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My blog is all about the most relatable, funny, and romantic movies that (mostly) every college girl will enjoy. For some maybe even becoming their guilty pleasure! This blog is all about the movies that can be found on Netflix and why I personally enjoy them/want to share them with all of my fellow gals that will enjoy them just as much as me. This blog is different from others as it focuses on just movies that are on Netflix rather than all 90's movies in general (even though I love most). It is also different as I will be putting much of my own opinion and life events into my reasoning/support to why these movies are relatable for college girls. This blog can be considered a forum for people to complain, confess, or just relate to the trials and tribulations of learning (or attempting) to become an adult while still wanting to just be a kid. The concept of Netflix 90's was originally open to any one who had an interest in classic movies from the 90's and also shared a common interest in binge watching movies on Netflix. However, the more I thought about it the more I realized that the reason I loved so many of these movies was because of how relatable they were to my day to day life. This is when I developed the concept of my audience being college girls. Or, really anyone that can relate to the daily struggles that many teens/young adults face throughout the growing and transitioning period of college. No specific interests in mind as many of the movies incorporate all different walks of life. Part 2: In order to become an ~expert~ of sorts, I made sure to do my research. Below I have included some of my favorite and most inspirational blogs that led me to the concept for my own. Feel free to check them out! My first site is of a blog from a website called peopleschoice.com this post dating from January 16th, 2015, and was shared with over 2,000 people. This website has multiple people blogging for them, the author of this post is Julia Emmanuele. While browsing the site I am not in love with the design, being that it is a bit over crowded with advertisement that take away from the actual content. From this site I learned what design layouts I do not like and that the content that I wish to be blogging about is of interest to 2,000 people. My second website is a blog from WGSN Insider detailing the most aesthetically pleasing 90's movies. The post from January 18th, 2017, this post not seeming to receive much attention at all with 0 comments under the post. However, I really enjoyed the site formatting and drop down bars that allowed for the reader to navigate easily. This post also included mini synopsis's of the movies they found most aesthetically pleasing as well as short clips from the movies for the reader to watch as previews if they're interested. As many people I'm sure are familiar with the next website that I have used as research is MTV. There is obviously a large following of the network but the post that I found was from 2012. I have to say that I was not particularly pleased with the layout of the blog post or the content. The post included pictures from each movie and a good selection of 90's movies but poor justification for why they were essential. The site itself has a great layout and views in the thousands. My fourth website is from an online magazine called paste. This is post dating back to 2012 but there is no indication of how many times the site is viewed or what the precise following is as it relates to their blogs. The site layout shows a wide range of topics for the reader to choose from providing variety. They also have included multiple ways for the reader to easily share a post with facebook, twitter, email, or pinterest. This is something I will definitely consider adding to my own blog. Much different than the other websites I have explored this page is a tumblr which is designed differently than a normal website. I personally really enjoy tumblr, it is one of my favorite blogs and I have one of my own. The set up is pictures, gifs, short clips, that have small bios under them for the reader to understand where the content is from and the purpose of the image. This so far has been my favorite site and something I will consider while developing my own as it makes the site more interactive. Here is another tumblr with a similar feel as the page above but the site design is very different. Instead of the site being set up as a timeline of pictures that the reader must scroll through this page is set up as a board. There is a bunch of pictures and selections of pages relevant to the topic "90's movies" that the reader is able to click on and will be redirected to immediately. I am a huge fan of this design as it is encouraging the reader to do further research and creates interest to explore the other pages provided by the author. This post is from a very popular site called buzzfeed. Posted in 2014 and receiving interaction from readers the website appears to be successful with their following. The layout is not overwhelming for the reader and provides pictures to the description of each movie. However, this post does something different, listing the worst movies to the best rather than just a compilation of the best. I enjoyed this because it provides a look at the other side, something that I may consider in my own posts. This website is another popular outlet, popsugar. The post was posted in 2016 with a total of 8,200 shares, not too bad. The post outlines iconic movies available now on Netflix. The post goes onto show images of the movies with a sentence or two at the bottom of each slide. This post showed me what not to do with my site, my facebook, and my own posts because I want them to be interesting and filled with information rather than just a slide show. This site has a sole focus of all things Disney, However, I found a post outlining all of the best Disney 90's movies that you must watch. I really enjoyed this sites set up and design as it did not require a lot of time to maneuver through everything. This post taught me fun ways to incorporate color and gave me more consideration for movies to add to the Netflix 90's that are Disney. This site called ranker goes in depth analyzing 90's movies while separating them into categories for the reader. However, this site has far to many advertisements for a reader to be able to maintain their focus. I believe that this blog is doing themselves a disservice by including so many advertisements. However, there were 98,000 views on this one post so they must not be doing so bad. Part 3: After conducting research I have settled on the domain name netflix90s and the title of my blog being Netflix 90's For College Girls. I did this in order to draw more than just college girls into my website with a broader domain but then introducing a more specialized topic. I also want my site to have the design similar to a tumblr with pictures and gifs that create a modernized/college feel to the site. Specific blog posts that I have already considered for future blogs would be writing posts that pertain to different emotions or experiences that everyone in college can relate to. For example, the movie to watch after you go through a break up, a movie to watch to remind you chivalry is not dead, and the movie to watch to boost your mood after a long day or week. The voice that I would look to adopt would be a very informal and personal voice. I want the reader to feel as though I am a friend or colleague.
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1. My first literacy narrative idea is to look at the communication pattern that I used last year in a long distance relationship with my ex-boyfriend. He attended school at Clemson University, 10 hours from Rowan. Most of our communication was done digitally through text messaging, FaceTiming, Skype, and sending each other hand written letters. I would address the impact that it had on me as a person and my own digital literacy.
2. My second literacy narrative idea is to reflect on a conversation I had with a co-worker about an article they had read on Facebook. The article was political and also blatant false information, however, my co-worker believed everything that was written. I would address the disconnect we as a digital society have with accurate sources of information and how uneducated people may not be able to separate the false from the true. 3. My third literacy narrative idea is to timeline my own digital literacy growth as it relates to the rules that my parents had in place for using social media, messaging, and amount of time spent on my phone. There are many instances in which my parents would not let me use my phone and took it away as a punishment. I would talk about how these events have shaped my digital literacy today. "The narratives of these 13 individuals—whether presented through a variety of interview formats or through their writing process videos—reveal a great deal about their literacy practices and values, and the kinds of communication in which they participate within digital environments are richly informative." ![]() This quote is taken from the literacy artifacts of Barry, Hawisher, and Selfe. A project in which they studied and interviewed 13 individuals about their own literacy practices and values. The way that they communicate with others and the digital environments in which they are involved in and what information they receive from them. This information is important as it helps us to better understand digital literacy as it relates to different cultures, values, and beliefs. After reading these articles I began to reflect on my own digital environments and my first few experiences with them. While reading I was reminded of my first experience with digital literacy and how it shaped the rest of my experiences to come. In fifth grade there was nothing that I wanted more than a pink Razor flip phone. They were all the rave and if you didn't have one you spent everyday wishing you did. My parents always had a rule that we were not allowed to get our first phone until sixth grade. However, most of my friends already had phones, they would text and call, text and call, I remember being so jealous. My parents ended up giving me my phone in April, on my birthday while I was still in fifth grade. They had set the ring tone to sing happy birthday and kept calling the phone until I found it.I was so excited that I would not stop calling all of my friends, I would call to say hi, I would call to see what the homework was, I was completely obsessed and there was no way of hiding it. Our vacation had just so happened to fall on my birthday so when I received my phone it was only a few days into the trip, my parents wanted me to be able to take pictures. By the second day of having it my parents were already expressing worry, they wanted me to live in the moment and not be consumed so much in my phone that I was not enjoying what was actually in front of me. I was only in the fifth grade when I got my phone so I really didn't understand what my parents meant and why they thought that it was such a big deal that I was using my birthday present all the time. However, as I look back now I realize that this experience has impacted my own literacy practices ten years later. It also effects a global reality in which we have become a digital era that is so focused on our technology and cell phones that we often times forget to embrace the world around us and live in the moment rather than behind a screen. Rhinegold, like most of us, views digital literacies as a form of communication that everyone is apart of. However, Rhinegold is asking one thing, that we as a digital culture educate ourselves on how to use digital literacies in a intelligent, humane, and mindful way. Especially as it refers to social media. This would be the "know-how", knowing how to use social media to broaden our minds rather than pollute them. It is important to be able to communicate properly with others as it relates to a social aspect or professional, social media may be ruining some of those connections we have if we do not make a change. "I see a bigger social issue at work with digital literacy, in addition to personal empowerment: if we combine our individual efforts wisely, enough of the right know-how could add up to a more thoughtful society as well as enhance those individuals who master digital network skills. " I enjoyed this quote because personally I agree with most of what Rhinegold is speaking to. I believe that if we do not begin to make theses changes, using social media mindfully and intelligently, we will become a digital society rather than a thoughtful one. In my own personal experience there have been times when I have seen my own friends use social media in a way that takes away from who they are as an intelligent human being and reflects poorly on others. Social media can be taken advantage of and used in harmful ways especially with younger children that use it as an outlet for their angst rather than a way to communicate with friends. I hope to never see our society fall victim to the digital era and forget how to communicate face to face and not through a screen.
![]() Barton and Hamilton define literacy as a set of social practices. After reading their piece I interpreted this as meaning that literacy practices coincide with social institutions, power relationships, making some literacies more dominant than others or vice versa. For example, an ad can be done in two ways, the message can be so powerful you want the product immediately or the message is not strong enough to influence your thought on the product. These literacy practices are meaningful and applied for a reason, involved in broader social goals and cultural practices. Another example, every culture is different and may communicate differently. Literacy is how we communicate with each other by using the resources available to us. While reading this article I immediately thought about the organization that I am involved with on campus. I am the president of the club soccer team for Rowan and we use literacy in multiple ways. As I am head of a student run organization, communication is key and I am at the center of all communication. I am in charge of sending routine emails to the entire team to keep them updated on what's going on with our schedule, keeping our social media up to date, and reminding all members of events going on in our GroupMe chat. By being responsible for so many girls and ensuring that my club runs smoothly these resources for communication are essential to the growth of our organization. I have learned that people are more likely to actually read the information you are sending when it is put informally in a group chat rather than an email that goes on for more than a paragraph. I believe that these acts reflect the social nature of literacy Barton and Hamilton have described. |
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