CITIZENS JOURNALISTS OF OLD WESTBURY

The websites that I visit on a daily basis is facebook, twitter, and instagram. When watching television i watch channels such as VH1, BET, and MTV because I like to watch music and the videos that come along with them. Movies that i like to watch are action movies, and movies that usually have a major twist at the end of them. i usually watch movies on a application named “netflix” which offers popular movies that have came out all over the world. The music that I find the most interest in is R&B and Hip Hop which comes on 97.1 FM and 105.1 FM. These two channels are the most popular for these specific genres.

MTV, Vh1, and BET are owned by VIACOM.. I recently found out that twitter and facebook are both individually owned.

Even though both FM radio stations are similar in music they are owned by two different companies, 105.1 is owned by WWPR, and 97.1 is owned by WQHT.

I played hey baby i liked the fact that i had a gun. It made me feel powerful. The game had a lot of glitches and wouldn’t download at first. I was going to give up, but then it worked. This game just let the main player kill everyone, but females. The fact that females couldn’t get shot showed the sexism in the game. Im happy that the women were not able to get killed because I’m a female myself and the pain probably was to intense. Killing people s never a good thing, but when a game is all about killing you have too. The point of this game was to kill everyone and see how many people you killed at the end of the game. It was fun as i became more familiar with it, and i would recommend it to those who want to play some type of killing game. its a negative game, but if you are into guns and things of that nature then this game would be pefect.

I really enjoyed the skype video that occurred during class. I liked what the creator of “upworthy” talked about and said. He discussed some key topics and basically made everyone familiar with what it what about and what he planned on doing with it. The lady that was on the “startup” bus really was my main focus. The reason why is because she does webpage design and thats a field that I am definitely interested in. The fact that she didn’t mind that her email was giving out, and that she was willing to lend a helping hand was a beautiful thing.

Im am going to expand on my first community project which discussed what a college athlete goes through on a everyday basis. It will show practices, gatherings, and more of a one on one relationship between school and basketball. It will also show how they come into play with each other. The medium that i will use for this project is video. Im definitely going to have more editing and more creativity added on for the community 2 project. i will start recording as soon as possible. we don’t have practice tomorrow therefore, recording will actually start tuesday afternoon. as far as class times im going to take advantage of them to show recordings and to get tips on how to improve and better the project.

Basketball

A “Meme” is one’s personal thought, something you may or may not agree with. Usually A “Meme” is liked by another person, and viewed by others all over the world. A Meme usually spreads throughout the world through websites and can be viewed by different people. A “meme” can be a picture, quote, symbol, or a joke that comes to one’s head.A “meme” can spread throughout many different places such as work, school, society, and especially the entire media throughout the world. Meme’s always shows some type of emotion leading towards one common point of view.

A meme can definitely have an effect on culture and politics. The way that it can effect culture is by using people of a certain skin color or background. If A meme has a certain life situation happening that others can relate to, then those who can relate will be effected by it. Meme’s are always directed at a certain type of person and a specific group so that the message can get across, and when the message gets across they want people to understand them. When a meme is negative towards a specific political party it makes those who follow and believe upset. Everyone is entitled to their own political views therefore the meme’s shouldn’t take that away. A political meme can also effect whether or not a person leans more towards a political party, or want to change their views because of the meme’s message.

The way that regular people participate is the get these specific photos and actually right the messaga eon the picture and upload them to blogs, and social networks all over the world. Once this happens then people all over the world will see the different ideas of meme’s and how creative people really are.

For my community project i am going to focus on the basketball team as a whole.Im going to have different interviews with different teammates, and im going to have clips of actual live action. The questions are going to be precise and to the point of explaining to those who dont know about the old Westbury Lady Panthers. Its going to focus on basketball and what the team actually wants to accomplish, and what playing basketball at old Westbury is like.

My community is very different from other communities. People sometimes describe it as the hood, or basically a place that they don’t want to be left alone at.To the people that actually live there that accusation is definitely wrong. To me my community is beautiful and i wouldn’t want to live in any other place. My community is Queens and the city is called Queens Village. My mom moved there about twelve years ago and at first she wondered if we should have moved. Once she seen that it was quieter then the previous community that we was living in she decided that we were going to stay. My community is definitely social, due to the different activities that my community offers. My community offers food for the poor at the local church, they also have block parties to give back to those who live on particular blocks, and they also have have different congress voting for the community. They give the people that actually live in the community a chance to have a say, and to basically voice the way they feel and their different views and opinions. My communities interest is based off of those who live in it. The background of my community was founded in the 1600’s under a different name which is Little Plains.

My community as a whole has many different religions. The good thing about that is that people from all over the world can come and be comfortable in my neighborhood no matter who/what they believe in. The different religions vary from Christian, Catholic, Protestant, Jehovah Witness, Presbyterian, and Baptist. When it comes to geography my community Queens Village is very popular for new immigrants, and immigrants as a whole. My community has different ethnic groups that are comfortable living in the conditions that the community has mad possible for them. The good thing that my community offers to immigrants is that it is so comfortable for them that even though they are not in their home land it still feels as if they are still there. Making different people feel at home and comfortable that are no longer at that specific place is always a good thing. The fact that my community is like this causes different people from all over the world to come and live comfortably.

There are many different races amongst my community. People from all over come and live and sometimes I’m surprised by the different places I hear that people are from. The different races are Caucasian, Haitian, Mexican, Hispanic, African American, West Indian, Native American, Indian, Asian, and Mid Western. The sexual orientation of my community is Hetero- Sexual and Homo- Sexual. In my community it really doesn’t matter what your sexual orientation is because everyone where I live is open minded. People accept others for what they like and for what they believe in therefore there a person is judged by their character, not how they decide to live their lives. My community has a lot to offer and the people who live in it definitely reap the benefits from it.

By: Brittany Mitchell