Aliza Fegan's Media Blog

TOPIC 1 There were a number of things I learned watching “RiP! A Remix Manifesto”. The first was that the U.S. government had made other countries agree to follow American copyright laws in order to sell goods to the U.S. I had never heard that and was shocked (although, I will admit, not surprised) that this country had used its economic clout to push our laws onto other nations. I also had heard of the copyright lawsuit brought against The Verve for their song “Bittersweet Symphony” but was unaware of the long history behind the songs in question. Another topic I had glancing familiarity with but that the movie illuminated much more fully for me was the slowing of scientific and medical progress due to broad copyrights and patents on concepts and research. As a long time fan of Radiohead, I remember paying what I wanted for their album “In Rainbows” and having even more admiration for them for ‘breaking out’ of the music industry standards. I hadn’t heard about the Warner-Cha...

Description I watched the first episode of the third and current season of  Black Mirror , a show that for its first two seasons aired on Channel Four in the U.K. but was picked up for its third season by Netflix, titled “Nosedive”. I watched it on Tuesday, July 18 th , 2017 and it was released (along with all of Season 3) by Netflix on October 21 st , 2016 (I started the episode at 3:54 pm). Black Mirror  is a drama anthology series, set in the near future, which examines how easily technology and current societal trends could lead us into a dystopia. While there’s this common theme, the show is a true anthology, with completely different casts, crews, settings, and storylines each episode. In “Nosedive”, our protagonist is Lacie Pound, played by Bryce Dallas Howard. As with most episodes of  Black Mirror , the setting is our world, just slightly into the future. In this reality, everyone is logged into a social media app that seems to be a mixture...

Topic One After reading and watching the assigned resources this week, I pondered the concept of brand loyalty, especially when it came to whether or not I had brands that I felt had effectively marketed to me and that I had positive feelings towards. Urban Decay cosmetics quickly came to mind as an example-while my finances don’t make me their most profitable customer, when I’m looking to get a treat or a luxury, I’ll frequently purchase one or two of their products and have been a fan of the company since my early teens. I searched for their company on Facebook and found that not only did they have a slick, well-produced company on that platform ( https://www.facebook.com/UrbanDecayCosmetics/ ) , but also had links on that page to their other social media pages: Instagram, Pinterest, and Youtube. The Facebook page has 3,689,779 ‘likes’ and 3,668,380 ‘followers’. The Facebook page is very robust; there are lots of videos and photos demonstrating their products, which all ...

  Topic One -I’ve never used Twitter before so I’m still unfamiliar with all of the intricacies but three of the people/groups I followed were: * Claire Hummel (@shoomlah) because she’s someone whose work I greatly admire who works in one of the fields that I hope to make a career in. I love seeing what inspires and interests the artists I look up to and getting a glimpse into the process of someone I consider to be the at the top of the field. * Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) is a journalist who is a household name in my home and whose reporting I find insightful and interesting. * Johnny Hollow (@JohnnyHollow) is one of my absolute favorite musical groups and I want to stay up to date on shows and releases of theirs. -While I’m on Facebook multiple times every day, I’ll admit to using it to see other people’s news far more than sharing my own (while I was pretty active for the first 6 or 7 years I was on Facebook, now it’s pretty standard for me...