Nosedive Reaction Post

Lets get "Liked"

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When does actual life get replaced by virtual life 

The series Black Mirror depicts the lives of a girl in her early adulthood just trying to make a living for herself. Unfortunately, she lives in a world where social media dictates all and virtuality is essentially how you survive. Your popularity levels in real life are based on your star level and if you are liked by all you're likely to be in the 4-5 star region, now if you are not popular and or genuine your rates may do down to even as low as 1 and well thats worse than anything in this world. The first episode nosedive sets the stage for the series, we see the main characters life take a turn for the absolute worst. She is literally nosediving all the way down to the ground. By this I mean that she starts off at a high rate, people like her, she's friendly and has great potential. Slowly, the rating scale takes over her life and soon she is doing irrational things simply to create a facade about her life when the reality of it all is that her life is in actual shambles. Overall, the episode was great and extremely informational. Black Mirror is a great series and definitely highlights some aspects of social media that shouldn't totally be ruled out in the world we live in. 

Digital Writing Style + Licensed Image Reaction Post About Privacy Issues

Digital Writing Style + Licensed Image Reaction Post About Privacy Issues

One Double Tap Away From a Big Mistake

   

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The amount of harm a photo sharing app actually has 

Privacy in social media is an outstanding issue in modern day society. Top newspaper companies such as NY Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal all have numerous articles involving this topic. The reason as to why this is an issue is because of safety issues. The algorithms used for these social media sites can be so misleading and through a matter of clicks you can end up on a completely different post, video, and or tweet. Even though social media is making its way into our day to day society that does not mean that we are still as safe and secure as we were maybe a decade or so ago. According to New York Times, "The primary problem with today’s social networks is that they’re already too big, and are trapped inside a market-based system that forces them to keep growing" (Roose,2018). What this means is that societies no matter how much they would like to keep the public safe it is simply inevitable and the slowing down of social media is very unlikely to happen. One website that is particularly dangerous is Instagram  Now it may seem that Instagram is just a social media site to upload your best pictures, funniest videos, and maybe even a meme every now and again. Yet, as of late Instagram has started promoting all sorts of companies. They range from clothing,food, advertisements  and pretty much anything the public eye would want to see. Yet, on every account there are different sponsored ads that appear. It is often joked around about these ads that are popping up on your screen are modified and specially picked based on either your past instagram searches, something you may have liked or commented on. The moral behind this is that individuals are feeling strange because instagram is coming up with sponsered ads that you know have applied to you lately. This leads to the issue of privacy and safety. Is instagram really just harmless or is the site simply a tactic to obtain peoples personal information to try and manipulate what ads they see? All in all, all social media sites are used by the public and all are eliminating the essence of privacy in any individuals life. 

Podcast Recording

We don't give a Funk 

Episode 1 

"Lets Get Funky" 

PodCast Plan

Thursday, April 12^th 2018

Podcast Planning

We Don’t Give a Funk Podcast series

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1-  The format series we will use for our Blog Series is garage band. We find this tool to be much more useful as oppose to audacity, sound cloud, and or any other platform for voice recording. The reason behind this is because it allows to embed audio files from YouTube, as well lets us do tricks with the sound such as fades in and fades out. Overall, garage band is easily accessible and simple to use.

2  2- Our log line for our series is “We don’t give a Funk”.

3   3-  Episodes

1    1. Let’s get Funky 

- First episode is a brief overview of the series. Our guest Bryan gave us his input on how he perceives music today and how it has changed throughout the centuries.

 2. Banging out the Beat

            - Where we will discuss how drumming is a vital component to music and how important it is today to modern day artists.

3.  Composition is kickin

            - We will discuss the composition of music and the transitions it has gone through in regards to technological advancement. For example, before when a live band was necessary in order to record and now in days everything is accessible through clicks on a laptop.

4.  Tribal vibes

            - Discussing how music was first heard and interpreted though the first type of composition.

5. Lets get classy

            - We will talk about the music from the classical era, and compare composers such as Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart.

6. Lets blues it up in the 20s

            - How the evolution of Jazz, Blues, and soul music came about in the roaring 20s.

7. Swinging to the king

            - Talking about the 40’s and 50’s decade and how popular swing music came to be. Alongside this the rise and ruling of the king himself, Elvis Presley.

8. From hippie to disco

            - All about 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s music. How the world went from Woodstock to Abba in a matter of decades.

9. Various performances

            - Modern music today and how the world resonates with music. This is shown through music festivals and the impact is has on a person’s beliefs, emotions, and sense of self.

10. Rap and Hip-Hop Today

            - The most modern wave of music and how much of an influence artists have on culture and on the younger generations.

Discussion

1- Introduction

2- How has music evolved throughout history?

3-  Has the essence of music been lost throughout the years?

4-  The different types of music

5- Conclusion

Introduction

How are you doing guys, we are We don’t give a Funk, I am your host Matt, I am Crazy Court, I'm Ash, sup I'm Bryan, and were going to be talking about how music has changed throughout history and how it has invoked emotion and how it has completely defines what we stand for as a generation and the changes throughout history.

Conclusion

That’s all we have for today guys. We are We don’t give a Funk, I am Matt, I am Court, I am Ash. Thanks for tuning in we will see you next time!

Host: Matheus Malafaia, Courtney Glynn, Ashley Macias.

Special guest: Brian De Costa

4-Produce a Sample Episode- “Lets Get Funky”

5-Live Pitch Session- In class

6- Our podcast will be successful in the marketplace for numerous reasons. It is modern and relatable. The topic is upbeat and entertaining. The topic is something everyone who cares about music should have some basic knowledge about what they are listening to and how it got to that point. Overall, it is a funky podcast.

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Digital Style Writing Template For Post 

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PodCast Review

SERIAL PODCAST 

                                                          

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Caption: Serial Podcast Overview 

Serial is a story telling podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig. She was also apart of the popular podcast known as "This American Life", and just like that is is also produced in Chicago. This podcast tells a story of a high school disappearing in the year 1999. Season one depicts the course of a six week investigation and it ends when her ex boyfriend is arrested for her murder. Although, he says he is innocent the evidence still needs to be fact checked. The course of the podcasts follow a story line that goes with the entirety of her disappearing/murder mystery. My own thoughts about this blog is that I enjoyed it because of the story like telling. It was not so much factual instead almost someone simply retelling you a story. Overall, I enjoyed listening to this podcast and I wouldn't mind listening to season 2 of the Serial Series. 

Chapter 5 Blog Post

Chapter 5 Post 

                                                       

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                                     Caption: Social Media in Advertising & Marketing 

This chapter emphasized how important social media usage is in the marketing and advertising world. For starters, marketing and advertising is the promotion of a product and or company. Social media impacts this in numerous ways for example, coverage is one aspect. By this I mean that social media enables something to be spread like wildfire in a matter of seconds. Also social media enables repetition and it is a common fact that the more someone sees something the higher likelihood that the person will remember the product. One other interesting factor explained in this chapter was how important reviews are on websites. This is known as earned exposure. This occurs when someone enjoys the product and or company and takes the time out of their personal life to comment about it on social media. Lets face it how often does anyone do anything without checking the reviews first! This applies to restaurants, travel destinations, technology, even towns and districts. This is one of the many ways social media impacts advertising and marketing. While this particular topic interested me there were other points discussed in the chapter that were extremely interesting such as a EWOM, strategic planning, and search engine optimization. All in all, this chapter is crucial to using social media the correct  way.