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Friday, May 29, 2009

Colossal what?

After scanning through the colossal u advertisement, my first impression of this university was shock and dismay. i never thought that any university would promote such negative ideas to our generation especially in this century. the advertisement left me in shock because i have been raised and surrounded by people who have encouraged me to be who i am and pursue a career i wanted while still being me. it left me wondering, do we still live in a society where the only way to live, is inside a box?
However, when i visited the 'colossal u' website, i learned that a colossal university never existed after all. instead a woman appeared talking about Algoma University which was the exact opposite of 'colossal u'. in this website, i learned that Alogoma provided their students with their undivided attention and promoted individuality within their students. their website showed both students and professors from the university talking about how the university tries to accommodate their students in ways that other universities can't. the colossal u ads was just an advertisement technique to get the public aware.

i think that they used the 'colossal u' advertisements to lure the people who were outraged by the advertisements into visiting their website. I'm pretty sure that one of the teachers were outraged enough after reading the advertisements for colossal u that they just had to visit the website and make their students blog about it. i think that if i were to see the same advertisement on the bus somewhere, i would probably do the same, but what about those who weren't mad enough to check the website out themselves? they would probably continue on with their lives still thinking that and actual colossal university existed.word may spread about how horrible of a school that colossal university is, when in fact it was only used for advertisement. all i know is, that this colossal u ad has both a positive and negative impact on the university and the general public. firstly, the ad may have caused an increase in the number of visitors they had for their website from shocked people who, from the looks of it, were angered by the ads. second, it may also impact them negatively because not everyone will even check if a colossal u actually exist, instead talk might spread about colossal university and how it stands for everything that Alogoma university does not.

1 Comments:

Blogger Hazel said...

Hey Angela, great post!

I thought it was interesting that you wrote about the negative effects that the ad may have. I never thought about it that way..

They should have thought of a more effective way to attract people's attention, but not anger them too.

Again, great post! :)

June 2, 2009 at 8:23 PM  

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