Torture

Some of John Oliver's examples represent the cultivation theory in that we tend to live in the reality of the television world believing that things happen that don't really happen in the real world. He talks about how they are torturing prisoners to get information out of them, which doesn't seem to be working because they continue to commit crimes. Another example that he talks about is that the fact that other countries could be portraying us differently because of the way television shows portray violence or torture. He says that torture seems to work on tv (it helps to move the plot along), but in real life it doesn't seem to work that way. Another example of the cultivation theory is that he says 57% of Americans believe that torture through interregation actually works, which is based on the cultivation theory.

Why we play

In the Ted talk by Jane she mentions a video game that helped her get through you brain injury and how her attitude changed. Because she was going through a tough time so was going back on forth on whether she should be alive and in the article they talk about how we need reassurance or that we seek stability, and that if these adjustments get out of balance, we experience the stress that Jane talks about. Her game also made her feel better. and in the article the author talks about how stress is relieved through the attitudes associated with play. Playing a simple game can help us improve our mental and physical health.

The article talks about the role of social contact through game playing and how players often gather to play competitively or cooperatively at friends homes. The games give people a chance to talk and although some online games may not see or touch each other they sparked an interest in social network. Like the article Jane has said that just by social contact creates gratitude and makes you biochemically primed. Sociability gets you juices moving or gets you thinking. Jane also makes a point that article also states, that it boosts your mood.   

Men's bodies in mass media

Men's bodies in popular culture are more on the masculine (more muscular) side and women tend to be sexualized like seen without clothes more often and tend not to have as much muscle. In movies for example men are seen as more athletic and you can see the outlines of their muscles (like with the superman example given in class). As you would probably guess women are seen more with clothes off and as object like what we talked about in our last unit with those ads. Even though there are ads that do this to men too, its more common with women.


Men and Women are similar in the way that our bodies are treated is that they both tend to stereotype that we aren't sexy unless are bodies are in shape.
Even though they way men are supposed to look is changing the media tends to protray that women or men aren't supposed to overweight and that it's not healthy. If we are over certain weight they tend to say that its not sexy or attractive when that statement is completely false, i know tons of people that look a different way that are still beautiful. Why do we continue to degrade people by the way that they look? 

CORGing and BIRGing in Football High

In football high one thing that they talked about was the fact that they had such a good quarterback for their highschool football team, Kiehl Frazier. There was pressure being but on him to do good that even his parents hired a sports promoter for him. This I feel is a CORF because all the pressure is being put on him and if they lose the team would be disgraced and the relationship with the team would be minimized. An example that would be a BIRG is in the beginnging they talked about how the football team wasn't very good but they started to high trainers and better coaches, so people started going out to the games because the team started winning. Clearly people like to support winning teams and the team's succes are a apart of the fan's success. The team also clearly got respect once they started winning again.

Another thing that was highly talked about in the video is the fact that the coach put Garret Harper back in the game after he had suffered a concussion because the score of the game was really close. Clearly winning is important in football and the coach thought that he wouldn't be liked if he didn't have his star player in the game to win it for him. This is also an example of CORF because he would have potentially been blamed for the lack of success, the team would have been disgraced.