jueves, 27 de enero de 2011

Music with social message

The music is a way to express throw sounds and vibrations, it is considered an art and since humans exist we have created music. The music has a huge variety of sound and styles; it may depend on the culture, the political thought, religious beliefs or feelings. Music has been changed thru generations, for example when primitives started to use create music they use simple sound with natural elements now in days people have created elements to produce specific sounds. Some of the instruments people have created are:
Guitar: it’s originally from Spain; it has 6 strings and regularly is made form wood
Piano: has a keyboard that produces sounds.
Drums: is a percussion instrument that uses cylinders that when you touch them makes vibrations and make sounds.
As I have said music can express all you want, for example religious beliefs and political ideas, some author’s make these types of songs to do a social movement with people around the globe.
A very recognized song is Zombie form the Cranberries, this group is Irish rock band formed in 1989, actually the complete name was The Cranberry Saw US, but the vocalist changed it later, the group has sold more than 14.5 million albums in the united states only.
The song from this group called Zombie is a protest song, this song is from the album 1994 called No Need to Argue, this song laments the trouble that Northern Ireland, particularly on the killing of 2 children.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts

miércoles, 26 de enero de 2011

Global Media



Mass media refers to all media technologies, like internet, television, newspaper and radio; we use this Medias to massive communication. Massive media also gives us perceptions on issues around the world, and inform us about what’s going on around the world. Definition of some Medias:
Internet: is a worldwide system of computer networks, these networks contain information, news and social pages, where people interact and get to know each other.
Television: is a telecommunication system where you receive information through pictures and sounds.
Newspaper: is a publication usually printed, is a journal with current news and information, it has a variety of topics.
Radio: is a technology system that transmits information through electromagnetic waves.
All massive media are for communication and information of people around, because of this medias we can communicate with people around the world or inform ourselves of dangers, disasters or upcoming situations.


Wrong use of media
The massive media is especially used to communicate and inform with effectiveness, when someone use the media in a way that they shouldn’t or they abuse of them, then there is a wrong functional media. People sometimes use the media for personal purpose, like a gossip, wrong information or to fool some people. When a action like these appears the consequences can be many for example: a guy who is fired of his job because he didn’t had effectiveness and he turns to media and says that the company is corrupt or any other gossip, the consequences are not only for the company and owners but also to the people that work in there.
The consequences of a bad use can be many, but they are always big massive media as the name says is massive and the people that they use it are many, people get informed of all around the world, so a bad use of it will know everyone.

Printed, electronic and spoken communication

All massive media have their pros and defects, in printed media the information is accurate and has everyday advances but the defects of printed media is that you cant always find what are you looking for, besides it’s a huge journal which it can take you several minutes to find the information you want.
Electronic media is very fast and you can search for all the information you want in the different networks, but the issue is that its not always true or veridical the information they give you, because there is many pages and reds is very difficult for some people to find the information they want.
Spoken media or radio is not always fast and is almost the same of printed media only that someone is saying it thru a microphone that sends electromagnetic waves so you can hear it, the issue is that you cant always listen to it and its not very fast.
The media more effective is the electronic.

Communication vs gossip
Communicate is when you can listen to the other people and understand, reflect and respond in a coherent way and the other person doing the same, a gossip is when people tells a problem or situation to another person and this person modificates the information and tells it to another person and finally becomes a chain.
People in modern society have lost the ability to communicate with others; instead of that actually the world is full of gossips. Schools must concentrate in those abilities that with years and through generations people have lost.

jueves, 20 de enero de 2011

Effectiveness of language for communication



Since humans exist, there has been created several ways to communicate like art, writing and language.  Language has been modified with time; each community has created their own language.
Language is a very effective way to communicate and probably the best way to fully communicate and express your self. In different societies the language is very different; while the alphabet of one society contains 24 word other may have 60. As a consequence the writing is different, writing goes hand to hand of spoken language. In the writing language, they use symbols that have a sound when you read them.

Difference of conversational topics for female and male
Females and males are extremely different, we think different and we react different, as consequence the conversational topics we have with our friends is different, the conversational topics people choose goes with their interests, for woman it would be clothes, nails, the boy they like, hair, etc. For men it would be, cars, sports, woman, food, etc. Men usually go for the rude stuff and woman for the pretty of nice.

Conversational reactions toward certain situations
Woman tend to be more sensitive and good listeners and male tend to be more rude and indifferent to problems. When someone talks about a serious topic or problem, woman are more sensitives, towards it, usually this happen but there are males that also act like this. For male, they usually sub estimate the problem or the topic and try to cheer you up.

miércoles, 19 de enero de 2011

Counter Culture

Counter Culture is a term used to describe the values or norms of a certain cultural group. This cultural groups most of the time oposse to political norms.
These term was used during 1960 and 1970 to refer a social revolution.
The Counter Culture movements of these groups express the political ideas, ethics and dreams of the group, as a consecuence society changes, the way that Counter Culture groups express their selfs affects and creates new art.

Examples of these type of movements:
are the hippie movement