My Blogging Experience

My blogging experience has been a really great learning experience. Everyone in my group had a topic that I’ve never heard of. It was the first time I heard of Atmosphere, Guitar Hero, and David Lynch movies. I went from not even hearing about these topics to knowing the popular culture meaning behind them by all of the critical analysis. I had fun reading about these topics. If I had an academic article on these topics, I wouldn’t have been highly interested in them as I am when reading my fellow classmates’ opinions on them. All of the theories, concepts, and discourses we learned in the course are very difficult and confusing to understand fully. I think that writing shorter than traditional papers was better to understand them more clearly, especially when being related to a specific topic. Papers would be a good learning experience as well, however, I don’t think papers would have had a greater impact on the students than the blog assignments. Also, these blog assignments made me much more comfortable with using the Internet and blogs on the computer. Because of how comfortable I actually became with blogging, I was able to use it in different classes as well for certain projects and assignments.
The only thing that was tough about my blogging experience was the fact that there was an assignment due each week. The only reason why it was tough because I was taking another class at the same time that had posts due every week as well. It was hard to keep up with both during the same semester, just because I was just getting adjusted to posting over the Internet this semester. I’ve only had a couple of posting assignments in the past during my entire college experience.
I’m glad that I was able to apply all of the discourses to my semester topic, Nip/Tuck. I think it was a great experience to look at Nip/Tuck through a different lens. I learned how popular culture applied to my topic and how the producers and the audience view the show very differently. I’m a little less interested in the show now that I have seen the discourses applied to my topic. It’s made me feel as though the show is completely pointless to watch. I’m not excited for the new season to begin because I know that as I watch it I’m going to be thinking of the concepts we have learned in the class. However, when I apply the concepts to other shows I currently watch I get more interested in those shows. I think it’s the fact that I have focused on Nip/Tuck alone and have gone into greater detail with Nip/Tuck though the assignments we had. As I watch other shows and apply discourses to them, I’m not going into as great of detail as I did with Nip/Tuck.