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After reading some of Bell Hook's, Gustav LeBon's and John Berger's writings, I came a cross many points about the keywords below. Power for instance can be defined in many ways. It doesn't just apply to people but to things like the media, objects and the way we see things. For instance the media has the most power in terms of controlling the public. Everyone goes out and buys things once they see a great advertisment. In "The Crowd" Lebon I got the notion that once we know the trick of understanding the crowd, it is possible to do anything with the crowd. 

Sexism has been an ongoing situation especially in the media since the beginning of the television era. Women are typically portrayed as to taking care of the household and the men are going out to work and provide for the family. Currently in the media, women are used to sell certain products but sometimes are taking advantage of and end up being gazed. Throughout the years the image has been changing and for the good. 

Gazing and objects come under one category since gazing is taking an object and viewing it certain ways. For example, women sometimes are treated as objects in the media but since pop culture is known to be media, ideas and more combined with older and new forms of media and ideas. (Mashable)

John Berger states in Ways of Seeing, “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” This is a perfect example of ways of looking since women are used in media to "sell" they make the men in public look at them a certain way. Representation makes a big difference especially in the media. I am proud to say that there are people in the world that care about representing women in a certain way. They should not have to be a certain color or race in order to fulfill or sell anything. 

At the end of the day we do fall in the trap of being consumers to everything we see. As discussed in Convergence Culture, we all become victims/consumers of Transmedia Storytelling. Sad and hard to say, the media does a good a job when it comes to making as view or buy a certain things. One of the main goal for the media is to sell to the public and make the rich government officials/media owners even richer.