Reading both of the podcast “Summer Camp”
and “Becoming Batman” I really understood “Become Batman “and having to talking
to others about “summer camp” really helped in my compression of it. The main
point in “summer camp” was how there is nothing like the way kids connect and
interact in a camp setting. There this authenticity in kids doing childish
things when they are around one another that can not be imitated in normal
society. The way kids act around another in a summer camp setting is unique and
very special. In “Becoming Batman” the head point was about how we has people
can literally handicap people that have the ability to overcome it. This
podcast I liked listening to a lot, it shows how if we expect good thing from
people the people can meet any point they set for themselves, no matter their
situation. Like with the rats that had the same intelligence but a group of
people were told one set was smarter than the other. So we expected more from what
they considered the “smarter rats” so they handled them with much better care,
which ultimately ended up with better test results. This was a great way to
show when you expect you behave differently, in the case positively and they
got positive results.
I feel we hear from the journalist more then
the subject they write about to the control they have on how it is edited and
exposed. They can twist quotes and leave things out that could have a major
impact on the point the subject was trying to get across not say all writers do
so, but the defiantly have that option when publishing a piece of writing.
The most intriguing of either podcast to me
was the part in “Becoming Batman” when they talked about how the blind society
was holding blind people back and not letting the reach their full potential in
life. “The Blind society” did not expect them to be able to do thing they are
capable of doing.
Brainstorming
I think I would be interested in doing a
profile project after listening to the podcast it was extremely interesting in
how they used that piece to show like to there subject. How I will incorporate
my critical question is going to be a little hard, but I want to do it I first
need to zoom in who exactly I will pick to “ shed some particularly interesting
light” Maybe I could do Chris Borland and his fear of future injury which
brought a premature stop to his career. I could talk/study the team doctor and
get and see how he goes about handling head injuries and what he thinks the way
we should go about taking care of them even some prevention stuff. but the
problem I might run into with this there is so much info already out there on this subject there is no light
to be shed. I need to find places to shine light. It is going to be a challenge
to find new angles to take this story on. This point is highly talked about
around sports probably one of the most talked about issues so I probably talk
to some people and see what they think.
Devine,
ReplyDeleteYou make a great point about how the editing of things like this can really alter the way the subject's story gets told. That is an important point to keep in mind--and something you should bring up in class--as it it is essential that we strive to both bring tout the big idea in our subject's stories but also ethically represent them. I'm wondering why you found the part from he Batman podcast interesting that you did?
In terms of your project, I'm guessing you probably understand after class today, that you'll need to pick someone local--a "normal" person. I'll look forward tot reading your next blog post and talking to you to see where your ideas have gone.