What examples of media globalization do you see or experience in your life?
One of the main examples of media globalization in my life is relating to the internet. I was on one of my friends MySpace pages and noticed a music video playing one of my favorite songs. The funny thing is this video was an example of convergence as well because the song was not related to the video at all. It was a promotional video for a movie called "Love Me if You Dare" that was made in France, spoken in french, and with English subtitles. The video on her profile however, had the song "Let Go" by the artist Frou Frou along to video clips from the movie. It was a very enticing video and definitely caught my attention. After watching the promotional video I was convinced I wanted to see it. Therefore, I went on to the one and only Itunes and looked for the video. Sure enough, the video was there. So I got my credit card out and bought it. I must say I have never been a fan of watching videos in different languages, subtitles have always bothered me, so I was surprised I even bought it in the first place. However, it was so addicting that I stayed up until two a.m. watching it. I was contributing to the globalization of media, and I loved it.
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I find myself doing that a lot too. I believe we asked the question in class if anyone has even gotten on the internet for one reason, and found them self looking at something completely different. I think people do that a lot more than they realize. Companies that control the media are aware of this, so they will put things together (like our favorite song and a new movie) to catch our attention. In return convergence pays off because we get sucked into new types of media and spend more and more money and things we necessarily do not need.
I can't believe how many times i have done that. It feels like every time I am online something else on the page grabs my attention and makes me just stare at it. Maybe it has to do with strategic placement of the video to make it catch eyes?
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