In every art form there will be great things and will be things not worth listening to...Just like Hip Hop has them there are alot of other forms as well!!

Hip Hop, Mass Media and 21 Century Colonization. Dr Jared Bell's

Things I understood.
I liked this reading it was about Hip Hop, Mass Media and 21 Century Colonization. Dr Jared Bell's address Hip Hop and how to him it has become colonized. Bell argues, “Like mass media and popular culture, hip-hop too is often removed from its proper context as the cultural expression of a domestically-held internal colony otherwise known as Black America”. Black culture is a culture of creativity, of intelligent, athletic, successful and economically strong people. It is a culture of overcoming all obstacles. Rap music is an example of black cultural production. I agree that Rap music is linked to black culture, because when rappers write their songs they are telling stories, stories of how is it to live their lives, a black urban life. By taking on the identity of the observer or narrator, rappers use rap as a way of expressing themselves, their way of life, their style and culture, and their reality to contemporary America. That makes rap an expression, Like rapper Jay-z said in the song “come and get it”, “I brought the suburbs to the hood, made them relate to our struggle”; by all theses cultures watching, and adopting black culture, the hip hop style and the way of life becomes not only a black culture, but a culture that is reflected in many cultures. With that said, Do I feel like hip hop is the reason why we are having shooting in schools?, or the reason why black women or women in general are being looked down upon. NO NOT AT ALL!! I feel like in every art or expression there will be violence and arguer, and why is it we don’t hear about the other forms of expressions the reflect on violence. For example opera, like Michael Dyson said it is about murder and insets. In every art form there will be great things and will be things not worth listening to. I just don’t think it’s fair to generalize hip hop, when this problem goes a lot deeper then hip hop music.

Things I don’t understand
• I understood the reading.

Connections
• Often the images in videos can have an impact on teenagers and how they feel about themselves. A lot like the media and the magazine add we looked at before.

Questions
• Have we really didn’t are search on hip hop? If so what did we find while searching this art form.

MICHAEL DYSON GREAT SPEAKER/WRITER



PLAY ME! GREAT EXAMPLE OF BLACK CUlTURAL PRODUCTION Common - U Black, Maybe

McMillan & Morrison Coming of age with the Internet

Kaima Dunbar

I found this reading very interesting and it made me think about my relationship with the internet. “While some informants found the internet allowed for the creation of a new persona that could be accepted “as is”, others found that the new self they had developed through their online activities was alienated.”(Coming of age with the internet pg. 78) I remember my earlier years of becoming a teenager I was very addicted to the internet to be exact teen chat rooms. Just like Brian brother Mark in one of the interviews, I and my friends would spend hours online to the point I was on the computer all night. Just like Mark we all had different online identities. I don’t think this is very healthy for developing minds. But on the other hand, “the experience of personal development through online media use was primarily positive. Some saw it as a natural and necessary part of human evolution: I think people were born to enjoy interactivity and love communicating interactively.” (Coming of age with the internet pg. 80) I also agree and can relate to that statement as well. I feel like the internet is one of the best parts of new technology and for people who don’t know how to use the internet it can be a big disadvantage when applying for jobs or even job hunting these days.


Questions/Comments

In this day and age we have to learn how to use the internet; it’s a big part of society. But with so many of are adolescent becoming addicted, where do we draw the line?

Links

http://www.netaddiction.com/

The Tangle of Discourses by Rebecca Raby

Things I Understood

This passage was hard to understand for me it was because of the wording. But from what I did understand. Raby has five discourses that she feels molds ideas of teens in society: the storm, becoming, at-risk, social problem, and pleasurable consumption. “The determination to establish separate identities and to demonstrate their independence, one way or another, from their parents’ world, often brands teenagers as potential troublemakers in the public and we think the worst.”(Raby pg 436) I believe Raby is trying to say, that often we tell are teens who to be and how to act with discourses. “A discourse refers to a set of meanings, metaphors, representations, images, stories, statements and so on that in some way together produce a particular version of events” (Raby pg 430) From what I understood of these discourses are imbedded into adolescent experience from the outside by “professional positions who hold a particular authority and thus create knowledge about certain subjects” (Raby pg 430).

Things I didn’t Understand

I believe that I understood the passage, after reading it carefully. I just felt like the way the passage was worded was hard to understand.

Imbedded link http://www.canada.com/life/parenting/Teen+girls+fashion+tightrope/1506573/story.html

Media Literacy

Kaima Dunbar

“Media literacy is the process of analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms.” I’m not sure how advertisers put together these advertisements, but it seems like their intention is to not only sell the product but to control the minds of the viewers. Advertisements are everywhere; we are overwhelmed with all these messages the media is sending through ads everyday. Buy this, sell that, works faster, saves money, be beautiful, be thin, look cool, and media has different ways of sending these messages. “The physical separation of the races in the ultra segregated United States combines with seeming intimacy of MTV and videos to give a large field for adolescent fantasies of sex and violence” ( Roediger 89). This is just another form of marketing to teens, we get message from not only ads but music, videos, and are peers. There were so many ads out there with crazy intentions and misleading messages. Advertisements target every race, gender and class; advertising has no prejudice. It’s something we all need to be educated about, so we don’t fall into the hype. Jean Kilbourne identifies the problems in advertisement, hoping we take action as a nation.

comments
With all the great Media Literacy available to us,why is it a big percentage of teens are not awear of the medias messages?