Media 470B Blog 2

From my personal perspective, one example that appropriately represents the importance of online media in marketing is online shopping. Currently, an increasing number of people like shopping online, and online shopping is not only convenient but also faster than going to stores.Furthermore, online shopping is really powerful, people can buy anything they want online, and there are different varieties of choices for any products. For example, in China, there is the largest online shopping website which named Taobao, people cannot only buy clothes and food but also cosmetics and electronics. Moreover, it can ship to other countries, and when I have been to America, I found that most my friends buy clothes and food on Taobao and ship to America. As for me, I usually buy clothes online, because Athens is a small town, so it is inconvenient to buy clothing or food; at that time, I will choose online shopping, online shopping can save my time instead of going to stores, so Online shopping is really important in people's lives.

Media 384 Week 2 assignment

Actually, I am not familiar with any American critics, so I just chose critics from the lists that Dr. Nelson gave us.
Alessandra Stanley
http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/arts/television/titanic-a-mini-series-starts-on-saturday-on-abc.html?ref=alessandrastanley
This is the first link that I  find which named "Look Out! Rehash Ahead in a Four-Hour Sinking (Titanic, a Mini-Series, Starts on Saturday on ABC)". In this article, Stanley criticized that the Titanic in 3-D, and Stanley stated that Titanic is a mini-series, and each episode has the same characters, but from different views of angles. Titanic is one of my favorite film, and it is really romantic. Every time when I watch it, I am moved by the storytelling. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were acted the romantic love story.

Virginia Heffernan
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07EFDC1039F933A25757C0A9679D8B63&ref=virginiaheffernan
This is the second link that I choose from the lists. In the article, "Miss G.: A Case of Internet  Addiction", Heffernan describes that the case of internet addiction and one of Gabriela's professor had told the author she slept with her laptop, so the Internet addiction is very serious in today's society. As for me, I think I cannot live without Internet, and everyday when I wake up, the first thing for me is to find my Iphone to surf on the Internet to log on social networkings. Also, I can stay at home all the time with my laptop, and I not only listen to music but also watch videos, play games online.

Seth Schiesel
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/arts/video-games/diablo-iii-video-game-from-blizzard-entertainment.html?_r=1&ref=sethschiesel
This is the third link that I find which named "Fighting the Forces of Hell, Soon With Real Greenbacks (Diablo III Video Game, From Blizzard Entertainment)". Schiesel demonstrated how popular the Diablo is, and "there was little special about Diablo II's basic play structure: chopping herds of fantasy monster into bits and collecting the booty." When Diablo III came out, it was really popular. I knew most my friends including my boyfriend bought it and played it. They really enjoyed playing this game, and most my friends play it all the day without doing anything. Schiesel described that "the Diablo formula were simple: Kill the beasties, take their treasure, sell it, upgrade your magical equipment, rinse and repeat." I never play this game, but when I watch my boyfriend and friends play it, I feel that they really enjoy it. Moreover, my boyfriend does not good at playing any games, but when he plays Diablo, he easily knows how to play it.

Media 384 Week one assignment

After I read these two articles, I learn how to criticize television shows, which critic is good and how critic impact the fans of shows. Also, different people have different opinions about one show, but most people trust critics who they like; then audiences will not be influenced by outside of the voices. Therefore, the critics really play a significant role among audiences and fans, because they will give good evaluations and the audiences will trust their critics to watch them, For example, every time when I watch some Chinese series, I will look at the evaluation and critics about these series and choose the best one to watch. However, different people have different opinions and favorites about television shows, so sometimes even some series have good evaluations and critics, I do not like watching them. Furthermore, I learn that the new style of TV criticism Sepinwall helped invent is developed and what is the difference between television criticism used to be like and television criticism in today's lives.

The first hyperlink that I click is A.V. Club, because I am curious about this club and I want to know what is about; I never heard about this club before. After I went to the homepage of A.V Club, I found that there were different sections on this website, such as film, tv club, music, video, books, comedy and chicago. I click the film section, and I discovered lots of the reviews of films, and people can leave a comment to each film. Moreover, I noticed that there is a trending called 3-D, I entered it and there was a article discussed about When 3-D is the Only Way to See a Movie(even for those ho hate 3-D). People can post their comments and share articles and videos. The second hyperlink that I choose is Gawker's Gossip Girl recaps, the reason I choose this one is that Gossip Girl was the show that I used to watch, and I really loved the first four seasons. The most characters I like are Chuck and Serena. In this article, there are descriptions about each character. In addition, there are several comments.

Media 470B first entry

Social networking is very important to me, and I use is all the time. I always use Chinese social networking such as RenRen, Sina Weibo and QQ. I have facebook account, but I seldom use it. Everyday when I get up, the first thing I do is to refresh my weibo and renren and I check what's going on about my friends. I share pictures, videos and news on the website. This is the most important social networking for me to communicate with my friends. My favorite social networking is weibo, because we can follow anyone we like. Moreover, the famous people also use weibo and their accounts are verified, so we can follow them and know their everyday's life. In addition, when we look other's homepage, they do not know who go to their websites. When I go to American, I often use QQ to communicate with my family, and these social networkings are really convenient for me to keep in touch with my friends, families and other people's lives.

Media 384 First entry

Actually, during these days, I did not watch any shows, because I travelled to Las Vegas with my friends. It was really amazing. I stayed in Las Vegas for six days, and I loved the food here. There were not only lots of Chinese restaurants but also western food restaurants. I ate a lot during these days like Chinese food, french food, Thai food and American food. Moreover, I went to Grand Canyon Skywalk, and I took helicopter and the views were wonderful.

I think the only show that I watched during these days was NBA. NBA belongs to peripheral shows, because my boyfriend always watches it, so I just watch it also. However, NBA is really a good show, because it is a competition show that two team of basketball players compete with each other. I just support the team that I like. For the guilty no-gos, when I was in Las Vegas, I wanted to watch "Blue Man", because I everyone likes watching it, and it is famous, so I want to watch it. However, we did not have enough time to watch it, so it is a pity.

All-time favorites shows that I will watch in re-runs are some Chinese shows such as Super Girl, Fei Cheng Wu Rao and Kuai Le Da Ben Ying. Super Girl is a competition show that the contestants have to sing a song and the judges tell them who are professional and who can go to the next competition. I love watching this show because I not only like listening to the music but also I like to watch their talents of singing songs. Fei Cheng Wu Rao is a show that women can find their Mr. Right. There are five men for twenty four women to choose during the show. This show broadcasts every Saturday and Sunday, and it is very funny and interesting. Kuai Le Da Ben Ying is a entertained show that broadcasts every Friday, and during this show, there are some famous stars playing games and interacting with audiences.

The shows I used to like is Gossip Girl. For a while, I really like this show, I love the actors and everything in this show. However, when I watched the fourth season, I have no interest in this show because of the story. The story was really boring, and there were too much boring drama in this show. The relationship between the characters were confused.

The shows I resisted for a long time is Fei Cheng Wu Rao, I watch this show every Saturday and Sunday nights. Sometimes I am really moved by some men, because someone will show their true emotion and love to tell the woman how much he loves her.
The shows I would rather eat charcoal than watch is Kang Xi Lai Le, because I think this show is really boring, and the content of this show is totally superficial. However, a lot of people like watching this show, and they think it is funny. I do not think so.

My category: The shows should be totally banned.
Fei Ni Mo Shu is a Chinese recruitment show that people who want to get a job and they can go to this show. However, the emcee always critique the candidates and this show is not fair.