Assignment 3-1

The Bachelor

The bachelor is American reality television dating show debuting in 2002 on ABC.The show airs on 10pm eastern/9pm central time. According to Wikipedia “The series was renewed until spring 2008”.Every day from 5 to 7pm, millions of Americans tune in to watch other people go on dates. (Petracca& Sorapure, 2007 pg.51)Why do people like to watch reality dating program?

Number one reason is it is fun to see other people getting rejected on television (Petracca& Sorapure, 2007 pg 51).Why is fun to see other facing humiliation? People feel connected due to sting of rejection in the past therefore we would like to see other suffer similar fate. It allows us to revile some of our past worse experience without any sense of personal risk. After all it gives better chance of tasting “dating water” without going on date. It is safe to watch from distance rather than getting involved and end up hook up with someone who turns out being complete a jerk. There is question of safety .There is a lot of disease of sexual diseases out there. Let’s not forget most these shows runs at the time most of us are just getting home from long day at work. Who has the energy after that to go on date? Therefore let someone else bare the humiliation for us.People on the show are just like us (Petracca &Sorapure, 2007 pg 51).By using real people and placing them in real situation allow to eliminate misconception from viewers that everything is being scripted .Instead viewers feel these stunt being the spontaneous events. However these people are more superficial because they know they are in front of camera, and they use more make up to look more beautiful.There are a lot hot guys and girls on the show (Petracca&Sorapure, 2007).There are attractive people on dating show trying to seduce each other so they act and dress in a very sex way. Furthermore it gives the viewers feeling that they are also in the date and be able to choose the criteria and screening of possible date mate.

There are important lessons to learn from this reality television show .You can learn dating world by watching other people’s mistake and improve your social skills.

In conclusion, I have a strong opinion about reality dating television. Let us be honest with ourselves how many people went to the show and really found their true love and end up in successful marriage ?I don’t think this is right way to find genuine true love .

Assignment 2-1

Global Positioning System (GPS)

GPS is a navigation and precise-positioning tool. Developed by the Department of Defense in 1973, it was originally designed to assist soldiers and military vehicles, planes, and ships in accurately determining their locations world-wide. Today, the uses of GPS have extended to include both the commercial and scientific worlds.

To me the GPS ability to navigate through map and communicate a direction to a user within just short period of time I found to be very irresistible, and this is reason why I chose it for my weekly analysis.

There are so many added advantages using GPS. It lessens our daily commute. We can use it during long trip vacation and not worry about printing driving direction or getting lost.

My concern when comes to electronic gadgets is we have become too much dependable and attach to them to point that can’t function without it. This is bad to our brain function especial memory. How far are willing to go with this addiction? .Do we them trust this device? Are we sure they are all accurate all the time? These are some of personal question we need to ask ourselves.

Source:
http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/gps1.htmce

Assignment 2-2

ICON ANALYSIS: MICKEY MOUSE, AMERICAN IDLE, BILLY COSB SHOW
Mickey Mouse is a comic and animated cartoon character which became an icon for the Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. I chose this icon is because I grew up watching this program during my childhood. This icon has popular culture influences among American Families. Mickey Mouse is most recognized character in America. It has starred in many video game includes Mickey Mousecapade, Nintendo Entertainment Systems Mickey Mania and etc.
American Idol is a singing reality television competition show airing on Fox channel. It debuted on June 11, 2002 since then it has become one of the most popular television shows in American. The program seeks to discover the best singer in the country through a series of nationwide auditions. The program features three judges who give critique to contestant: Pop singer and choreographer Paul Abdul, music producer Randy Jackson, off course notorious music executive Simon Cowell. I chose American Idol because I like this show. This is family show. It gives young talented male and female a platform to perform live and to be critiqued by judges. The winner gets huge record deal.
The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom show starring Bill Cosby first airing on September 20th, 1984 and running for eight seasons on the NBC network, until April 30th 1992. The show focused on the middle class African-American family living in a brownstone building in Brooklyn New York. I picked for my icon analysis because I grow up idolizing the character of this sitcom. I remember how it looked so cool to be college student. The show portray positive image among African American families. It gave hope to American dream. Hard work and education key to success.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosby_Show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_mouse

Assignment 1-2

Each and every one of us has experience popular culture in one way or another unless you isolate yourself and live in another planet. Popular culture is part of our learning environment. You can absorb popular culture at home watching television, listening to radio, reading magazine, walking on the street, going to the movies, dance clubs, night clubs, gym, beauty spas, while shopping at mall and etc. (Petracca& Sorapure, 2007, p. 1)

Popular culture is part of our daily lives represents everything from artifacts, institution, gadgets, video game, food, cloth, taste and knowledge shared by society.

Popular culture is large driven by the taste. By the way this is fundamental difference with general culture. A taste in popular culture means we choose product, art form or entertainment base on satisfaction we get from it.

What makes popular culture so unique is its transitory nature. New image appears everyday replacing customary popular image. According to Petracca& Sorapure (2007)” unknown entertainer becoming celebrities while popular one quickly fading” (p. 4). Beyonce takes place of Britney, who took place of Madonna .New television show replacing traditional shows. For instance the television show “bachelor” replace “Change of Heart”.

Popular culture is most useful tool for planning and decision making in business environment. Remember popular culture is largely driven by taste. By understanding of society taste, preference and choice we can determine production, distribution and consumptions of the arts and artifacts. With deeper understanding other peoples culture and taste will enhance my tolerance .It will create peaceful working environment for me and enhance my respects for others.

I Pod one of artifacts and my favorites gadgets. The IPod is a popular brand of portable media player designed and marketed by Apple Inc. Current product line-up includes the hard drive-based iPod classic, the touch screen iPod touch, the video-capable iPod nano, the screen less iPod shuffle and the iPhone. Being huge music fans and I download a lot music file. With I Pod I can transfer my music file from my computer. I can carry it with me whenever I go. I can listen to it while walking, at gym while exercise, lunch break at work. I can carry it with me whenever I go.

So what is popular culture then? This is fair question to ask ourselves. The truth is it is difficult to define popular culture. With elements of culture helps us to define it. Popular culture is elements of our daily life. Just like anything popular culture is subject to change and can be trace to specific era of life.

Assignment 1-4

Should My space Held Responsible for Teen Sex Offenders?


My space is a social network that connects people online for interaction. It is fun place to catch up with old friends, chatting with your buddies or even hooking for casual dating. You can post on your profile video, picture, and music. You can allow user to visit your page and leave you comment or can add your name as friend.

Over the past years, there have been tremendous complaints against the websites owners due increasing number of teen sexual offenders. Public have mix opinion when comes to this topic. There are those who think My Space should be held responsible to provide safety for teenagers who are huge fans of my space. And there is other group who thinks parent should have parental control over online social network and monitored their children online activities.

In my opinion both these two groups have valid point. Technology like anything has pro and corns. Technology has so many good sides when comes to life. But there are few who use technology badly and spoil the good intentions. I am talking about sex offenders giving bad name to my space. So far security measure has been taken to eliminate this problem. Age disclosure including your birthday is required when joining my space. It is true my space alone cannot solve this problem .Parent should be more involve and monitor children online activity. There is available software that can block children from visiting unauthorized website. Parent should use this software.

Work Cited
https://networkingsecurity.blog.asu.edu/2007/02/16/my-opinion-about-myspace-safety/?triedWebauth=1nce.