The Yes Men tells the tale of two men trying to fight the wrongs with the world. They acted as modern day vigilantes fighting for the down trodden. This two men trick their way into large meetings and try to make heads of corporations see the errors in their ways. The film told their tale which was one part eye opening and one part entertainment. They try to shock and surprise people with their ideas but for its effect could be argued. There largest effect was a televised broadcast on BBC in which they tried to fix a crisis in Baypaul but in the long run the company responsible did nothing to fix their issues of the past. The company responsible spent more money on an ad complain then they did for the people in India. I really enjoyed their method and my eyes were opened to finding new ways of fighting corporations. Their method was inventive and their attempt was just but I wish more people could have been effected. I fished the movie at my room and I was continually amazed by the amount of greed existing with in our country. I hope more people see and learn from this movie.

1. The Occupy Movement has changed the way people think about the current economic climate and how their lives are being changed by a small percent of the population. It has awoken people to really think about how their money is being used and how no matter how hard they work, they can’t get ahead. The Occupy Movement has also changed the way people think about protesting in general. This group is not demanding anything and has no real power structure within the organization. The structure within the movement is also different as in the way that each group in a city is not dependent on other groups in other cites. The normal person is being exposed by this movement to really think about the way their life is going and how they chose their representatives within government.
2. Within the occupy movement no one has any real power. Within the movement everyone has the same amount of power so that a “leader” can not be removed. Everyone has a whole can take the leader role and anyone else can respond to that. Its a horizontal structure instead of a vertical structure. There is no center of the movement so that if one group of the movement is removed it doesn’t effect other parts of the movement. This new power structure is hard for outsiders to understand because of the way that the horizontal structure is so different from the vertical structure that everyone has. The People’s Mic is a part of the new movement as a new way to convey messages over an entire group of people. Its not really a one to many form of communication but its not a form of many to many either. It starts with one person say something and everyone around that person repeats the message and then the pattern repeats to spread the message all the way through the movement. Its a very new way to spread a message through a group of people.

1. I think the issue of Internet Piracy is a big deal at the moment but I think the media makes it a big deal for the wrong reasons. For the most part big media conglomerates seem to use piracy as scapegoat instead of admitting real issues. Like if a movie studio was to say that the sales for their current movie was bad because of the amount of time it was pirated means nothing. It could be that the sales are bad for the movie because the movie was simply bad. Or that the ten year old kid downloading a movie would have never seen the movie otherwise is not why sales are bad. The music industry is not dying because music is being pirated, the current issues could be blamed on a series of other factors including bad quality, over saturation of the market or just a bad market. Piracy is not as big of deal as the media makes it out to be. Of course, some people use it to steal material but that material is getting out there. More people are seeing that material which is a good thing! The more people interested in a product means that more people are their to support that product when maybe a sequel is released. The media needs to be open minded towards Piracy instead of being so biased. Personally, if I could get the taste of a band by downloading an older album, the more interested I am in the bands next piece of work. But the media doesn’t want to think about that. They just paint Internet pirates as dark evil characters instead of seeing the real picture. The whole entertainment industry needs to stop blaming piracy for their issues and instead realize if they make a worthwhile product, people will buy it. I know I will.

2. For the most part of a persons childhood everything is taken care of for them. They sit back and let others make their decision, until the child is old enough. When that happens they begin to run their own lives. And when that happens, everyone has a choice. Do you sit back and let things happen around you? Or do you make your life what you want it to be? For the most part, people just let their lives pass them by. Others make their lives what they what it to be. This article speaks about several different people trying to change their lives. One person, a journalist Marla Ruzicka, goes out to Iraq in an attempt to help the wars victim just because that person wanted to help those people. She cared about that issue, so she set out to change it. I hope that more and more people start to fight for their beliefs. I am inspired by Marla, and her life, and I hope that someday I will find a cause that I believe in as strongly as she did her’s.

1. The three transportation medias are land, water and sky. The difference between a transport medium and a transport vehicle is that a vehicle is something that brings a person across some distance but a transportation medium is some thing that a transport vehicle goes across. A transportation medium for example is land while a transport vehicle is like a car, that carries a person across land.

    

2. The three communication medias are the Interpersonal Medium, the Mass Medium and finally the New Medium. A communication media could be something like two people talking to one another as in one to one while a communication vehicle is something like a website that facilitates many to many communication. An email can be two different kinds of Mediums. If the email is only going in-between two people, it is an Interpersonal Medium. But if the Email is traveling from one person to many others it becomes a Mass Medium.

3. During interpersonal communication a person can communicate with one person and they can make their point very clearly. Communication between two people is easily understood but it take awhile for the message to be spread. For one person to talk to one person and pass on a message it would take awhile in comparison to a Mass Medium. Broadcast communication has the ability to spread a message very fast but the ability to have comprehension is lost. People listing can no longer ask questions or reply to anything from the speaker.

4. The characteristics of the New Medium are that individual information can be seen by a potentially infinite number of people, but everyone who broadcasts or receives information has control over that content. It gets rid of both of the disadvantages of the mediums that come before it. Many to many communication is not dependent on new technology like the laptop or iphone, it depends on the invention of the internet and how that lets us share information. The laptop is just a vehicle to see this new medium.