Resistance

Muse:“Resistance” Response

In the lyrics of the song, there is a sort of edgy feeling of lost. It depicts the relationship between Winston and Julia in their secret meetings behind the Party. Winston and Julia are paranoid and they at first have doubts about what they are doing. “Will they find our hiding place?” This part of the song reveals how they thought that their capture would be inevitable. The title “Resistance” explains the whole theme of the novel 1964. It is essentially the rebellion against the party and the feelings and troubles that come from that type of decision. “Love is our résistance they keep us apart and they won't stop breaking us down” This is what Julia and Winston have to face. They both live on love and they know that though the Party may win they won’t be able to take the love away from each other. That is their strong poin their key to beat the PArty in the end.

1984

War is Peace
War is Peace.This idea is one of the fundamental laws of the Party. The Party has driven this belief into the minds of the Proles(the lower class citizens) and Party members alike(middle and higher class). To the majority the statement is perceived as it is given, peace can only be achieved through war. Through war, the enemy is conquered and the state benefits, as well as they do.Unfortunately, in the light of reality, the motto only applies to the members of the Inner Party and Big Brother himself. With war, the citizens of Eurasia are constantly occupied, physically and mentally. They become unable to focus on their own realities other than war. This has become the government’s method of peace. By focusing the attention of the citizens on war, they are unable to focus or let alone notice their bereft state. They are devoid of any rights, and they lack adequate amounts of food or luxuries. War is meant to preserve power in the higher classes-also known as the minority of the population. If the proles that make up an equivalent of 80% of the population were to unite and start a rebellion, then their numbers would surely annihilate the Inner Party. That is why the war in 1984, never seems to advance, it is merely propaganda for citizens to focus on. Ignorance, another theme of the party, is one of the intentional aims through the war; there will always be war simply to keep peace between the lower classes.

Social Media

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE&feature=fvst
This video on YouTube shows the benefits of media in terms of social interaction. Media is a form of communication. Everyone can agree to that. What people also need to understand is that that communication allows growth in general. Media plays a big role when it comes to social interaction. Through lecturing, talking, publishing, posting, pictures and texting, people are communicating in ways that weren't even imagined a decade ago. The Internet has upped older versions of media by creating a two way communication. Through this communication, improvements are made, and by this organization have evidently developed. The example the video provides is the expansion of ice-cream, in reference to the ideas that grow through the media. The ice-cream started off as a small concept, but with the idea being so interesting it grew local. Then as people come to the local area they are exposed and then intrigued by the idea. Then by starting off with small ideas as having a place for suggestions, comments and ratings. More people were aware because thorough organization and awareness, ice-cream was developed and expanded. Again media is linked to this clip by comparing the rate of growth of ideas with the expansion of types of media. Opportunities of vast communication, perspective and influence had opened up due to the media.
So in conclusion media has provided choices to people worldwide.

Extinction...good or bad?

Recently, I was visited one of Kuwait's news papers. It was not until after that visit did I actually begin to realize that every kind of media is competing with one another. And with the still advancing technology, media has found yet another plane on which to compete upon with each other...My point is that, older versions of media have begun to decline in production and audience's interests. During my visit at the local newspaper factory/company... I was told that in the past few years the number of newspapers produced in the last 5 years has declined by the thousands in Kuwait. There are fewer subscribers, therefore less readers. I was fortunate enough to speak with the Marketing Director. He explained that once, his only other concern for completion were other local newspapers, now it's the internet, expanding news channels and even cell phones with the internet. Newspapers have even created websites that contain the full version of their newspaper...online subscribers have increased. Monitoring a website does not require a larger staff than the staff that actually produces the newspaper. At this rate, many people working at the newspaper would have to be laid off. Older versions of media like radios and newspapers are susceptible to extinction. The question is…are we better off without this particular media? I think that firstly, it saves a lot of paper…saving millions of trees, secondly newspapers are mostly local while the internet is wholly universal. It is more efficient to have news from many perspectives instead of one. There is a reason that some media is able to progress whilst others do not. Mankind has been able to connect much more efficiently through events and ideas through telephones and less localized media like newspapers. Magazines have not climaxed so much because it contains information useful for other countries as well. Like the latest fashion, the top companies...etc. And magazines are distributed worldwide. Just think of Reader’s Digest, Seventeen, and Vogue. All familiar names even in the Middle East.

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Second Hand Media

The thing I find extremely weird...and the thing I unfortunately had to experience first hand, is the indirect influence of media. I've talked and listed ways of how watching listening or even looking at the TV, radio, internet or newspaper can provide the audience of an intended bias. But also it can affect you just by interacting with those who already have been influenced. I, in all my years of watching TV, and using the internet was never concerned with the way others might have seen me. I was unaffected by violence and characters until I began to interact more with my friends and this occurred at a young age. I would see my friends every year, watching a little more TV, and listening to music a little more through portable devices. And now I see them with the progressed technology, and the progressed usage. The movies send them messages of love, life-those huge issues and themes that every movie tries to some up in an hour, minus the other hour of inevitable physical fighting of some sort- and they buy it. Suddenly we have to use certain catch phrases and act a certain way, it is harmless at first but as children grow older so does their understanding of the movies and songs and articles. Then acting, looking and a certain way is serious and all that is important since that’s what’s always on. Girls and even boys are peer pressured and even bullied by the media. Friends may want them to act a certain way and so “unexposed” people will begin to experience the change in their own personality.
Basically media nowadays is what’s raising our children. Are they more likely to remember the day’s lesson or the Rihanna’s new single? They come home, turn on the TV and focus on what’s on. It’s hard to find a teen without a cell…maybe without two. And we can’t always blame them…it’s the media they are being allowed to be exposed to. It has become the inevitable. In my opinion the only choice is finding the right exposure.
And this to me is how I think the media has developed. The way we interact with one another has completely changed since the turn of the century, and it so will continue to change as technology comes up with even more ways to “communicate” to the audience.

Media has become easy to access and therefore easy to be influenced by. The internet has given people the easiest access to media in the world. Websites filled with information and advertisement of all kinds, from articles to videos. The easy access does affect the younger children because their sources of information have immensely broadened. The internet enhances the range of topics and even other forms of medium. For example there are even videos; the ones uploaded on YouTube are available by the billions. In the past few years, YouTube has become a very common source to search and watch videos of the user’s targeted interest. About 99% of videos seen online is from YouTube. Users can simply locate a video of their own choice and time, exposed to a variety of topics. Around 250 million people visit YouTube every month, which gives a firm idea of how many visit a day and how often. The too easy video access is what makes this availability a complication. For some reasons, the videos that are watched online can be educational; it has become almost the replacement of books and the television. The problem is that it is mainly that younger generations that are the main visitors of websites like YouTube and their preferences to what they see can be purely uneducational. A popular interest in society is physical appearance. The “hottest” are usually starred in movies, music video clips and commercials. And it is only these so called perfect people that are being portrayed to the public. If that’s what younger people see then that’s what they think is the only acceptable image. YouTube has also begun to ban illicit material and control the posted videos. Yet not all videos that parents would most definitely think is inappropriate are cut off.