In this blog I am going to talk about something that happened to my ex-boyfriend. My ex-boyfriend’s name was Keric, he was a star football player in high school. Every college wanted him to attend their school, there was an article that surfaced saying that he might commit to some school in California soon. When this article started going around people started anticipating his commitment, we would go eat and people would ask when he was going to commit, this was never the case before this article was put out. The writer who put out the article was a reporter that interviewed Keric after one of his games asking him about his commitments. Keric answered the questions indirectly and kind of beating around the bush, the article never said when or where he would commit but it hinted that it was coming soon. Directly causing people to want more answers as to when and where he was going.

The article was a great source for something like agenda-setting, it talked about public agenda setting and media agenda setting. The article went on to show direct correlations between media agenda and the public. In the article, Griffin et. al. states, “the press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about” (376). On the next couple of pages, he goes on to talk about the deep correlation between the two. Further in the article Griffin et. al. talks about, “viewers who saw the media agendas that focused on pollution and defense elevated those issues on their own lists of concerns – definite confirmation of a cause and effect relationship between the media agenda and the public agenda” (378). Another quote on the same page, Griffin et. al. defines framing by saying, “they do, in fact, influence the way we think. The specific process he cites is on that any media scholars discuss—framing” (378).

Agenda-setting definitely has relation to the public. The first quote connects to the scenario because it showed that when the article was put out it brought more attention to Keric and where he was going to school. The second quote is more proof because they conducted a research that proved there was a relationship with the media and the public. Finally, the last quote supports the scenario by proving the reporter framed the article so that the public could believe what he wanted them to.

keric! <3

In this blog I am going to write about social medias! I am going to focus more on Twitter because I tend to use Twitter a lot more. I think that on Twitter it is more focused on instant messaging. Whenever I am on twitter it is more focused on funny messages sending back and forth with friends. When I get a twitter notification I know that is something funny from my roommate trinity or my teammate Nalyssa. We have group messages and send them all throughout the day. I look forward to twitter notifications.

In the article Griffin et. al. defines medium as, “a specific type of media; for example, a book, newspaper, radio, television, telephone, film, website, or email,” (317). Another definition that was given in the article, Griffin et. al. defines media as, “generic term for all human invented technology that extends the range, speed, or channels of communication,” (317). Finally, the last quote in the paper Griffin et. al. states, “instant message are a sign of affection” (317).

The article defined the whole situation so perfectly it was hard to pick just one quote. So, I went with definitions instead of actually quotes. In the first quote it was a definition of medium which is the point of this whole blog! I thought putting both the quotes of media and medium were needed in order to continue this blog, so that the readers know what we are talking about. In the last quote It shows it supports the fact that when I get a twitter notification it makes me happy. When he put it in the article it definitely made me feel better knowing I wasn’t the only one feeling this way.

Nalyssa!!

Whenever I heard the word fallacies I was a little confused. I knew that I heard the word before I just did not know where from. I read a couple of fallacies and quickly was reminded of high school English class. This was taught around the same time as ethos, logos, and pathos. When I saw appeal to ignorance I automatically thought of a competition we had in high school. My friends rigged the competition for each other, but no one had any proof that they did it. No one knew so everyone assumed that the competition was honest and she won with flying colors. Another thing I read on the handout was appeal to pity, this fallacy automatically made me think of this one teammate I used to have. My old teammate used to make my coach feel bad for not playing her by saying she doesn’t love the game anymore. She would come in practice, down and not wanting to talk to anybody. My coach would put her in just because she felt bad for her.

In the handout it gave the definition of the of the types of fallacies and different examples of the fallacies. In the handout, Griffin et. al. defined appeal to ignorance as, “arguing that a claim is true just because it has not been shown to be false,” (1).  Also, in the handout Griffin et. al. defined appeal to pity as “appealing to pity as an argument for special treatment” (1).