What are the implications for female athletes of the money cycle in sports?

Female athletes are definitely looked at differently than male athletes, especially in the money cycle. We look at sports like football and baseball and see that they are male dominated, in both players and fans. The WNBA has grown to be a powerful commodity for female athletes; however, they do not get paid at all what male NBA players get paid. We see female athletes in tennis, volleyball, soccer, etc., but none of these sports are big money makers or have the viewer-ship that football or baseball does. The fact is many female athletes are looked at for their attractiveness much more over their abilities. Let us take tennis player Anna Kournikova, a very attractive athlete whose fame and money stemmed from her magazine layouts, like in Maxim and Sports Illustrated, and endorsements, but not as much from her talent. Danica Patrick is a very good race car driver, but she is known more for having a pretty face. Unfortunately, female athletes will never see the pay male athletes see.

Why are mostly male sports covered and aired on television and radio?

Male sports are covered because that is what gets the ratings. Women's basketball is aired on ESPN throughout the summer, but few people watch. However, a single NBA game is watched by millions of viewers. Sports serve as a source of enjoyment. When you are able to watch your team go out and compete every Sunday, you have a sense of pride when they win. When your team wins the championship, you feel like you have won the championship. Again, as bad as it sounds, women athletes don't produce the same product that male athletes do.

Does the “type” of violence (e.g., cartoon, sport, realistic) make a difference in the impact it has on the viewer?

The type of violence (sport, cartoon, realistic..) definitely makes a difference on the impact of the viewer. These categories all have different audiences and different age groups. Cartoons make it seem that there is lacking of consequences for violence. Children watching these programs will see that the violence is funny and think that there is no harm in acting this way. When there is extreme violence in sports consequences are usually shown, such as the violent team getting penalties or an individual getting thrown out of a game completely. Audiences who watch realistic violence over long periods of time will be less sensitive to what they see. This makes violence seem normal in television, movies, and even everyday life.

Think about BSC students. Are they all identical? Or are there segments—several different groups of students that are clearly identifiable by how the

At BSU, the four groups that I have chosen to identify are "The Couch Kids," a group of kids who hang out at the RCC couches. They are there all day long playing games with each other and hanging out. "Athletics" - Before this year, I never realized there was a close knit group over at the gym. There are so many kids who major in Physical Education and Athletic Training. I'm taking three classes in that department this semester and there seems to be all of the same kids and they seem to all know each other. "Minorities" - Here at BSU, not all minorities conform, but with certain student groups on campus, it allows them to become close knit and hang out more. The final group: "The Older People" - BSU is a school that plenty of older people return to and try and get their degree. I have a friend who is now in the same class as her mom.

A) "The Couch Kids" - I think they would be torn on books and film. There are plenty of genres of books that appeal to them that match their appeal in movies.

"Athletics" - For sure would prefer film.

"Minorities" - I think that they would prefer film over books.

"The Older People" - Books.

B) "The Couch Kids" - From what I've witnessed, they would be into Pokemon-type shows; ones that are based on card games.

"Athletics" - These kids watch ESPN and all the games on Sunday.

"Minorities" - Anything on MTV

"The Older People" - HGTV

C) "The Couch Kids" - The talk-show comedies.

"Athletics" - Music, popular songs.

"Minorities" Music, popular songs as well.

"The Older People" - NPR mixed with other talk shows.

D) "Couch Kids" - Video game guides

"Athletics" - Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine

"Minorities" - People, US Weekly

"The Older People" - Reader's Digest

E) "The Couch Kids" - Heavy Rock Metal bands

"Athletics" - Lady GaGa, Jason DeRulo

"Minorities" - Jay-Z, other popular Kiss 108 Music

"The Older People" - Their generation music, 70's & 80's/

F) As for other media, almost everyone is on Facebook. Even "The Older People" are now joining Facebook and check it often. They aren't all on Twitter yet, but its something that could possibly happen.

piracy

I think that piracy is abused all the time, and it is almost impossible to know every time you are doing it. I think there are to many lawsuits concerning piracy. I realize that people have rights to certain parts of the media, but we can't avoid piracy completely. I do believe that piracy is bad for the economy. For example, the downloading of mp3's on the internet has basically shut down CD sales. Music stores have seen a rapid decline in sales due to people downloading free music online. This is true with films as well. I have seen a number of movie stores going out of business. I never see Blockbusters anymore, and hollywood video has also been in a steady decline. Piracy is definitely bad for the economy, but in most cases, it is hard to avoid completely.

What Can We Do To Protect Our Privacy

I went to the different websites that it told me to and searched for myself. They were able to match me right away. Though my age was off, they had my MySpace account I haven’t used in six years, they had links to The Comment, BSU’s student-run newspaper, to articles that I wrote. They had my parents names and my brothers name listed right on the page. My hometown, along with a censored version of my address was there. It also made me realize that I should be more careful in what I post online. Once it goes on the Internet, it’s there forever.

what do you think is going to happen to copyright law in our technological-based future?

I think that in order to move on with stricter copyright laws they must first define the differences of what is piracy and what isn't. After these are determined they can then make stricter laws. I think that is will be hard to enforce whatever they come up with because of developing technology all the time. Just as Limewire has been outlawed more free music sites will pop up. Just as it said in the book if restrictions are put on CD's and DVD's to make them only able to play on DVD players and CD players it will be a disadvantage for the average consumer but pirateers will soon enough find a way to break through the codes. So how successful it will be is unkown.

Kei

I searched for information about myself on the websites it told us to do so such as 123people.com and peekyou.com. I found that there is so much information up there that I have never even posted. It knew all my family members, address, phone number, age, and all my social networking site pages. Some information was wrong of course but it was really eye opening to see just how much access people have to each other on the internet.

Protecting Children From Unfair Advertising Practices.

I never knew that there were restrictions on the amount of commercials that could play during children's programming. It made sense that there would be restrictions on what couldn't be played, but it never dawned on me that a certain limit would be set. Another thing I found interesting was that it didn't stop certain companies. Viacom was cited for 600 violations and fined $1 million. I was astounded that the company, even though they blamed it on human error, would continue to try and break the rules.

text

I read text book about media.

"Cross-Ownership and Control" was the most interesting. I had heard of separate companies merging together to combine profit, but I did not know there were three different trends toward concentration. A horizontal merger, a vertical merger, and a conglomerate merger all deal with one media company joining together or buying out other media companies. I personally liked reading about the mega-mergers, which dealt with a lot of money and big name companies coming together. For example, Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a small railroad air brakes manufacturer that bought out CBS, a major television network. Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting completed a merger in 1995 and Disney acquired Marvel comics in 2009. All of these mergers were worth billions of dollars, which is unbelievable, but very interesting to read about.

Concept of media effects.

http://www.oak.dti.ne.jp/~xkana/psycho/social/social_17/index.html

There are several opinions about media effects or not on the site.
Keiichi Saito said　that Media do not affect young children. Recently, people said that the number of the crime of the child are increasing because of media suich as video games. However, Keiichi Saito disagreed with this opinion because when he searched about the children who did the crime played video game or not. After survey, he can not say video game affect their crime.
This is difficult question. I think media affect young children. However, people start think that bad effects for children are from media. However, this is also media's responsibility. Media should gain support of people.

localism

I think it is important for our culture to have a sense of sharing power and opinions within our institutions. We all need to feel we can contribute to a big change in our culture. We also feel the need to be a local part of media as well. We like to contribute to the sharing and well being of local media outlets. This is why there are regular people who call in to talk shows, because we can play a role in the media by being audience members. The FCC tries to take out the idea of localism because they regulate what we can and cannot say on radio and television. They block out certain inappropriate words on public TV and public radio. The FCC I feel has softened up a bit over the years, because words that were once illegal on radio and television, are now legal as I've observed.

Cutting Remarks on W.

When I read this chapter, I felt editors are really difficult job. Actually I do not know this movie and Oliver Stone, so this chapter was difficult to understand for me. Right now, when I am creating the movie, I am doing director, and editor. When I take a shooting, and do editing, I just doing my feeling. I do not hear other people’s opinion. However, real editors have to listen to ideas from directors, actors, and then editors always have to find the best bits of the story. In addition, book said editors discuss the editorial strategy and the layering of music and sound effects. Editors have a lot of job more than I thought. This book also said editors spend a lot of time with director, and felt his sense. Of course, directors often change their mind, but editors should be always open to ideas about structures. I do not have experience to edit with other people. However, when I will be an editor, I have to do it with someone, and have to listen to director’s opinion even I do not want to. So I think that it is really important to have good relationship with teammate for creating great film.

I read the text book.

I found it interesting that there was a lot more information on MySpace than Facebook in this chapter. Even though this book is extremely recent I have noticed a major decline in MySpace users and a major increase in Facebook users. I also found it interesting that they didn't have a segment on Twitter since it is also such a recent development. With increasing popularity on both of these sites I'm sure the next edition of Media Literacy will have to include more details on both of these social networking sites.

Do you know MMORPG?

This is on line game.

MMORPGs have a decent number of positive affects. One positive affect is the fact that MMORPGs have a place for everyone. There are different types of these games and it seems as though no matter what game you play, you can find your crowd. It allows people to enjoy themselves with something that they don't have to share with people in their life. On the flip side, that can also be viewed as a negative. Though you can meet people from all over the world, you seem to fall in a trap. Though not all players, but a certain amount of World of Warcraft players seem very addicted. They spend incredible amounts of money to play these games because they have crossed the line of reality and fantasy. They start believing that the online game is their real life and that is really them. They start losing contact with people and the games can ruin lives.