Medium Analysis Possibilities

I was thinking about what possible mediums that I could look at when it came to the medium analysis project. I was possibly thinking of using:

1. Facebook
2. Texting
3. Youtube
4. Wikipedia
5. Netflix or some other movie watching service online,

I feel that these mediums would be important to look at because of the popularity and the amount of incorportation that people have allowed in their everyday lives.

Discource Communites

Discourse communities are a type of "community" that have a common goal, which communicate through language, but don't necessarily meet in person. For instance a few of the ones I am invlolved in are:

- Facebook
- Youtube
- IMDB.com (Internet Movie Database)
- Amazon.com

In  The case of Facebook, my friends and I use it to communicate with one another as well as meet new people or connect with those who we have lost touch with a while ago. For instance, I have friends on my FB that are from my old school in Denver, where i used to live. We all use this site to communicate with one another and keep in touch even though we are in different parts of the country or we just don't hang out in person that much.

In the case of IMDB, these are a group of people that like to read, rate, and comment on films past, present and future. There are message boards, a rating system 1 to 10, and a comment/review section. We all have the common goal to read about new films, and write what we honestly think about them; even though there are "trolls" on this site, it's still quite fun to be on this website for informational as well as personal reasons.

U.S. War Propaganda

In class last week, we looked at posters that were made during the WWI and WWII eras. There was one in particular that really made me think, it was one of Hitler and I assume Tojo (The Japanese dictator at the time. They were both giants and had evil looks on their faces. Both were standing over the U.S. Hitler was holding a gun and the Japanese man had a bloody knife. I find it interesting the choice of weapons that were picked for this poster. Germany was renowned for its' firepower, and Japan was know to be a "savage" people, there are even stories written from soldiers stating that Japanese soldiers cut open the wombs of pregnant women. Overall I find the poser somewhat comedic, mainly because of the look on their faces, as well as very American. It isn't really that affective today, but back then I'm sure it did pretty well itself.