2nd ; ALLLIIIEEEENS!

Today we'll use a pink font, yes?

Anyway, blog assignment 2 is about a comic strip, "Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide, and fast on the Internet." taken from "Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture" by Stanley Baran, pg 324. We were asked to give our critical reflection and of course, personal reflection on class too.


So... Yeah. That's the comic strip. Honestly, it gave me a few giggle. Honestly, it's true you shouldn't believe everything the internet says, haven't parents been warning their kids about it these days?

So the question is...

"Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why? Discuss this in your own words."

Honestly, there's yes and no. Sometimes I admit I do ponder about the things said in the internet, so I can't really say I didn't think much about it when I first see it. Let's see...

Why yes? Some internet websites have been verified to be truth and I believe it. Examples : TheStarOnline.com (dude, that's the website for The Star newspaper.) and other newspaper online websites (MalaysiaKini etc), a very wee-bit information from Wikipedia and related TRUST-ABLE (when I say trust-able, I don't mean bullshits like Encyclopedia Dramatica, although it's fun to laugh at from time to time) encyclopedia-like websites, some magazines' websites, etc etc etc. You get the idea. They're originated from newspapers, magazines, and credit-able authors (because the Wikipedia moderators delete bullshits off the information page as soon as they see bullshits, thumbs up for them!). So that's why I said yes, because not everything on the internet are lies, as internet originated to provide information for its users in the first place, until the bad eggs came over to tarnish it.

Now for my other answer, why no? Well, like I said, bad eggs came over to tarnish it. Like Encyclopedia Dramatica for instance, and joke websites. Remember there were times when you get prank emails on fake newspaper bits? Yeah, that one. And most of all...

Would you believe everything this website says? I won't. If you do, I have bad news for you...

If you haven't heard of 4chan, then it's better to not even check it out. Seriously. it's the best examples for "don't believe the internet too much". Ugh, don't get me started on 4chan. It's the reason why so many weird parodies and internet chats were born, as well as... uh, so many things. You need to be a hardcore web stroller to understand.

So that's my answer, and of course my ponder-ation and critical reflections. I included examples, related it to the question, used correct/as far as I know good grammars, included examples and supporting details. Yes, so far, yes? Haha.




Well well now, personal reflection on class!

Well, I came to class a wee-bit too early, panicked and begged Vivian to come to class. I saw only Khai Wen and Xin Yi (is that how her name is spelled?) in class until the rest all swarmed in 1 group by 1 group.

Anyway, after that our lecturer started class about "Wars of the World" and how *cough*stupid*cough* the history of it was. It was the radio station's way of saying "Boo". NOW HOW LAME IS THAT? I wonder why they weren't sued...

And then there comes the effects that can be used on media, like the powerful effect used by the stupid radio station, some "hey, I've been through that!" effects, etc etc. It was cool learning those, I actually had a bit of fun learning it. The bad thing was, it started getting draggy.

In my very honest opinions, I'd rather the effects come with examples of how the effects can be used, preferably something incredibly interesting or funny to re-attract the class attention back, since there were so many people talking and Mr. Radzi Bedu got annoyed.

And HAHAHA SUMMARY GOT EXTENDED TO 2 WEEKS, good thing I finished mine early so I can start doing DF. Oh God, don't get me started on how angry/annoyed/relieved I was to hear DF assessment being pushed a week back Anyway that was it for this week's cultural media night's update. Do come back for more if you want to catch up.

Ta.