CC

This is an example of Color Correction in the media. This shows exactly how unrealistic the media is.

Look how the color of the grass has changed compared to the color of the shirts. Its amazing what you can do with computers.

What I'm Listening too.

Its a good band. Very interesting sound. I like it. Its different.

Dove Campaign

Hmm. The campaign is odd. Its like, a public image campaign. I don't think its honest. It feels to me like there just trying to improve there image.

Norris 5

Young Turks. Grass Roots Media. Anti Fox. Perfect.

However, when I actually ran the story through the Norris 5, it did surprisingly bad. Ah well, that's what I get for picking a clip that was more entertainment based.


Informative vs. Superficial: I would say that because the issue itself was superficial, due to the fact that it was about a fox news story (news about news. Something is wrong here), it was actually informative. Odd how that works.

Accurate and Truthful vs. False and Deceptive: I would say that the story was accurate. They showed the offending clip from Fox News, and then commented about it. Its difficult to get more accurate than that.

Objective vs. Biased: I feel that the story was biased against the Fox News channel. Although it is understandable that TYTs is a grass roots organization without any form of large cash flow, it would have still been nice to have a Fox Representative on the show.

Pluralistic vs. Insular: Insular. News about News.

Balanced vs. Weighted Side: Weighted. See Objective vs. Biased.

Ardekani Question - Targetted Groups.

I feel that the internet has been a great help to groups that are often targeted. I myself am a strong atheist, the least trusted group in America (Really. The Least). However, its amazing the communities you can find online that are both supportive and positive.

An example of one is The Atheist Experience. This is an Austin, Texas, public access show that I watch semi regularly. It has a new show every Sunday, and is in the center of the Austin Atheist community. Here's an Excerpt:



Overall, I think that the internet has become a haven for minority groups. Srsly, Youtube is awesome.

Exposure to Ads

I ran into a very interesting advertisement today. I was playing a video game earlier today and realized that one of the billboards in game was for an actual product! Monster Energy Drink. The add itself was pretty subtle. If I wasn't thinking about advertisements at the time, I would have probably missed it. However, this shows a disturbing trend in the video game market. I do not want ads in my games. The ad itself had a very specific target audience. Gamers. Who else would buy an energy drink for gamers?

The Corporation vs. Ad and Ego

I have not lived in America for a long time. Before watching both of these documentries, I had forgotten just how pervasive advertising is. I tend to aviod Israeli TV (Its terrible) and I surf the internet with AdblockPlus running to avoid flashy embeded ads, so I guess I had a more sheltered perspective.

What these two documentaries have given me is scale. I always knew that big business would do what ever it could to get as high profit margins as possible, and that ads where specifically designed to try and get around any mental defenses against them. However, I never knew exactly how much of American society is controlled by business and surrounded by ads.

I feel that in an environment similar to the one America lives in today gets in the way of people staying informed. With so many messages, almost all of which benifit big buisness, being directed at our minds, I think that its going to be very difficult for people to make informed choices about what they want (or dont want) to buy.

How Everything Came From Nothing

Probobly the best lecture I've ever listened too. Definitly worth the hour of time. Watch it.

Youtube Consumption Log

The following vid is filled with blood, guts, gore, and the like. Watch at your own risk. Really. Its pretty disturbing at the start.

I am not an Avenged Sevenfold fan. I personally think there sellouts to big media. However, they have one music video I really really like.





Why do I like this video? Its just so.... hysterical. The entire thing is presented in both a shocking and, quiet frankly, disturbing manner, yet the thing still feels very comical. Overall, I give it a 10 out of 10

[Edit]: A few hours ago, I finally figured out what I really liked about this video. I know its directed and marketed to teens (you know, its EXTREME). But, despite this, the video itself is really original. While it does play off of many music video stereotypes, it does so in a comical manner, as if pointing them out to us, the viewer. The song is basically saying 'Generic Love Story Song. With Zombies.'

Media Immersion Level: Still laughing...

Supersize This

Well, we read two articles on Super Size Me. Honestly, I feel that the one that was more critical about SSM based its entire argument on the Straw man Fallacy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman. Morgans position in SSM was that fast food was not good for you. That was the entire point of his experiment. However, the article critical of his production never addressed this point. Instead, it talked about irrelivant facts and set up a straw man argument that fast food was not the only thing leading to the obesity epidemic (Other factors that are adding to this epidemic are actually addressed in SSM).

Media Immersion Level: Riding on the Electromagnetic Gamma Waves

Merchants of Cool Question - Stories

I do believe that who ever controls societies stories can control society itself. American teens are bombarded with thousands of advertisements, messages, and stories daily. Each one of these messages contains a value and message that it tries to impart upon its viewers. While each individual piece of media might have next to no effect, when you add up the cumulative effects of thousands of ads, we begin to see a completely different picture.

I myself avoid a lot of modern television and movies, simply because they seem so shallow and, quiet frankly, stupid. Not since the end of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1999) have I seen what I would call a truly original show. And because of this, I have a deep seated disdain for lots of modern media.


Media Immersion Level: In the not to distant future...

Fail Fox

Welcome to my Youtube Consumption Log. Recently, I've had trouble doing my media consumption logs, as I don't consume much of the standard media. I dont watch many TV shows, movies, or go on facebook, thus leaving me stumped on what to blog about. Then, it dawned on me.

Youtube.

My first video in this log is about the growing issue of media idiocy. Watch as the amazing Thunderf00t picks apart the logical fallacies of Fox News.



I like Thunderf00t. This guy is an outspoken free speech and rational world view advocate. I think his efforts to fight back at the media show exactly what youtube has the potential to be. A truly free place.

Media Immersion Level: EXTREME!!!!111one


I've also been listening to this:




Best. Song. Ever.

AronRa

Its Monday. You have nothing to do. All your homework is done, and none of your friends are answering their phones. What do you do? SURF YOUTUBE!

I have found a most interesting personality on everyone's favorite video viewing site. Meet AronRam, champion of SCIENCE!!!!!

Link!

What I find interesting is that AronRa does a lot of scientific debates. On youtube. Its a very interesting way of using the site.

Example:



Media Immersion Level: WWIII

Clipping Death

Metallica - A BSO Blog

I sure am a fan of Master of Puppets! I first listened to this album a few months ago, and I must say, its utterly amazing. Thus, I'm going to post something that's almost one of the greatest songs ever created.



I highly recommend that you go to youtube and watch this video in high quality.


You know, recently I noticed that modern mainstream music just didn't sound very good. The drums never sounded clear, the bass was always sounding funky, and the stuff was just too loud. Then, a few days ago, I ran across this video, and now its all clear to me.

For more educational viewing, follow this link here!

Media Immersion Level: Nuclear Meltdown

The Isotope, #1

Lets see. What sorts of radioactive matirials have I been exposed to on this day?


That extremely annoying song that I set as my alarm specifically to force me out of bed

At least 15 different advertisements for various products posted on billboards to school

Damn Macs are everywhere

Bus ride home, Another 15 advertisements

Played a few metallica songs on my drum kit

Sudden urge to read 'The Call of Ktulu'

Watched movie on Bruegel

Watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs73q2Qrs_k&feature=related#movie_player

Mood++;

Read a few webcomics

Evil Inc, Dr Mcninja, Ctrlaltdel, LFG, and Cynide and Happiness

Depressing comic week is Depressing

Failblog.org

Wrote blog post


Media Immersion Level: Just a couple of Blips.

Radiation Level: Minimal (Who Owns The Media?)

This is a (very) rough draft of an essay im working on. I /dare/ you to enjoy it.

We live in a sea of Media, constantly bombarded by new information and ideas. Buy this, act like that, and watch me. As I write this, I'm listening to 'Metropolis' by Dream Theater, a song that's over an hour long. Media is inescapable in this day an age.

However, who owns and runs what we see every day? Surprisingly, around ten mega-corporations control almost all the printed and televised media. Its amazing, isn't it? Everything we see in our free time is controlled by less than ten groups of people.

At the same time, thanks to a series of tubes we call 'The Internet', the media is both owned and run by us all. The people that upload videos to youtube are generally not employed by vast mega companies vying for our attention. Google allows people to quickly find the information or a specific piece of media quickly and effectively. Overall, the fact that the internet is neutral and not under the control of any company allows it to be a free and uncontrolled source of media.

It's interesting to look at the dynamics between the print and televised medias compared to the internet. While one is under the control of a small number of parties, the other is under the control of no one. This imbalance in our sources of media consumption leads to a question that's extremely difficult to answer. How much longer will the net be owned by no one?


Media Immersion Level: Radiwhat?

The Geiger Counter

What is a Geiger Counter? Its a little device for detecting radiation. How is this relevant at all? It shall be reveled in time, my good friends.

Media Immersion Level: Testing the Geiger