Ok, so this is my final blog, seeing how the final is in 1 day and the term almost over, so I better make the most of it!
Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this class! Every time I learned something new and cool I'd run to my friend and tell her about it. And just the number of times I've mentioned something about what I learned in class the other day when I'm at home (probably bothered the hell out of my dad while my mom feigned understanding).
So now I'm studying for this final (luckily the midterm wasn't that hard, so I don't expect this one to be a mountain climb either. Which is great!)
Hopefully I can apply a ton that I learned in this class to daily life, like any future Internet restricting laws the government wants to throw at us....
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Is the internet dooming spelling?
I read one of prof. macek's posts on the internet dooming spelling, but I think it's really Word and spell check that's ruining it.
on the internet, all the preteens seem to spell things in the strangest ways (teen slang?), and think they're sooooo cool doing it (really, they just look like idiots).
but it's just a phase. they grow out of it eventually and learn to spell correctly.
but in Word, when we type a paper and misspell a word, it underlines it in red, and can tell us how to actually spell it.
and that's what's dooming spelling
we don't need to remember to spell correctly, because spell check will just do that for us! :D
on the internet, all the preteens seem to spell things in the strangest ways (teen slang?), and think they're sooooo cool doing it (really, they just look like idiots).
but it's just a phase. they grow out of it eventually and learn to spell correctly.
but in Word, when we type a paper and misspell a word, it underlines it in red, and can tell us how to actually spell it.
and that's what's dooming spelling
we don't need to remember to spell correctly, because spell check will just do that for us! :D
Cyber bullying
I know lots of students mentioned last class that cyber bullying surprisingly didn't become a big deal until too late...
what if that could be due to parents not understanding what the internet is about and could be used for? We are the "digital generation", so we tend to know more about technology and its many uses.
our parents do not.
so the adults may not have realized that bullying could move to the internet because they never truly understood what the internet was.
Final Project OVER! (OH MY GOD!)
I spent grueling hours on that final project, finding at least 4 academic sources to cite (even though there was really only 1 that talked about transmedia in Japanese pop culture).....
Then I wrote up all those examples (i think that's what really killed me....)
and cite all the different pages I used for miniscule information (release dates, etc.)....
but now....it's finally.....OVAR!
now onto the final exam........................
Then I wrote up all those examples (i think that's what really killed me....)
and cite all the different pages I used for miniscule information (release dates, etc.)....
but now....it's finally.....OVAR!
now onto the final exam........................
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Final Project Final Project Final Project
I am definitely interested in my topic (transmedia in Japanese pop culture), and certainly invested in the research.
But, boy, is researching it hard...
I've found one article on transmedia...only one! I've found several on manga and anime alone, but no others about how the two relate, nor any on how video games relate to manga and anime.
In fact, the article about transmedia on Japan actually cites Jenkin's :D
I've found plenty of other topics, though, that I can easily use as transitions for my many examples.
To list a few examples I plan on using:
Kingdom Hearts and transmedia between video games and manga
Final Fantasy (it's mentioned in a book I found in the library about how there's a lot of anime on it too, but only briefly...there's also manga)
Fullmetal Alchemist (it has two anime series, one related to the manga, one kind of goes off in its own direction)
When They Cry (higurashi no naku koro ni) (it started off as a DS game, then adapted into an anime, then a manga. One of my articles talks about how transmedia often deepens characters and their relationships with readers, and this one is a fine example. The manga has elements in it that the anime doesn't have)
Hayao Miyazaki and his Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind movie (produced in 1984). An excerpt from a book in Google Scholar (yes, I looked there...I was desperate for more sources!) talked about the original manga version, and how he drew it so complicated so no one could animate it
It's great to be a manga/anime/Japan enthusiast. Half the stuff I'll use for this project is stuff I've found out by reading a lot of manga....
But, boy, is researching it hard...
I've found one article on transmedia...only one! I've found several on manga and anime alone, but no others about how the two relate, nor any on how video games relate to manga and anime.
In fact, the article about transmedia on Japan actually cites Jenkin's :D
I've found plenty of other topics, though, that I can easily use as transitions for my many examples.
To list a few examples I plan on using:
Kingdom Hearts and transmedia between video games and manga
Final Fantasy (it's mentioned in a book I found in the library about how there's a lot of anime on it too, but only briefly...there's also manga)
Fullmetal Alchemist (it has two anime series, one related to the manga, one kind of goes off in its own direction)
When They Cry (higurashi no naku koro ni) (it started off as a DS game, then adapted into an anime, then a manga. One of my articles talks about how transmedia often deepens characters and their relationships with readers, and this one is a fine example. The manga has elements in it that the anime doesn't have)
Hayao Miyazaki and his Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind movie (produced in 1984). An excerpt from a book in Google Scholar (yes, I looked there...I was desperate for more sources!) talked about the original manga version, and how he drew it so complicated so no one could animate it
It's great to be a manga/anime/Japan enthusiast. Half the stuff I'll use for this project is stuff I've found out by reading a lot of manga....
Monday, February 27, 2012
Decline in Newspapers
I never really thought I'd care for the decline in newspapers and print media...until today.
Way back when I actually got the newspaper (until my parents cancelled it because they would just find their news online), all I would read were the Sunday comics.
And now, I've developed a passion for comics and have been drawing my own for several years now.
And with the decline in papers, that means less comics in print publications.
And I won't be able to publish comics in printed newspapers, nor will any avid cartoonist.
It's a sad day for us all.
Way back when I actually got the newspaper (until my parents cancelled it because they would just find their news online), all I would read were the Sunday comics.
And now, I've developed a passion for comics and have been drawing my own for several years now.
And with the decline in papers, that means less comics in print publications.
And I won't be able to publish comics in printed newspapers, nor will any avid cartoonist.
It's a sad day for us all.
L
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Transmedia in Japanese Pop-culture
Many popular anime in Japan usually has at least 3 other parts to it: manga, video games, and eventually (if it's really popular) a novel (or series of novels).
For example:
1) Kingdom Hearts (produced by Square Enix) started out as a console game. There are two console games: Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II. However, there is a Gameboy game (I believe SP) that happens between the first and second console games timeline: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. If you haven't played, or heard about its story line, you won't know what the second game is talking about. However, not only is Chain of Memories a game, but it also was published as a manga.
Then there's another DS game: Kingdom Hearts: 365 days/2 (365 days over 2). This one has also been recently published as a manga. This story tells the story from another characters' point of view (who first appeared in Kingdom Hearts II).
2) Fullmetal Alchemist started off as a manga, then was serialized and created as an anime. However, the anime eventually caught up with the manga (which was not finished at the time), and then just kept going (creating an alternate timeline from the manga). The manga wasn't finished until after the anime. Then, they created a second anime series; Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. This one tells the story line of the manga.
It also has various video games and several movies (that also stem off of the first anime series), and is one of the most popular stories to ever be created (the complete box set of the first series was first released for over $600 dollars. Not even kidding. I was actually in Japan when they released it, and I was shocked when I saw the advertisement).
Several manga and anime have the same counterparts, some start as an anime, some start as a video game, etc.
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