The Presence of the Consumer

     So I tried coming of with something cool and witty at the same time, you know, something other than "Walking Journal #X" where X is the prompt number we're working on. Anyways, since this prompt was about advertisement and its presence around campus, I felt this was an adequate title for this blog. Just a warning though, don't expect me to be this witty and clever all the time.

     Now, on to the prompt. We were asked to consider the role of advertising as well as where we encounter them and what effects they may have on our views of the community/neighborhood; but you already know that don't you? To start off, I want to say that it was fun to look for something that we tend to over look. We had to observe and not just see. Advertisements are everywhere but we tend to just filter them out, ignore them, but we still find ourselves noticing them subconsciously. Actively looking for these kind of turned into a life-sized game of I Spy and turned out to be very fun.

     There are fliers, posters, ads, EVERYWHERE. Just leaving my dorm I must have passed at least 20. Most of them did reflected our neighborhood. There were posters about Bill Nye, the science fair, election posters (for those not in the Nevada LLC there is an election...correction, there was an election for Student Council positions coming up), food places as well as other random fliers for something to check out. Overall, most of these advertisements knew their audience (us) and posted where they knew we would see them. One can't even leave the elevators without see the bulletin boards covered in advertisements. Which brings me to mention Humans vs. Zombies, the poster looked pretty cool, couldn't make the meeting but I was informed by a friend that it sounds fun.

     Anyways, I think the advertisements around campus are mainly focusing on getting us involved in the community here at UNR. You know, make us one of them...or would it be make us many of them? Something to wonder about.