Television

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Description: The video is showing how many social sites are out there now and how society

Chapter 2: Media Impact
Question: Is it hard to keep up with the friends now that there are more social networks out.

Answer: Yes because instead of just texting someone I feel the need to check my email, facebook and twitter, (at one point myspace as well) in order to see if someone is trying to contact me. It gets tangled in a cyber community where you feel the need to check all social networking sites in order to see if anyone is trying to contact you.

Movies

In 2009 I went to see 500 Days of Summer in theaters. It was definitely my favorite movie. Not only was it because I love Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Dechanel, but the story line of it not being your typical happy ending was what got me hooked. Throughout the movie you see the two characters grow in what seems is love and then it gives you the twist of heart break. Overall the witty comments and the soundtrack just added to the movie's greatness.

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One of my favorite movies of all time would probably be Alice in Wonderland. I first saw this movie on VHS when I was maybe seven and ever since I was in love of how magical this movie was. The graphics and plot of the story just make me think that anything out of the ordinary is always possible. Even if the story isn't real it gives the feeling of always being a kid.

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-Salem Thomas

Magazines

Name: Nostalgic Streets
Concept:
World wide street fashion, culture, art & music. Not just focusing on one specific, "Street culture is world wide". Unlike other magazines that focus on one location, or girl magazines like Cosmo that focus on sex, Nostalgic Streets give's you the feeling of what you were used to whether you've experienced other urban cultures, seen it in magazines or movies, or simply just want the feel of knowing what urban fashion, art, and music are like around the world.
Readers:
Age group targeted would be around 16-25, males and females who can appreciate fashion, art, and music styles of the past that are now making their ways of being popular again. The people who go to art shows to see graffiti displays, modern feel sculptures, all unique art. Music lovers who stray away from the mainstream radio hits. People who see fashion as an art form and representation of one's self.
Competition:Cosmo, Teen Vogue, Complex, Nylon
Advertisers: Nasty Gal, American Apparel, Urban Outfitters, Jeffrey Campbell
Five Premier Articles: "Five essential items to have in your handbag", "Graffiti or Art?", "Tips on successful thrifting", "Paris, New York, Tokyo, what are the sounds of these streets?", "Winter Lookbook".

Books

My first year in college I took a social psychology class and read Survivor, by Chuck Palanuik. This book was not only an interesting read, but it had parts that were so clever you just wanted to continue. Like other books by Palanuik this book is also mysterious. It has been influential to me because it has allowed me to realize every side of a negative situation and that not all books are boring.

Another book I read that was influential was Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Reading it in middle school and again in high school I learned a lot of things about being a teen and how vicious "girl world" can be. This book was helpful to see what abused girls go through as well as informative.

Third book I would say is Walking on Water by Derrick Jensen. This book was required for Humanities 1. I liked it because it wasn't really a story novel type of read, but more of a "how to" on being creative and seeing life for what it is. I showed me how other countries have kids explore their creative side, how famous people were once regular and felt restricted without having an outlet for creativity.
Survivor
Speak
Walking on Water

-Salem

Media Impact

I would want to do a study on how teen girls rely on magazines such as Cosmo, Teen Vogue, and Seventeen for their fashion and makeup influences. I would have a few girls from ages 16-20 read through the magazines and then the next day I would bring out a bunch of featured items in that magazine and see what the items the girls say is the best. I would do this probably three times just to get many girls opinions and then from there I would find out if the magazines would have an impact. Myself being a girl I would assume majority of the girls would pick the same products listed in the magazine. Maybe not all because of preference, but I would think most at least.

-Salem