WORLDS ATTENTION IN 7 WORDSThis is my 7 Words Distance Learning Programme submission of module 2 (Hello).
The task was: "Look at newspapers, TV programmes, adverts, etc., to find out where the world is placing its attention at this time and comment on this in 7 Words terms" I used Google search and Youtube video popularity as my main criteria (shown in the video on the right). This, of course, is only a partial representation of humanity's most relevant concerns, and yet, I believe that it reveals the basic underlying trends of current interests fairly accurately. I also think that of all other forms of media outreach, internet represents the strongest force, because its users are more active in the process - searching, sharing, "liking" and commenting on the information, rather than just observing. This website is my interpretation of the Zeitgeist of current period in time, based on one years data from Google and my personal observations. ZEITGEISTZeitgeist \TSYT-guyst; ZYT-guyst\
noun: [Often capitalized] The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time. | The best writers of that predawn era were originals who had the zeitgeist by the tail. -- Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz: The First Century As most critics and all professors of cultural theory note, Madonna is nothing if not a skilled reader of the zeitgeist. -- "Techno 'rave' just the same old Madonna", Chicago Sun-Times, March 3, 1998 Besides, the zeitgeist seems to be working against any hope of Hormel officials to limit...the usage of [the word] 'spam' on the Web. -- "Gracious Concession on Internet 'Spam'", New York Times, August 17, 1998 Like other figures who seem, in retrospect, to have been precociously representative of their times, Kerouac was not simply responding to the Zeitgeist, but to the peculiarly twisted facts of his own upbringing. -- "Jack Kerouac: The Beat Goes On", New York Times, December 30, 1979 |