Archive for October, 2008

Net Neutrality

October 7, 2008

There have been debates about war, there have been debates about poverty, there have been debates about education, but the most common and current one is the debate about The Internet. There are two sides to this argument, you can either think it is an invasion of privacy or it is a source of quick and [...]

Walking in a Media Wonderland

October 7, 2008

It was 8:30 am and I got up off my Ikea bed to turn off the radio alarm that was playing Pizza Pizza commercials. I than opened my closet and was rustling through my shelves of name brand clothing when I finally picked out American Eagle jeans and an Abercrombie and Fitch sweater, and picked [...]

Info-nation

October 6, 2008

Oh the Internet, where to begin… 
There have been several debates as to whether the internet is a good or bad thing and there are valid arguments for both sides. Personally, the Internet has drastically changed my life in both good and bad ways; I see it as being on a greyscale.
The Internet allows me to [...]

Just Keep Going and Going…

October 6, 2008

As I was flipping through the Cosmopolitan, October 2008 edition, magazine, I realized that many of us do not even think of the amount of thought advertisers put into what they are trying to sell. Cosmopolitan is a magazine that is directed towards females in their late teens to mid twenties. Every advertisement in this [...]

Closer Together or Further Apart?

October 6, 2008

I was walking around the University of Guelph campus a few days back and I actually took a look at the people around me. Out of the fifteen people that I focused on, thirteen of them were on their cell phones. Cell phones are a form of communication that are at your fingertips. Did you [...]