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September 24, 2017

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May the Force be With You-ish

History: This video came about when a student named Raza filmed him self reenacting Star Wars light saber scenes in 2002. He recorded these scenes using the schools filming studio and equipment. Little did he know, he accidentally recorded over one of the schools basketball games. When the film students were going through looking at the basketball game for highlights, they came across this video. These film students made copies and gave them out to everyone in school, as well as posting them on the internet. Raza and his family decided to create a court case against these kids for cyber bullying. In the end Raza ended up settling with the kids, who caused him so much pain, in court. New Kinds of Thinking: This shows that people will use the internet for negative reasons. People think it is funny to post someone else,who does not know are being filmed, for a little laugh. This can cause people to think one of two ways. Th...

Introduction

Hi everyone! I am Susie Williams and I am a junior at Limestone College. I am a Professional Communications major with a minor in Art. In this class, I am wanting to learn how to create more of an online presence in a professional way. I hope to learn how to write to connect with people.

Becoming Screen Literate

This reading was from an article in The New York Times called "Becoming Screen Literate" . It talks about how videos are everywhere from the internet to ATM machines. This is because there is software that make it simple for anyone who owns a computer or a smartphone to make a video. The shift from story telling to videos was not as quick as one may think. People used to rely on there family to tell them their peoples history, and they would believe them because they had nothing to prove them wrong. When writing came about people took what was written as truth, and had to research anything someone told them to make sure it was true. Now, with video we can search different links and make our own truth. We, as a society, would rather flip through the news stations to get our information instead of reading a newspaper. With the rise of film technology one does not need to be a film producer to make an outstanding film. People are becomin...

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