TV online

We finished the video "Merchants of Cool" today in class. As I reflect back on the feedback loop, the mooks and midrifs, the media conglomerance, and just they way pop-culture affects people in general, I have focused on the idea that teens can create their own culture. Generations today have so many different ways to create and develop a new culture, compared to earlier generations. Teens have the ability to choose to lean into pop-culture, or they can choose to make their own decisions and their own individualistic life. Some people say, "If something is going to happen in pop culture, there is nothing to stop it." I do not believe this claim to be true. To a certain extent, as a society, we do not have control over what’s produced and what is distributed in media. But, we do have the ability to choose to lean into it and make it popular within society, so I do believe that this claim is true in a sense. I personally hate to think that pop-culture has so much influence on us, that we can't stop it. We all have our own views and opinions and these opinions should be voiced, so that maybe each of our separate views on media might just have an impact and affect on people with opposing views and opinions.
Thinking about having my own view on media and how it affects me, made me think of a semiotic domain that I am not a part of. I just walked down the hall to visit a friend and she was watching the "Real World" episodes through the Internet on her computer. I realized that I am not a part of the Semiotic Domain of "Internet TV watching." Many of my friends are a part of this domain and I have thought about taking part in it. It is very convenient to be able to sit down and watch episodes to an addictive TV series where we have missed and episode and now, heaven forbid, we can’t watch it because we are behind! Now, since I am not a part of this domain, I only have an external view, but from this external view I see that, once again, our culture is exposed to media whenever and wherever we want; it seems to be an addiction. Allowing TV to be on the Internet is also hurting the TV production. People don't have to rely on the Television set to provide them with their missed episodes, instead, they just have to reach out to the next technology source to find their media.