2 posts tagged “media fast”
In addition, Bansky totally ninja-ed Paris.
I wish I had more energy to write about the Bansky's brilliance and my admiration for his work but I am swamped with Marshall Mcluhan and exhausted.
(p.s. I'm not doing very well on this media fast. But, I think I'll have a good enough argument for class so I'm not too concerned)
(p.p.s.s. Suri is real. Or someone is really good at making babies in photoshop.)
I attended my very first course of the semester this morning which has already launched my semester into an interesting twist. The course is 'Mass Media and Society', a cross-over class under both the Media Studies department (which is one of my majors) and the Sociology department. Our very first assigment (along with the reading of Mcluhan and Zengotita) is to have a week long 'Mass Media fast' in which we are encouraged to strictly avoid all forms of Mass Media for an entire week, recording our successes, faults, and responses in a week long journal. The only acceptable condition in which we can engage with 'mass mediated' vehicles is if we need them for academic or job-related purposes. If we are under the condition where we 'cheat', then we need to be honset about it and record it.
I could start this assignment by making a smart-ass argument that as a
Media Studies major I am under academic necessity to expose myself to
all aspects of Media on a daily basis and that the same effect of the
assignment could be achieved by recording every single mass mediated
action. Then again, I am in need to develop that argument further
before I decide to entirely blow off the assignment (which could come
off as unfavorable in the eyes of my professor). Regardless, this
post is my first cheat of the 'fast' so there may be a temporary lull
in my vox activity for the next week or so. My second cheat will
come later when I will play We Love Katamari and watch a documentary
with the boyfriend (who is only visiting for another few days) later on
this evening. Furthermore, tomorrow I am attending an orientation
for my internship this semester that, under the line of business it is
associated, woudl qualify my very standing in the building as exposing
myself to mass media. That action I can at least relate to job
and/or academic necessity.
I am, however, more interested in determining the limits and bounds of
what can be defined as 'mass media' for this assignmett at this point
as opposed to the actual fast of media. We will see what happens
later on in the week.
