Response to Alexandria Wallace’s video "Asians in the Library"

Deterioration of The Black Community

This is a video of a man who is not too fond of the things that are occurring in the black community. He talks about all different kinds of problems that are deteriorating the black community. This shows that the people of the community are in need of help and support to try and change the way that are happening in these communities.

Comments on Blogs

Below are the links to the blogs I posted comments on:

http://mmmidentity.blogspot.com/2011/03/i-am-not-my-hair.html#comments

http://chericemcglone.blogspot.com/2011/02/consumer-reports-wont-reccoment-verizon.html?showComment=1300182476006#c3104056949821633468

http://mmmidentity.blogspot.com/2011/03/milk-chocolate-vs-dark-chocolate.html?showComment=1302282511589#c6538349326458679073


http://chericemcglone.blogspot.com/2011/01/starbucks-going-mobile.html?showComment=1302887945646#c6908499193821862576

http://janeejones09.blogspot.com/2011/02/different-types-of-human-trafficking.html?showComment=1303407918001#c5482718831718323212

Safe- Assessment Blog

Mid-way through my second semester of college I feel as though my writing as well as blogging  has come along way. My writing has improved tremendously in aspects of grammar and word choice. Secondly, my blogging is extremely helpful towards the African American community because my research and information is directly related to the current issues that exist in these communities. My writing and blogging can be influential to people who observe and learn from the information this blog portrays. Individuals who can relate directly towards the message in which this blog is sending can better themselves as well as the people around them. Improving things such as education, poverty, and decreasing the amounts of violence in African American communities (all things in which this blog promotes) will change the direction in which a lot of predominately African American neighborhoods are going in. Using sayings from my grandmother ”black is back, and if you disagree you are wack.”  This is just more motavation that if us as Americans help those who are in need of help it will make a better world for us all.

New Media and its Effects on The AIDS Virus

            New Media and AIDS

New media is positively affecting the AIDS virus today. Meaning new media is one large way of prevention for the virus. This is clear because frequently we tend to see flyers or information in various different places educating people about AIDS and how to prevent getting it. Farag M. Elkamel author of “Can New Media Prevent AIDS” statea that New media prevents AIDS through regular entrainment and media coverage for example, through sports, art, crime and political events. Elkamel also states new media prevents AIDS through planned media and entertainment materials.  The article reads “Communication experts and planners have realized the need for, and importance of, professional media planning. Manufacturers of commercial products, in realization of this fact, have devoted a sufficient amount of their budget to the use of communication services, marketing and advertising professionals to plan campaigns to influence the buying behavior of potential customers”. In addition to the two previous ways that new media prevents adds it also prevents the virus by measuring AIDS through the mass media.  There are plenty of statics that show how many people have the virus in specific areas. The Education about AIDS to the public is very well out in the public.

(This is a photo of the ribbon that is associated with helping find the cure for the virus.)

http://www.medicinenet.com/human_immunodeficiency_virus_hiv_aids/article.htm (article) 

New Media In Libya

                                              New Media in Libya

New media has drastically affected the country Libya. New media has showed the world what is really going inside of the country. Until recently the country of Libya's government has been portraying a false image of what is actually going one inside of the country. According to a BBC article "The government made it seem as though the streets of Libya were being cleaned up and they have been giving food and shelter to foreign workers. The New Daily paper in Libya that is titled Libya and is run by the citizens of the country reported on ”liberation” celebrations on how volunteers have been cleaning the streets and how they have been giving food and shelter to foreign workers. Some New Media sites such as Twitter and facebook are blocked in the country. Some citizens are still able to log into these sites through proxy sites or other methods of circulating the control mechanism for the Internet. This is actually a good thing because people inside of the country can leak information out to the rest of the public about what is actually going on inside of the country. The citizens of Libya have posted interviews, blogs, pictures, and videos about what is going on in the country.

(This is an visual image of what is going in Libya. )


http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/libya/index.html (article) 

Improving Poverty in African American Communities

Poverty is an issue in African American communities nation wide. New media can help spread the word about this issue to the public. New Media involves various different media related services that can help make readers, listeners, and viewers more aware of currency related issues that occurs in African American communities. A lot of neighborhoods that are financially improvised are ones whom residents are on public assistance. One way our new media sites  can suggest to get help for the people living in these communities is by getting word out to the public that jobs need to be created in this area to help the poverty issue. There are also websites that are already in existence that support this claim such as: (http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art8507.asp). The poverty issues leads to other factors in which African American communities are are the downfall for example it leads to crime. Once the ball gets rolling with eliminating one of the major factors which are holding African American communities down, the less difficult the task will be on improving these communities.

http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/staiv.htm (article)