Reflections on How and Why We Love Media
I find myself constantly looking at people in the streets with their headphones on and wondering what they are listening to. Then I found this video, started in New York a few years ago. This filmmaker wanted to stop people on the streets, and ask them what music they are listening to in their headphones. …
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In class we talked about how media changes our concept of reality. We are looking at reality as something we can edit and we speak about in “media terms” such as freezing, fast forward, rewinding etc. We saw some examples of pictures inspired by Harry Potter and Star Wars, where people acted in real life …
When I was a kid I remember watching the TV shows. I used to spend hours in front of the scream. For me, that was the best entertainment, since my mom would not let me out that often to play with the other kids on the streets. As the time passed by, and the violence …
Does your room look messy all the time? Do you have a hard time convincing your kids to do the dishes? Oddly enough, there is an Alternative Reality Game for that. In Chore Wars, you’re not only taking the garbage out or cleaning up the toilet seat – you’re also leveling up and slaying deadly …
This is an advert that I came across, I think last year, many times. It is a Windows touch screen computer add. I find this add intriguing because it shows a little girl first pondering what do. She seems to be bored with her “old school” blackboard and chalk. After her mother kindly replaces the …
Yesterday’s discussions about the desire of us humans to edit our reality made me think about the virtual currency called Bitcoin. BTC is a digital currency based on open source code that was developed by someone by the screen name of Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Bitcoin users utilize cryptography to send and receive money (bitcoins) …
For many years in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba people would see strange, curious signs spread throughout the city; in lampposts, walls, fences. The signs are simple inscriptions written on a white board with capitalized letters usually in blue or black. The messages are describing positive attributes of Brazilian or international celebrities in very …
When it comes to technology and media (since usually media demand technology involvement) someone can come along a lot of examples where people want to use media in order to lead to a change or at least this is what they think they are doing. Personally, probably my biggest “achievement” towards changing reality was probably …
A few months ago Marina Shifrin danced away from her current job. She was working for a video producing company and decided to give her resignation by honoring the company she was working for; by making a video. However, she wasn’t very content with this particular company and decided to share her feelings on the …
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd2sRC3K9Hs “These are my wonderfull, talented children” and “this is how much my boyfriend adores me.” The social networking site Facebook is being used by many to create an online identity. But some people argue that Facebook has blurred the boundaries and that identities have become ambiguous. Photoshopped photos just to make you glow that …
Why I Heart My Media 