I thought that video was pretty hilarious. However, although it is something I laugh at, it's completely true. When my previous phone broke, I was so excited to get the iPhone without even researching what other possibilities there were; I'm sure there were a million other better phones I could have chosen from, but regardless I stuck with the iPhone. The only reason to back up my decision was, "everyone has one!" If everyone had one then the iPhone MUST be amazing. Yeah I was obsessed with it and used it 24/7 the first week I got it, but within the month my friends got different smart phones that were far more efficient than mine.
The response above was to Ryan Brander's last post titled "iMedia:Consumerism." Basically, Ryan portrayed that in today's economy, high schoolers especially, people buy products based on how popular they are, using the iPhone as an example. Just by looking at a brand of a product, society buys the most well-known brands regardless of how crappy they are compared to other products with less popularity. Ryan's intention of his blog was to inform society not to buy products just based on their fame, but more for their quality.
I enjoyed reading this blog because of the reality of it. Today, people of this society long to become successful. However, they are too scared that their product or company would not meet the consumers' satisfaction; all this proves is the lack of creativity the people of today have.
The paragraph above is my response to Ronald Te's blog. In his blog, titled "iMedia: Authenticity," he posted a commercial by Burger King. Pretty much the commercial shows the "King" stealing McDonald's sausage McMuffin "blueprint." Ronald wanted to show the lack of creativity our society has come to. New businesses with CEO's trying to reach for success merely imitate products of other successful companies opposed to creating an original product since they are scared it will fail. However, if this game of "copycat" persists, consumers will have millions of companies to buy from. That may sound like a good thing, but how good is it when the millions of companies are selling the exact same product with a different logo?
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Change of Mind: Postmodernism
I always believed that postmodernism referred to the era after a community or environment was established. For some reason this is was the definition I stuck to. Chances are that I took the word literally opposed to actually finding out the definition. It wasn't until last week in class that I learned the real meaning of this term; I was embarassed to be quite honest after realizing how wrong I was.
Dictionary.com defines postmodernism as: any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
Upon reading this definition, I was still a tad bit confused. The only basic understanding of postmodernism, even after learning about it in class, was an idea or something that cannot be fully grasped or explained as a whole. Regardless of the many examples presented in class, my mind was still jumbled up. I was starting to think that the process of studying postmodernism is postmodernism; I simply cannot grasp the concept as a whole.
Although I still have little understanding of what postmodernism actually is, with the little knowledge I have grasped, the meaning of postmodernism has taken a 180 flip. Because understanding postmodernism is so difficult for me, I am sure I will have many "changes of mind" towards this concept. If my definition of postmodernism went from interpreting it through a literal perspective to a completely different understanding, the more we focus on postmodernism, the more my perspectives will alter-continuously.
Dictionary.com defines postmodernism as: any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
Upon reading this definition, I was still a tad bit confused. The only basic understanding of postmodernism, even after learning about it in class, was an idea or something that cannot be fully grasped or explained as a whole. Regardless of the many examples presented in class, my mind was still jumbled up. I was starting to think that the process of studying postmodernism is postmodernism; I simply cannot grasp the concept as a whole.
Although I still have little understanding of what postmodernism actually is, with the little knowledge I have grasped, the meaning of postmodernism has taken a 180 flip. Because understanding postmodernism is so difficult for me, I am sure I will have many "changes of mind" towards this concept. If my definition of postmodernism went from interpreting it through a literal perspective to a completely different understanding, the more we focus on postmodernism, the more my perspectives will alter-continuously.
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