When I went to this event, the two women running the event said that they could not find the video "One Women, One Vote." So instead the showed the movie "Street Fights," which was about the election race between Cory Booker and Sharpe James running for Newark, New Jersey mayor in 2002. These are the ten things that I came up with after watching this film:
1. Determination
2. Change requires actions
3. Creating a Renaissance
4. Substance over symbols
5. Rising from ashes
6. In "unity there is strength."
7. "But like dust still I rise..." Maya Angelo
8. The color of politics/ the influence that race still plays in society today
9. Spirits
10. Influence over people
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Convergence Culture
Convergence culture basically is the way in which we presents news through different forms of media. In the article it says that, "the world of media convergence, every important story gets told, every brand gets sold..." This means that the people of the United States saw the impacts of September 11th differently than the people of Iraq and Iran... through the way the media presented it. Each news channel can tell a story differently and the bits of information that we get from each channel forms the ultimate story to us.
Personally I have seen convergence culture work through the effects of newspapers. Not many people carry around newspapers any more, instead while people wait at the bus stop they take our their Blackberry phones and download the latest news. However newspaper business still continue to print thousands and thousands of newspaper a day to put on peoples front porches, the impact of the newspaper from just a few years back is changing rather quickly. Back when Internet was not accessible through our phones and even back farther than that when Internet didn't even exist, the newspaper was the primary source for news. And to take it one step further even before television the newspaper was the only source for news.
This change in culture to having the luxury of downloading the news on our cell phone in just a few seconds has evolved the technology and the media world. This example of the way media was presented before shows, how new/media has transformed and is still being told through those many different forms of media. The way in which news is presented to the public is still going to get changing and updated and moving forward. Being able to get the news on your phone, in five... ten years, is going to be a thing of the past, and the thought of a actual newspaper will be unheard of to that generation.
Personally I have seen convergence culture work through the effects of newspapers. Not many people carry around newspapers any more, instead while people wait at the bus stop they take our their Blackberry phones and download the latest news. However newspaper business still continue to print thousands and thousands of newspaper a day to put on peoples front porches, the impact of the newspaper from just a few years back is changing rather quickly. Back when Internet was not accessible through our phones and even back farther than that when Internet didn't even exist, the newspaper was the primary source for news. And to take it one step further even before television the newspaper was the only source for news.
This change in culture to having the luxury of downloading the news on our cell phone in just a few seconds has evolved the technology and the media world. This example of the way media was presented before shows, how new/media has transformed and is still being told through those many different forms of media. The way in which news is presented to the public is still going to get changing and updated and moving forward. Being able to get the news on your phone, in five... ten years, is going to be a thing of the past, and the thought of a actual newspaper will be unheard of to that generation.
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