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The new Han Solo movie will be coming out in May 2018.  This movie is getting a lot of hype and attraction as a result of the Star Wars label which has been a “hit” for decades.  Because of the stardom of Star Wars, regardless if this movie is a good one or not, it will be popular because it is a star wars movie rather than some original movie that has no past connections or popularity. Because of this a lot of profit will be made regardless of the actual quality of the movie.  When the movie drops, we will see if the movie’s quality or the name “Star Wars” makes the profit.  

Twitch, Youtube, and content creating in general can have a massive impact on the community.  Many of the online content creators host charity streams in attempt to earn donations to support a charities.  This is an example of DrDisRespect’s charity stream to support the families of troops that are overseas.  As shown, he earned over $17,000 in 5 hours which is a massive accomplishment.  Charities are very successful when well-known content creators put their popularity to charitable use. Many content creators are very helping and are always looking to raise money for many charities and organizations as possible.  

This video discusses how NFL draft prospects are effected by their online and social presences online.  Many drafts prospects are hurt by their presence online as a result of pictures, retweets, etc.  They argue that nothing on social media can help a player’s draft stock, only hurt it.  Many players have had their dreams of the playing in the NFL ruined because of social media.  This video is to let players know to be intelligent and smart when using social media and not endanger the draft stock.

“There is a great unevenness in the way people encounter and deal with this emergent global space of media, technology, and culture.  Experiences of mobility and displacement differ widely, and the resources for moving, settling, and rebuilding lives and social networks are distributed in highly unequal ways...Power-geometry of globalization in which some people are more in charge of it than others; some initiate flows and movement, others don’t; some are more on the receiving end of it than others; some are effectively imprisoned by it.” (Keywords, pg. 86).  South Africa is a great example of the issue of unevenness and unequal access to media and technology as well as the power-geometry how different groups of people are effected by media globalization. South Africa, as described in the article is massively unequal both socially and economically. In South Africa, there is unequal representation and voice because South Africa is considering the public as those who have access to media leaving out the many that barely have access or do not have access to media at all.  Because of this, only a small population of society is being considered the public. The people with access to media are more in benefiting are of the power-geometry of media.  From this, political change or or participation from the public is not really the public at all, but only those that have the access to media and technology.  Globalization actually was the reason the South Africa was able to democratize in the 1990′s.  Even though globalization enabled to South Africa to be able to gain allies and become involved internationally and not be isolated, the representation is still an issue. South Africa’s media is criticized for only benefiting those with access to media.  The small percentage of those with access to media have benefited drastically.  They have large and broad range of access to media.  They have not only opportunities of media consumption, but of production.  They also are able to have access to much of social media.  The article describes this small percentage of people as the elites of South African society. This issue in South Africa brings to light how much different the effects of media globalization are in the global south compared to global north where the majority of people have access to all sorts of media and large amounts of each kind of media.  Some people in the global south can flourish in media and use media while others can be sort of suppressed in a way and imprisoned by it like the definition of power-geometry describes. The next step for the global south is how to make media and technology available to as many people as possible to create more representation, better lives, and more connectivity of the media and the technological world. 

Fortnite is the new battle royale game that is completely taking over the video game industry.  Interestingly, their profit is not made by selling copies of the game.  The majority of their profit comes from in game transaction or micro transactions.  They have the players buy skins, tools, battle passes, etc. to make most of their profit.  It is an out of the box idea in that most companies make players pay for their game on top of the micro transactions.  This is showing that Fortnite has so many players that it can sustain its business and make profit mostly off micro transactions. 

The ACT UP Movement is a great example of resistance especially against the rich and wealthy.  The resistance during the AIDS crisis showed the poor and middle class fighting against the greedy and selfish creators of drugs that have the possibility of stopping the AIDS crisis.  All sorts of resistance such as meetings, gatherings, protests, singing, speeches, etc. were all brought together to take down one enemy, the greedy. Displays of civil disobedience occurred throughout the movement which is one of the best ways to create important political and cultural change.  Resistance of this kind is a great example of what people coming together can do in times of crisis and the impact resistance can have on exposing major issues. The persistence of the movement showed the true care and motivation those apart of the movement had in never backing down and showing the creators of the drugs that they were not willing to lay down and give up, but willing to fight for what was right. 

This is a Twitch Streamer called DrDisRespect. He is one of the biggest personalities on Twitch.  He is a great example of identity. He represents a multitude of different identities. He represents the gamer, the athlete, the underdogs of the world, the entertainer, the competitor, and the confident just to name a few.  I just thought this was a great example of identities in media that entertain fans and audiences.  Twitch is full of different identities and DrDisRespect being on the biggest streamers on Twitch is great representation of identity in the social media and media in general.

This movie is a great example of what the Keywords Book identifies as inspirational text. Lone survivor is filled with inspirational text that describes challenges, adversity, and life or death that characters have to go through.  This movie’s text points to a broader meaning of courage and heart.  However, decoding comes into play depending on the viewer.  One might decode this as depicting the horrors of war. One might decode this movie as an inspirational and courageous story.  Keywords describe the interpretation and decoding process of the audience to be the most “fascinating” moment.