Blog Post 11: Extra Credit

          The blog that I created for this class is the first time that I have ever used a blog before. It's probably also the first time that I've read any blogs before since I do that to see what other people in the class are thinking when I need help understanding a blog prompt.
          The positive aspects of using blogs in this course is that it forces you to use review the material you learned in class or from the textbook in order to complete your blog posts for each week.
          At times the blog prompts could be a little confusing, however for the most part I didn't really have any issues at all using the blog. It was very easy to set up and to use. It's a very straightforward kind of website. Any difficulties that I did have I could figure out by reading other students' from class blogs and see what they did.
          The most interesting and fun blog prompts were the ones where we were actually able to apply conceptual ideas that we learned from class to something. For example, my favorite blog post to do was the one where we found examples of the different types of shots from Charles Ramirez Berg's lecture from a movie that we liked and explained their significance.
          I don't whether or not blogs would be beneficial in other undergraduate courses at UT-Austin, but I do think that it a good tool for 305. In a class this size, it's nice to be able to classwork that let's us give our own ideas that we don't get to do when taking multiple choice tests.
         The only thing that I would suggest to improve using the blogs in 305 would be if the prompts were a little less confusing sometimes. Most of the time they were very easy to understand, but there were a few exceptions where I wasn't quite sure what you all were asking.
         Yes, you can use my blog in a paper or report.

Blog Post 10: Globalization

           Globalization, according to Professor Straubhaar's lecture, is inscreased opportunities for communication, exchange of material and symbolic goods, and migration of people across national borders.

           Globalization works hand in hand with several different concepts, including hybridization. Hybridization is the interaction or mixing between previously separate cultures over time. In other words, globalization uses hybridization to take two different cultures and use them to form an entirely new culture all together.

           The movie "The Lion King" is an example of globalization and hybridization. In this movie, Disney has taken elements of american culture and african culture to create a film that is not entirely american or african, rather it is something new. From tribal chanting to voice actors like Matthew Broderick this movie is a prime example of combing cultures to make something new.

Blog Post 9: Domino's Pizza

           Recently, Domino's pizza has been making commercials that depict their pizzas realistically. They don't airbrush their pizza or dress it up to be anything more than it is in each commercial. In some instances Domino's has even gone door to door to convince their customers to try their new and improved pizza.

           One of the potential appeals of advertising that applies to these commercials is the appeal of ubiquity. The appeal of ubiquity in advertisements means that an ad or commercial can attract attention from its potential consumers. Something that is ubiquitous is something that gives the feeling or appearance of surrounding you or being everywhere.

      
           The Domino's pizza commercial ads take place all over the country. There are multiple Domino's pizza restaurants in Austin, TX alone. The simplicity and genericness of these commercials draws attention to itself because it is going against what other commercials and ads are doing. These Domino commercials are very appealing to their consumers because they make the company appear trustworthy, and that they have a genuine, worthwhile product to stand behind.