Outside Source

After reading Rafter chapter 3 "Slasher, Serial Killer, and Psycho Movies" I went out and rented the movie American Psycho because it sounded interesting and heard it was a good movie by a friend. This movie reminded me on what we went over in class on what to look for in a serial killer.  Christian Bell plays the lead character Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. He is handsome, smart, and well educated, and looks like a normal typical male. He has OCD on everything being clean and he loves women. The movie has a lot of gruesome scenes but it also tries to keep it tasteful at the same time. This has to be one of the scariest movies I have seen in awhile and it also, had a very confusing/twisting ending. I still don't know if he killed all the women or if he was dreaming the whole time.

Rafter Chapter 3

The films depict even violent criminals as sympathetic figures, attractive and heroic which keep these killers within the human fold. Rafter explains in this chapter the ideological frameworks of violent films to explore what they say about criminal nature. He looks at slasher, serial killer, and psycho movies. Slasher is usually about teenagers and sex. Usually has an heroic teenager in the story. You have to kill the villains more than once and the villains usually return for a squel. They tend to be not true crime films. Serial killer films portray killing as a compulsive, recurrent behavior. Most serial killer movies is to construct a stereotype of the violent predator: abnormal, incomprehensible, beyond the pale of humanity, bloodthirsty, sexually twisted, and lurking in our midst, a threat to us all. A good example to this would be American Psycho. Psycho films have predators who have an excuse such as money or revenge for their psychopathic behavior.  They believe they have to take the law in their own hands. Most psycho films have a predicable ending.

Movie: Silence of the Lambs

I don't like scary movies, so I didn't like this movie at all. I found this movie very creepy with a weird story line. An FBI must get help from an incarcerated serial killer to help her find another serial killer who kills and skins his victims.  This movie is exactly what we learned how all serial killer movies are similar. Hannibal Lecter is clever and has attention to detail. The killer makes one mistake and gets caught. It's a girl cop and the killer goes after her. They have a history of sexual crimes. I'm glad the Clarice could connect with Hannibal because she is missing that father figure. She connects with him because he isn't like all serial killers because he is cultured and he acts like a gentlemen and very protective in a fatherly way.

Ian Conrich: Mass Media/Mass Murder: Serial Killer Cinema and Modern Violated Body

It weird to read that a serial killer uses the internet to select his victims and serves as a key link. All serial killer movies seems to be all a like. The serial killer movies portrays them as very smart and clever. That the cop or detective involved is always one step behind if they are male but if a women they usual come after her. The killer always makes one mistake that gets them caught. They have the most gruesome crime scenes and the killers have attention to detail. They usually have a sexual crime history and find more bodies then expected. Like realistically they look like a normal guy with a loving family.  

David Schmid: Idols of Destruction: Serial Killers

David Schmid wrote of the phenomenon of serial killers and how they become celebrities. He says they become celebrities because consumers love to collect their merderabilia and this type of business is booming. I believe serial killers become famous when producers make movies about them, re-telling society their stories on their rampage killings.  Also when they write books about them and want to interview them.  This is what they want attention the feeling that society will never forget what he or she did. Them selling their merderabilia is sicking and something that isn't morally right to me. I'm glad ebay stopped selling merderabilia on their website. The article explains that you don't have to do good things to become famous.  Now you can do bad things and become a celebrity. Serial killers are famous because that is who they truly are.  They are authentic, normal looking guys and they provide us with something we want in a celebrity, now what we would called a modern celebrity.  There is no one reason why some people in our society are fascinated with serial killers. I believe people like people who are crazy and are way different from someone normal in our society. We stay connected with serial killers because we are curious about why they did what they did and just want answers from them. 

Cathy Bullock & Jason Cubert: Domestic Violence in Newspapers in WA and Outside Source

In the article I learned that domestic violence isn't seen as a social problem when really it needs to be. The article is a content analysis on domestic violence fatality and how they are portrayed in newspapers.  The media has the power to bring awareness of domestic violence to our society but fail to do so.  The media always seems to conclude in their stories that the victim (usually the women) deserves what came to her because  she did something to provoke the man. One thing the journalist who write on domestic violence stories are mainly relying on the police as their reliable source and don't bother getting the information from the victim. They also, never go in depth about their story, they usually tell us, who, want, when, and where. They never tell us why it happened or what lead up to domestic violence which would be a key information the public should know I think. Also the news media always portrays domestic violence as the same story over and over again. They don't put enough effort when writing these stories like making each event unique instead of making them all sound the same.

Outside Source

I read a story on CNN about a Texas judge who was videotaped beating his cerebral palsy daughter with a belt.  His daughter is the one who put the camera and hide it because her dad beat her on occasion. I believe this story is newsworthy because the criminal is someone you are supposed to look up to and has high status. Also a young disabled women is involved.  I believe in spankings when a child does something bad but not to the extent to where the parent is cursing at the child and pulling down their pants lashing them with a belt bare skinned. What her father did was an abusive act of violence.  He obviously has anger issues and thinks he could get away with anything because of his occupation and high status in society. He works in family court and I think abused his power and should all be taken away. 

The Movie ENOUGH

I really enjoyed watching this movie because domestic violence is something that happens all over the world and I'm glad to see it get some recognition.  I loved how she ran away to get away from her abusive and controlling husband and at the end learns how to fight back so he knows she doesn't have to take his shit anymore. I think this movie is a great inspiration to women who live in a abusive life style. This movie can show you that you do have a way out and you don't have to put up with men's shit and you can learn to fight back. Obviously this movie isn't realistic because many women are too afraid to tell people or it's too late and the man ends up killer her. This movie portrays how the males dominate our society and it's hard for a women to escape and to be heard.

Meda Lind-Chesney: Media Misogyny

We know when women play a role in the media they are newsworthy to the public because it isn't normal to see a women breaking the law or killing someone so it fascinates us. It was interesting to read this article because I had no clue that women gangs are growing and I didn't know women were becoming more violent. I also found it interesting that women's gang stories were popular all over the news and on talk host shows like "Oprah" and "Larry King".  The article mentioned that women's violence raised but not dramatically because what was being accounted for were stuff like assaulting their husbands, school fights, girls hitting their moms and small fights on the streets.  The rise wasn't happening because women are becoming out of control and are committing really violent crimes because they weren't. I believe women are committing more violent crimes because they are becoming more independent and can now commit the same crimes as men. Also, the feminist movement plays a part in this.

Mark Schubb: LA Riots and Outside Source

I loved how he started off his article with a comic.  The comic shows how the media portrayed the riots. I know news media only play certain news stories that will get them better ratings for their show.  Of course it has to be about a underclass culture and how blacks are being portrayed as a violent group and how they create riots. But really 60% arrest for riot related violations were Latinos, not blacks like the media all over the world was claiming. News reporters claimed the people were nothing but "savages" gangbangers and thugs in the street making all these troubles. They never once tried to get the real story out to the public and insisted on showing lies and misleading information on how the African community were the bad guys, which in reality wasn't true. They never mentioned how this was all created because of racism in our society.  Racial inequalities were a big thing back then and still is today and to see how the news reporters deceived the riot stories for their personal gain for ratings and what not is disgusting and shows you, you can't always believe what you see or read from news companies.

Outside Source:


One news media that is getting a lot of attention right now is the killing on the Virginia Teach campus.  Two bodies were found dead, one a police officer and a young male. They have not found the shooter and they have no reliable leads yet. The leads they did receive from the public got them now where and are still gathering their information to find the shooter.  I believe this type of story is newsworthy because a police officer was involved and it was on a school campus and Virginia Tech is known for this type of shooting because something like this happened on campus a couple of years ago and this hits home and is pretty scary the whole public should know.

Carol Stabile: Criminalizing Black Culture

In the article she tells a story about a white couple who was supposedly attacked by a black man who shot a man in the stomach and shot his wife in the head.  The story got a lot of media coverage and never ever looked into the husbands back ground because he was white attacked by a black man in a black community. They sympathized with the white gentleman and never suspected him as the criminal.  Like she mentioned if he was black he would never get this kind of media coverage because this is expected from the black culture. Even though later on the truth came out that he was really the killer after he shot himself. This just shows you how media against the black culture always gets misrepresented and seem to care if they do. They are trying to portray that blacks are only victims in their own culture and could never be a victim in the white culture. I liked how she focused her article on high profiled crime media stories like the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson.  I believe that theses are examples on how news media can enforce certain privileges and powers on certain cultures, like on the blacks and whites.  What we see the most on the news is what we are thinking is mainly going on in our culture and if the news media is blaming the black women to have more force in a relationship and is the cause of a dysfunctional family structure. This is believed to cause their children to end up being violent and causing them to commit crimes and how this could only occur in a black culture/community.

Yvone Jewkes: "Crime and the Surveillance Culture"

In the article it mentions that we have experienced a rapid growth in the use of surveillance and it's like Big Brother watching us all the time and it doesn't even bother us because I think it's because we are so used to it. Some new technologies are created to track criminals or to prevent illegal acts but they should know that the criminals will always be 5 steps ahead of them. New technology also creates new loop holes for them to get around the system. I don't think there will ever be a way or stopping them from watching our every move. We are always being watched from our finger prints being taken, them watching our every move on the internet, they have cameras at every stop light, they can monitor our cell phones and land lines and our gps systems in our car.  Technology is just getting better year after year and won't ever go away. Jewkes makes a good point that surveillance at the end is a good thing. They are just trying to protect us and it reduces fear in our society.

Outside Source

reading about prison films reminded me of the show Prison Break. It was one of my favorite shows for awhile until it ended last year. In this show it showed corruption in this prison by the guards and warden. It also showed corruption with the nurses and doctors in the prisons. It's a show about how 2 brothers, one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an elaborate plan to help his brother escape prison by putting himself in prison with his brother. Inmates get rapped and inmates build friendship and trust with each other.

The Shawshank Redemption Movie

This movie was a great movie to show corruption in the prison system. It also shows that the justice system can send an innocent man to prison for something he didn't do.  The warden, the security guards, and even the inmates all do illegal acts in Shawshank State Prison. You see inmates getting murder, you see inmates getting rapped, dealing drugs. This is what films portray to us how life is in prison for people. Not all movies have happy ending, but this one does. Andy gets away and he gets revenge on all the people who treated him badly.

Paul Mason "The Screen Machine" and Rafter Ch.6

In the article there has been little work on the effect of media representations of prison on public attitudes. The media coverage on prisons has contributed to the public's misinformation about prisons. This kind of misrepresentation on prisons don't only effect the public's information about them but also the the prisons practitioners.  People who get hired for to work for prisons go in there thinking they know how it will be and find out it is nothing like they were informed through films and news media. Most people get their information about prisons from movies, which most of the time are misrepresented. Also, if you think about it, you never see prison media in newspapers or on news channels. It's really hard to get information from the guards or anyone who works there.  Nelli's mentions in his article that there are no more than 12 different plots in all prison films that have been made, like escape, riots, inmate and officer violence, wrongful convictions, and etc. Since the 1940's prion films have declined and I bet it's because they are all the same and have the same plot line. No one likes watching the same stuff over and over, like they all tell you when you can eat, sleep, play and make phone calls. One thing prion films are good for are to make the audience think twice before committing a crime. I know I wouldn't want to be isolated from the world ever.

Rafter Ch. 6
 We find our self watching prison films because we like seeing justice served and we like to see it work properly, which isn't always the case.  When it comes to news media corrections and incarceration receives very little attention because they think it's not  newsworthy enough, which isn't true. I think the corrections and news media have failed to communicate with each other properly. We believe people who are in prison are being dehumanized but seeing movies that show them making friendships make us look at them more like humans like they are and not like animals locked in cages to be laughed at and watched. We hope that the system is working to rehabilitate them so when they are released in the real world they will  do what is right and set a new paths in their life. But we know most of the time this doesn't work. When locked in prison for so long inmates don't think they can make it in the real world so they commit more crime because that's all they know how to do and believe in. We watch these films because we want to see friendships building, we don't want to see them suffering alone, and to remind us that there are still good people in prisons.
 

Movie: Presumed Innocent

I really enjoyed this movie and I loved the twist at the end of the movie.  I liked how this movie kept me tuned in the whole time. The movie was about a prosecutor who was charged with the murder of his female colleague and mistress. This movie showed how the prosecutors lawyer was a corrupt one by black mailing the judge and bring up a file to scare the other lawyers and judge.  This movie always showed how the detective is corrupt by stealing the glass because that's all they needed to convict him.  Just shows up how ever level of the Justice System is corrupt and how it is influenced by politics.
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Outside Source

During this week I stopped to watch a couple of minutes of Judge Judy. The show was basically about a lady who was suing her ex husband for giving away the wedding ring he gave her to his new wife.  It was pretty funny and watching Judy get so mad and tell people to shut up is funny, I guess this is why this would be infotainment media.  At the end the lady won her case and was told to give his ex wife the ring back or pay her the amount it was worth. I guess it belonged to her because it was given to her and was no longer his to take.

"Film Lawyers: Above anf Beyond the Law" and Rafter Ch. 5

I really enjoyed the article.  They mention that law films are chosen as a site for film because of the dramaturgical aspects of the law and legal process and the subtext of the law being a useful cloak under which many other themes can be played.  I also learned that the most covered theme played out in many law films is the portrayal of lawyers in these types of films.  Also, lawyers take on cases that they aren't going to win but then win anyways.  There is always some kind of miscarriage of justice and they show that not all lawyers are ethical. We find that we like seeing lawyers do unethical things because sometimes they are morally correct, for example in the book To Kill a Mocking Bird . 

Rafter Ch. 5
In the reading it mentions that most all courtroom films include a justice figure, a hero who tries to move man-made law ever closer to the ideal until it matches the justice template. Most trial films shown on tv are fictitious. Like in the Greenfield and Osborn reading there is always a bad lawyer or good lawyer trying bend the rules in some way.  This is were is makes is more dramatic for the audience. We want to see the people who do bad things, get punished in someways. Law films don't always involve lawyers and court rooms, like CSI for example, you never see them in a court room. When you watch a lot of law films, they always have people on trial for the worse things ever like, rape or murder.  We never see law films where someone is being put on trial for speeding or stealing someones car.  There are 3 historical evolution in courtroom films: The Law Noirs 1930s-1950s where we have detectives and experimentation a decade where they searched for ways of depicting legal struggles. The Heroic Tradition from 1950s-2060s where they had less character flaws. Depletion of the Genre, where we are less invested in the heroism films and less trial films.

Out Side News Media-Unforgettable episode #2

The show is about a young lady named Carrie Wells who is a detective for the NY police station.  She has a rare condition that enables her to remember just about everything.  She pretty much has a photographic memory to where she can remember everything at a crime scene and in daily living.  This episode was about how a young boy saw his parents get murder and has a hard time talking about it.  The show has an emotional hook to where Carrie comforts the little boy and plays video games with him so he will end up feeling safe around her. The show also has a twist at the end where they thought  they had the killer, the kids uncle but then finds out it was the doctor who was a close friend to the family.  The boy saw the doctors plane on TV and freaked out and that's when they knew it wasn't his uncle. She is seen as the hero in the story line. The show portrays that the police would never solve any cases without her and her special ability. 

CSI episode and CSI and Moral Authority: The Police and science

The CSI episode was a very interesting show. I don't normally watch CSI because there are just too many of them and it would take me years to catch up.  The show was very dramatic which  I liked also, at the same time it was very weird with the whole octopus involvement.  I also liked how there was a turning point at the end which makes the audience more on their toes because they don't know what to expect next.   In CSI shows they always seem to have top of the line technology and always neat/clean to where there is no way they could lose evidence nor ever be wrong.  They also act like they have no budget to where they could always afford to work on 2 cases at once with no limitations. My least favorite part in the show was when they were disecting the dead body up close trying to gross out viewers like me.

The article talked about how CSI shows have emotional hooks, trying to draw us in and make us have feelings towards whatever is happening. Like in the CSI show we watched in class, an emotional hook would be when the guy was playing with the invisible ball to comfort the little boy and make him more abundance to telling what he saw at the train station. They also mentions that CSI science is always right and we need to trust in it. Also CSI tries to deliver that science is very complicated by the guys wearing white coats and them using words we have heard before. The shows also try to represent that work is a very happy place and you always want to be there because it is so spotless and organized. Overall CSI is so unrealistic with their science never being wrong and they don't need the police involvement to solve any case because they are all smart and can always recreate any crime scene easily. CSI projects the image that all cases are solvable by highly technical science but really so many problems are intractable.

Dirty Harry and Rafter: Chapter 4

Dirty Harry was another awesome movie to watch. Harry is known as a risk taker and also as a corrupt police officer who thinks he is never wrong and can do whatever he wants. The movie portrays him as invincible, like in the scene where he is eating a hot dog and just runs out in the street with no protection and guys are shooting at him and he doesn't get shot once and kills everyone with perfect aim and never misses. The movie also shows you that Harry is better than any cop in their field and he is in charge and never follows rules because he has his own. I also liked the scene where he gives up his badge at the end. This shows me that he doesn't need to deal with other peoples shit and that he doesn't need to be a police officer to show people he can still be a hero in his own mind. Also, thought the movie was very sexist in many ways.
Rafter:
Dirty Harry set the stage for all the cop films after that movie was released. Clint Eastwood is know for does western movies and was still able to put a western feel in Dirty Harry with scenes on who can draw their guns faster, which was always Harry of course.

Kasinsky Reading

My favorite part of the reading was "The Stuart Murder" case. When driving home from a birthing class his wife ends up being shot and killed. The husband tells police that she was shot by a unknown African American man who fled the scene. He gave the police a description of the man and the Police found a black man that fit his description and took him to jail. The detectives on the case were portrayed in the media as heroes. 3 months later Mr. Stuart was found dead in his home with a note saying he was the one who shot his wife. This just shows you how police aren't accurate in taking the right measurement in doing their job and how they are so quick at pointing their fingers at innocent people just to close a case. This also shows us that the media is willing to publish information that isn't true and backfires back in their face later on. But this also shows us how the media has to support the cops and their finding and how they couldn't work independently without the cops. They both have similar ways to project themselves.

Rafter: Chapter 2

I really enjoyed reading chapter 2. It was filled with a lot of information explaining if movies can cause someone to commit crimes and he also gave explanations to why someone might commit crimes with different criminological theories.  When Rafter mentions that many crime films show little interest in the causes of law breaking, I found it very true.  One movie that I've seen recently did show why she committed crimes. In Columbiana the reason why she committed crimes was because of abnormal psychology theory.  Her parents were killed right in front of her at a very young age. This traumatized her and made her grow up as an "assassin" getting revenge on all the people who were involved with her family's death. I think the best theories used today in explaining crime would have to be environmental theory and rational choice theory because there are many people in our society who lack opportunities in their life and they feel they have no other choice. Also, many people can influence people into committing crimes and I believe everything around you can shape you being a criminal, demographically, your friends and family members.

Menace to Society

When the film fist  starts it succeeds in painting a disturbing picture of violence in my head, one in which the characters have a lack of remorse but one thing I like is that most of the violence that is being filmed is realistic and unfolds in real time in LA. I can't image myself ever living in a place like that, where drugs and violence is happening daily.  Just the feeling of being unsafe and scared is frightening. One of the many things I noticed was that women in this film was totally excluded from the story.  I didn't really appreciate it ha ha. I also, didn't really understand why? I know many women suffer in the same kind of environment and it would have been nice to see them being representing. The movie represents an endless cycle of violence and the violent surroundings they lived and grew up in were difficult to escape and made survival harder as time went on. Human life for them had little value to them and they didn't really care if they died because they had nothing fortunate to live for. This movie is one of the few that does a good job at representing factual events happening all over and how it is a big social issue with drugs and violence.

Ray Surette Reading

Ray describes in his reading that crime isn't seen as a social issue but more as an individual issue. And when media is representing theses predators, it ignores the bigger person and is obsessed with individualism. In our media and culture, social problems are generated  and solved at the individual level and because of this we lack the cultural resources to deal with these problems. We perceive predators as a separate breed in society, encouraging the perception of social and economic factors as irrelevant. We as a person never want to get involved in crime and we leave it to the government, unless it effects us personally or someone we know. As long as it is founded on individualism, crime and justice policy is mostly a government concern. We see the justice system as a natural solution to crime problems in though it has been proven that it isn't working and predators most likely have a repeating cycle. The basic effects of the predator icon are to generate fear, degrade social networks, increase reliance on the media and foster social problems. We see actually more predator icons on TV, than we do in reality which misleads people perceptions on certain criminals.  Also, the media can make the icon more credible if they seem themselves on TV and it just shows us that we are the most violent country overall.

Outside Example and Chermak Reading

When watching movies and TV shows one thing you always notice is that police and news reporters don't ever get along and they are try to keep stuff from leaking out to the news reporters. In the Chermak reading, that wasn't the case at all. He mentions that the police are the primary source used by the media and that the information provided is partial to their own interest and particular to their own version of the crime. He also mentions that not all reporters will publish what the police want them to publish because it could effect their reputation or news paper. I find these facts fascinating because I always assumed police hated all sorts of reporters and that reporters would do anything to get a story published because any news is great news to them. After reading this article, I was watching Nancy Grace on TV she was reporting on 3-year-old Missouri girl who vanished while riding her pink bicycle with training wheels. Also, about 3 and a half year old boy vanishes in Oswego Ill from his home while his entire family was home. Children missing, rapped, or killed will always be on the top of the news list, like Chermak ties to explain in his reading. Crime news is among the most popular topics for both the media and the public and for  it to make it newsworthy there has to be a plug, a twist, or a lead. You would rarely see crime media on someone stealing a car because it isn't fascinating to the public unless its was a recurring event that need to be addressed to the public.

Rafter: Introduction, "Crime Films and Society"

After reading the introduction the first thing that popped in my head were the last two movies I watched Batman and Colombiana (great movie) all for my pleasure to escape from the world. In Batman the ending is sad and a good guy turns evil and portrays to you that the law system is corrupt and in Colombiana she kills everyone who had something to do with killing her whole  family, which can be debatable on a happy ending or sad ending. To me it was a happy ending because she didn't get caught nor did she die. I put myself in her shoes and I probably would have done the same thing and get revenge and watch all the other people suffer like she has suffered her whole life. In today's crime films you never know how the ending will end.....some are good and some just boggle your mind, leaving you wanting to watch more. Like in Alice Young's reading, every movie wants you to have feeling on what crime is occurring in movies. You wouldn't watch a movie if you didn't feel anything from it, if it's a happy or disturbed.

Majid Yar and Alison Young Readings

Out of the Content Analysis approach explaining mass media representations on crime and Postmodern Pluralism readings, my favorite was the content analysis. Counting crime scenes in different movies over a period time can show a lot about what movies we prefer in our society and the rest of the world. It seem that more crime movies are being made more often than lovey dovey and comedy  movies because our society craves action filled movies where normal people just like us are breaking the law. It would be a great experiment if they could link crime related movies to the actual criminal behavior going on in our world today. I would believe the rise in violent crimes has been caused by public exposure to ever more frequent images of violence in crime films and crime related television shows. It would be cool to find out how many crime television shows were on from 1990-2000 and compare it with all the new crime television shows on from 2001-2011 I bet it has tripled. The movies and TV shows enforce ideas on us that  are run by big corporations, they choose what we see in movie theaters and on TV and without those crime related movies and so on, who knows what we would think now a days or where the media would be at.

I never really thought about how a movie can make me feel during a horrible scene and after watching Kill Bill in class made me realize that movies like that try to make us have some sort of feelings on what crime is happening in different scenes. When I watch scenes that have killing or raping scenes, I usually can't look at the screen and my body cringes. I feel sympathy for the victims and always try to image my self in that scene and try to wonder what I would do or not do.  Next time I watch a crime related movie I will take in affect criminological aesthetics and try to find the relationship to the images I am seeing and how it makes me feel and write it down in my next blog.

Keith Hayward: Opening the Lens: Cultural Criminology and the Image reading

In Keith Hayward's reading I agree with everything he mentioned. I feel that all types of media ranging from newspaper articles to reality TV shows all try to portray something that really isn't happening around the world or 100% true.  They tend to do this because they know our culture loves drama and so they try to incorporate that in any possible way they can.  I feel the most misrepresentations come from TV shows like CSI, and SVU. I notice they like to describe their victim and attacker as Caucasian which we obviously know isn't true due to the statistics. Also, television series like to portray their attacker or killer as someone they didn't know but typically the victims know their assailant. What we see on TV and read, we automatically think it's true and don't ever question what is really happening. Like Keith mentioned, " Instead of  simply studying 'images' we need a new methodological orientation towards the visual that is capable of encompassing meaning, affect, situation, symbolic power, and efficiency in the same frame. 

5 days of media consumption

During my 5 days of recording my media consumption I found I got most of my media from TV, my iPhone, classes, and watching movies.

Thursday: I watched SVU, looked at my CNN app on my iphone, and watched Jersey Shore and watched KHQ news on the shooting that happened here in Moscow.

Friday: I watched the morning news on KHQ and looked at my CNN app on my iPhone and ESPN.

Saturday: I watched God Father 2, Secret Life of a Teenager, and Texas Women.

Sunday: Did homework all day and watched Boys in the Hood.

Monday: Watched a short clip on the Enron scandal in class, watched Secret Life of a Teenager, Jersey Shore and Wipe Out.

Tuesday: Watched Chopped, Property Virgins, Tosh.O and read my CNN app on my iPhone.

After recording my media intake, I concluded I watch a lot of TV for a college student. I also found I am looking at my iPhone app CNN at the breaking news happening all around the world because I find it more convenient then watching it on TV. Most of the TV shows and movies I watch have some sort of crime occurring, some are obvious and some aren't. I found I watch shows and movies that have a lot of drama and keep me guessing on what is going to happened next. One thing I learned after watching an episode of Secret Life of a Teenager, was sexting is illegal and you can be prosecuted if you're caught sending naked pictures of girls or boys to your friends. I guess it's the new thing happening in high school and it's getting a lot of media attention. Crime plays a big part in my choices of movies and shows, if it doesn't have crime/drama occurring, I will probably find it boring and it would not be a choice of mine.

A little about Diana

Hi Everyone,

  
My name is Diana and I am a senior at the University of Idaho and I hope to graduate in May of 2012. I have two pugs and I spend most of my days playing with them, doing homework or playing golf. I love helping others whenever I can because I believe everyone was placed on this earth to make a difference, in some way or another. I am majoring in Justice Studies and I hope to work with kids as a social worker or a probation officer after I graduate. Of course I am taking Soc. 339 because I need it to graduate, but I also find all types of crimes interesting. I believe you can learn from other peoples mistakes (how to be safe from predators or from scam artists) and without the media we wouldn't know half the stuff going on around the U.S. and the rest of the world.  I hope after taking this class I will be able understand why the media seems to over exaggerate certain crimes yet let others fly under the radar.  I find that many white collar criminals do not get as much attention as they deserve.