Blog Critique

Smile please

This is a blog that provides laughter and humour to people on a daily basis.  The Blog ‘’Smile Please’’ is full with different types of jokes provided from followers, family member and close friends of the creator/writer.

Although this was one of my favourite blogs, the one thing I would recommend to the blogger is to add a little more color and perhaps pictures as well. This blog is easy to navigate, quickly to read and the grammar in it was great, which is what I enjoyed about it.

 

The Hot Dog Truck

This blog helps people and provides them with information on how to open a Hot Dog Truck business. When I read this blog, I realize how you can really write about anything you want or classified your blog as anything at all. I found the blog weird but what brought my attention to it was the fact that it was different from all the previous blogs I had seen that day.

What I liked about it was that the information provided was surprisingly very helpful for someone who is trying to open this type of business.  Another aspect of the blog that I enjoyed was the over-all design because it really represented the blogs theme.

Types of Mass Media

The following video represents entertaining media. It is classified as entertaining because it attracts out attention by making us sometimes laugh or cry or even learn something new at times. This media is big in business because we humans enjoy watching commercials, videos, movies and programs that increase our mood in different ways.
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The next type of video is classified as Advertising and public relations messages. These types of messages can be shown on TV commercials and news papers. They encourage us to buy products on the market or join activities or clubs etc.
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The type of media that shows us images we come to accept as normal behavior or type of appearance. As years go by this type of media seems to grow more and more. What people use to consider as improper behavior is now consider to some people as normal behavior.
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The next type of media is the type of media that help us expand our personal experiences. This can be any type of media that shows us different parts of the world without us needing to be there. People watch these TV programs mostly because of curiosity.
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There is also the type of media that informs us of what is going on nationally and internationally. These can type of information can be accessible by news, news papers, and TV shows like National Geographic as well.
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The last type of media is what we think about and talk about with friends or family the most trough out the day. Is the the type of media that influence us. The following movie trailer would be an example.
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What is Media Literacy?

These two video documentaries explain how media literacy is about analyzing and accessing today’s news. It shows us the two trends of media; the corporatism/consolidation/centralization media and the diversity/localism/independent type of media. Producers explain how media is starting to affect people’s way of living in both good and bad ways and how we should focus more in the diversity/localism/independent type of media.

 The problem happening now in the media marketing is that some producers will do and advertise anything in order to make a profit. Media Producers are now trying to find a way to increase the number of people accessing the diversity/localism/independent type of media. Producers, journalists, public speakers and teachers, are now coming up with ideas to attract people’s attention into media that will help us understanding the role and relationship with society which is a very important fact in order to being a good consumer.

My expectations for this year are to learn more about what is going on around the world and how people are reacting to these events.