research blog 15

 I must say doing this research assigment was extremely difficult! I had a really hard time with it i am not sure if it is the topic i chose or is i just wasnt well prepared. I did miss my in class meeting and the may have helped some.After doing the assigment i realized that the mj community is not a subculture just a group of fans. The assigment paper with the questions did make the process a little bit easier without those i wouldnt have had much to say. the questions made me think more and come up with ideas and go more in depth.

I feel like we didnt spent enough in class time discussing the paper. more guidance was needed we probably should have had a day dedicated to write some of the paper in class. We could have shared some of our paper with not only you but the class they could have gave back good feed back and criticism. also sometimes things are better understood when you hear them from  a peer. Over all this was a really hard assingment for me!

Research Blog 13

King, Adam B. "Finding Online Subcultures in Shared Meanings." Academic Search Premier.EBSCO, May 2008. Web. 29 Nov. 2010

The article talks about  Online subcultures. It goes into how they differ from Subcultures in everyday life anf if they are really valid or not. The article talks about the differences and similarities and what tradiotanl values are lost with it being online. This article will help with my paper because i can relate it to my online subculture in many ways. I also can use this article to decide if my topic is truly an online subculture. here is the quote i plan to use......




According to Adam B. King “An online subculture like and offline subcultures may spill over into regions beyond traditional boundaries. In such cases seeking to understand the online subculture by looking in one location would be as limited as trying to understand Chinese- American culture by looking in only traditional china-towns.” (138, King).

Research Blog 14

Works Cited

Wedro, Benjamin C. "Micheal Jackson's Cause of Death." 2 Oct. 2010. Web. 1 Dec. 2010.

Lamb, Bill. "What Is Pop Music?" Web. 1 Dec. 2010.

King, Adam B. "Finding Online Subcultures in Shared Meanings." Academic Search Premier.EBSCO, May 2008. Web. 29 Nov. 2010.

Mattar, Yasser. "Virtual Communities and Hip-hop Music Consumers in Singapore." Academic Search Preimier.EBSCO,Oct. 2003. Web. 29 Nov. 2010.

Cave, Damien. "Michael Moonwalks." Academic Search Premier. EBSCO, 24 June 2007. Web. 29 Nov. 2010.

O'Brien, Susie, and Imre Szeman. Popular Culture: a User's Guide. 2nd ed. Toronto: Nelson, 2004. Print.

Reading blog 9

Chapter nine talked alot about different subcultures and the politics of those subcultures. The part that really stood out to me was the section about subcultures hiding in the light. I never really took time to think about that but it is very true. They are visibe enough for us to see but invsible enough to where they stand out from main stream and can practice there own believes within their community. For example punk rockers they dress different have what i consider to be weird concerts and stuff. they still stand out and are within the main stream but at places like concerts they can become invisible and just do things within the privacy of their own community.

 I also liked the part about the invention of the skate board. Skating boarding has become so mainstream compared to how it started out. I my self would like to learn how it seems fun. I feel like skating boarding start off as something people in the punk subculture practice but now people from all tyes of subcultures skateboard. The art about subcultures in cyber space just made me think of how facebooks has all types of groups you can join for all kinds of subcultures. i also thought of the different chat rooms you canjoin based on your intrest. Cyber space has become a major lace where subcultures meet and share ideas.

Reading Blog 8

 Guidos would be considered a subculture. Being a guido and guidtte is not consider  going againsts anything like a counter culture would be. It has become something that is under main stream society. The show Jersey shore on mtv is all about a group of guidos and guidettes from jersey. This has actually become a big thing now and people are proud in many cases to be apart of this subculture.

 This picture of a bunch of hippies sitting on some kind of court steps would be considered a counter culture. they are being rebelious. Going againsts the prevalant culture and it is polistical. They are obviously doing some kind of protest to fight for what they believe in.

Research Blog Part 10

Applying one (or more) key terms from Chapter 6, analyze one area of your research site in terms of that key term. Some terms may include performativity and habitus. How does your previous research work with these new terms in clarifying how your research site constructs itself? Do you see similarities to other terms? How are they different (even subtly)?
The mj community site site constructs it self as a subculture. makes the meber feel like they are a part of a seperate community that comes with a certain status as if you have to accepted which is why a membership is needed.non material commodities are on the site as far as all the information it has to offer. They have information about micheal jackson everywhere on the site.  everything on the site has a sense of essentialism the sites has many ideas and concepts. I also think of asethics when looking at the site it has a sense of beauty. All the pictures of micheal jackson look ike works or art they are pleasing to the eye. I not sure i see any similarites or how they are different for that matter. those are just the ones that stood out and i could relate to the site.

Research Blog Part 9

Analyze how interpellation works in your research site (apply concepts from Chapter 6). Analyze how members get "hailed" into becoming a member--look at the way they are talked to by the web designers, look at how identification in that community functions.

The website instantly hails memebers into becoming a member. I myself am a Micheal Jackson fan but not enough to join the mj community. when i went on the site i considered it after seeing all the cool stuff they have to offfer. The site as a glow, kinda shimmer to bright lights type of thing grabs your attention. At the top it has mj walking in the moon there are youtube videos of never seen before interviews all kinds of things. People like to feel like they are exclusive and have exclusive items so the site having so much never before seen items makes you want to join. Being a member makes you feel special and accepted. They have all the latest MJ news to keep you updated. they even have something at the top that say mj secret vault makes you feel as if they are trusting you with important information "members only." the web designer over all did a good job selling the idea of becoming a memeber almost got me for a second there!