research blog 14

Dae Hee, Kwak, et al. "How Confident Are You to Win Your Fantasy League: Exploring the Antecedents and Consequences of Winning Expectancy." Journal of Sport Management 24.4 (2010): 416-433. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010.

Oates, Thomas Patrick. "New Media and the Repackaging of NFL Fandom." Sociology of Sport Journal 26.1 (2009): 31-49. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010.

Randle, Quint, and Rob Nyland. "Participation in Internet Fantasy Sports Leagues and Mass Media Use." Journal of Website Promotion 3.3/4 (2008): 143-152. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010.

reading blog 10

i do not think that tourists only exist in the first world and vegabonds in the third.  People like to travel to third world countries to mayb help out or to just do something different.  In north korea they are not a third world country but the people are not aloud to move outside of korea and there are barly and tourist that go to north korea.  tourist need to get passes and what not to enter the country and they have very little access. 
Tourist can be anybody from the rich to the poor. tourist are anybody that can travel to another place in the country, state, or world.  anybody can travel if they have the right money to. vegabonds are people who are traped where they are.  They cannot leave the current country they are in.  An example of this is north korea or cuba.  These countries are not third world countries and north korea is one of the major countries in the world today.

research blog 13

My research topic is fantasy football.  I found a great journal on my topic that i can use.  In this journal they talk about the expectations of winning in fantasy football.  If you win one, than you are expected to win again.  The author goes on to talk about how popular fantasy football has gotten.  It has generated a lot of money as well.  Another thing that i could use in the journal is the graphs that they use.  They use them to show stats, and other ways people use there minds and what they need to play fantasy football.

reading blog 9

When reading the first part of the chapter, it talks a bit about brands.  I worked with Meijer for a short time, and they started as a small thrift store in Michigan.  Meijer was competing against other grocery stores like Wal-mart and Kroger, among others.  Meijer slowly gained in popularity and they have generated hundreds of stores in Michigan and Ohio alone. They have made themselves into there own brand.  They competed against all other giant brand names and they are still growing. 
stereotyping is another word that has come up in the chapter.  When you see someone in the store dressed in all black and has spiked hair, you automatically have a stereotype about them.  This is wrong for people to do but everyone does it.  My cousin is one of these people whom wear all black.  She asked me the other day if I knew of any place that was hiring.  I told her of a few places that i might know of.  But she said she has applied there but she said that cause she wears black, everyone already has a stereo type about her and what she is like.  She is a sweet girl and it is not right not to even interview her because she dresses different or not up to certain standards. 

research blog 11

When I put myself in a subcultre i started to interact with them right away.  I started fantasy football a long time ago and I have been pretty good with it so far.  Everybody that i played fantasy foot knows who i am.  But i joined a community league and i started to talk to them and introduced myself right away.  I got a lot of good responses on it and everybody seemed to talk back with me and enjoy a nice conversation with me.  I am a confident person at some things and fanstay football is one of them.  These guys did not cope with this to well and started to get  a little mad about it.  I tried to be as nice as possible but the way i was comes out different.

reading blog #7

In the film Bamboozled there are a lot of racial slurs that are said.  There are  also a lot of stereo types and generalizations as well.  The film is mostly to show how our world is today and portraits the racial aspect of life as we know it.  It shows how we as a audience views certain people and it shows of these people portraits themselves.  In the movie there are people who act a certain way and we may not like how they are acting or what they are saying but this happens more and more in our world today.
When you watch this film you have a certain perception in your mind.  When you see people in the streets or walking by you, you are stereotypical to how this person is.  Even if this person is the nicest person in the world, when you look at them you may not think this.  This movie shows that the creators of the show are somewhat stereotypical to what they think these people are.  When really on the inside, these people are nice and don't like to be portray the way they are when they are filming the TV show.

Activity 6.2

I assume that when i am in a college setting that they are trying to prepare me for what life is like with a big boy job.  They try and prepare you to the best they can with education and knowlege to help you be successful in the feature.  In the education world you are trying to get the best education possible to get ready for the real world and working 40 + hours a week.  education sucks and so does the real world.