Lemmy's Second Post

With the trip now half over, it's been an interesting experience to look back and think about what I've done.  Having the journal is nice as the days can blur together and the days of the week can easily get lost on trips.  I can't say there has been a single bad day for me.  Thus far we've experienced London, and are currently in Edinburgh.  in the next couple of days we'll be leaving for the last leg of our trip in Glasgow.  Personally I'll be sad to leave Edinburgh, but the promise of good times ahead will keep me excited.

As for my project, I have found that I am shifting it's primary focus a bit to keep in line with the study of the media in the U.K.  It still focuses on the idea of social empathy, but now it's more about how it exists within the media, such as television shows, news reports (both TV and papers), as well as within ads.  So far I have found the concept to be still as interesting as the initial thought.  It's fascinating to see how the age difference and the class vs. non-class systems of our two countries form such drastic differences in how we view and accept media.

So far this idea alongside the viewing of spatial differences gives me a lot of ideas on what to talk about, and how people may think differently without even speaking to media.  Things like history and origins, size of the country, and even traveling all cause drastic effects on the people of the two nations.  How are media is presented to us is very structured to fit with how we think, and have thought for years.

Where it will take me... who knows.  But I still look forward to finding out.

Cheers!