Radiohead Concert!

Hi everyone!

Sorry for not posting in such a long time...but can you believe an entire year has almost gone by? I'll be submitting this dissertation in a month and then be home a couple weeks after that! Today I officially completed all my data collection, so now I can work on analyzing the results and finishing my report.

I'm going to keep this post short - I really just wanted to post a couple of video clips from the Radiohead concert we went to in Manchester last weekend. They were phenomenal! For an outdoor concert, the sound was really clean. I've always loved their music, but I think seeing them live just heightened my interest in their work. Anyways, here are a couple clips from the show - if you think we look pretty far from the stage, we were actually closer to the front than we were the back! The concert was held in a cricket field in Manchester - the place was packed! We only spent a night in Manchester but we did manage to do some shopping in the city and it's much more developed than Leicester. Did you know Manchester was the first industrialized city in the entire world? It's kind of how Mass Communications began as a field, because with industrialization came urbanization and loss of the family unit which meant city-dwellers had more leisure time on the weekends. There was a new niche for 'popular culture' in the form of media. And that's when scholars in Psychology, Sociology and Politics wanted to study what effect all this media was having on society. So that's where the name Mass Communications came from - we study how different means of communications inform the masses. Or atleast that's how I explain it everytime someone asks me "So what exactly IS Mass Communications?" or "what does a degree in Mass Communications lead to?". Sigh...

Oh we also went to our first Rugby game a couple weeks ago - it was Medics vs. Doctors so some of our friends were playing. Unfortunately the doctors lost (the Red team), which was the side all our friends were on. I can't really say I've learned anything more about Rugby other than it's very violent (and funny to watch - check out the pics below I think you'll see why!).

Well time for me to get some rest. I'll keep you updated on the dissertation this month, but soon you can just ask me in person how it all went (crazy isn't it?)! Take Care!

*My apologies about the font - this blog has a mind of its own sometimes!*