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I completely see eye to eye with Jay Rosen’s ideas of us, the audience, having command over the production of the media content we take in. Now that technology has extended, we can access information faster and easier. Not only is it faster and easier, we can be in charge of what type of information is being put on air.

NY1 – helpline is very similar to New York City’s 311 helpline system but with more publicity and projections for public. As 311 registers the complain and puts it in a work order format before sending it to the concerned agency. There is no particular system as to follow up on it.

Last summer we (my community) faced an immense issue on one of the intersections near a community park for neighborhood children – vehicles passing from that intersection were flying by (speeding more than 30 mph) for a local street – very often there were instances of when kids were scared to play in the park because of the intersection right next to it. In a community meeting it was decided that a stop sign is needed for this intersection and this issue will be taken to the city through 311 calls. About 3 weeks of reporting this to city via 311 there was no action taken – then our community informed NY1 help hotline about this situation – they showed a brief documentary of it on television and next week we saw DOT putting up a sign on it. This shows the power of media.

Another matter came to light when numerous drivers were complaining about severely bad conditions on the MTA bridges – RFK bridge – there were numerous pot holes on the roadway on the bridge itself which made it worse for driver during winter with snow and sleet – the conditions on the roadways were unsafe – a lot of complains were given to MTA about this from several drivers and no results were seen. After which a number of them put this through NY1 hotline – which made a documentary of the unsafe conditions of the roads – within two weeks there were improvements and MTA roads division was working on it. Another example of the power of media.

Jay Rosen, in his blog titled “The People Formerly Known as the Audience,” presents really interesting informations about how the people that he refers as “formerly known as the audience” have taken control of the game

Runners in olympics may need some support. Sometimes brain overcomes strength.This was super easy to design and i actually had a good laugh while collaborating this awesome picture. Now i think i will keep making images like these and posting them on the web just so everyone else can have a good time looking at them.

This was fun and really funny, I enjoyed. Shirky was precise, it’s a good feeling to be in charge of what I build and organize for publication, and is an enhanced feeling people would smile once they see this image.I chose this image because I was watching Discovery Channel and on the show “Wild Cats” they showed how out of 8 to 10 times when the lion chases down his prey, he/she accomplish it with a blink of an eye. I took 30 minutes to find and alter the images, since I knew that I was looking for an image of a lion that’s on the way to catch its prey and Google made it look easy found a picture that was with a lion running and the prey on his Ducati Bike showing how brain overcomes power and I also thought it was pretty funny!

-Got the picture

-Went to www.memegenerator.net

-Uploaded the picture

-Wrote the captions which I chose to write

-Boom! There it was got the picture

Most kids plug into the world of television long before they enter school.

Certainly, TV in moderation can be a good thing Preschoolers can obtain knowledge in alphabet on public TV, and parents can keep up with present events on the evening news. No doubt about it .TV can be an excellent mentor and entertainer.

Shirky points out that “Americans watch roughly two hundred billion hours of TV every year” I strongly accept it true. Regardless of its advantages, too much television can be harmful I have experienced this because when I came to this country in 2001 we bought a huge TV in the beginning totally loved it sat in front of it watched nearly all TV shows on TNT, played games but in the long run I started to notice I was become fat because of sitting in front of tv all day eating and eating. i started to lose connection from the outside world I was scared to talk in public because I didn’t have a huge social life. TV kept me busy thinking “oh I know everything that’s going on I’m so up to date” but was losing my self confidence to talk in public and leading towards obesity. Thank god! I realized and started avoiding television went to the gym lost 60 pounds and now I’m quite fit!

For the future I will not let this situation happen with my kids and hopefully everyone learns and not let this occur with them or their loved ones. Too much of anything is bad for you both physically and mentally