Mohsen Ghafari - Blogs and Journalist

Blogs and Journalist

Name: Mohsen Ghafari
student ID: 1091108885
Email: mohsen.ghafari.edu@gmail.com

01- Is there anything left to say?

02- Who is the blogger?

03- Who is the journalist?

04- Can we put both sides in the same side?

Is there anything left to say?

Nowadays, we are force to see and read lots of news from bad to good ones and it’s hard to believe all of them, sometimes none of them. Something is going on! Everyone interprets the news by his own language and situation. And news can have different affection on the audiences or readers. Usually, the bad news is like movies on television in a very funny and sad way. When I hear that Amy Winehouse died because of drug! I don’t really know how should react by hearing this news and it’s very odd and funny. Back to old days, news was very important and could change the people’s life completely. But now, I don’t have any idea at all.

Who is the Blogger?

The blogger is someone who is free whom can write anything about anything. It’s that simple without any limitation. They usually write about any topic. It depends on their interests. Topic is like movie, critic, politic, lifestyle, and sport and so on. They can write anywhere and anytime. They can include their opinion and there is no editor to sensor their articles or posts. When the idea “blog” came everyone was excited because they felt power to write down their own opinion about their thinking and idea. The day, when you don’t have too much connection to others and the internet was so limited, you could just read news and discuss with others with newspapers, group mails, and television. And it wasn’t too satisfaction. But after a while, by coming blog tool in the hand of people to help them express themselves and talk and share their thought with everyone even the people from too far away from them. Isn’t it great? And it goes further and further and now you can make very simple free blog for yourselves and just write down. Sometimes it causes many problems for you and sometimes it makes you famous and money.

Who is the journalist?

Journalist is a very old career for who like to go around and make some news for their newspaper, company or websites. They can write down any news then collect them and send them to editor for print. But the big problem is you are so limited and all the times your news and articles are under the knife of censorship by editor, company and government. You can put any news or opinion on newspaper or radio or television. And if you don’t agree with this censorship you have to find another source to make money for yourself. However, journalism is not as simple and easy as blogging. They interfere with people and accidents. They sometimes must go inside the fire and capture the fire. They lost their life just for their belief and job. Journalism is a very pure job if they reflect the reality. We, as a normal people with normal job, usually don’t have news from other countries or people all around the world. The journalists are the only ones who bring news for us and shine the light for our blind eyes. My favorite job in journalism industry is photo journalism because they don’t talk and they just capture the moment and speak with their photos. And most of them times, the journalist are so defenseless and no one protect them from dangerous moments, war, and accidents.

Can we put both sides in the same side?

The good news is the journalism and blogging are a match couples these days. Usually, journalists have their own blog; another word is who doesn’t have blog? Everyone knows how to make blog and just write any news, opinions and thought. Journalists are really alike and they want to express their every moment of memory and save them somewhere which are belong to them. By this method, they have both side which is their job and opinions. They send their news material to company and write down their article in blog without any censor.

Mohsen Ghafari - A stereotype makes you feel comfortable

A stereotype makes you feel comfortable

Name: Mohsen Ghafari
student ID: 1091108885
Email: mohsen.ghafari.edu@gmail.com

01- When does stereotype come from?
02- It starts from me then from them!
03- Every country’s stereotypes
04- Hollywood close your eyes when you’re blind

When does stereotype come from?

The man always is ready to be innocent and throw his faults to others. This is our nature. You want to change yourself and you always looking for someone to make him guilty. And this has been continuing until now since man’s birth. This behavior has been changing its face to rumors and jokes after a long time. You like to make fun of your friend and he’s from another city or country and you just hear this and haven’t seen by yourself before. And this is our usual life for a long time too. We can’t see our problem and always see others. We said African, Arab, American, and Indian. And never say us.

It starts from me then from them!

Even we label our own people and paste on every one of our friend, special name and wrong behavior. Like some stingy, some lazy and so on. Sometimes we haven't seen who those are and how they live and we just hear something from our near friends and people that they are like that. And it is exactly the same from them too. Sometimes, we always do something wrong and don’t know it is wrong and we except everyone to accept our behavior or we think they know that this is right one and we don’t have to change it and we continue our wrong history, behavior and culture! And for a long time, it will our something life to live. So, someone uses this and makes rumor and fun of us and then we complain why they say this or that!

Every country’s story!

It starts from the family, friends, city, and finally our country. When there were lots of wrong behavior and misunderstandings from us from our old grandparents and people in the past and we still follow them blindly and it is still wrong and we expect from others to understand and accept it. So it’s not and will makes us fool and we want to stay fool even we know we have to change it but under our culture with respecting it. The countries from third world are all like that and when it comes to change something they lose themselves and go in a wrong path. And when I don’t have any respect among my friends and people, how can I expect my country and people from other countries to respect me and not to make stereotype and fun of my own culture and history.

Hollywood close your eyes when you’re blind

Everyone loves Hollywood, like fake stories, fake happy family and fake unknown history. American who are new and don’t have any history which is limited to some new technology, want to make other without any history like them, and blinded follower people like us go into their deep whole of lies and fake history. And we think America and especially the dreamland of Hollywood is our future. As I said in my last article, this goes back to power of control and socialized media.

You can’t say you don’t like America, can you?

You can’t say you don’t like Hollywood, can you? 

But it’s funny 

Can you say I don’t like my country, the unconscious answer is YES!

Mohsen Ghafari - Social Media or Social Virus!

Arguement - Disagreement side!

 

Name: Mohsen Ghafari
student ID: 1091108885
Email: mohsen.ghafari.edu@gmail.com


01- Social media and the history of its usability

02- Government and new power of media

03- Third world and nothing more!

04- Media attack and virus spreader

Social media and the history of its usability

The media has always been under the knife of governmental power for their reason. We can’t say that we have had a very pure media without any purpose. Before the internet, the traditional media like newspaper, television and radio, were always under the control. It depended on power of government or big companies and so on. However, social media has its own benefits and came to be handy for making the progress of continuous lies. For a long time, we have both lies and deception together at home, work office and society. Anything around us is covered by the news which we like to hear about. And this is the purpose of power and control.

Government and new power of media

The most powerful tool for governments is controlling media. It doesn’t matter how smart are you, at last, you’ll get exposed by these kind of media like television, radio and papers. The new kind of media, internet, is a little modern and we just think that we have choice to use any information on the internet. This new tools, is the third arm for powerful men to have more control on people and tell more lies to them for living more. Nowadays, all of us like to listen, see and hear more lies without any exception. Internet opened a new window-shop for any kind of products like women, child abuse, murder, money eaters, and credit cards. If you have money so you have everything, if you don’t you must go somewhere and die! This is the power of internet, nothing more, and nothing less.

Third world and nothing more!

We have social media, so we are happy. We are connected to first world by social communication media type like Facebook, yahoo, Google, twitter. They’ve made these social networks for us to communicate. But what is all of this about? Are we really happy? Spending 80% of our time just using these kinds of media for just communication? Is this really meaning of having happy life and communication? The civilization means you must have Facebook, if you don’t, they look at you and laugh. Yes, this is the control and power. We won’t have any identity without using new social media and communication.

Media attack and virus spreader

Social media is like a soft attack. Don’t be mistaken! It’s neither cold war nor warm war. It’s soft attack. Like deadly poisons. You are addicted to social Medias like Facebook. Without Facebook, you have nothing, and you like to be surrounded by beautiful media like YouTube, music videos, MTV and you love to daydream all the time. So is it real life, is it reality?

Conclusion

Social media is a very big topic for all of us which we can by first asking question, get more answer from. I try not to giving a solution, but asking questions to myself, and try to communicate to my friends in another way and identify ourselves as a student who is learning for the future and going to take this control and power which is media.

Blog Assignment - TOPIC DISCUSSION 1

Blog Assignment - TOPIC DISCUSSION 1 :

TOPIC DISCUSSION 1 (DEADLINE: 10 July 2011, Sunday, Midnight)

Please view this short video on Social Media. (You can post this video on your blog for reference) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE

Discuss how this new "Social Media" phenomenon is affecting your life and the lives of the people around you. Real-life examples would be good.


Reminder:

Each student must post at least
1.) 1 reflective response on topic given (5%)
2.) 2 reflective response/comments to members’ postings within the group (2.5% X 2 = 5%)