The blog ‘If You’re Anything Like Me’ with its series of posts is a Creative Response to the concept of New Media. It has been used as a form of entertainment to all types of audiences through humour, internationally known holidays, seasons and special occasions, and relativity.
The name suggests that the author could either be extremely pig-headed and a know-it-all or either a person who relies on their humour to get readers. In this case, the latter approach has been taken. The background of the blog also symbolises that it is about an eclectic collection of things, in this case, holidays, seasons and special occasions.
Targeted at teenagers to middle-aged audiences, the main idea for this blog is to entertain and to humour people at the expense of the author. This is achieved through the use of easy and informal language as if the author was talking to the reader as if they were there themselves. Modality is achieved through the obvious use of facts and trivia of the post’s theme, and the links that have been created throughout it. Corresponding images to the relevant piece of information was effective as it interested the reader, catering to whether they preferred text or images.
The first post ‘Easter Warfare’ is based on the holiday Easter. The central topic is chocolate however the subtopics are of death by chocolate and the fun and joy of the holiday. By stating the fact and then commenting on it, the reader is drawn into the author’s perspective and opinion and sees the personality that is shown through it.
The second post ‘An Occasion to Remember’ (based on the title of the movie ‘An Affair to Remember’) is about the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton. Though this wedding was not a major holiday or season, the amount of media attention that the affair gained was incredible and therefore made the author interested in seeing what kind of reaction that would come from the audiences when they placed their own opinion into it.
The third post ‘For the Mothers’ is centred on the international day for Mothers – Mother’s Day. Though the use of images and text is important to all of the posts posted, it was especially vital to this post as there was more information and detail, leading the number of images to text equal. Each interesting mother fact corresponded to an image, drawing viewers into the main idea of the post.
The fourth post was ‘D-A-D’, spelling out the name of the theme of the post which was for Father’s Day. As a sequel for the Mother’s Day post, this post was short and brief, and quickly outlined what some of the things that the other posts had done. The author did not intend to actually make a Father’s Day post however, it would have seemed unfair, even discriminatory if it was not added too.
The fifth and final post was based on Christmas with the title ‘Tis’ the Season’. Though the language of this post seems different (the author appears to take a slightly more critical and harsher point of view), the post takes on the similar tone and style as the others. The season was also used to signify the end of the year, besides being known as the biggest holiday in the world.
