Reading Blog 7

Representation was in my opinion a big part of the movie bamboozled getting it's message accross. Representation is how something is associated with symbols or sign systems. In this film black men were all stereotypically represented as dumb, uneducated, desperate, and oblivious to someone trying to make them look bad. They actors were represented by being poor, which walks hand in hand with not having an education. They also didn't have jobs, were tapp dancing in the street to have money to eat, which represented them being desperate. They also didn't realize until the very end of the movie, what the producers were making them, and all sorts of people like them, look like.

Identity also played a big role. The identities that the characters took on were many. The bossman, the white guy, took on a bigget/ racist role. He called them very derrogetory names and made fun of them on many occasions. The secretary, who was made out to be so good, actually had an identity of a desperate, foolish woman who slept with her boss to get a job. The identity of the main character manhan was one of desperate, needy, hungry, and very guilable. This movie was filled with identity, stereotypes, representation "some good but mostly bad", and mythology.

Research blog 10

Hegemonic masculinity in laments terms means the ability of men to dominate women. This plays a big role in fantasy football. Fantasy football, in the leagues I have been a part in have been all male. There are women that participate in fantasy football, but not many, at least that I know of.

Performativity also plays a big role in fantasy football. For instance, in the league I am in people are looked at and judged on how they "perform" in the league. Even though this "sport" is purely luck, draft day is a big part of it. If people draft well or pick good players then they are looked at as a good player, and are respected. If people feel you've drafted poorly then they look down on you. As for performing goes, if your team is good, then you are looked at as a "guru" or a very knowledgeable player. If a player wins year after year they are, as in any other competitive activity, looked at as the best, and have a target on their back. Everyone is looking to beat that person. This term walks hand in hand with hegemony. The best players are the dominant figures and earn everyone's respect and submission. Identity also is related. You can be looked at as a very risky player, smart player, dumb player, a player who doesn't care, and many other things. It's the way that you play, that give's people an idea of what type of player you are. Social constructivism plays another big role in fantasy football. It's all in how people perceive you compared to other people.

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Research blog 9

Well interpellation had an unusualy part in getting me to play fantasy football. This site really isn't trying to get more people to join, well of course they are but it seems not very hard. Althought I have been a member for about 5 years, it wasn't this site that got me to join fantasy football. It was my friends, and the I guess the peer pressure of being left out of this sport. It gives us something to talk about, and have a feeling of I guess a brotherhood, they made fantasy football part of their lives so why shouldn't I make it part of my life? I was called on by my friends, and agency came over me to wanna be in this social group. I knew I didn't wanna be left out, and I wanted to play at the same time. So I figured why not i'll play. Fantasy Football became part of my life, I didn't realize it but I could spend hours strategizing going back and forth between two players. Who should I sit and who should I start? It really is a useless, meaningless, waste of time, but I enjoy it and so do my friends. It also gives the winner bragging rights, and I guess hegemony over all the others. Thats what everyone really is after I believe. POWER, is the ultimate goal of any competitive campaign. Why do people play video games for hours on end? Because they want to be the best at that game. When they have their friends over they want them to say "jeeze" your too good for me man. They want the power of being better, of looking down on someone, and that same person looking up and not aloud, but saying it in their head " I want to be that good." So they go home and play for hours on end. This world is all about power, and whoever has it, wants more. Whoever doesn't have it, wants it, and will do just about anything to get it.

Reading Blog 6

The educational systems I have went through have all taught me one thing in common. That is to obey. This isn't a bad thing. I feel as though I have been taught since kindergarten to not question what the teacher had to say, the teacher was always right. It was always a totalitarian state if you will. Follow obiediently, don't ask questions, do your work. Almost as if me and my fellow classmates were slaves, and the teacher the slave driver. We were taught to be a good responsible member of society who's opinion should be heard, but oddly enough our opinion never exactly mattered when it came to school. As student's at least in high school I was always wrong, teacher was right. Even if the teacher was sort of lazy, and didn't exactly care to teach, he was right. I was brought up to stand up for what I think is right, and be a productive memer of society. This sort of contradicts what I was experiencing the the class rooms at my local high school. Everything I was even being taught in the high school was being contradicted by what environment I was sitting in, being quiete and getting yelled at for talking. I'm not really talking about my whole education, really just one teacher in particular that didn't really care to teach, just expected us to know everything the first day we stepped into the class. I was also taught that I am just as important to society as the teacher that stood in front of me. Which, in a way, is being contradicted with every class i've ever been in. The teacher's desk is up front, or they stand up front. This to me symbolizes, the teacher being superior to me and the other students. Never really thought about this kind of stuff before, kind of interesting.

Research Blog 8

There are some company logos but not as many as you'd think. There are only two that immediatley stand out to me. The first is a toyota advertisement which is a pretty good size. First I want to say that I believe in today's subculture every corportation has a brand, or a lifestyle that the corportation wants to portray as it's own. I believe that toyota's is a lifestlye of high quality cars, that get great gas milage. Maybe toyota is trying to appeal to the tree huggers of america, or more probable the people who want to try and save money and get better fuel economy. The next advertisement I came accross was a subway advertisement which is kind of hidden, you have to scroll down about half the page to see it. Subway's brand/claim to fame is it's "healthy" food. Which some may argue isn't that healthy. Either way it's healtheir than going to McDonalds and getting there supersized french fries. There is one more "advertisement" if you even want to call it that from facebook. It's simply a like button with a thumbs up next to it, so if you click like on your facebook it will appear that you like yahoo fantasy football. This webstie overall isn't very corporate. I mean there are ony the two advertisements, three if you count the like button. This site does a very good job of keeping most of the content revelant to fantasy football or other related areas. In all honesty the advertisements don't influence how I look at the site in the least. I've looked at this site so many times that the advertisements have become a blurr, they are non existant to me anymore. I believe alot of users of this site feel the same way, and don't pay any attention at all to this advertisements. The truth is on the world wide web advertisements are everywhere, I think ads have become part of the interent culture, with this people have learned to ignore their presence.