Portfolio #2

My phrase is “Event” and right away was caught off guard from the opening line. The author Julia Sonnevend starts the article by rephasing a line on what an event is. “An event is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”. This took a bit for me to understand but became content with it. She then She didn’t provide the actual definition from the Oxford English Dictionary. With the definition being a thing that happens or takes place especially one of importance. Sonnevend then goes into the history of the word. It dates back to the 16th century and originates from the Latin word Eventus. She then goes into detail and how events are relegated to philosophers historians and sociologists usually. But then says how advanced misbehaving innovate as often as teenagers do and goes into more on how events are broader than just historians philosophies and sociologists. And then goes into media events such as the JFK assassination or the Vietnam war and even goes into defining what media scandals are in terms of communication in media. Examples of this are the Olympic games in the Watergate scandal with Nixon. She didn’t mention media events that have no life coverage events that are not on television and also events that I celebrated in one country but not another such as the fall of the Berlin Wall. She especially wanted to go into media events that you know may be of importance in today’s age with it being digital. she came over for features of events in media hi lady how do digital era makes each feature more salient The power of the occurrence vis-a-vis, its narrative as an event, The witnesses who tell the story of an event the embodiment of the event in a variety of media and the travel of events across cultural in geographic boundaries. For occurrences she mentions how Terrace attacks could be narrated in opposing ways with one way being the wanton of destruction or an active observance of a higher moral order. This just shows the narratives with certain events can be different for people depending on a side that’s being taken for the event. Then moves on to witnessing an event. This could be related to digital news in general with any news happening or event that happens nowadays being so publicized on the Internet. When an event happens there’s always a lot of viewpoints that anyone can see on websites such as Twitter. With the example of the terrorist attacks that the author gave we could see the same thing happen with a recent tragedy with the death of Kobe Bryant. There were many who were saddened by the tragic news and expressed their condolences to the Bryant family. There was also a side of people who were relentless after the news broke out as there were people bringing up the fact that Kobe Bryant have been accused of rape in the past. So again we have the side of where people reflect on themselves after the event happens since many people were learning the lesson on how life is short. And then you have to decide on how people are all about the destruction of a certain object or person in a media event.