Blog #4: Comm 303

People record things for certain reasons. Mainly, to be able to keep an important memory they can play back on. These devices are important because people can show others something funny that has happened or something important such as, your childhood. Its good to be able to look back on childhood memories. If we weren't able to record certain events, then we could lose memories that we want to keep. 

I don't think people generally know how to make proper videos. I think they make them just to make them for laughs later. Like myself, most of the videos on my iPhone are pointless videos that I don't really need. It's just there to laugh at later with my friends later and it's basically wasting space in my phone. A good way to make a video is with an actual video camera and is properly handled. The things that would be recorded would be for important reasons specifically. 

I consider video recording a kind of literacy because you can learn things from certain videos. On YouTube, there are many videos people put up that teach you how to do things. You can basically type in "How To.." on YouTube and find what you need to find to learn something. I don't think a communication major needs to learn how to shoot and edit a video because not all communication departments require you to know that. Some forms of jobs with communication could be in front of the video and you don't have to worry about how to work the camera and how to cut and edit it. There is usually someone else with a different major that needs to know that kind of stuff.

Home video helps out with the expansion of communication because it helps us learn about other cultures. If people weren't able to travel to other countries and record interviews with people or what their culture is like, then we wouldn't be able to learn about it. We could learn about it through writing but not actually be able to see what it's like.

Blog #3: Comm 303

        The theory I will be using for this blog is the Social Learning Theory. The Social Learning Theory is based on how people learn by watching others and observing their behaviors. When we are watching television, we are observing what they do and can mimic what they have show, such as, a cooking show. People watch others prepare meals to be able to learn how to make it for themselves. People may also do that when others are fighting or hurting each other which shows there may be a negative side to television. However, television doesn't actually teach you how to hurt someone, young ones are easier to view and react. It also works by people using work out videos and video games like with the Wii and Xbox Kinect since they are moving to your movements because you have to mimic what they're doing.

I think in the future, there will be more things on television in which people can mimic that will be easier to understand. Technology keeps growing and will keep going to try to make people's lives easier. The future holds a lot for television to where it could be a good thing to watch it instead of reading books. More people can learn if they are able to see it, at least for me it is. To try and learn a recipe, for me, I need to have a picture to be able to see what it should look like. Its easier for me to be able to see a meal being cooked instead of reading instructions. Television may end up being a projector screen where it comes out, so that way it would be the perfect way to imitate since its right there. People want to learn things if it comes easy to them, thats why I think television will be able to help us out in the future.

Blog #2 - Communication 303

I usually listen to my music on an iPod or my iPhone. I also listen to it on my Macbook. I've been listening to music on an iPod ever since the iPod mini's came out. I found that they were much more convenient to use instead of a portable CD player. A portable CD player, you have to change CD's to find the type of music you want to listen to. I even listen to my iPod in my car instead of the radio because I have an auxiliary input in my car where I can plug in my iPod.

I listen to music basically all the time. I listen to it when I'm driving, working out, walking to class, studying and doing homework, and even when I sleep. I listen to music because it prevents there from being silence. I don't like it when I'm in a room or when I am driving and its completely quite. I need there to be some type of sound going on and music what I like to listen to the most. Music helps me work out when I listen to up beat music because it helps keep me going. I enjoy listening to music because it usually puts me in a good mood because it helps me escape the world sometimes and puts me in my own space as what Simun says about "private spaces".

Sometimes I don't just listen to music. On my Pandora radio, I have a radio where you can listen to stand up comedy. I like to listen to those when I feel like I need a laugh. I also like to listen to audio tapes sometimes when I'm reading a book. Since I am taking French this semester, for homework we have to listen to people carry on a conversation in French so we can try to understand what they are saying and learn how they are speaking.