We Are At War!

The Iraq war. Completely and utterly pointless. What was the point of the war? To get back at Iraq? It was just a few selected men that caused the suffering in the United States, not the whole nation. So why did they have to go to war? Bush probably wanted to invade Iraq and Afghanistan [...]

The American Presidential Election

It came down to black vs. white, Democrat vs. Republican. The fight for President was a tough one, but in the end the winner was Barack Obama, leader of the Democrats!
There were many disputes over the fact that Obama was black. That was the reason many didn’t vote for him, and that was the reason [...]

Culture Jamming

Culture Jamming is when an individual tries to move away from a mass society. One example of this is The Bubble Project. The Bubble Project is a projects that aims to fight against the biased ideologies of the media, especially marketing advertisers. They place blank comic-like speech bubbles on printed advertisements all around the city allowing [...]

Buy Nothing Day

Buy Nothing Day. The title itself is quite self explanatory. This day is designed to create awareness about over consumption. But I think it is a stupid waste of time. Sure it creates awareness, but what is it really solving? By not purchasing anything we are stopping our economy which will only hurt businesses and [...]

National Media Education Week?

For the week of November third to the seventh, educators across Canada were supposed to create awareness about media literacy. I think they failed.
The only reason I knew about “National Media Education Week” was because I had to write this blog and Professor Lipton had mentioned it in lecture. Other than that, there was nothing [...]

Disneymania

Disney is taking over the world!
It really could be. It is one of the largest media corporations out there. They own a part of almost every, if not every, form of media and attraction. Disney started off producing cartoons for short films and than quickly branched off into television shows, larger film productions, record labels, [...]

Net Neutrality

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

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

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…

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 [...]