13A cover work - Monday 3 December

13A cover work - Monday 3 December
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00k0bg4/characters/ava

What representations of young people can be found in E20?

The representation of young people that can be found in E20 is that Donnie the Black character of the show is represented to fall into Franz Fannon idea of Black people trying to put on a white mask in which he is doing to become a good guy. Furthermore Ava is the opposite of Franz Fannon idea as she is trying to become black due to her rough upbringing in society.

Why might producers and audiences be more interested in negative stereotypes of young people?

Producers may be interested in a negative stereotypes of young people as they can inject information into the audience feeding them with news that young people are dangerous youths who like to cause trouble but in E20 it shows that Dot Branning is trying to show them that they are welcome in society unlike Mrs Masood who is trying to get them kicked out of Walford.  

What other examples of representations of young people can you find from British television? Can you think of any positive or unexpected representations of young people?

There are many examples of representations of young people that I can find in British TV and most of the representations I gained from them are negative representations of young people for example in a BBC 3 program 'SOME GIRLS' is about four girls who are friends and two in which come a broken family and two in a stable family. Another show is 'MISFITS' shown on Channel 4, We can gain a positive and a negative representation from this show as they are teenagers who are in police custody who have superpowers and are trying to save the world by killing their counsellor.

Leveson Inquiry

Leveson Inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2012/nov/29/leveson-inquiry-report-speed-read
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/05/newspaper-editors-sign-up-leveson
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20553416

Summary/opnion :

Basically the Leveson states that we need to make a difference between organisations that have a lot of power e.g Rupert Murdoch as he owns a media conglomerate in which they can do a lot of harm with information. Mainly most newspapers signed up to implement most of Lord Justice Leveson's non-statutory recommendations in which they sign 40 of leveson's first 47 recommendations as 7 of them resulted to a proposed role for OFCOM in auditing the work of the regulator.

But regulating press will make a big problem in free speech and threatening freedom of expression this links with the new and digital media of today's society allows people to speech about what is on there mind through blogs, social networking sites even though sites like twitter are regulated time to time, people don't necessary get away with freedom of speech.

Kidadulthood representation

The representation of young people in London portayed in Kidaulthood is a very negatitive representation as the children

A negative representation is better than no representation at all.

A negative representation is better than no representation at all. Discuss this statement with reference to the group or place you have studied (500 words)

London is situated with many businesses that give of the best representation of Britain but in August 2011 normally known as the ‘silly season’, London was attacked by many teenagers due to many topics stirred by the media of what teenagers actually want. Giving people ideas of teenagers started to spin making a negative representation of teenagers better than no representation as teenagers wanted to be heard.

The media is controlled by hegemony of politicians as newspapers are either right wing (conservative) or left wing (labour) leading to the reader/audiences feeling that they MUST believe what the media say as it is the ‘common sense’. This is shown by the front page news allowing the reader to believe in the preferred reading (Hall’s) which is not taking teenagers seriously over the issues they want to discuss leading them to riot.

The images shown of the teenagers are shown either holding a weapon, which constructs and makes black people fall in to Alvarado’s theory of black representation, as Alvarado believed that black fall under four categories of dangerous, exotic, humorous and pitied; this leads into the London riots as they are dangerous because they are rioting, exotic because they are black, humorous because some of them don’t know why they are rioting and pitied by the audience intercepting the media.

Positive representation of other teenagers especially whites challenges Edward Saeed’s theory portraying white to be the other as they are counting to do the right thing, this is shown in the times newspaper to make the white youths look like they are the dominate ones and the helpful ones as the media in the UK is made up of representation of white upper class educated people.

Conflict between the police and urban youth had increased throughout the riots in London as police in Tottenham who are blacks are wearing white masks as they turned white as they have forgot about culture and where they have come from linking to Franz Fanon theory of wearing white masks.

                          

I believe in that a negative representation gives a person, meaning to be heard as action can be critical. Throughout the riots in London if the teenagers had no representation they would have mean allowed to riot and not stop by the police. Overall the teenagers in the media especially in newspapers were represented to be negative as they were shown to be the main cause of the riots.

BBC News night Article

BBC News night Article

Links:

1.       http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9652824/BBCs-Newsnight-airs-claims-of-child-abuse-against-leading-Tory-politician.html

2.       http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20278885

3.       http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/22/jimmy-savile-scandal-george-entwistle-evidence

Summary:

The articles discuss that the politician had taken part in rape and abuse of young boys from the homes as a part of paedophile ring. Steven Messam was one of hundred children, BBC news night only uncovered fraction of the abuse. The criticism was reveal by Iain Overton through twitter “a very senior political figure who is a paedophile” that had created speculations. News night did not name the politician. Messam had reported the abuse to the police but was called a liar. The investigation had be led from the BBC was accused of covering a previous Newsnight investigation that Jimmy Saville abused children.

Opinion:

I believe that George Entwistle was used as a scapegoat as he said that is was wrong to air the Newsnight program and he was only aware after programme was shown on TV but he had apologised to Lord Alpine and my perspective of this is that Entwistle should be allowed to work for BBC but be demoted to another section of BBC.

I accept as the public, I think that Newsnight should remain open due to the information that is available through the newsnight but BBC should put down or fire or even change the journalist on the show.

Twitter users should not be charged as they are required to their freedom of speech but I think some people such as Iain Overton had used their freedom of speech to create a stir in society between politicians and people like Sally Bercow as they had been all speculating on Twitter.

BBC: CHILDREN IN NEED

Children in Need goes ahead in shadow of BBC scandals-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/14/children-in-need-go-ahead-bbc-scandals

Summary:

The BBC will try to address the fallout of Jimmy Saville in the CHILDREN IN NEED fundraiser on BBC and will not mention his name. The BBC will keep an close eye on the public and how they respond. Terry Wogan will present the show. The recent problems of the BBC will shadow the the six hour fundraiser. They will make reference to the recent events that happen and shown in the press. The BBC also faced a downfall in the trust of license fee payers due to the result of Jimmy Saville.
Opinion:
My opinion about Jimmy Saville being the elephant in the room of this years children in need is that the BBC should really give any notice to him as he abuse those girls and don't think that public will take the reference positively due to the fact that we are license payers.

Feminism Essay

 "To what extent do you agree with Judith Butler's theory that gender roles are socially constructed"?

I believe that the genders are socially constructed as Judith Butler's and I agree with Judith butler theory as gender are fixed from the day you are born when your mum puts either blue or pink clothes on you.

As Judith Butler's theory argues that genders are reinforced in the media, through advertisement for example Lego toys which were aimed at boys, they are slightly aiming to a more unisex approach to advertisements.

Furthermore, a theory that opposes Butler's theory is Mc Robbie is that gender/feminism is empowered for example in the 90's and 80's, women wanted either a family or marriage; now teenager girls want to go university and get a job which allows men to have a different view of traditional feminist.

The women who show us, Mc Robbie's theory in everyday life is Julia Guillard who is a YouTube sensations and Australian Prime Minister, she had related her self to being a women as as fellow member of the party had quoted the judge to being misogynist (hatred against women) and the video had become viral for many people to see around the world.

Furthermore I do agree with Judith Butlers theory of genders are socially constructed due to Christmas toy displayed in shops like Morrison splitting up gender from a young age leaving a child confused about what toys they are allowed to play with.

Post colonial essay

Does the British media reflect the modern, multicultural nature of British society?

Throughout the years the British Media has change their views of multicultural British Society as their traditional views have been taken over, this can be shown in the Olympics 2012 as the opening ceremony; Danny Boyle shows how music has changed over the years in which shows how people have change.

As in the beginning of the last scene of opening ceremony it shows a strong white male protagonist (Mr Bean) running against other white males, the representation we get from here is that white males are stronger and well-spoken than any other multicultural society in which can counter argued as we won’t actually situated white males to become converted white Muslims, this countertype has recently been used in ‘Citizen Khan’ as they used a ginger white Muslim convert as the mosque leader.

The change over media has actually been connected to the colonialism because the British societies took over or rein many countries such as African Countries, Caribbean, India and Australasia as they wanted to make a profit, expand power and spread religion in which lead to many historical events such as Slavery as hey had racial & cultural inequality from 15^th-20^th century. Colonlism is still occurring in the here and now but less than before as many of countries or people of the countries like India have placed them in Britain and also brought over their culture for example curries, festivals and patriotism, this is shown in the movie, Yasmin as she is made to choose her roots over her normal day to day life in which she ends up in dilemma, this shows many young girls are being put in the circumstances every day.

This links us to post-colonism as this is the end of colonislism, the last and recent countries who were introduced to this was Hong Kong, it also connects us to Alvarado views of black stereotypes as he thought that racial representation belonged in four categories of exotic, dangerous, humorous and pitied, this is also shown in the London Olympics 2012 a Mo Farah is shown as pitied & exotic as he is asylum seeker and hardworker. 

Another, post colonist is Franz Fanon, about black people wearing white mask which is shown in modern society by the president of the USA as he acts like he wears a white mask, as he has seen to lost his native language and his culture has vanished as he  has become educated in which made him to act and behave in white white ways as he made to adapt and identify to the country.

Media Article 25/10/2012

Media Article 25/10/2012

Average teenager has never met quarter of Facebook friends

Summary: The article is about 12-15 year olds never talking or meeting their friends on social networking sites; and girls are worse then boys due to having more internet access… teenagers also spend at least 17 hours per week on the internet through many devices such as computer, phones and tablets.  As there has been an 50% rise in Smartphone ownership among teenagers which means parents are having a hard time keeping up and understand how they can protect their children.

   

Opinion:  I think that social networking sites such as Facebook should allow parents of teenagers to check their Facebook at least 2-3 weeks, and it should be a law. Even though parents should have their children on their own Facebook to monitor their profile pages.  

Feminism Homework

Sexist stereotypes dominate front pages of British newspapers, research finds

Summary & Opinion:

The article doesn't agree with the post feminism as it is going against Mc Robbie theory that women are empowered by men as it quotes that ‘Male journalist wrote 78% of all front page articles in which means there are only 32% of women journalist who get to write and research the good articles. They also show the duchess of Cambridge and her sister to be sexy or wanting a man, they also show Madeline McCann to be shown as a vulnerable, young girl but they always show men in the positive light as they show Simon Cowell as a successful business man publishing his biography and Nicolas Sarkozy who was fighting an election; they don’t show men in a vulgar light. In which socially constructs gender roles to be more traditional and women are only sexually objectified.

Why science and engineering toys aren't for girls

 

Summary & Opinion

Isn't a good example of post feminism as it doesn't support but goes against Mc Robbie theory but does imitate Butlers ideas of gender roles are ‘a performance’ and they are socially constructed as shops such as Morrison are telling parents to buy more toys like kitchens, or prams for girls so they can replicate a young housewife as a young child by parents had persuade me and my sister to want to play with Barbie dolls in which turn me to playing with more boy like toys and even dressing up as a boy. They had made my brothers play with toys such as cars and sport related toys which makes them interested in competition.  

Media Guardian Story 19/10/2012

BBC World News blocked in Syria

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oct/19/bbc-world-news-blocked-syria

Summary:

BBC world news is being blocked in Syria due to BBC violating the international TV regulations, but is unclear who blocked it and it is happening deliberately as was spoken by Jon Williams, a corporation’s foreign editor.  The interferences have happened since Wednesday to many other broadcasters as well. It is happening due to the uprising of the President Bashar al-Assad  as it is Syria is becoming a more dangerous and risky country day by day.  In a fortnight a lot of people have been killed as pro-government TV station and a Ukrainian Journalist working for a Russian outlet.

Opinion:

My opinion of the BBC being blocked is that they have been blocked as they may have found some vulnerable information out in which the new president didn't want getting out and as the president will find it to be more dangerous if it got out as it will ruin his image.

Learners Response to Daily mail article opening ceremony

LR: Look again at the opening ceremony. What is your point regarding technology? How does it link to post-colonial theory? You mention Fanon but not how it relates to the text - what is your point here? Does the text reinforce or challenge Fanon's theory?


The Opening Ceremony: positive representation 

• Black people and white people mixing together and growing over the years 
• Technology is grown over the years and this helps us to be more globalised in which we integrate with other cultures this helps us have a more positive representation as we learn about more cultures
• Franz - black people wearing white mask as they are living in mixed house of black and white may pressurise them to act white as they want to feel like they belong but the white people could be wearing a black mask as they may excluded in the family in which the children will have to act black and white

Feminism Observer Article

Feminism Observer Article

To what extent do you agree with Rosin's hypothesis that women are taking over modern society? Give examples in your response.

Agree with Hanna Rosin article as her hypothesis is true as she believes that women are taking over the world, due to the fact of recession and many men losing their job yet women being able to keep their jobs show that women are more likely to graduate from college as men as they represented to be "compassionate" and "self-sufficient", "individualistic" and "adaptable" for example the siporeian prime minster who is a women who doesn’t relie on any man to fulfil her duty

Can we find examples in modern media that support Rosin's suggestion that women are taking charge? You may wish to argue the opposite - that men still dominate the media scene.

In music videos, as Lady gaga uses her own body in her music and she portray men as being useless and lazy since she is an independent women who is  making money for herself and she is proud of herself.

Media Guardian Aritcle ANGRY BIRDS!!!

Angry Birds games have 200m monthly active players

Summary:

Rovio entertainment announced that angry bird games have been downloaded 1 billion times, but only 200 million users play the game. In which compared to their rival market zynga has 306 million users actively playing as they have partner up with Facebook, the Executive vice president of Rovio entertainment will like to partner up with Lucas films who produce star wars in which they are going to release a ‘Angry birds star wars’ as they are massive fans of Star wars at the company. The company is also trying to do more apps like angry birds but with other animals such as pigs which are called “Bad Piggies” focused on the pigs not the birds. So they are building their franchise to become bigger and better than any rival company of now or the future.

Opinion 

As a user of the app (angry birds), I believe that Rovio entertainment is a largely popular app as it has many users from all over the world so it very globalised in which it supports Mcluhans theory of a global village. Also I think that partnering with another company such as Lucasfilms Allows them to be more popular and increases their target audience. :)

Media Guardian 05/10/2012

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/05/samsung-operating-profit-4-5-billion-

Samsung to report profits of £4.5bn

Summary:

The article is about Samsung a south Korean company get up to 25% profit in in sales due to the up rise smartphone. Samsung Electronics also made money in the London 2012 Olympics from marketing/advertising as it was a major sponsor  They are getting more money as they have reduced orders of chips and screens for their rival company, Apple.

Opnion:

In my opinion I believe that Samsung is a well known company due to the fact that they are based in various technology even though, I prefer Samsung products to Apples products as my experience with Samsung is better and more trustworthy. also I think that reducing selling screens and chips to Apple, allows them to have a increase in sales overall due to having the best quality of product

Representation of race and ethnicity

POST COLONIALIST THEORY:

The Guardian: Negative representation 

• 'This was supported to be representation of modern life in England but it is likely to be a challenge for the organisers to find an educated white middle- aged mother and black father living together with a happy family in such a set-up'. As Black fathers leave their wives as soon as they get pregnant and represents that black men cant have a education, this connects with alvardo theory as it falls in to the category of humorous and pitied.  

The Opening Ceremony: positive representation 

• Black people and white people mixing together and growing over the years 
• Technology is grown over the years and 
• Franz - black people wearing white mask, mixed race children.

Media Article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/27/olympics-iplayer-viewing-requests

London 2012 Olympics: iPlayer strikes gold with 200m viewing requests:

Summary:
The article is about BBC iplayer hitting there record breaking viewing of 200m in August because the Olympics. As the opening ceremony had 2.9m views and the following closing ceremony to have 2.11m views in which mobile usage went up by 30% and tablet usage up by a fifth. Live Viewing was also at a high as third of the 151m viewers were watching.

Opinion:

In my opinion I think this happening due to the up rise in smart phones and tablets in the world in which more people can catch with television on-line as the print is in decline more people think it is much efficient and better to watch television on line due the fact that a viewer can get a immediate response and catching up on telvision can allow a person to do normal activities.

Video Evaluation Homework:


Self Evaluation:


The one minute video I had created about the internet was good it couldn't been better if It the video had uploaded from windows movie maker properly in order to see the text as it for the green screen which appeared throughout the video.
Another point of the video that went really well is the use of technology as I used a screen-cast software which I had learnt to use but the video could of used more titles/ at least introduce the topics to help the audience follow a better structure.
More aspect that went well is that I researched it well but an even better if is if had use more direct quotations about the internet.  

10 Quotes about the internet:
Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
Mark Zuckerberg
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/internet.html#c8mZ18ZlijdZStf6.99
The Internet is the world's largest library.  It's just that all the books are on the floor.  ~John Allen Paulos
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.  ~Bill Gates
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates.  The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.  ~Bill Clinton
http://www.quotegarden.com/internet.html
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NUMBER 4 :
Niemah and Chandini C

One mintue video :)

Meanings

Nature of information

The internet has changed the nature of information as it has made people have more of a biased view of the internet is right about everything.

Communication

Communication has changed through the internet as we use social networking to communicate more then reality and communicating over the internet could lead people in to more trouble as they may get sexually harassed or even stalked leading to death in people who are struck badly.

Police to 'keep you safe' by checking your emails- June 2012

"But in the new world people communicate in different ways. They are no longer using telephones. They communicate over the internet, so we want to update the ability of the police and the security services have to have access to this communications data.” -Home Secretary Theresa May 

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/police-to-keep-you-safe-by-checking-your-emails-1085049

We don't talk any more - is technology harming communication- ( Decemeber 2011)

‘"Technology is a massive aid to communication," he told me, "but if it takes away regular face-to-face or direct conversations, then you lose something of the softer edges.” -Sir Victor, the former chairman of Lloyds TSB.

"Email has become the easy way to communicate but also the lazy way," says Rob Price, the UK managing partner of Atos”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16313832

Privacy

The use of the Internet can affect the privacy rights a person has in his or her identity or personal data. Internet use and transactions generate a large amount of personal information which provide insights into your personality and interests.

Privacy breach discovered in Internet address bids

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06/D9VDMK2G3.htm
Community

An online community is a virtual community that exists online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual. The Virtual community is increasing and put across the theory of the global village.

On line safety

The web definition of online safety/ internet safety is Internet safety or online safety is the security of people and their information when using the Internet. But what I think of internet safety is the protection of our community and the information we allowed to be stored to be safe and be confidential

"We must ensure that this virtual world is safe for our children just as we try to ensure that the real world is," said Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the launch of the campaign

.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8398763.stm

Business

The internet has changed the way we do business as business is easily globalised due to people doing more shopping online due to website like eBay and Amazon which started in garage.

How The Internet Has Completely Changed the Way We Do Business –July 2011

http://briangosur.hubpages.com/hub/The-Internet-Has-Completely-Changed-The-Way-We-Do-Business

Culture

Our culture is the way we have been brought up and we follow the internet as it is a GOD but the internet has a huge effect on peoples life.

"Technology can improve the lives of millions of the Earth's poorest people." 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3257256.stm

COVER WORK

• How much information is in circulation on the internet (in gigabytes)?

An average person consume 34GB on a average day to overall consumption total of 3.6 zettabytes, but according to the guardian newspaper is 500 billion gigabytes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/18/digital-content-expansion

• What proportion of the world’s population can now go online?

The total usage of the internet since 31st December 2011 is throughout the whole world is 2,267,233.742 billion which means a 32.7% of the population penerate the internet with a 528.1% growth since 2000.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

• The number of people who could access the internet in 1995?

In December 1995, the number of people who could access and use the internet was 16 million and then it increases making Mcluhans theory of global village a reality  

http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm

• The number of people who can access the internet in today?

Since March 2012, around 2,280 millions users can access the internet compared to 1995 is has increased with 

• 45 per cent of Internet users used a mobile phone to connect to the Internet
• 6 million people accessed the Internet over their mobile phone for the first time in the previous 12 months
• The use of wireless hotspots almost doubled in the last 12 months to 4.9 million users
• 21 per cent of Internet users did not believe their skills were sufficient to protect their personal data
• 77 per cent of households had Internet access.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/rdit2/internet-access---households-and-individuals/2011/stb-internet-access-2011.html

Usage of the internet

The total usage of the internet since 31st December 2011 is throughout the whole world is 2,267,233.742 billion which means a 32.7% of the population penerate the internet with a 528.1% growth since 2000.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm


The usage of internet in the Uk is around 82.5% which also conducts a research of 
" 59% of UK homes have a PC

" 52% of homes (around 12.8 million) have Internet access

" 68% of small businesses have Internet access"

The amount of total users in the UK are 51 million of the 62 million population.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/eu/uk.htm