Madeline's Blog

The couple I chose to talk about is Troy and Gabrielle from High School Musical. In the movies they are the "perfect couple" that gets through everything together. In every movie they have at least one obstacle they over come together. Their relationship is sort of teaching us that everything isn't always going to be smooth and easy. They also show us that being together isn't always easy, they have many people trying to break them up, or get in between their relationship for various reasons! Although as a couple they do have some truths in their relationship to real life, its also very fake. Not many people stay with one person all throughout high school and college. Its also rare that you meet someone one time and suddenly you're like in love with them! Those kind of things, set us up for having way too high of hopes and dreams..which goes into fake love. Disney movies are a really bad culprit of depicting fake love, they make it seem so easy and carefree. When ...

Brand identity is the way we judge others by what they're wearing and the way certain types of clothing or certain brands have the stigma for the people that wear them. It's becoming an issue because we will often judge people and sometimes judge them harshly because of what they are or aren't wearing! For example when we talked about basketball shorts in class, we often associate that will athletic or sporty people. Or when we see people with luxury brands draped all over their body, we assume they have a good amount of money. And I think the worst part is that we do subconsciously, its just an automatic response when we see people, we may not judge verbally, but we all do it inside our heads! A store that I typically shop at is Buckle, it targets teens and young adults. Their clothes aren't relatively cheap, they sell a lot of expensive jeans like rock revival and other brands that are similar. The brand identity of Buckle is sort of people who are willing to spend t...

In the report from the CNN, the news anchors explained how wrong it was that people outed her to the public. Exposing her for being a porn star is one thing but exposing where she lives, what her email and phone number is, is an invasion of her privacy. They also discussed how it was ironic that they were slut shaming her and calling her every name in the book. The anchors also mentioned that there is an obvious fear of sexuality, which is part of the reason a lot of people are attacking her about it.  On the CNN report they had Michelle Golland video in and she thought that the student was a "bad bitch." Golland also explains that she has control of her sexual life and she gets to chose what she does with it. although the report does support her in some aspects, they also kind of attack her. They mentioned how it was wrong that she was constantly lying to her parents about it. So it seems that there is a lot of mixed emotions abut expressing sexuality and participating in po...

The first video we watched in class talked about Justin Bieber and his photo shopping incident with Calvin Klein. His "package" and muscles looked as if they were blown up or made larger, than in a picture released. The picture that had been released claimed to have been the original photo. Now in the video they said that Justin and his team completely denied the fact that it might have been photo shopped! The image of celebrity is to pretty much be perfect in all aspects, and that's what I think the hosts of the video were trying to address. Celebrities aren't always perfect, everyone has flaws, but who are we to criticize that. On a another note usually when celebrities get caught being photo shopped they usually either release the original photo themselves. Or they admit that it was photo shopped and move on. It's no secret that most photo shoots have some type of photo shop, especially when it comes to underwear shoots like CK. It's known to most people th...

Some basic ideas of cultivation theory are, that over time television alters our perception. Which I think means that the more we see something, the more normalized and the more fearful we become of something awful happening to us. This applies to the video "How We See Violence" because in the video John Oliver talks about how torture is constantly shown on TV shows and movies, and in those programs torture always works. It becomes normalized to us, which connects back to the cultivation theory that Gerbner discusses. I also think that hearing the word violence or torture, is different than explaining how that person was killed, or how that person was tortured. In the video with John Oliver, he read a few parts of a book written about torturing people the government believed to have information about terrorists. When you start hearing exactly what they did to that individual it makes you stop and think, how could we do this to someone, especially someone that could turn out ...

To start off I want to explain what BIRGing and CORFing are. BIRGing is basking in reflected glory, while CORFing is cutting off reflected failure. Most fans of any sort of game will participate in both of these at some point without even knowing. In the video when they talked about the Carolina Panthers putting cabanas and pools in their stadium, Steven Colbert was quick to judge. He mentions that they should focus more attention on other part of the stadium like the football field, rather than putting in pools for spectators. While sort of bashing the team, he is CORFing, simply because he's demonizing this team. He's also blaming the fact that since they spend so much time on silly things like pools, is the reason they don't have that good of a team!  Now if you're a Carolina panther fan getting pools and cabanas is just the beginning of your BIRGing binge. Suddenly this gives panther fans the option to start bragging and comparing the panther stadium to other sta...