Major Assignment 4 Paper

The Outreach

The big problem at hand is that many people pre-judge other races, cultures and genders different from them. The main focus of this project was to express, how people are viewed verses, how they want to be viewed. Not only is this a national problem but also an international problem. Many races and cultures are discriminated against because of the way media has portrayed people throughout the world.

This problem does not just stop there it continues to poison our minds giving people a stigma about ones lifestyle and view toward life. This in return creates communication barriers between people. Some of this stigma can be removed by becoming educated on different races, cultures and their beliefs. Also, another way this stigma can be removed by surrounding your self with other people from different backgrounds and ethnicities.

Other ways to get tuned in is to become apart of a worldwide chatting site for example: Facebook or Twitter. Facebook being one that I am more familiar with is one of the places I decided to place my digital media project. The digital media project that was created by Ronny Latimore and I, Stevie Lynch was created to attract and target several different audiences. The production was a collaboration of different profiles focusing in on one individual. This project was then prompted and edited and placed on Facebook and YouTube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67cbnhllYM ">Profilesofme</a>  . Both websites attract a variety of different audiences.

 The process of creating this video took the help of others expertise and opinions. This clearly points out the statement, Henry Jenkins makes that “Do It Yourself rarely means Do It Alone. This is how much of the information we as individuals receive is shared. Many of those informing us World Wide Web users of resources and information on a particular subject are from all different races and cultures. We as the people have been empowered to take back control of what we read, see, or listen to. By places this production on a site that attracts many different ages, cultures and races; this project reaches people from all walks of life. This then results in many people outside of one targeted audience being reached.

We as the authors and creators hold the power in our hands to distribute this media to many different audiences by placing the project where the targeted audience frequents often. This is a prime example of the difference between Web 1.0 (not having control) and Web 2.0 (having a voice and control over the production). By having a voice not matter where you are in the world your opinions, morals, and values can be heard.

   This distribution of this production does not stop there but continues on through blog post or word of mouth. This gives a greater opportunity for the message to be spread to others throughout the world. In fact, after posting the video on Facebook, many friends that had never seen the video “liked” or responded to the post with positive feedback either verbally or through blog. The end result has been that most relate to one or more of the different individuals presented in the film. Which gives me the idea that we as individuals are not to much different from each than we think we are. We all just want our voices to be heard.