Response To Emma's Television Post

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Emma's television post was great. I really liked how she discussed politics and television. In my television blog, I did not even think of discussing how television affects politics. I really liked how she gave her true opinion of the lecture, and what she truly thought instead of sugar coding her own opinions, even though they were not all positive. I really agree with her when she said that she thought that this lecture was not as interesting as the other lectures had been. I really enjoyed reading Emma's blog all in all. It was interesting to read, and provided its own unique perspective from the other blogs and comments that I have previously read. This was also really well written, and really well thought out. It also provided the reader with a lot of information. Emma did a great job. Everyone should read her blog. I truly think that everyone would enjoy reading it, as much as I did.

Reponse To Thomas' Comment on Recorded Music

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I  agree with Thomas' blog in a lot of ways. For me, this lecture was very easy to comprehend, and understand. I also really like how his comment was not about what you would expect it to be. Instead, Thomas wrote about the major difference between music back then and music nowadays. I really like the different perspective that he wrote about. I also found it interesting, how we both wrote on the same topic, and on the same lecture, but we both perceived it in two completely different ways. I really enjoyed reading Thomas' comment. I would suggest for just about anyone to read Thomas' blog. It was interesting to read. It was also really informational, all while managing to put himself, and his own thoughts into his comment. This blog was really interesting. Thomas did a great job. Everyone should read it.

Response To Mellisa's Movie Post

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I really enjoyed reading Melissa's blog. I really enjoyed how she provided a different perspective than a positive one like most people did. Most people only included positive notes about Miller's lectures, including myself. I really liked and admired how Melissa did not follow in this pattern, and shared her honest opinion of the lecture. I also really liked how she addressed how modest the majority of  Americans were back in the 1940s and 1950s. When writing my own response to this lecture, I completely did not think of including this perspective into my comment.I also completely agree 100% with everything that Melissa said in her blog. I also agree with what she said about the great experience of actually going to the movie theater instead of just watching a movie on Hulu or Netflix. Melisa's blog was really intriguing to read, and I really enjoyed hearing her true points and views on how she viewed the lectures. I highly recommend Melissa's comment for everyone to read. She did a great job. This blog was really interesting,and educational all at the same time.

Response To Lucy's Radio Post

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I very much agree with Lucy. Radios are still relevant to our society today. Although, they experienced a major decline since their decline their golden age back in 1940s, people still use them regularly. I know personally, because I am one of those people. I also agree with Lucy, in all of the numerous ways that radios can be and are still used for. All in all, I think Lucy did a great job writing this comment. I really liked how she was able to accurately, and adequately display her information, in only so many words. Her comment was short, but at the same time really informational, and informative. I really enjoyed reading her blog. I really liked the amount of insight that Lucy put into writing this. She really did a great job. I highly suggest to everyone that they read her blog.

Television Response To Lecture

This past week Miller gave a lecture on television. Televisions first came to be in the year of 1927. Although television did not rise to popularity until around the year of 1948, only about 1 million Americans had televisions. Back at this time, televisions were only for the wealthy. By 1964, around 73 million Americans had televisions, and by 1967 most televisions were in color. It is hard for me to imagine, a time when not everyone had televisions, except the wealthy. It is also hard for me to picture, a time when all or a majority of televisions were in black and white, instead of color. I completely take televisions being in color for granted. Also, I can not believe the impact that televisions have on our daily lives and communities. The average American household watches on average seven hours of television per day. I know that I can personally relate to that fact, although, I myself, do not watch this much television, a few people in my household do. Televisions are so popular for a majority of reasons, and have a few advantages over other mediums. Televisions have synced moving pictures and audio, which help makes television seem more lifelike, and realistic. Also, televisions are omnipresent, and are much more convenient, than going to the movies. Also, televisions, help set cultural standards, and help convince people that things are normal or "not normal", for example social issues. I never really noticed all of these things about television until this lecture. I feel properly informed now. This lecture was extremely informational and interesting all at the same time. Like, most of Miller's other lectures I enjoyed listening to it.

Reponse to Maggie's Television Post

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I completely agree with everything that Maggie stated in her blog. It is strange for me to imagine television fading out of popularity, because it is something that I have grown up with in my lifetime. I also really liked Maggie's perspectives and ideas and thoughts that she gathered from the lecture. I never really saw the lecture from that light before. I also never really thought about internet fading from popularity until she mentioned it in her blog. Maggie did a great job explaining her thoughts. Her information was all really well thought out, and displayed well. I really enjoyed reading Maggie's blog. I really suggest anyone who has not read her blog read it. It is really informational, and insightful. Maggie really did a great job writing her blog, and she really pushed the audience to new limits, and to think about different perspectives. Good job Maggie.

Reponse to Mattie Townson's Radio Lecture

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I very much agree with Mattie, when she says that learning about the rises, and downfall of radio was very interesting. Also, Mattie did a very good job at explaining her thoughts about the lecture. I never noticed that perspective before. I really enjoyed the perspective that she brought. I also really liked the personal connection she made to the lecture about the song her dad used to play her as a small child. Mattie also did a good job of keeping her post informational, and intriguing at the same time. It was very evident that Mattie knew her information well, and that she knew exactly what she was talking about. Her information was also very well organized, and easy to understand and read. Her blog was also very well thought out. I also really enjoyed reading this blog. Mattie did a great job in my opinion. I would suggest fro everyone to read it.

Movies Lectures Response

The idea of movies is extremely old. In fact, older than I realized. Prior to this lecture, I had no idea that movies were nothing but moving pictures strung together. I also never noticed the major impact and influence that movies play on society as a whole. Movies set cultural standards of what is right, and socially acceptable. Movies also help set clothing trends and things such as that. There was once a time, when it was not acceptable fro men to just wear T-Shirts(and pants of course). But once men saw famous actors in popular movies of that generation do it, it became okay, and socially acceptable. I never knew that movies could have that much influence. Personally, I had never realized it, but I had let movies influence and impact my life, as they do others. I sometimes, unknowingly copy the actor's clothes, and hairstyles myself, or feel the need to buy that item from the mall, because the actress from a popular movie had one just like it. Also, movies have a cultural significance to our society. Movies always come out first in the theatres, and then months later are released on DVD. No one wants to be last to see a movie. I know that I always make an effort to see a movie as early I can. I do not want to be the girl left out of the conversation, because I failed to see the newest, most popular movie at the theatre. For example, I will more than likely go to the midnight showing of The Hunger Games Mockingjay, the day it is released. Also, going to the movies is a social experience, and a chance for teens and families to get out of the house, for some entertainment. Movies really influence our society. I never really would have realized that fact, before hearing this lecture. This lecture was very informational, and provided insight and I really enjoyed listening to it, and I learned a lot such as there was colored movies before there was colored television.

Radio Response To Lecture

I never realized that radio had such the major impact on my life that it does, until Miller's lecture. The invention of the radio, is as old as the beginning of the  1900's. I had never known the major impact that radio had had on the American culture, and society as a whole. Radio helped to create the cultural divide between adults, and teenagers, because of the music genre of rock'n roll, after World War 2. After World War 2, Americans had more disposable money, than ever before. Families, moved to the suburbs, because fathers, had enough money, to buy cars to commute to and from work. Because of the flow, of disposable money, working fathers had enough money to not only buy himself a car, but his wife, and teenager. In that car, teenagers would then listen to rock n' roll music on the radio, and at their teen hang out spots or teen clubs. Rock n' roll helped save radios, because after TV came out, radios began to decline in popularity and sales. Radios hit their peak, and "golden age' between the years of 1930 and 1939. After this golden age of radio, they quickly started to decline. Televisions had just came out, and was taking all of radio's advertisers, and talent, so radio needed something, to help keep it a relevant, and a commonly used medium, something that set it apart from television, and all of its competitors, which is where Rock n roll came in. Although, radio did have some advantages over television. One of them was that radio was portable and you could listen to music in your car, and wherever you were going, where as with televisions, that wasn't possible. Also, radios, are still relevant to our lives today. It is also hard for me to visualize or imagine a time when the "teenager" as we know it today did not exist. It is also hard for me to imagine, a time when there was only radio, instead of television. I do not know what I would do if I was forced to listen to my favorite television shows, instead of having the ability to be able to visually see and watch them. This lecture, has broadened my horizons on both radio and music. Now, whenever, I am in my car bopping to the latest tracks, I will forever think of this lecture, and of the origins of radio. I really enjoyed this lecture, it was both informative, and intriguing.

Recorded Music Response To Lecture

I really enjoyed Miller's lecture on music. I had never realized the major impact that music, had on our society, culture, and the way that we think and perceive the world. Music spreads messages, and provides unity. Also, music helped shape the cultural idea of "the teenager", because of rock'n roll, music which, I also did not know was used as a euphemism for sex. Also, music is centuries old, and recorded music has only been around since the 1920's. Prior to this, music was rare, and only played and performed at special occasions, and was always, a group thing. Listening to music, individually was unheard of. For me, I can not imagine not having music to my leisure, or whenever I felt like listening to it. Personally, music, is a part of my daily life and routine. My life without it, would be strange, quiet, and lonely. I listen to music for hours on end. If I  had to take a guess, I listen to music for at least 5-6 hours per day. I can not even begin to get close to picture a time when this was not possible. This type of idea puts me at awe. The invention of recorded music helped make music on-demand, so people could listen to it whenever they felt necessary. Also, this, enable music to became an individual experience instead of a group one. I personally, found this lecture to be quite intriguing, as well as informational and perplexing. In my opinion, this lecture, is one of the best lectures yet to be given, in Journalism 1. This lecture, brought a new perspective of music to my eyes, that I had never even began to think of prior to this. I really enjoyed all of this information, and insight that I received from this lecture. I now have a much deeper appreciation, and respect for recorded music, and music in general.