Blog #6

Links are made to conceal and reveal certain information. After thinking for exactly sixty seconds about how links conceal and reveal information, I have thought of a few good examples that fit this particular question. Although there are an infinite amount of examples on the web I chose to use an example in this paper.

Links can conceal information by making a user click on a word such as "enter here." This is concealing information because in order to access what you are trying to get to, you have to go through that particular link. A link can be used either to make things more organized on a page or to hide content that a user may or may not want to see. The reason this is an example of how links reveal information is because when a user clicks on a particular link, a new page of information is then revealed. 

This is my example of a link that reveals and conceals "cla clik." Without actually clicking on my link, you will have no clue where it leads you. This is concealing information from you. If you do decide to click on it and enter into the unknown it will reveal a new page of information. Another example is once you enter the link I provided, you have another choice of whether to enter the links on the next page. Those links also hide and provide information to users. Whether you decide to let the links reveal information to you or keep it concealed is up to you.

Blog #4

Solomon-

Capital letters can be considered a form of punctuation.  Solomon writes that "most punctuation marks are composed to be seen but not heard" (solomon 282). If capital letters are included as a form of punctuation, they would be apart from that statement.  In many cases capital letters are very loud and sometimes they are silent.  For example when you start each sentence you begin with a capital letter.  In this case it would be considered silent because it does not change the pitch of the words, it is more to show the beginning of a sentence.  If I was writing on an instant messenger or a blog and wrote something like "HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING," this symbolizes someone yelling or being louder than normal. These two examples represent how punctuation and capital letters are both similar in a way and different from each-other.

Goffman-

Goffman's analysis on the role of men and women in advertisement has held-up very well today. Both are categorized and different from each other. He implies that men play the "executive role" and women tend to use there hands more in advertisement. Although not every advertisement fits this generalization, most in fact do. An example that follows these rules is a FedEx super bowl commercial. It is of a man that tells you the ten items needed to have a successful commercial. This part of the commercial represents the executive role for the men.  At the end of the commercial two attractive women are shown to flaunt there bodies.  Although this does not depict the hands that Goffman says are usually used with women, it does show how men and women have different roles in advertisements. 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NMvB7jTG6oQ

A better example of the female role can be seen in a perfume commercial which a girl is showing off a bottle of perfume. This short clip illustrates how women use there hands. 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=G-teUO2Cy4U&feature=related

Although these are only two examples, most commercials today do have different gender roles.