Blogging Around

Captured Thought: Saying Good-bye
By: Brittany B.

Brittany wrote a great blog about saying good-bye to our peers and what is going to happen to us all when we go to college. She made some great points throughout this entry, especially when she mentions Peter Pan and how he said to never say good-bye, because then we all forget.

Brittany, this post made me really upset. I loved what you said throughout the whole blog post, but it really got me thinking how far I have really gone with everybody in our class. I don't want to have to forget all of the memories I've made whether they were good or bad. All of the memories make you who you are and with saying good-bye comes forgetting most of the things we've done up to this point in our lives. Very well written, I loved this.



Change of Mind: Art and Dimension is Everywhere!
By: Mark J.


Mark wrote a great blog about modernism and postmodernism. I can agree with a lot of things Mark said, such as how commercials give off many interpretations. As I watch a lot of commercials, I will often think to myself how mediated our realities actually are.

Mark, I still don't understand everything about modernism and postmodernism completely, either. I also like how many commercials give us all an opportunity to interpret them in many different ways. I liked this post, I can easily relate. Well written, Mark!

Best of Week: Social Mediation

Throughout the week, we have focused on modernism, postmodernism, and mediation. Only when we really focused on it was when I realized how important social mediation is. We all watch football games, read magazines, see articles on Yahoo! News, and see things on the news, but we never actually know what really happened in anything we read or hear about. Do we really think the police are telling us everything there is to know about that specific murder case? Do we really think the media is going to tell us what that celebrity was actually doing or the real reason for them pushing away the paparazzi? No; and we will never actually know the truth. We only know what we are being told or shown, nothing else. This is when I realized how important it is to not get caught up in the media.

So many people are angered with celebrities when they do something wrong, but not many people tell the story from their point of view, only the paparazzi's. Most of us yell at the television when something ridiculous happens in the sport we are watching, but we aren't actually there, so we don't know what it was like from the perspective of the referee and why he made that call. Mediation could be such a huge problem, but it's also a huge help. Some people can't afford to go to a concert or go to a sports game, so the television and the news help in that way. I just wish that the people that can afford it would make the effort to attend these events so mediation doesn't get in their way of the actual understandings of them.