Blog 7

1.     What modes does your text make use of?

1) Video, Dialogue, music, angle of camera, text, and, special effects

2) The audience is for young people who use smartphone. The author uses “We” a lot to emphasize that he is also a part of this community showing that he is not the perfect example of it. Using “We” and giving real world examples showing daily life there is a connection with the audience. Showing what he have experiences may have happened to you too. The phrase “looking in their eyes or the name on the screen” showed my that the audience must use technology.

2.     Authorial Identity:

A) The author uses examples of his life to assemble with the reader showing that he knows what it is going on to convince the reader that he has a point saying “Look up”.

B) He does not use I nor me, but he uses my. I think that he is showing his point of view.

3.     Purpose:

A) The author want to the world about the social issue given the modern technology, He wants us to think more carefully our behavior of over using it.

B) “I have 420 friends, yet I am lonely.” It is the first sentence of the video or text

C)  “Look up for your phone, shut down the display. Stop watching this video, live the life in the real way.” In the last sentence where he gives a summary of what is the video talking about.

4.     Does the author make use of outside research or secondary sources? If so, how and where?

                   No

5.     Organization:

A) First, the author shows his situation in front of the problem. Showing his struggling about the meaning of social and how the technology is affecting him. Then, in the video shows example of what are we losing by using the technology. In addition, he keeps talking about the problem and make the reader reflect about the problem.

B) He does not use exactly words to connect his idea. It is more a story telling, and using some of rhymes between the phrase to make the connection.

6.     Genre:

A) To persuade, convince people

B) Phone, computer, people talking, bus station with people, and social networking.

7.     Music and Sound:

A) It is a repeated music, with three simple tones. It give a impression of repeating over and over the problem.

B) Help you to pay attention on what he is talking and to catch the reader’s attention.

8.     Video:

A) It goes from the author talking to example of real life and back to the author. It is like the author bringing the problem and showing with the next video.

B) He uses a front angle and dark light when he is speaking. To show how lonely he is and he is surround by darkness.

C) He uses many disappear effects showing people that uses cellphone or any kind of technology are losing people or friends.

D) The effects show how impressive is the real world and what could be happening to us.

Instructions for the article for college students

-       Ingredients

Title

Heading

Date

Image

Outside sources

Steps

-       Decide which type of article I will be writing

-       Know the audience for the text

-       Find outside sources proving your statements

-       Find images that are related to the topic to reinforce the idea

-       Decided where to publish the article (how to attract your audience)

-       Organize the text the design

My critical question was “ given the modern technology what it does mean to be social?” I would like to address more information and how the use technology has damaged physically and emotionally the people.

I think my purpose is more to aware people of everything that it is going on with the use of the technology. To show people the bad effect of over using the technology remember our self of our nature of communication. I hope the people will think more about using this technology property. Showing the physical damage of the use of technology and the most important one the emotional. I think people are losing feeling and affection to each other. Therefore, I want to remind my audience the importance of our nature affection living in the modern society. My audience will be adults of 18 years ~ 25 years old. I would define them more as a UNL student or student in general. It can be all races, religion, gender and classes. All they have in common is the use the technology. I think it fit perfect because this generation is the one who most uses technology now.

I am thinking in making an article and a video. The genre will be more like to convince and persuade people. An article with specific numbers and show how critical is the situation. Using the video I will show some daily situation and reinforce the idea. The article will be more like just showing to people how unrealistic the problem that has become and most of the people do not notice it. The video will show how realistic it is the problem, using daily situations and real people. The modes that I am going to use are pictures, text, video, music, and dialogue. I hope I can find people to help me with the video. I do not know if we can pull videos from other videos to help my video. In addition, I think the conventions in my project will be smartphones and social networking. I am not sure if I understood the meaning of convention, but I think is more the items I will be using to show my ideas. I going to use the video “look up” as my text model (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY) it shows almost exactly of what I want to tell to my audience.

BLog 5

My critical question was “What it does mean to be social given the existence of modern technology?” I plan to study people from some restaurant, computer store, and some group work store that uses technology in their favor. The reason that I choose them because they have change through the time, restaurant and computer store they both were normal and with the advance of technology the one start to improve it and the other came to life. They will show me what this changed people and their interaction with the restaurant or the online computer costumer service. I am still thinking of how to answer my critical question. I think could how are their interaction with the people and the way that they use technology. I have a friend of friend working on a restaurant maybe I will go there for this project otherwise will be completely strangers. Go and ask when it is appropriate or see the opening hours.

-     How technology facilitated your life helping the costumers?

-     Would have more interaction with the costumers with technology or less interaction?

-     Have you see co-workers fired because of some technology?

If I will do the restaurant it might be during the lunchtime I will be seating on the table watching how the work together as a team and what are the interaction with other and costumers. I will be looking for the way that they manager the technology and their talking. I will use my camera to record the video if possible.

Blog 4

Part I

 The podcast about “Becoming Batman” and “Summer Camp” have similar ideas. Both are showing how people are trying to find their self in a group or how we assume that some people belong to a type of group. Therefore, some people assume that they are not good as other people. I think the main idea of this reading is to show for our next project the two type of writing that we can write, the ethnography, which describe as a group and the profile, which is a story of one person. For the “Becoming Batman” I think I heard more from the journalists. Since the podcast start by the journalist telling that a person with no vision are being their guild in the mountains, the journalist start to tell the story and sometimes it stopped to the interview to understand the real facts. On the other hand, “Summer Camp” It is more about the subject interviewed. In the “Summer Camp” I could feel the emotion of the kids being in the group and their passion of their teams. As I was listening I felt most of the describing scene in the “Summer Camp” sounds very familiar. “Now for me, for the first few weeks, what was tough about this was that I was really a nobody there. And I'd always be bringing up the rear, I'd always be kind of slow. And I wasn't showing myself to be macho, even though there were so many opportunities in a given day to prove yourself macho. I mean, we were always, for no apparent reason, running like crazy from one tree to another tree, or up some mountain. Every few minutes there was something you could be the best at. And I was never the best.” I think it is all boys in the world do when they are at some unknown place or out of the comfort zone. We try to catch attention for other people and mainly girls. It made me remember all camps that I have been. For the “ Becoming Batman” was very interesting for me because from the beginning I had no clue that what were spoken was something that I have already heard before. I have a blind friend from my high school and he told this story of the batman and how incredible he is. Therefore, I asked him if he would give a shot and learn that, but he said is too much for him. Therefore, after hearing the podcast I start to wonder if his parents gave him more expectation would he be different? The “Summer Camp” Is organized chronologically. I think is to show how times flies in the camp and every detail of the transition of hating the camp to loving the camp. For the “Becoming Batman” it is by the theme. It to show the difference between people, talk about what expectation can do to us humans, how a blind person can “see”, and etc. The idea of blind person can live as a normal person intrigued me a lot. I think the society has force to put us to think that people with deficiency has a role of someone who need help and support. Yes, they need that, but until what point? We have an amazing skills we are humans. I think the idea to take risk is very interesting and I hope I can gain the courage to do things that other people are afraid of.

Part ll

I would like to find a group of people who practice teamwork. I am a person who loves the feeling to fight together. Having people for my back and accomplishing tasks. Feel the glory and the joy together. However, if I find someone with an incredible background I may change my project to profile, instead of ethnography.

Mine main target might be one of mine classmate who is in a sport team, restaurant workers, people from the health center, cellphone store at union, and new student welcome team. I might want to know how is organized the team. Each person must have some sort of task and I want to know what this task it is and what he or she contributed to the team as a whole with his or her work. I think I have to pay a lot attention in how they interact to each other and mainly talk with the “boss” or leader to understand what everyone means to the company. In relation to my critical question I think that they could show me how the technology might have eliminated some of their co-workers or have made their work time much easier. In addition, what do they think about these changes?