Signifier-Signified

1. The music. This music gives off a feeling of unease and signifies that Mitt Romney is not the right guy.

2. The Penny. This could signify that Mitt Romney needs to be more like Abe Lincoln, a better president.

3. The "Gun Owners Beware" ad attacking Mitt Romney. This lists things that Mitt Romney has wanted to implement in our laws. This could signify that he is unconstitutional.



1. The gun in the beginning. This gun appears to be placed in the ad pointing at the watcher. This could be trying to get the message across subliminally. Making the watcher think that they will become a victim of gun violence if they do not vote for Gary Johnson.

2. The music track. Very eerie music track. Sets the tone for a problem. This could signify that there is a problem that needs fixing.

3. The crime scene tape. This could be intended to scare the watcher in the same method as number 1. Making the watcher think they could become a victim. But there is no gun pointed at their face this time. They are in the perspective of looking at the crime scene. Maybe a family member harmed or killed?




1. The commentary. At some points the commentator talks in a southern or "redneck" accent, also says words like "aint." This could signify that the ad is being centered towards country people and Harry Bertram likes country folk.

2. The song. Country Roads is being played throughout the ad. Another signifier that could appeal to the "redneck" audience and Harry Bertram likes the small town country people.

3. The ending video. This could signify that Harry has a sense of humor, and that was put there for a lasting impression to remember the ad.

Psychoanalysis....Alien

When watching the Alien movies as a kid I never noticed all of the sexual subtexts. Now watching it again recently and reading this article, it made me think. It really has a lot of sexual undertone.

Ripley has many scenes where she is barely clothed, and I noticed a lot of pornographic posters in rooms of the ship. Also the craziest of them all when Ash could have killed Ripley in many, many other ways. He decied to roll up a magazine and stuff it down her throat.......Yeah. No words need to be said, you know what I'm talking about. Lastly when Lambert is trapped up agaist a wall, the Alien seems to being playing with her, its tail moving around between her legs before finally killing her.

Now if knowing stuff like this is making people money and helping them get through life. Maybe more people should take up Media Studies and learn the way!

Social Subjectivity

I have never really thought about this whole topic of why computer voices are mostly female until read this actricle. And once I began to think about it, I wonder how I have never noticed this before? I can't even think of one piece of technology that has a male voice, but I don't have to use or hear thee technologies often.
The only piece of technology that I own that has a voice is a GPS and it is a female. Now hearning this female voice all the time, It's really starting to get annoying. I kind of wish I had  male voice to switch things up a bit. It might be that the female voice in technology is more high pitched and stands out more. (referenced in te article)
It's not the fact that I'm just annoyed at the female voice in general, It's just that we all need a little variety sometime. And hearing the same robotic female voice every day has to get old. And these being designed to have a higher pitched voice to get attention is probably one of the factors of annoyance.

Cyberculture

I would have never thought that almost everyone in the world that uses technology would be categorized into cyberculture, until reading "Why Cybercultire?" by David Bell.

Cyberculture is more than just using the internet and other technologies. We use these things to intereact with each other and we form bonds online. We create terminology that is used online, such as abreviated meanings, like "lol (laughing out loud)." And this online terminology eventually makes it way out into the "real" world. People start using online terminology in everyday life, and I have noticed that it has become more prevalent in recent years.

"Sitting at a computer logged into the Internet, for example, we are constantly clicking between the embodied sensations of staring at the screen and typing and the disembodied dream of surfing cyberspace as uploaded consciousness, but also connecting to other stories, other images and ideas-for example, ideas about the "world wide web" as a free source of information on an infinite multitutde of topics, or ideas about the new forms of connectivity between people that the Internet has provided."

This quote from the arcticle says it all. The Internet has opened up a whole new world for us to become a part of. A new culture where everyone is accepted and is just as important as any culture in the material world.

Song Airlines and Eisenhower.

After comparing these two advertising campaigns: Song Airlines and Eisenhower's election campaign, I have found out that one of these advertisers have succeeded more than the other.

Delta Airlines basically went bankrupt and needed a new name to pull them out of failure and start new with success. So they created Song Airlines to hopefully save them from the mess that they were in.

This "new" airline would appeal to a different audience that has never been catered to in the airline business. This audience was women. The Song airline ads relied on a more of an emotional experience to suck consumers in, rather than an outright explanation of the services provided for the consumers. Pathos was used in this campaign and I really didn't see any ethos or logos. I felt that this advertisement was not very strong at all.

Now on the other hand, the Eisenhower campaign was more sturdy than the Song Airlines advertisement. The Eisenhower campaign had pathos, logos and ethos. Boosting up Eisenhower and appealing to the common people of the United states. Telling them they are not going to pay higher taxes anymore in spite of WWII being over. Now this advertisement is way more successful than the Song Airlines campaign. 

The 'New' Facebook (Comm 203)

I don't really like the 'new' Facebook in terms of privacy issues. I really don't want anyone to know which songs I'm listening to or what videos I may have watched that day.
But on the contrary It's not actually a problem at all. All of the sites that let you link your activities to Facebook don't require you to sign in with your Facebook.
Unless there are some internet sites that I don't know about that only allow people to access their site with your Facebook login information.
So I don't think that this will ever be a problem in the future unless it becomes required to have a Facebook to access certain internet sites and enjoy its content.

Cracked

I personally think that the cracked blog, "5 Bad Ideas for Dealing With Bullies You Learned In Movies" is definitely one blog that was written outside of the box. Some parts of it made me laugh a little bit and that was  with the cussing, but that was about it.
I really don't see no real harm in presenting different material every now and then, so I think it was alright to do considering they stick to their old formula and write these different blogs not so often.
I don't think that cracked will suffer too greatly from this blog, but for future reference I think they should stick to funny stuff and stray from the serious topics.