I was just sitting here and thinking about the fact that everyone has gotten so involved in the disscussion about same sex relationships. Why?
There are those who are against it which I can understand and then there are those who are gay which I understand the view that they have.
Why do other people fight for the rights of gay people? Is it because they are the ones aware of the past and how people have been treated?
I understand that every faith thinkins that being gay is wrong and I would not take this issuse into a church. But, here is what I ask, Why can't two people od the same sex fall in love and be together, and have a wedding that is not in a church?
One last question which I know will make everyone mad. For the people who are against it what difference does it make to you? You are not being forced to be gay and you dont have to have any part in it, so why is it such a big deal why can't we just let them be happy?
I was looking though some of the class blogs and found one by Even that I think could be a really good topic to discuss. I know that some people get upset by this and will not want anything to do with it but here is what Even said .
What does everyone think about everything going on here. Are the rights of gay people being taken away because others are afraid of change?
Let me know what you think.
The Labyrinth Unbound: Weblogs as Literature
The catagories of web blogs are disscuses in this essay and it leads into the artical that I did my presentation for class on. Women and Children Last: IN the artical that I did my project on it talks about the brake down of different types of blogs.
Then it takes it one step farther, it brake sthe types down into geander and age as far a popularity.
The artical was really interesting and some what long but informative. I like how it showed that there are more adult male blogers and then there are more teen female blogers.
This makes sense if you think about it because teenage girls like to talk to their friends and gossip, so they can do that online.
While boys are still playing more sports and doing more outdoor things.
Then when women get older they tend to have children and more responsabilities then men who can be on the computer more.
Another opinion that I have is that until women prove themselves in the bloging comunity they will not be taken into consideration as A list bloggers.
Hopefuly these teenage girls will continue to blog and when they become adults prove themselves as great bloggers and get women into the repected bloging as more then just teenage girl telling about the everyday life they have to life.
I found the artical interesting and I am glad that I picked to present this topic because it was something that I liked.
Women and Children Last
"Guernsey (2002) claims, on the basis of informal observation, that 40-50% of bloggers are women. At least one report (Orlowski, 2003) goes further, asserting that a majority of bloggers are teenage girls.
What percentage of blog authors are females and teens? To address this question, we conducted a gender- and age-focused content analysis of a random sample of 357 blogs collected from the largest available blog tracking site.
We collected blogs twice, six months apart, as part of a larger ongoing longitudinal analysis of the weblog genre. At the times of our data collection, in March 2003 and in September 2003, the blo.gs site was tracking a total of roughly 350,00 and 700,000 blogs, respectively.
We used the site's “random” selection feature to collect two samples from these totals: the first containing 203 blogs, and the second containing 154 blogs."
The information was gathered by the random searches that where done. They then went through each blog and found any thing that woudl indicate the sex or age of the bloger and they where able to find the information most of the time.
March 2003
September 2003
Total
Male
100 (54%)
64 (48%)
164 (52%)
Female
84 (46%)
68 (52%)
152 (48%)
Total
184 (100%)
132 (100%)
316 (100%)
Ages of the blogers
March 2003
September 2003
Total
Adult
111 (60%)
49 (37%)
160 (51%)[5]
Emerging
--
33 (25%)
33 (10%)
Teen
73 (40%)
50 (38%)
123 (39%)
Total
184 (100%)
132 (100%)
316 (100%)
There are more teen female blogers then male teen blogers but there are more adult male blogers then adult female blogers.
Age and sex is also skewed for the type of blog that is created. A journal type blog is most popular for teen females and adult males take over the rest.
Mass Media Reports
more males (88%) are mentioned in the articles than females (12%);
males are mentioned multiple times in the same article more often than females;
males are mentioned earlier in the articles than females;
males are more likely to be mentioned by name than females; and
all 94 males mentioned are adults, except for one adolescent male blogger
Weblog Scholarship
Scholarship on weblogs is still in its infancy, so there is little published literature as yet. However, some scholarly activities associated with weblogs already show evidence of an adult male bias. Conferences to discuss weblogs have thus far tended to attract more male than female participants.
twelve out of sixteen papers (75%) presented in the four sessions dedicated to weblogs were authored by men, and males made up roughly 70% of the audience who attended those sessions
In class to day Dr. Jerz handed out a sheet of paper and then split the class into groups. each group got a paper with pics. on it and the group had to write intructions for the task.
My group had paper airplanes. I thought I wrote good details so that someoneo not looking at the pics. could make the same plane I was. Well then I put that to the test. We went out into other groups and tested the guid that we had written.
Mine did not go well, but it showed me that people dont always pay attention to every word and that peolpe dont give the same meanings to words. What I wrote I thought made sense and I could make the airplane. Then when someone else looked at it they didnt know what exactly I was trying to get them to do. I guess that was the point of the class today.
"typical blog" is written by "a teenage girl who uses it twice a month to update her friends and classmates on happenings in her life."
I can see why this is the case. For teenagers the computer is a mager source of comunication, with blogging they have found another way to talk to others about them self. We all know that is a teenage girls favorite thing to do. No one my be interested in her life but the few who are make her feel more important in the word just by posting on her blog and if a stranger posts it is even better because then she feels that other people besides her friends are taking notice in her. I understand that blogs are a lot more then just away to get your life out there for people to read. They carry information so quickly and serve different jobs for different peolpe. I also think that the reason more teenage girls are bloging just about them self is because the older people in the U.S., most of them lack the computer knowledge. I know that my mom is happy with the fact that she can do the billing at work on the computer and that she knows how to get directions off of mapquest. I feel that the audience will change as they get older and they understand the computer more and more.
The web site I used is Into the Blogosphere
Even though my blog is not a visual blog I see the importance of visuals to get peoples attention. I have a boring blog and I am trying to talk myslef in to fixing it up. Reading the artical and looking at the other blogs that is linked to was amazing. The things that people can put in their blogs to make them more personal all th up to the people that put nothing but pictures in the blog. The pictures on the blogs that where linked to are amazing. I am not so sure that I would want to put a picture of my self up on my blog simply because I dont want to hear comments about my looks everyone feels they need to give their nedative opinions and I dont want to hear them. I could alter my text to maybe give my page some thing to look at. I also might look for some pictures maybe about softball of course. I really feel that a picture of a pitcher for the U.S. team or something would give someone an idea about me.
What is the difference between blogging and reality T.V.? The disscussion started in class today and I really believe that they have a lot in common. The difference is the rules and the simple fact that someone else besides the person experienceing the event and the reader get to pick what you see and what you dont (as chris said in class) I really started to understand his point that on a blog because you are the director (as Even said) you can say what you want and do what you want with the story on your bolg. Others can only comment if you want then to and you can always post back to the comment to clear things up. I feel that bolging is a better from of reality T.V. because it is actual people telling actual stories about their everyday life and things that they find interesting or that touch them.