Research Paper Continued...

Ok, so my final thesis took awhile to perfect. I have finally gotten it down to ...

"By turning political debates and coverage of elections into a makeshift reality television show, today's media has turned politics into just another form of enterainment."

Hopefully it will be a good paper. I need to discussing the effect television has on elections by showing how it has turn politicians into celebrities. Also I will discuss how the line between the entertainment industry and government has been blurred because of celebrities turning into politicians and celebrities becoming more envolved in the political process. My main source will be a book by Liesbet van Zoonen call "Entertaining the Citizen". It mainly focuses on the transformation of politics into another branch of the entertainment industry and how politics need to be entertaining in order for the people to participate. I am using mainly books on similar topics and a journel article on the effect that celebrity endorments have on a candidates campaign. I have learned so far in my research that more celebrity endorsments end up hurting the politicain than helpinig because people think that the politicians beleifs are the same as the celebrity that is endorsing them. I hope this paper turns out alright and I don't mess it up too badly! haha

Research Paper

I not entirely sure if we are suppose to write the two paragraphs for this blog since the directions weren't really specific. I guess I'll just write two anyways. I personally was really excited that we spent an entire class period watching someone play world of warcraft (still do not understand how anyone could figure out how everything works). Who knew that a person could spend a half a year playing one game? It's amazing! I still have a very important question though... why did the octopus on the staff only have four legs? I thought octopus were suppose to have eight legs.

My research topic is going to be how stars use their popularity to try and raise interest in politics and global causes, or the general lack of interest our generation seems to express towards, well, everything. My thesis's (that might be the plural spelling, I have no idea) are possibly going to be...

1. The use of celebrity influence has caused greater social awareness leading to the ultimate bettering of the world. (I'm not quite sure of the wording)

2. The seeming apathy the current generation has towards politics and global issues mainly stream from the media's influence over young people and the way the media portrays today's youth.