Chile and the TV as a distraction.

During many years, the significance of television has become more important according as family recreation. The function of the TV has been transformed, resulting in some other roles as cultural topics and, the most important thing that is relevant to this essay, to distract the people. Why people have more knowledge about people within entertainment world than the current state of their country or the world? However, in my opinion, I agree about knowing your social/cultural environment through the entertainment world, but unfortunately, the more important occurrences that does changes in the structure of the world does not related to famous people of the entertainment world.

In consequence, apparently the media has using it to move the attention of the people into other issues, even conceal or manipulate information. In “Mass media and national development: the role of information in the developing countries” by Wilbur Schramm, he analyses the role of the media information and how it changes: “(…) in some cases at least, it tends to ignore important events and to distort the reality it presents." (Scharmm,W. 1964; p19). As he noticed, the big problem is that the main role of the media has changed, (that is communicate at all the population), becoming now to misinform people.

Therefore, can we release the information to the world? How it changes the society? Is that related to as a globalization problem, or is an ancient strategy?

Biodata

Valentina Obreque is an undergraduate student of anthropology in the Universidad de Chile. She is interested in the study of the cultures in all the expertise fields, especially from the archaeology, in which she would like investigate topics related with burial phenomena and symbolism or ideology.

She has been a student of this university since last year, for this reason she do not have academic experiences about the career. Although, she would like to work as voluntary in the Museo de Historia Natural to have some experience in the field that she is studying. Also, she would like to help some students with their thesis, because she wants to learn about advanced topics in the professional field.

She has investigated different issues, first of all, she has written an article about the influence of Polynesia in South America, specifically in the Mapuche area. Plus, she has written about the perception of the Jesuitas about the native people in south of Chile, in the colonization process. Adding to this academic information, she enjoy to work making investigations, do it with partners.

Currently in this semester, she and other classmates will write a research the medicinal use of specific plants in Chiloe’s Island.

SEMESTER 2 - 2018 INTERMEDIATE A

App

The app that I use every day is Facebook. I know it’s an app very popular around the world, but is the most that I like it. I have been using Facebook since 2011, when I started the teenage and I needed found new friends, so one of my classmates recommended this social network. I like Facebook for many reasons, one of them is the “memes” that the pages upload (are son funny haha), and the communication is so fast. You can debate with others or move masses of people just publishing a sentence. Although also has cons, since the speed of the information, and who is giving it. For this reason, some pages can control the information, and so control the people that do not search for their media.

By the way, it can be an unsafe place for the kids that use it (and they shouldn’t). It’s a very open place that may guard many bad people; you cannot know who the person is through the screen. You must be very cautious with that.

Despite of all, I still continue having a great time seeing the photos of my friends, and l laughing with the memes. I would recommend because you can find again the persons you left behind in your past or for the opposite make new friends.

Practice

In the listening exercises I have medium results; in each exercise I failed in one question at least, only in one exercise I have all the results well. About the reading exercises that are three tests, in two of them I have all very well, but in the last one, in the matching exercise it was more harder than the others tests. It was more difficult to me understand de differences in the choices.

Ambition

One of my biggest ambitions (if is not the bigger) is live in Japan. I always dream about this, and it’s makes me so happy (and so sad because I don’t think it’s going to happen L ). In YouTube there is a channel of a couple of Japanese girl and a Spanish boy and their videos are about the Japanese culture, shows the amazing historical landscapes and how they live together despite the cultural difference. Their videos are so interesting, and makes that I want to go there and live the experience myself. The only trouble is the fact that I’m studying anthropology (archaeology), and I don’t know if it’s possible work in something like that in Japan. Despite I would leave my family far away from me, I think nothing compares to live there, and that’s fascinating me a lot.

I don’t know nothing about the language (actually I want to learn other languages like Italian and increase my English because it’s too bad and that’s embarrassing me), but if this comes true (someday), obviously I must learn Japanese.  But if I have the chance to travel to Japan like tourist, it makes me the happiest person ever. Actually, I want to visit a lot of places but if I go to Japan someday, I could say I already did everything in my life.

Favorite toy as a child

When I was a child I didn’t like play with toys, like dolls or truck toys because I never have the imagination quality. So, the way that I made me fun was with a videogames. My cousin is eight years older than me, so when I was five years old, he was a teenager. He had a Super Nintendo and a Nintendo 64, and all my family enjoyed with these game consoles. My mom bought a N64 and I play all the time despite I misunderstand anything because the language of the games were in English. So, I play without know what I was doing, now in the present I “re-played” the same games to remember the old times and –finally- understand everything haha. I remember some games with nostalgic and happiness, but also it’s time to bring new games in my life (like everything). I liked play videogames because l loved (and still love) introduce in a story created for another person, the variety in this hobby is huge, and you can find your place inside this area. I still play currently and share these stuffs with my friends that I met here in the University, even I teach these things to my little sister and she accompanies me in this hobby.