Student reflection paper.

Looking at a blank screen of my phone was kinda hard .  It made feel the need to turn on the home screen on my phone. However after a few minutes I didn't really care I looked at it and kept looking at it until I zoned out even though the instructions told me not to.  I wasn't thinking of anything I just all of a sudden stared at the black screen with my hand on my head. I also started to think about what I had to for homework, what  grade do I have in a class, am I going to do well on my finales? what am I going to about my classes for next semester. I just started to think about the stuff that I needed to do when I get home and how I will  write this same blog assignment.  This exercise made me think about media terminologies because my imagination ran wild with out me being on my phone and also the way I was thinking I was thinking about all the things that I need to accomplish. When I am in my phone I literally think about the next app that I need to move to or how  everybody else is.  I am more concerned with everybody else's life when I get on these apps and not really concerned with what I need to accomplish today and I what I need to do now. 


I spend majority of my time more and more concerned with other peoples life when I see new or old post by them. I find myself comparing my life to there's when I'm on my phone. However I have my life to think about and I need to be concerned about me and my problems. 

The look of the Web changed?

The look of the the Web most defiantly has changed in a dramatic way. I was thinking about the days me and my cousins would use Yahoo messenger or msn messenger I and talk to so many people around the world and we also use to communicate through e-mail like a text message. We use to change our Icon's ain to sponge bob or  random TV shows. Its funny because they use to provide us the icons or some Disney websites or Nickelodeon websites use to provide us cute icons I use to be so happy when I finally found the right ones. However, me and my friends would e-mail each other back and forth all the time  and very quickly and we use to exchange our e-mail address between each other "Like hey do you have a e-mail" and we would write it down on a piece of paper  so we could send each other messages in class and use smileys or right when we go home . I also remember not being able to go on the internet at certain times because a person was on the house phone and the internet would go extremely slow like half of the page would be still loading. Also when the screen froze and you could drag the internet window and the entire screen would be filled with that dragged window.  

However half of the time the internet was fun because it was a way to communicate with everyone around the world and we never had that much communication with one another before. I never use to go on Myspace because I never had one but I heard it was so much fun to have by changing your background, adding friends and seeing pictures of people in school that you didn't know how they acted outside of school, and also changing your music on your Myspace was pretty cool from what I heard. But from what I believe back then  it was easy to disguise yourself and be a different person when communicating with others and fun but now its a lot of person its easy to get found out that your not the person you say you are and there are more websites to find a specific person.  Everything got so enhanced that your privacy is not even yours...even your job wants to know what your up to. I'm not condoning not being yourself but now I would have never imagined that we reach this far in communicating with others.   Because now we get to see exclusive clips from backstage shows online and communicate face to face on our phones and even have our tweet read in front of a live studio audience. 




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRu-WDGZfm4 Here is a group of
guys talkng about the same thing they are pretty funny!!

Free Post

So for this free post I kinda wanted to talk abut social context in the media we consume and how we might interpret the day in the life of a character of a movie that we might see on t.v, movie or in any media.  For example, I am a huge fan of The Walking Dead and in this show it gives you a day in the life of a many characters in a zombie apocalypse world, like how characters make decisions to survive. However, if there was a lesson on zombies in class and how people will survive if they were in an apocalypse I wouldn't be as interested because  in class we will have to sit an learn what the teacher wants us to learn and maybe right down notes for a grade.  But, if I am at home I have time to kick up my feet and enjoy.


The same thing with music. I remember one time I thought this Kendrick Lamar song was so goo it had a message telling everyone to love yourself because nobody else will love you like you love you. (The song is called real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66zZ_kgQ1Ng take a listen). So I'm thinking that the song is so good  and my dad never heard of Kendrick Lamar so I was like i'm just going to let my dad listen. Towards the end of the song my dad is like "There are a lot of curse words in it... Kendrick  says the N word a lot" (but this is coming from the same guy that listens to Wutang.)  Once  I  went back listen I noticed there were a lot of curse words and stuff  in the song. Another story was when I was in my dad's car and  my dad has a AUX cord, my dad suggested to me to play whatever I like... I didn't, I played some Bob Marley on Pandora  because I didn't want to sit in the car all awkward playing songs that I like because half the songs I like have curse words in it. However, later on once we were a little close to home he was like "Why are you playing reggae all this time" I was just like fine I play the songs I like and of course the song "IDFWU" came on by Big Sean and it had so many curse words in it I was like cringing because I was like this song had to play while I was on this trip back home with him.

It just goes to show one may seem more like entertainment and the other may ask you to do more thinking. Depending on where you see each one, you will experience each situation  differently.