Gossip Girl is an American television show fashioned after the trendy novel series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series revolves around the lives of socialite teenagers growing up on New York City's Upper East Side who attend elite academic institutions while dealing with friends, family, jealousy, and other issues. The show begins each week with the same line, as the narrator states, “Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite” (IMDB). The shows themes are an uncanny depiction of what youth culture now a day strives to represent, or exploit per se. The show revels in the new fashion trends sported by the youth, or rather the fashion trends of the youth are somewhat modeled after the characters attire in the show.
Avalon’s attitude to the bullying and cyber-bullying was not very delightful nor helpful. One example is when Avalon received a text saying “FILTHY SLAG WATCH OUT” also, another quote word for word is “The words screamed at me from the screen. The sight of them hurt my ears. It was all I could hear.” Avalon had been taken by surprise with this text
Swearing became more frequent and i also noticed that i became more judgemental of people i had never talked to before. I would also judge people who didn’t have Facebook, saying things like “You don’t have Facebook? How can you not have Facebook?” I judged anyone that didn’t have Facebook, seeing them as weird and introverted. It was simple and minor things like this that changed my personality completely; however, it was not all the media’s doing. Society’s view on what is “the norm” showed me that having
There were stories from last year and years back about cyberbullies and how this issue is raising eyebrows due to it being a deathly problem. From what the news or media has talked about it, it is widespread and with all the social media sites online today it is as easy as working from home to bully. When I grew up there was the bully at school, he or she bullied at school, maybe the bus, but after you went home that was it and that was the norm. As a kid you get used to it, the other kid moves on or the both of you grow out of that stage and all is well. Today, however that is not the case and anytime kids and or young teens are dying due to bullying an all out resolution has to be reached.
Running head: BYOD Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Karen Serene Dunston-Carr Alvernia University Foundations of Communication Dr. Tiffanie Steward-Deloach November 29, 2012 Abstract Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) refers to technology models where students in grades K-12 bring a personally owned device to school for the purpose of learning. How will the BYOD policy affect students of all ages, colors and backgrounds, from communities large and small, urban and rural as well as suburban? One thing is for sure, a laptop or tablet has replaced the notebook and pen over the past few years since our present high-tech explosion. Research shows that some schools opted to participate in a trial program before fully launching a BYOD policy.
Lopareva Ksenia 831 Whether the Internet ruined the childhood of the millennium’s children? I've already been in high school, when the Internet has finally reached our town and has started to develop, evolve, adapting to the society. I think that even my generation can already be called "the past"( regarding technology, I mean) and comparing the methods of obtaining information, which we used at school, and present-day, one can only wonder how much time we could save, whether the Internet would be the same as it is now. Talking about Internet in general, I can only note the obvious (I think) thing - I cannot imagine how we ever lived without it. What previously could take days or even weeks, now you can make in seconds - minutes with one click of your mouse.
The researchers noticed a great deal of activity in the areas of the brain devoted to reward and pleasure. 4. Bullies lack the ability to self-regulate emotions The same researchers who conducted the brain scan study made another surprising discovery: the parts of the bullies’ brains that allows them to self-regulate their emotions were inactive. This suggests that bullies simply don’t have a way to control their anger and frustration, which may result in severe overreactions to small provocations. 5.
While implementing the ‘Dislike’ button seems pretty harmless to most of us, it could actually leave a negative impact on individuals, society and businesses. The use of ‘Dislike’ button on Facebook could very well hurt a person mentally and emotionally. Imagine writing a status on Facebook about your day and someone gives you a ‘dislike’. That action alone could already make you question to what you are doing wrong and leave you feeling negative for the whole day. What more if it is a ten or a hundred thumbs down?
Celebrating an event with twenty five children is not easy. The second stage is analyzing the problem and its causes. After a few months I realized that my assistant was leaving early every time there was a party. Her leaving early was a huge problem for me, because it added more work for me and also doubled the stress. I then began to search and choose an alternative way to resolve this problem which is the third and fourth stage of problem solving.
In her speech “Online Harassment and Cyber Mobs” from 2012, she addresses this situation and starts a discussion about how especially online gaming portrays the female part of our world. Sarkeeshian begins her speech by telling the audience a little bit about herself and explains that she has now run a video web series on YouTube, for four years, about the representations of women in the media. Sarkeeshian is an open feminist, who does not try to hide her opinion or cover anything up. In her speech, her main focus is the video gaming industry, and how is holds, as she says: “… some of the most sexually objectified, stereotyped and downright oppressive portrayals of women in any medium” (page 1, line 13-14). It is because of this that she launched a fundraising campaign on a website, where people could donate money to the project and support the fight for an improved representation of women in the online gaming