Kaitlyn Mullen

June 11th, 2017 Writing up these media blogs, have really made me reflect on the way I see and use media. I still continue to use the same amount of media but now I am completely aware of it. I spend a lot of my day on media, specifically social media websites like Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Because I use media so much throughout my day, it makes me a lot more aware of what advertisers do to our minds. Recently on Snapchat, advertisers have put more ads on this social media app. Before, there were absolutely no ads but as I watch someone's story on it, ads for other apps begin to pop up. When I'm scrolling through my feed on Instagram, I notice how sneaky advertisers are. They put normal pictures on my feed that makes it look like I am following this person which causes me to actually like the photo and unknowingly read the description about this product. Also, on YouTube, there's almost an ad for a product before every video I watch. I never realized how ...

June 7th, 2017 Tupac is one of the biggest rappers of all time with selling over 75 million worldwide albums all at the age of 25 and even more when he died. Personally, he is my favorite rapper because not only did I grow up listening to him, but unlike a lot of rappers now of days, his songs told a story. Above I inserted a part of my favorite song of mine from him called, "Changes." Unfortunately, I was not able to upload the "Changes" video because it would not allow me to, but here is a small snippet of part of the lyrics. This song talks about racism and that the only way we can change it is if we as people come together and change everything we do. It's sad to think that racism was such a big problem that dated back hundreds of years ago and still today it is still happening. Tupac wrote songs to inform people and unlike a lot of rap today, he didn't just yell curse words in the microphone. The song that I inserted above is called, "Dear Mam...

June 7th, 2017 This iconic WWII propaganda poster was made to inspire Americans to boost the worker's morals. The person who created this poster, J. Howard Miller, really depicted that workers "can do it." It shows a woman flexing her arm which illustrates her power. Women weren't seen as the most powerful people at the time during WWII so with the main focus as a woman trying to be seen as strong, it really shows us the point of the image. Women are supposed to be seen as powerless and weak so with this poster, it shows that if a woman can do it, then anyone can do it. During this time when it came out, 1943, there weren't anyways to advertise through media. In fact, the only way to advertise through media was through a radio because the first TV only came out during 1944 and of course Instagram, Twitter, and any other social media was not around yet. Because of this, the most common form of advertisement was through posters that were hung around towns. The wo...