge follower of the band. I love their music because it makes me feel very much alive. It makes me want to go for a run. It doesn’t affect me in a way that I want to live my life through them. Maybe this is because I was exposed to them at such an early age and the point of life I was in. I think media has a certain affect on people depending on the nature, and the state the one individual perceives it.
Erin
Sept 16
Watched two movies a friend had made
Went online to my project play list and listened to an array of mostly cover songs for about an hour
Sept 17th Watched Marie Anntionette
Sept 18th
Read Portions From the Odyssey
and Marie Antionette:The Journey
Went on project playlist
Sept 19th
Read a portion of My Sisters Keeper
Was given and issue of Seventeen and flipped through it,
Went online to complain about facebooks new set up and used my "Greenpatch" application.
Media Memoir
Media Memoir
Erin Paul
Even at the youngish age of two years old, I was affected deeply by the media. There would be nights were I couldn’t sleep and would waked my parents up demanding that the put The Wizard of Oz on for me. Labyrinth was also another favorite of mine that my parents often put on. Even now, I remember pretending I was Dorothy or Sarah, going on a bizarre journey into an alternate Universe.
At my Grandmothers house (mothers side) Wizard of Oz was watched frequently, but also Meet Me in Saint Louis, Some Like it Hot and Singing in the Rain. I was a nerd for musicals at an early age and continue to be even now. Singing was a big part of how my grandmother and I spent time together. We’d sit out in the back yard singing songs like twinkle twinkle, songs From An American Tale, Sesame street etc.
At my other Grandmothers house (my father side) she ran a daycare center and we’d would be more involved with crafts and toys, but I distinctly remember watching David the Gnome, Eureka’s Castle, Maya The Bee and other kid friendly shows on Nick Jr. I also remember being in Kindergarten, and it was a rarity to have the Disney channel and what a treat it was to visit someone who had that channel.
I remember owning a plethora of tapes as a kids, mostly story telling tapes, sometimes tapes that could go in a Teddy Rupskin bear, and Teddy would move his mouth and tell the stories for you. Looking back on it seems that in a way, the media is used as a babysitting assistant.
Even now, when I was watching my little sisters for my mom, I put on Barney or some cartoon to keep them preoccupied. Even Recently, I was babysitting a kid who was almost never exposed to television or movies, and I was taken aback by how much energy this kid had, and her how uninterested in The Last Unicorn she was. She asked many times that I skip around scenes, go back to scenes and eventually she was over with the movie process and wanted to move on.
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