- What do you take the differences between “hearing” and “listening” to be? Do we make choices about what we listen to? If so, how do we make these choices? What criteria do we use? Do structural features, such as race, gender, or social class, inform how we listen? How so? Are there other structural elements that affect our listening experiences? Hearing is just something you just listen to, listening is something that you pay close attention too. Yes, we make the choice on what we listen to because listening gives one’s attention to a sound, listening is a learned skill. We make these choices by managing what he can hear and what we don’t want to hear. When we pay attention to certain things and only focus on it you forget about what’s around it. It’s very personal choice to choose what we listen to and what we don’t. In some house holds the wife usually listens to what the husband says because he’s the head on the house. Listening is something that you can’t really avoid. I feel like something that really effects our listening structural elements that affect our listening experience is our surrounding because you can easily get distracted by any noise.
- How do Schafer and Krakowski discuss the relationship between sound and space? Schafer and Krakowski discuss the relationship between sound and space by talking about us and how we always have sound around us. Schafer believe sound comes from the environment and what surrounds us. There’re times where we understand certain thing by listening or sometimes by just hearing.
Author: Miguel J Mejia
Blog#3
1.Ads make us believe that we need whatever we see in their advertising, they make it look useful and Affordable to catch people’s attention. It makes the consumer think that is what they are missing in their lives. It’s very effective because it gets the consumer into thinking of buying it.
2.”Berger” uses oil painting to describe the live texture of a picture. He compares color photography to oil painting since they were both used to show demonstration of the texture and tangibility and similarities to photography.
3.Advertisement can make you think about its product to the point where you actually get it. “Berger” says “ how so many cosmetic companies and manufactures use magazines and tv commercials in order to spread their”beauty dream”.
Blog#2
Still to this day women are being objected to by men as “berger” described. Women put themselves out there to the public where everyone can see and judge their appearance.Also it makes men judge women with a whole different perspective. No women have less control over their image in the media because everyone has an opinion that will make you look different in everyone’s eye.
Women have the choice of controlling their appearance on social media by controlling what they post and show publicly. “Berger” says the difference between nakedness is just the human female body without clothes”. Women have full control of their appearance and of who they want to people to look at them as.
Blog#4
Step1: Black Lives Matter.
Step2: Police brutality and racial disciminaton.
Step3: Coming from a different background or race, one will always come into contact with being racially profiled or discriminated against.
Step4:Although it started in the US, Black Lives Matter is now a global human rights movement. It campaigns to end violence and racism towards Black people and other people of color.
Step5:Is black lives matter movement doing more harm than good?