The end of the term...

The first semester I can say that I have an excellent class.I hope we can be together in the second period, this is the only wish I can say for the moment ...

Thank you for everything :)

Empty Bamboo :)

The movie by Okan Bayulgen is comic represantation of the situation of media in today's world. In the movie a window cleaner watchs some programme while cleaning the window. Surprisingly each programme watched by this man becomes the most favourite programme of that day. The owner of the TV channel which is Kanalizasyon hires this man and broadcastes the programmes that the cleaner likes most all this programmes are the most ridicules ones like " Who Want 500 Slaps?","My Animal" etc. These programmes are usually "empty" in content but make people sit in front of the TV whole evening.With this film Okan Bayulgen tries to examplify that the media is becoming an empty bamboo ...

Marriage Programmes video

Marriage Programmes

Generally we find these programmes ridicules but each of us has once watched one of these programmes in our lifes. The main purpose of these programmes to make people married especially those who cannot get married by themselves. Media has gone to far that it became a helpful to in people's private choices. Marriage is a serious act in the society. It should take some time for people to decide on marriage but in these programmes people decide in a very short time and by considering only a few things like money, career, appearance and wealth. It is open to discussion that how healthy these decisions are...

Lets have a look at the following video no comment! :)

The effect of media on social norms!

Social norms are the behaviors and cues within a society or group. This sociological term has been defined as "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. The social norms indicate the established and approved ways of doing things, of dress, of speech and of appearance.

The definition of social norm is stated in wikipedia like this.I think the contraction or the change of these social norms are profondly affected by television programmes. For instance the way we dress is highly affected by fashion programmes. There is a sharp transition in clothing style of young generation. Another example can be the fact that more and more people started to use foreign words mostly English in their daily life. In my opinion one of the most influential factor on this speech degeneration is Turkish evening serials. In most of these programmes the actors and actresses make use of lots of English words because of than these words easily take place in peoples daily life.

Considering the effectiveness of TV programmes on the shaping of social norms.I believe that TV programmers should pay attention for these issues but I do not see this attention in these programmes.

Different meaning of love for each...(New York I love you)

At the end of the movie that we presented in the class we realize everyone has their own love story.Newyork is a city like a melting pot which includes huge number of people. These people have different love stories. In the movie emphasized fundemental theme is that love is universal and also everybody fall in love in different ways and also feel different things from each other. As there is not one certain meaning of love.The crucial thing is how you fall in love and how you feel...

The film portraid different love stories first love,everlasting love,denied love etc.I thing the most impressive love story was the love between the old couples.Their everlasting love which is the difficult to find in todays world impressed me a lot...

"Everything in between"

(Part of Newyork I love you)

Abe and Mitzie are an old couple.On their 67th anniversary they take a walk outside we see a lots of examples of their squabble through the way.We also see some instances of love.The real love between them show itself in spite of the years.We can clearly see this when they stand next to a bank on the sea side.The director Joshua Marston, try to examplify everlasting love of old couple resistant to years without beauty or old age anxiety...