Week 3

Week 3

ABC Media Report - “Txtng Rls!
Date: 14thth August 2008
Available here : http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2330972.htm#transcript

I rly lik’d this rtcool. It was vry vry n4matv. I lrnd soooo much. Hps. I hv dsigh’d 2 tlk lk ths 4 the ske of proov’ng how crzy it is.
It took me like four minutes to write those sentences. So I don’t wanna hear about how useful they are. I think that David Crystal’s research is correctly undertaken and I accept his results. Nobody over the age of fourteen actually talks like that or writes like that.(I also count people who haven’t mentally progressed past the age of fourteen, like fully grown men who think rat tails are a good-looking haircut, and actually use the word ‘youse’ and expect to be taken seriously.)
And of course kids wouldn’t use in schoolwork. That’s just stupid and to actually believe that kids would hand up a piece with that in it would be surreal. If the kids that dumb. Then sure, but cahm’onnn


Caaaaahm onnnnnnnnn.

I think when you consider that human technology has always been about making our lives easier to handle, of course shortening the way we communicate is a possibility. But when the social attitude is to not accept these methods of communication as formal, but rather, informal, they will always be treated as such. Maybe in 50 years the social attitude on ‘txt’ng’ will change, but until then it will not be considered as intelligent. Maybe one day we’ll all look back on this DB8 and ROFL. But until then, we can only W8.

The Australian lift out – “Some shows really are wall-to-wall advertising “
Date: 7th August 2008

Available here : http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24176663-7582,00.html

I’m not saying that I found this article , or RTcool, very shocking. This isn’t a new issue. In no way. But I wanted to mention what I thought was awesome. How well this is satired in popular culture. I talk for example about the American comedy ’30 Rock’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36wUmJGzvA&feature=related funny stuff. But it’s not the first to do it, and won’t be the last.
The thing I have a problem with, is how there’s supposed to have been a blank period. I don’t believe that advertisers went straight from to promoting their products on game shows to not doing it at all. It’s always been there, and always will. We expect it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSLTb7njVE classic. Classic.
I don’t think this article even needs to exist. The advertising industry has long used what people tune in to and watch at the cinemas to shlock their wares. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv79rMpSlF4&feature=related

But the advertisers have every right to do so. I may not agree with some of it, I won’t agree with a lot of it actually. Most product placement only appears in so-called ‘trash tv’ anyway. Their aimed at a low-brow audience anyway, so lets get on with it, if you wanna watch your ‘so you think you can yodel’ brought to you by Telstra, and KFC and Dell computers, then god bless you, get into it.
If you are disappointed that tv shows are corporate whores, don’t be. Just watch something on the ABC, or read a book, or google yourself, I don’t care.

In relation to my reading review, the reading is focused on the techniques that the newspapers use in their layout and positioning to attract the readers attention, and how it communicastes message through design. In applying that theory, i have gathered some examples of the different techniques that are written about in the reading, and showing they work. I would also post a question about a classmates blog, but I don't think anyone else is on this site anymore, i;m gonna have to go find someone new. sorry, my bad.