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Final Project Research Question

For the final essay, currently, I have a few ideas in mind. 1. Analyse the reality TV programme "Love Island" and discuss its' impact on society. Love Island is a British dating reality show started in June 2015, since then it was aired every summer with a brand new season. It was surprisingly successful and almost every millennial has either heard or watched an episode or two, some even watch it worshipfully. However, after following a few series as a personal 'guilty pleasure', I began to wonder exactly how 'real' is this reality dating show? Are these people really just general ordinary folks or, they were cast, in other word, auditioned? Love Island creates an entire industry behind, contestants who went on the show became famous easily afterwards, however, there were incidents that a few committed suicide after internet bullying. Does this show provide a healthy body image? Does this show help to tackle gender inequality issue? Should reality TV ...

The Medium is the Message: Spotify & Ads technical analysis

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Since the year 2015, I've become an avid Spotify fan and I absolutely adore it. Being a millennial means that I have experiences with collecting CDs. I still remember every single Christmas, the only thing I put on my gift list was name of a single album that I had probably had my eyes on for a while. I had an entire shelf dedicated to all my collections and my mum just couldn't stop nagging about it. To me, music is essential in my everyday life, it is impossible for me to imagine living without any soundtrack. However, a few years later, iPod arrived. Though, I stayed loyal to my Walkman until a teacher brought me an MP3 player as a parting gift. That was the beginning of me entering the infamous pirate downloading business. I was greedy, my hunger for music was enormous that, obviously, my pocket money cannot be sustained. For a broke teenager, the pirate websites were basically, heaven on earth! My PC was almost constantly on and downloading tons and tons of music 2...

Media Technique of the New Age- Instagram Story

Instagram launched Stories in August 2016, although at first it was criticised as a knockoff idea of Snapchat, it still managed to thrive and make its way through millennials and social influencers. Now, it had topped 300 million daily users according to Facebook's statistic report. How Stories works? To explain it in the most simplistic way, it allows users to post photos and videos which will vanish after 24 hours. However, since it was released in 2016, it has been ever-evolving. Now, users can post polls, ask questions, throw out quizzes and live streaming. It allows Instagrams users to interact with their followers, somehow creates an illusion of closeness to someone you might have never seen or talk to in real life. For business accounts, potential customers can even swipe up directly from one story and link to the product's webpage. It is a convenient and "almost-free" advertising tool for businesses.

Analysing ETtoday, a Taiwanese Media Company

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Advanced Media W2 1120 17 0003 Rhoda Rong Huang   Now called ETtoday, was once recognised as the EBC News during the year 2000 to 2008.  However, after it was sold to CHUNGHWA United Telecom Group, the name was changed into NOWnews, later on, became another online news outlet.   In November 2011, Eastern Media International reestablished a new online media outlet as the ETtoday. Furthermore, in April 2014, partly separated from its mother company the EMI, ETtoday Co., Ltd. became the owner of the ETtoday news outlet and has been running it ever since.   The unique business model of this media outlet is that it engages its followers from several different perspective and interests. As ETtoday tries to run the news outlet more like a social media community. It divided its news into various types of "clouds", easier for followers to choose from their own likes and dislikes. For example, there is "travel clouds", "instant news", "sport clouds...

#STORY 好天氣的時候我反而難過

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於是她哭了,安靜地掉下眼淚。 T剎那間不知所措,站在一旁,手裡還拿著那杯剛點的screwdriver。 "嘿。"試圖想說些什麼卻也顯得太刻意,T有點無奈地搔了搔耳後。而她只是低著頭,像做錯事的孩子那樣,吸著鼻子搖了搖頭。 她平常不是這樣的。 她總是派對裡的靈魂人物。 她笑,笑得很大方笑得很瘋。她玩,玩得筋疲力盡。她跳,跳到脫了跟鞋更自在地跳。 她平常不是這樣的。 "嘿。這杯是給我的嗎?謝謝你啦!真貼心。"瞬間,她拿走了T手中的那杯特調,給了T她一貫的迷人微笑。 "欸妳。" "Cheers!"她打斷了T,舉起那杯與T的拳頭輕輕地碰了一下,像乾杯那樣,然後,笑。 她平常就是這樣的。 "這派對還不賴吧?"她問,手指無心的玩著她耳邊的髮尾,捲啊捲的。 "很好啊,畢竟是妳辦的!"T說,看著她眼尾稍微暈開的黑色線條,心沒來由地揪了一下。 "也是。該去跟其他人打招呼了,你好好玩吧!那邊有幾個女孩還不錯喔!"她調皮地眨了個眼,轉身離開。T看著她消失在人群中,輕聲地嘆了口氣。 她的笑,看起來卻令人難過,因為她笑得太自然反而顯得猖狂。 "欸T。"有人輕輕拉了T的衣服一角,是她。 "喜歡一個人是什麼感覺?"這個問題太直接、直接的讓T措手不及。T看著她,計算著這問題的答案該是如何。 喜歡一個人是什麼感覺? 喜歡她,又是什麼感覺? "問Google。"T回答,看著她不假思索地翻了白眼,T笑了。 "白癡。"她又翻了個白眼,捶了一下T的肩膀。 喜歡一個人是什麼感覺? 喜歡他,又是什麼感覺? "好天氣的時候我反而會難過。"總是話題不連貫的她。 "好天氣的時候才發現我是一個人。雨天人們總是獨自關在家不出門,出太陽了所有人都出門了,而我的幸福好像也一起出走了,沒再回來過。" T轉頭看著她的側臉、塞在耳後的髮絲、眼底那一閃而過的落寞,T不自覺的握住了她擱在膝上的手。 "壞天氣不是最糟糕的,壞心情才是,趕也趕不走。" "心碎不是最糟糕的,無心才是,誰也不想念。" "喜歡一個人,到底是什麼感覺?"眼淚在她的眼眶。 這次,卸下防備的哭。

[留學日記]我想,一年是個過渡期

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是的,我在日本住了超過一年了。 來整理一些情緒吧。 有人傳了訊息問我為什麼想到日本留學? 很剛好上個月在準備大學面試的時候我也一直在思考這個問題,又或者是說,這一年我都一直在思考。因為,去年秋天我沒說出來的是,我想回家。不是單純的「想」、而是想「逃」回家。 不是不喜歡日本了,只是自己改變了。於是也察覺到那變得更加奔放自由的自己,不再單純的只喜歡日本了。 一年前的我,休閒娛樂是日綜和日劇、時尚是日雜。 現在的我,休閒娛樂是youtube上面的talk show、時尚是Forever21。 反。 差。 我不覺得這有什麼不好,說實在的。 就算現在我身邊的朋友聽到我要繼續在日本待四年,都會瞪大眼睛說:「你為什麼不去美國/英國/澳洲?」我還是單純笑笑地敷衍回答:「那些地方太貴太遠了啦我媽不准!」但我真正想說的其實是,我選擇了日本、我選擇了在這裡完成我的大學學業,即使我內心也嚮往那些國家,但現在去實現它不過是要把自己的逃避合理化成一個"因為我洋派所以我不能待在亞洲"的行動。我跟自己約定好的是給日本四年的時間,我就會在這裡待四年,那之後或許就會離開。 接觸英文是從幼稚園開始的、接觸日文是從小學開始的,可以確定的是我的英文一直都比日文好。但很奇怪的是,我從來沒想像過自己去美國或英國留學、我卻知道自己想來日本念書。日本文化占了我中學時期很大一部份,每天我都用日文在自言自語,看遍所有經典日劇,最後也成了傑尼斯家族的俘虜。我喜歡日本,喜歡到我以為我愛上她了。 於是在愛上她的一年後,我拉著兩個皮箱來到京都,在八坪大的公寓裡打造了屬於我的地方。 在京都生活的一年又三個月,我認識來自世界各地的朋友。我的想法更寬廣了、視野更開拓了、對日本也有了全新層面的認識。有好有壞之下,我相信好的還是佔多數的,就算這些認識讓我從愛的地步退回到了喜歡,我也不後悔自己選擇來到這裡。日本或許小小的傷了我的心,可是回過頭來想想,若我沒有來到日本而是直接去了歐美國家,或許不會有現在如此自由開放的我。 這聽起來很怪,但是有可能的。 因為大家都在陌生的國家才更容易交心、因為都是這島上的過客所以才更加珍惜。 經過了一年的準備,我考上了同志社大學的Institute for Liberal Arts(ILA)正式成為了大學生。 我二十一歲,我在...

[留學日記]一個與日本人有關的戀愛故事

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今天要來說一個有關日本人的戀愛故事。女主角是我,男主角呢,我們就稱他為A君吧反正也不重要(笑) 與A君認識是上個月的某天晚上,在酒吧跟一群朋友聊天的時候。他是朋友的朋友、他是日本人、他是不在我考慮範圍之內的A君。可是他坐在我的旁邊,基於禮貌我們聊了一下,然後我知道了他的英文還不錯、知道了他在美國短期留學過,又然後我注意到他的眼睛和他的眼神,我想,是在那個時刻被亂了陣腳吧!在酒吧吵雜卻又歡樂的氣氛下,我與A君聊得越來越起勁,我著迷於我們之間的輕鬆自在,不過現在回頭想想,那一切或許只是因為桌上那幾杯特調。 交換了聯絡方式,我們約好了情人節當天見面。你問我為什麼呢?其實也就是剛好那天兩人都有空。 第一次的約會相談甚歡。走在四條大街上,他幫我提著大包小包入手的土產,然後我們進了星巴克坐下喝了杯咖啡。我記得我們靠得很近,我記得我可以從他眼裡看到自己。 第二次的約會是個晴天的早晨。坐在鴨川旁,兩人靠在一起吃著便利商店的早餐,吃飽後就躺在草皮上繼續閒話家常。 那之後我回台灣兩個禮拜又多一點點。 互相傳遞思念大概是我們那時候做了最多的事吧,噢我忘了,還有盯著手機螢幕傻笑。 預計回日本的前兩天,A君傳了訊息給我。他說他想見我,我到現在都還記得那一刻的自己嘴角上揚的多麼誇張。而於是,抵達日本是下午兩點,回到京都住處是下午四點半,與A君約好了晚上六點吃晚餐。換上好久沒穿的裙子、擦上了粉紅色眼影,我看著鏡子裡的自己像個沒戀愛過的少女,多少覺得有點不好意思(笑) 第三次約會有點安靜。我們在一間很小間的義大利餐館裡吃飯。店內只有我們於是也不知道為什麼地我就緊張了起來。吃完飯A君問我這之後還有什麼時候有空,我笑著說都有啊!於是他也笑著說那太好了。然後我們就愉快地互道晚安各自回家了。 可是後來A君開始忙了起來,因為學校和社團的事情。而於是我也沒有頻繁的打擾他。只是,A君有特地傳訊息來說要拿白色情人節的回禮給我,我說等他有空的時候再拿給我就可以了但他很堅持。天真如我以為,這樣的意思很明顯了、天真如我以為,這樣就是要被告白了。 所以,雖然晚了兩天,我收到我的白色情人節禮物了。一個可愛的貓咪馬克杯裡面裝滿了各種糖果。我們看了部電影,牽了手,可是A君沒有多說什麼。 我很困惑又隱約的有點不安,按捺不住好奇的我傳了訊息。我如此問著,之於他我是什麼樣的存在呢...