Analysis Of The Catfish Phenomenon

The line between documentary and reality TV is often blurred and it is difficult to truly define what some television series are. One reality TV show that depicts the blurred line accurately is the MTV show “Catfish.” The main narrator Nev establishes his credibility in the first five minutes of the show and explains his purpose. He became well known by creating a documentary about his catfish experience. The series then revolves around him with a crew trying to help others explore their online relationships in which they have never met in person. He uses technology and then eventually ventures to the person’s house to validate who the person behind the social media profile is. The scene that depicts that this is part documentary part something different is the confrontation between Sunny and her catfish.

Anthem (by Ayn Rand) is a satire written in first person diary form. It's in a futuristic dystopia near the mountains. There is no individualism whatsoever. You can't show any preference towards anything or anyone. Your world is white. You live with 99 of your brethren, and are never alone. For that is a transgression. Everything is white and the latest technology available to you is a candle. But wait, are you lost yet? I thought that this book took place in the future. Well you're absolutely right the people who started this society burned all of the technology and started over. This is on of the main problems that troubled Equality. You don't have electricity, or a cell phone, or even a microwave or refrigerator. What does this say about modern technology? What does it do for them? What does technology do for us today? How could of all our technology wreck their so-called "utopia". Well in this essay we will discuss three reasons how all of modern technology would destroy their perfect world. The first point being about social media and communication, next talking about how many machines only requiring

I read” The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”. By W .D . Wetherell. This story is about a boy who love fishing, but who also loves Sheila Mant. Sheila is a 17 year old high school student who does not know the boy. The Problem is that Sheila hates fishing and the boy loves fishing.

High schools offer extracurricular activities, clubs and sports for students to help them become involved in their school and develop team building and leadership skills. Some types of clubs offered by schools include Pep Club, SADD Club (Students Against Drunk Driving), Chess Club, and FFA (Future Farmers of America), just to name a few. More and more schools in the country are creating a fishing club. The question that arises is how long will it be until fishing clubs are offered at every school in the country? High schools should offer a fishing club because not all students enjoy athletic sports and fishing would help students improve their self-esteem by learning lifelong skills that help feed their families

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam is the story of Andrew X. Pham known as An, and his struggle with his own identity as neither a Vietnamese nor an American as well as the story of his sister Chi and her lifelong struggle to understand herself. The story begins with An as a nine year old boy in a post war Vietnam. An’s family is planning to embark on a treacherous voyage to escape communist Vietnam for the United States by boat. The story focuses on An and his sister Chi, who is searching for her identity along with An. However, Chi’s identity search is not like that of An’s. I will focus specifically on chapter 8 from Pham’s book, titled Last Gamble, which is featured in our book Coming

Finding Fish is a memoir written by Antwone Quenton Fisher in 2001. Fisher is an American director, screenwriter, author and film producer born on August 3, 1959, in a Cleveland, Ohio prison. Fish’s autobiographical book, Finding Fish, was briefly a New York Times Best Seller. Fish wrote Finding Fish to inform people of his own unfortunate, abusive childhood, but also how he was able to make a life for himself later on in life. He also wrote Finding Fish to give troubled children hope that no matter what, life will get better, if you make the change happen. “It was preparing me for stormy weather, arming me with the knowledge that no matter how hard it seemed, it couldn’t rain forever. At some point, I knew, it would come to an end” (Fisher,

Big Fish, by Daniel Wallace, is at its core a collection of stories, each with its own individual life and meaning. Some adapted from Herculean trails to fit the main character, others faintly resembling various mythological tales such as Odysseus's journey, and some a creation all of their own. Taken as a whole, these stories recount the life of Edward Bloom while revealing a unique relationship between a son and his dying father. After reading these stories as a whole, one thing is clear about the title, Big Fish, and that is its direct reference to Edward Bloom, the main character. Throughout Daniel Wallace’s novel, Edward bloom as a ‘Big Fish’ reveals three different levels of meaning: on the surface, the progression of Edward’s life as

In the freshwater biome, the catfish has a unique role in many cycles and systems. The catfish is

A catfish is a person how pretends to be someone else that there aren’t. A catfish can be harmful because they deceive people. Some people trick little kids into thinking there a kid and they are abducting these kids. Also they may hurt people that fall in love with them thinking they are real. Catfishing happens every day in America and all around the world. A girl by the name of Jessica 15 years old thought she was talking to a 15 year boy by the name of Joe that lived in Nashville Tennessee when she was actually talking to 69 year old man that lived 3 blocks from her. Luckily she was able to find out before anything bad happed. This is danger because people are saying to be someone that are not and it si hurting the people they are doing

In the Catfish, we can see ‘pure-consciousness’ happen when Nev decide to live his experience in the Facebook relationship by avoiding the prejudice in order to know what is the meaning of it. In addition, Nev also has many doubts about his relationship with Megan so he starts to continue his experience consciously. Because of his curiosity, he was able to discover the reasons behind all of this virtual relationship. Nev also believes that there must be an underlying reason behind this entire story of life. Nev realizes about the reasons behind all of the lies perpetrated by Angela. Angela creates her own wonder life into a virtual world where she can easily create everything that supports her desired life. Angela told to Nev that she wants

Why is it that society is setting us up to be betrayed by individuals that we believe are our close friends? In the United States many individuals are betrayed on a daily basis. It’s anything from as big as the president betraying all the citizen’s to simply a friend betraying your relationship and the trust you believed there was between the two of you. Betrayal can even be when your mother marries your uncle or even worse your uncle kills your dad. Shakespeare displays and makes an emphasis to have one of the themes in his play Hamlet be betrayal which is something that is still very present in society today.

For many people it is easy for them to have trust in other, and for some it doesn’t come as easy for them. With the internet and social media taking over people’s everyday lives it is becoming easier for people to take advantage of other people. The documentary Catfish follows a man through an online relationship. The documentary shows how they met, and numerous conversations they had online and on the phone. There was a network of people he had met through the one girl Abby who he originally met. The film takes you through Nev’s everyday life and how he interacts in the relationships. The film represents an Observational mode by having the cameras rolling at all times and just seeing how Nev handles himself.

The source I am working with is the Guardian newspaper. (http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/aug/30/catfish-tv-show). I choose this article as it was of particular interest to me and I felt as though it clearly dealt with some class themes such as theoretical perspectives of online relationships. I feel that the target audience of this newspaper would usually be an older reader, however I think that this particular article would spring the interest of the younger generation in particular (18-30 years) as it is a popular topic nowadays and some of this younger age category may have experienced similar situations. Also in general it is the younger generation who use network sites such as Facebook in order to meet other people and sometimes in the hope to pursue romantic relationships/ friendships. I think that it’s a well-rounded article which is slightly biased as it expresses sympathy towards the person being catfished. However this biased view does not significantly affect the overall message of the article.

A. Attention getter: Everybody use social media these days like twitter, Facebook, snapchat and instagram. But the majority of these people do not know the risks of it.

As I am currently teaching an after school tutorial lessons in my previous school so I have more chance to hang with some of the senior students that is facing the public exam.During the teaching I found that many psychological strategies would possibly be applied to our daily life.