Baracks got some moves....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsWpvkLCvu4




Media plays a huge role in our lives and not until the development of the internet and youtube have the people really had a great affect on the media. Youtube is really media for the people by the people. TV, Radio and Newspapers are all ran by corporations and owned by corporations that tell the authors what they should write and what they should tell people to think about, agenda setting. Youtube gives people the chance to post what they think is important, what they think is funny, and gives people an outlet to campaign or advocate for something they feel is important. I could surf youtube for hours just looking at all the different things that people post, i feel that youtube and the internet really empowers people by giving them a medium to really share what they think. Yes, there are editorials in newspapers where people can write to the newspaper and say what they think, but youtube brings this to a whole new level. It is worldwide where newspapers are sometimes just local. The internet has more users than single newspapers and is able to publish more views than traditional media can.

Generation Gap?

So i went to The Eagles concert last night with a couple members of my family(mom, dad, grandama, uncle, little sister)....and had a great time! This experience makes me wonder about other families and how the parents/adults and children/young adults get along. Do most parents and children have the same taste in music? How about TV shows? Books? Movies? I feel that the only time that children and their parents spend together is in the car on the way to school, a friends house or to a extracurricular activity. Maybe they spend some time together when one of the kids wants to get some new clothes and needs their parents to fork over a couple hundred dollars to do so.
I am personally glad that my parents would turn on classic rock in the car and make games out of guessing who the artist of a certain song was. I am glad that my parents shared, with me, the kind of music that they loved growing up because when we go to concerts like last night it isn't just a concert but a connection between two very different generations. It sort of gives me some hope that parents and children do have a little bit more in common than we think, and we all just need to make the extra effort once in a while. With my parents and I, the connection was music.