Reading Blog #7

The movie Bamboozled had many different aspects of forming and representing Identity. The one that caught my attention the most was of the relationship between the main character and his boss.  In the movie there are several references made by the boss (white male) on how he is blacker than the main character (Black male), and that the main character acts like a white guy.  The boss backs his claims with examples of him growing up in the hood, the way talks and walks, and even references several pictures on his wall of popular African male figures that the media has glorified (and has identified the race as).  He tries to fill the African stereotype's shoes as a white male.  In contrast he also attacks the main characters identity by calling him out on acting like a white guy.  He makes these claims again using a stereotypes of a white male being politically correct, trying to break away from the stereotype by proposing a normal black family TV show,  or by his up-tightness about racial slurs and actions.  It is interesting to see how Spike Lee saw the media's version of the black male and the white male, and then reversed the roles of the stereotypes to people who would not normally fit them.

Research Blog #9

The site Leaguecraft.com  does not pressure anyone to join them and does not have many postings to entice or lure people into wanting to join.  The ability to post comments and strategy guide about the different aspects of the game is what a membership to this site is needed for.  It is not only if you want to post your own thoughts, but if you have questions about the game or about a certain persons posting you will need to be a member of this site.  Otherwise the site's advertisements are the only thing standing out that are trying to get you to join their site, even when not affiliated with Leaguecraft.  The administrators of this site seem to not interact with it's members though the discussion board too often,  however when they do they seem very polite and helpful to any member.  I enjoy the fact that i do not have to sign up to this site to read the content of it. I do not care to post or write anything on this site so i prefer not to be a member, and they allow me to do so with ease.

Reading Blog #6

I feel that most of the education i have received has been just the facts and information i need to know to do the job,  but not so much in preparing my for what the real workforce environment might be like.  I feel most classes are like this, where the teacher is in front and is the leader of the class and has everything laid out for you to do assignments.  The real world for most people will not be like this, there are many jobs in which you will need to make you own assumptions of how to do the job and it may never be laid out nice and easy for you to complete.  However, the classroom environment does teach the fact of respecting the person of authority and how to interact with them politely and professionally.  Having scheduled time for students to have classes should help students with time management and being on time to their job, but I feel in most cases there is very little consequences to being late or not showing up at all for a class, so this defeats the structure of good attendance.

I commented on Cory Vail's blog  http://generalewok.blogspot.com/2010/09/reading-blog-5-labeled.html?zx=d4eb5d0da49ea7e5

Research Blog 8

This website www.LeagueCraft.com  has changed since the last time i had visited, interestingly enough the site has added more advertisements to its page, as well as made the interface different.  These advertisements are mainly for insurance companies like Allstate and StateFarm, but there are also a lot more advertisements for new Free-2-Play games.  The website itself does not seem to be corporate run and is more of a fan maintained site, as there are no products to buy or links to other corporate sites, or any means of spending money at this site.  I think the advertisement for the other Free-2-Play games are used to entice gamers to keep playing these F2P games and visiting their fan sites which have the ads for insurance and other types of products.  This setup is a little more busy due to theses ads, and i think there is too much going on on the screen now that users might get annoyed.

Apple Logo - Represented by an sillouette of a real object,an apple.  This logo is mainly seen on computer hardware/software.  I see it on PC computers and laptops, on phones, on MP3 Players, on and in software packages, and even sometimes on shirts.  I believe these logos are placed on computers and music devices , as these are the companies main choice of buissness, and when you see someone with one of these products people will recognize this logo with that stylish product.  The logo has not become to fashionable, as most people recognize the device (IPOD, IPAD, IPhone)  way before they see the logo on the device.

Firefox Logo -  This logo looks like a fox wrapped around the globe. The logo represents how firefox spans the globe.  I see this logo on the web browser itself, at computer conventions, and even on t-shirts. This logo is not seen much outside of internet browser related items and is pretty specific to computer community.

Adidas Logo – This logo is more abstract in form.  This logo accually includes the name “Adidas” as well.  This logo I can see in many different places, I see it on shoes, shirts, keychains, track pants, car decals, and at sporting events.  This logo is very prominent in sporting activities and events, and is an identifier for people to show that they are athletic.  It has become fashionable in the sporting community and the creators try to keep it heavly ingrained within sporting goods and events.

Research Blog #7

www.LeagueCraft.com seems to be run mostly by the users who are member to the site.  A good portion of the site is member submitted ideas and strategies.  The administraitors of the site seem to only provide news on new champion additions, game changes, and free champion rotation updates.  That and setting up the intial stucture of the site.  There is even a place in the site for customer made skins to be uploaded and shared amongst the community.  These skins seem to be unregulated for the most part, as some of them could be considered copyright infringement (Creating skins to make champions look like World of Warcraft characters, or Star Wars characters).  The forums seem to be loosely monitored too.  I have seen the use of some minor profanities such as "ass" and "bitch".  So language rules are not too strict.  I am not sure on how i could be banned from the site, nor have i seen/heard of anyone getting banned form this site.  I feel that this site is mainly run by it's members with very minimal administrator interruption, so i would say that the power belongs to the users on the content of the site.