Blog #11 More Sources

Psychology & Sociology (2013). Fighting the 'dumb jocks' stereotype. e! Science News.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/04/22/fighting.dumb.jock.stereotype

This article is mainly about how researcher studied the concept of "stereotype threat." The theory of stereotype are self-fulfilling prophecies. How they can creates anxiety in the stereotyped group, causing them to behave in the expected way. Research tested 300 university athletes to prove if the theory is true or not.


Macsai D (2013). Play Without Stereotype. Time Ideas.
http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/14/10-big-ideas/slide/play-without-stereotypes/

This article is about how are kids being taught in the world of stereotypes. Boy don't born to know to be a tough man, girls aren't born to know wanting to be pretty. These knowledge are given from the child's parent, or peers to the child as the brain develops the understanding at the age of 3 to 4. The point of this article is to show, even parents itself taught their child stereotypes.



Psychology & Sociology (2009). Psyched out by steretpypes: IU research suggests thinking about the positive. e! Science News.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/05/04/psyched.out.stereotypes.iu.research.suggests.thinking.about.positive

This article talked about cognitive scientist aware how of both the negative and positive related to performance of individuals. Robert J. Rydell, professor in the Department f Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, focused of the topic of women and math ability affected by stereotype. Study had demonstrated how the negative stereotype encroached on working memory. As reading on to the article, it provides more detail on professor Rydell's study.

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Sources Blog Post #10

Stereotype:


Banks S.(2012). The Stereotype and the single mother. The Los Angeles Times.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/30/local/la-me-banks-singlemothers-20121201

An article about how a single mother raising three child by herself, because her husband died 19 years ago. People stereotype about how single mother can't take good care of their children, or single mother are weak,  and careless. This article talks about how a single mother can be tough and is able to handle things.

Paul A. (2012). It's Not Me, It's You. The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/intelligence-and-the-stereotype-threat.html?_r=0

An article from The New York Times, writing about why people in our society uses stereotype. Some do it just to be funny, or cool. But people don't know how it's has a powerful influence to the society. It can creates effects of social forces on academic achievement.

National Science Foundation (2010). Negative Sterrotypes Shown to Affect Learning, Not Just Performance. U.S. News Science

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/07/28/negative-stereotypes-shown-to-affect-learning-not-just-performance

It talks about the negative impact and effects of stereotypes. How it can jeopardize how members of stigmatized groups might perform on test and other skill- based act. The effect on learning could be cumulative due to stereotype.

Kamal A. Stereotypes: Do They Affect You? Teen Ink.

http://www.teenink.com/opinion/all/article/82236/Stereotypes-Do-They-Affect-You/

How stereotype can affect you personally. You might stereotype on others, but does it also affects you. Stereotype can leads to depression or even violence. Who gives you the right to judge another person. 

Children and Media. Stereotypes. PBS Parents.

http://www.pbs.org/parents/childrenandmedia/article-stereotypes.html

Website that teach parents how to prevent child to stereotype. It gives ways they should do or tell children about the negative of stereotype, and how to fight stereotype.

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Blog #9 Participatory Action Research

Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a way of researcher collecting information or resource for organizing the honor, centers, and how it can reflects the experiences of people's most directly affected by the problems and issues in our community.

Reasons why people do Participatory Action Research are because people use this research method to learn more about the community and environment they are living in. The research helps to gather all the information of the environment easily. We also can use this research to question the social issues that we have, such as racism, sexism, and d violence in the community.

The strength of PAR is it helps to bring or units together people who are dealing with the same problem. PAR also helps to raise awareness of problems, than creates a better environment for everyone. The weakness of PAR would be creating bias ideas toward the subject that is addressing. People have different view on things, but PAR is creating people to think there is only one solution or one true to a problem.

Five most interesting example of PAR I read about:
1. All the media and justice films on blog post #8
2. New York Times newspaper
3. Legalizing gay marriage
4. "The White Man's Burden"
5. Ted Talk films

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Blog #8 Media & Justice Films

What do it mean to be African American Women Who Love Hip-Hop?

http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/12/african_american_woman_who_loves_hip_hop

The social issue that this film addressed is sexism on African American female. Through films and music videos, African American women are being used an sex object other than a human being. The purpose of this film is to tell all the young ladies out there to be careful with the video they watch and don't get easily influence by it. The most interest part of the film is when it shows music video of tons of ladies surrounding one rapper. The research method that are being used is interviews and videos. 

The data was presented throughout the film by using video examples and interviewing music producers on their thoughts for this topic. The film provide a influencing and convincing message. When the young African American talked about her experience, it persuaded me. This film is an example of using media, because it helps to address a social issue that we have in our world today that is needed to be change.


It's In Your Hands:
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/11/its_in_your_hands

Through the film, it's trying to spread the message of diarrhea disease happening in India. They film want to bring the message of as simple of washing your hand with soap can prevent you from getting diarrhea. I personally like this film a lot. It's a short 2 minute film, but it express a very powerful message. I didn't understand the film at all until the last 30 second of the film. It was very interesting to watch. The research method that is use in this film is through advertisement, it showed how two Indian is using really simple tool to make a fountain.

The data is present by using advertisement, showing the message of washing hand with soap in India can prevent the disease of diarrhea. The film provide a really convincing message. The part that spoke out to me is at the end of the film, it wrote how 1000 children die everyday from diarrhea, and just as simple of washing hand with soap in India can safe lives. The film is an example of using media because it's trying to create a social change.


No One Bothered:
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/10/no_one_bothered

This film is addressing the problem of struggling of the homeless people. The purpose of this film is to show how every homeless person had their own story and should never judge them from the way they look. The part when the homeless couple told us how they found true love in poverty. The research method used in the film is interviewing and storytelling.

The data of this film is presented by having two homeless couple told us stories of their past, and hoping to use they stories to create a change in social and bring the message out to the public. The film do have a really convincing message. It taught me I should never judge any homeless person, so of them could be fake, but most of them had their own really interesting story, and these homeless men are full with talents. The film is another example of using media because through the film, it's expressing an issue that we have now a days in social and one that needed to be change and adjust.

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Things that bother me in my community

Things that bother me in my community

Things that really do irritate me in our society is the fact that people these days rely on technology too much. The amount of people spending time indoor largely increase compare to ten years ago. This doesn't benefit our society in any way. It's just hurting ourselves. For example, with the technology of GPS, less and less people use map. And young children these days don't even know how to use a map correctly. All they need is to type in the location they want on their phone or devices, and it automatically takes you there. This might cause the paper map to be eventually be getting rid off.

Technology not only can hurt us mentally, but also physically. People spending too much time indoor, which cause the lack of exercise and leads to health problem. More and more young kids starting to wear glasses at a very young age. The radiation from device can slowly damage our eye sign, and slowly leads to a larger problem, such as cancer.

Having technology to help for upgrading our society can be a great thing, but there should be a limit of usage. We need to encourage young children to go outdoor more. Exercise and even taking a walk outside of the house can mean a lot. This can help to benefit and reduce the amount of young kids with bad eye sign and having a brighter future with a greater eyes. I would hope years later, there could be an invention that might helps to improve our eye sign or stop the hurting of our eye sign through technology.

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Scarlett Johansson: Back in Stride by Jason Gay

Scarlett Johansson: Back in Stride by Jason Gay

The article of Scarlett Johansson was being done interviewed by Jason Gay, who is also known for interviewing Rihanna. Gay started off the article with an great opening and strong attention grabber. He jumps into the topic of Johansson cutting onions, which is both humanistic and awkward at the same time. Gay focused on the how Johannsson was cutting an onion on a show, and her red-carpet looks.

Gay points out a lot of details from his interview, even little tiny action that Johannsson had done or said that might seem to be interesting. In the article, Gay point out how Johannsson, "one of the most glamorous actresses alive is pink-eyed and sniffling and looking like she's been asked to put a cat to sleep." Gay used metaphor in the article to compare exact action of Johansson. The article did started from the middle of action, it made it interesting to read. Once you read about how Johannsson was red-eyed, you would want to read along to see what happened. Jason Gay done a great job on both interviewing and publishing this article.

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No Need For Making Sense Poem

I believe while scratching head

concluded

 empty classrrom 

fine looking*

Chinese community    confortable careful

dangerous   point out

memories~   crazy rebellious age

- disagreement -

effect attention strict harsh understand own thoughts 

"responded"

important environment 

different kind life nobody figure out

period & choice

serious look  deciding  important  kind of 

supporting future

dead silence...................

guess?

important steps...

show seriousness of preparing

expanding  large 

difficult together   smoothly

appears

once             again

End

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