Hannah Montana: blog prompt #3

Today's media television, magazines and movies all influence and impact teens. When stars become famous and have fans who look up to them they also have a job of being a good role model.

For example Miley Cyrus or "Hannah Montana" is always in the spot light. Whether Miley is on camera or off camera she is influencing her viewers (children and teens) in a positive or negative manor. When Miley appeared on the cover of the magazine nude, this was not a good way to be a role model at all. For Miley to appear on the magazine nude this gave her attention, but was it really the attention she wanted?

I am an aunt of four and all my nieces and nephews love Hannah Montana. They also all knew that Miss Miley/ or Hannah Montana made a mistake by appearing on the magazine. I do not think its right for stars to set bad role- model examples for their fans.

Spoiling Survivor

It was interesting to read the first chapter in Convergence Culture and think about how spoilers can impact television media. Different spoiling communities formed from watching Survivor.

Viewers in the East Coast saw a TV series three hours earlier that the people on the West Coast. Since the people on the East Coast would see the TV show first, they would spoil it for all the other viewers. Survivor spoilers made blog posts and posters on the Internet about the TV.

News media caught Las Vegas gambling operation that was dis continued, because of the betting that took place over Survivor.

Spoilers even figured out the URL for the directory tree on the official CBS website. Spoilers watched Survivor episodes closer than everyone else and definitely knew how to spoil the fun!

America’s DTV Transition January 19, 2009

Starting in February all televisions across the United States will only be broadcasting in digital format. People will have to subscribe to satellite or cable or buy a converter box. Right now there is a shortage of converter boxes for people to buy. The people, who would purchase the converter boxes, may not even know how to set them up for the converter boxes to function properly.

I do not think that people should have to buy converter boxes if they are unable to purchase cable or satellite television. There are not even enough converter boxes available for all the people who would need to by a converter box. Not everyone can afford cable or satellite television.

My families have a satellite system and are fortunate to have the latest television technology. I think that the administration should re- think when the digital television movement should go into effect. I do not think it should go into effect in February. As the article “America’s DTV Transition Beset with Problems” said 230,000 households are unready for the conversion.

Prompt #2 on 1/19/09

In the introduction in Jenkins book Convergence Culture Jenkins first discusses the Photoshop collage “Bert Is Evil.” This poster was posted on the web and distributed later all across the Middle East. This caught my attention and made me want to read more. The “Bert Is Evil” poster shows how fast a situation can progress in a short amount of time.

Jenkins makes it clear in the introduction what three concepts he will cover in the book:
1. Media convergence
2. Participatory culture
3. Collective intelligence

Jenkins makes us think “how existing media industries (radio, TV, newspapers, advertisers) are changing in order to cater to the desires of audiences to become creators and not merely consumers of content? Listed below are related ideas:

• Must be able to create web advertisements and news articles for the web, because this is where our society goes for information right now
• On NBC5 News viewers can submit their nature pictures through email to appear on the 10pm news
• People are down loading music and movies for free online and not purchasing cds, videos, etc.. at stores as often
• The best web sites such as Google, Yahoo and You Tube get the most “hits” and are the most successful obtaining web advertisements
• You can even have you personal/ work email sent directly to your phone (Blackberry or iphone)
• Consumers now go online to shop, instead of going to retail stores to shop. When a shopper goes to the store, they are more apt to buy more than they want/ need.
• Companies now need to have a web site to market their product.
• Some companies even have their employee training sites accessible online, so the employees can work on work related training at home as well as in the office

cat

Check out this neat picture of a cat

I found a cool picture of cat on the web.....

Week 1: Reaction to interview's conducted by Rebecca Blood

Week One: January 5^th, 2009

By: Meagan Moore

After reading through the interviews conducted by Rebecca Blood, I made a list of each of the bloggers and listed them from the first to the (being who I can relate to the most) and last (being who I can relate to the least).

Below is a link to a book by Rebecca Blood

https://www.betterworld.com/The-Weblog-Handbook-id-073820756X.aspx

I found that I favored Megan and Trine Maria’s blog style over the others, because they had similar craft interests as me. People read blogs which are most fascinating to them.

The bloggers who blogged on politics and sciences were not in my top choices for blogs to read. These blogs seem to be more technical and wordy, and are harder to read. Once a blog looses the reader’s interest, it’s not fun to read any more.

Listed below are the order of bloggers which I can relate to, with one being the blogger I can relate to the most:

1. Megan Reardon

2. Trine- Maria Kristenseen

3. Jason Kottke

4. Fred First

5. Bruce Schneier

6. Tiffany B. Brown

7. Scott Rosenberg

One of my friends, Megan Gensler, is a blogger. Megan blogs on LiveJournal and is a Google Blogger. Megan has been blogging on the Blogger, her ‘professional’ blog for a year. On Megan’s personal blog, the LiveJournal, she has been blogging for four years. Megan blogs to write about her experience as a writer and to share her knowledge with others.

Listed below is a table of my likes vs. dislikes of blogs:

Things I like

Designed/ organized blogs

Interesting typography

Pictures and graphics on blogs

Simple and sweet blog entries

Sophisticated design for blog

Good use of color on blog background

Favorite fonts include: French Script MT, Script MT Bold, Garamond, Bodoni

Quotes on blogs

Media on blogs such as: videos, sounds and animation

I like these things because fun blogs to read use different types of media, such as: sound, animation and video to appeal to the reader. A blog which would first catch my eye has interesting typography and is easy to read. Also, the use of color on the background of blog should have good use of colors, which match and fit well with the font color used for the type. The layout of the blog should have a nice flow and be well balanced on the page.

Things I don’t like

Wordy

Lengthy and boring

Technical words used

Cluttered blogs

Bad layout of text for blogs

Too much information on blogs

Neon/ ugly backgrounds

Too much gossip in blogs

I don’t like these things because…

Blog entries should be sweet and simple. It’s best not to have blogs which are cluttered and use too many technical words. Too much information on a blog entry could draw the reader’s attention away.

Each blogger has a different writing style and design style, which makes each blogger unique. Blogs are best when the writer stays with one subject to get his/ or her point across. Blogging is a way of communication.

Week 1: Reaction of interviews conducted by Rebecca Blood

Week One: January 5^th, 2009

By: Meagan Moore

After reading through the interviews conducted by Rebecca Blood, I made a list of each of the bloggers and listed them from the first to the (being who I can relate to the most) and last (being who I can relate to the least).

Below is a link to Rebecca Blood's book

http://www.livingroom.org.au/blog/archives/073820756X.01

I found that I favored Megan and Trine Maria’s blog style over the others, because they had similar craft interests as me. People read blogs which are most fascinating to them.

The bloggers who blogged on politics and sciences were not in my top choices for blogs to read. These blogs seem to be more technical and wordy, and are harder to read. Once a blog looses the reader’s interest, it’s not fun to read any more.

Listed below are the order of bloggers which I can relate to, with one being the blogger I can relate to the most:

1. Megan Reardon

2. Trine- Maria Kristenseen

3. Jason Kottke

4. Fred First

5. Bruce Schneier

6. Tiffany B. Brown

7. Scott Rosenberg

One of my friends, Megan Gensler, is a blogger. Megan blogs on LiveJournal and is a Google Blogger. Megan has been blogging on the Blogger, her ‘professional’ blog for a year. On Megan’s personal blog, the LiveJournal, she has been blogging for four years. Megan blogs to write about her experience as a writer and to share her knowledge with others.

Listed below is a table of my likes vs. dislikes of blogs:

Things I like

Designed/ organized blogs

Interesting typography

Pictures and graphics on blogs

Simple and sweet blog entries

Sophisticated design for blog

Good use of color on blog background

Favorite fonts include: French Script MT, Script MT Bold, Garamond, Bodoni

Quotes on blogs

Media on blogs such as: videos, sounds and animation

I like these things because fun blogs to read use different types of media, such as: sound, animation and video to appeal to the reader. A blog which would first catch my eye has interesting typography and is easy to read. Also, the use of color on the background of blog should have good use of colors, which match and fit well with the font color used for the type. The layout of the blog should have a nice flow and be well balanced on the page.

Things I don’t like

Wordy

Lengthy and boring

Technical words used

Cluttered blogs

Bad layout of text for blogs

Too much information on blogs

Neon/ ugly backgrounds

Too much gossip in blogs

I don’t like these things because…

Blog entries should be sweet and simple. It’s best not to have blogs which are cluttered and use too many technical words. Too much information on a blog entry could draw the reader’s attention away.

Each blogger has a different writing style and design style, which makes each blogger unique. Blogs are best when the writer stays with one subject to get his/ or her point across. Blogging is a way of communication through online communities.

First Blog Post

Blogging, fun! This is the first time I blogged.....should be fun.

-Meagan