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Although the movie El Topo is widely viewed as a cinema classic within the film industry and by movie critics it still lacks any name recognition on the mainstream, and has almost zero appeal to the modern mainstream audiences. However, despite the challenges of a rerelease of El Topo it still has the potential to make a profit in its rerelease. Due to the popularity of many of its advocates most notable of which is John Lennon, and its strong cult following are the film possesses a very vocal…

professional marketer based in Australia to ask about their opinion regarding my game application to see if there is any cultural clash with the local culture. • Secondly, I will post some brief introduction of my game (game nature, name) to forum such as Reddit and specifically asked Australian to comment about it to see if there is anything offensive to them. • With internet and many online resources, it is much easier to prevent any culture blunders. And these resources will enable me to…

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Orange is the New Black (OITNB) is a Netflix original web series created by Jenji Kohan and adapted from the memoir of Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison (2010), which explores life inside a women’s prison system. The series includes a diverse cast of historically excluded Black, Latina, and transgender actresses. How do they create seemingly groundbreaking media based on the controversial world of prison systems in a time when inequality is perpetuated by…

across the world have had no noticeable effect on terrorist activities, which governments claim is the goal of their secretive and highly illegal spying behavior. A user on Reddit believes that it is not even the ISP’s job to try to take down cyber crime as that job is for the police and government agencies. Another user on Reddit also stated that the removal of Net Neutrality would most likely increase crime as you are taking away something you can do online, e.g., playing grand theft auto; if…

I believe that this idea of a reddit page that encourages roasting is atrocious. How are these people not expecting the worst of insults? Even if one comment on someone is tolerable, there will surely be a ton more that are much more severe. This content is found in the subreddit…

Being Kept in the Cave “You can’t build a house without nails and wood. If you don’t want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none… Let him forget there is such a thing as war” (Bradbury pg. 58). In this dystopian society, the media avoids giving valuable and worrying information to the public in order to keep peace and order. This lying and holding back of…

This was one of the first and, to this day, one of the most successful examples of viral marketing by a brand. Old Spice used a data aggregate to find questions about their product on several pre-existing social media websites including Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Another way Old Spice used new media was to get faster feedback through the comment section of their YouTube page. The instant communication feedback was a way that they could gauge customer satisfaction and the affective…

In Michael Buckland’s article, “Information as Thing”, there are three different meanings given to information- information-as-process, information-as-knowledge, and information-as-thing. Buckland begins his article by declaring that there is a certain ambiguity surrounding “information” as a whole- with this, he proceeds to describe the three different meanings of information, some of which compare and contrast to my own information-seeking experiences. Information-as-process, as defined by…

The Rich Point that I chose is the word hipster. I chose this word because I think it is a really interesting how the definition changes in context to how its being used. There also really isn’t an accepted modern definition of the word. The Webster dictionary defines the word as “a person who is unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns (as in jazz or fashion).” However, urban dictionary says that hipsters “value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive…