Personal Reflection on Media Culture

It was just another media culture class, but for this week, it is told that it was our last blog assignment. Quite glad to hear that though.. =)

How technology affect culture

For example Christmas, now our Christmas would be so much fun, with all the beautiful set ups, LCD projectors making a simulated Rudolph, lighted up balloon Santa clauses. For those who had missed the beautiful scene, we could also use a video cam tape it up and show them later. If it was far back in the 60s everyone’s Christmas would almost be the same, everyone would get back and sit around the Christmas tree, sing a Christmas song , get their presents and that’s about it. People now are so much luckier getting to enjoy beautiful LCD projected scenes, people don’t actually see how much work those people that created this put in, and everything is just taken for granted. Having the cell phone or internet too, which people couldn’t live without it, it brings so much convenience. If its for last time, to get a massage to someone, they could only send a postcard. But now, its just a phone call away or if it was some documents, an email or fax will do. Today, business meetings doesn’t have to be everyone around the world leaving home or traveling for a few days meeting up somewhere and traveling all the way back. Its so much easier now with teleconferencing, everyone is just a call away and the meeting could be started. With technology these days everything could be done so much easier.

Personal Reflection on Media Calture

A video was shown, its quite fun to know more about media imperialism actually. I wasn't very clear about it, but now im much better with it. Saw some audience dreaming and sleeping as usual. I joined them for awhile too..... Then it was signing attendence and leaving the class..

Media Imperialism

Basically, media imperialism is something the media makes you believe in something that isn’t actually there. For example, Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda doesn’t actually exist, but the government of the US made it seem it was a group of terrorist. And make everyone think that this formed group by Osama, is their arc enemy. They also took the tragedy in September 11th as an excuse to control other places such as Afghanistan & Iraq to get the oil supply there. They made their citizens think that they are going there for what they had did to them, but actually they had other things in mind. The part where Osama made the US government think they were in the mountains, which made them think his fortress, his hideout was there. The US government was convinced, even the British were convinced and came to help, after a long search which took them 5weeks, nothing was found. The British Government, by using mass media, gained support of the public, through statements about threats of terrorism. This is how strong media imperialism can be.

Personal Reflection on Media Calture

For this weeks class, it was quite boring, seriously.... basically it was all theories about media based on Marshall McLuhan's studies.

Tetrad of Media

The meaning of Tetrad of Media is examining the effects on society of any technology or medium, by dividing the effects into four different categories which are, What does the medium enhance, What does the medium make obsolete, What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier, and What does the medium flip into when pushed to extremes. For enhancement, it’s what the media amplifies. For Obsolescence its what medium drives out of prominence. And for the last two, its reversal and retrieval, retrieval is what the medium had recovered which was previously lost. And for reversal, its what the medium does when pushed it is to its limits

Personal Reflections on Media Culture

Class was canceled so there is nothing to talk about.

What are the differences between the terms obscenity, pornography and indecency?

Obscenity, indecency are more related compared to pornography, although there is sexual indecency, indecency could be many other things, sexual indecency is just one part of it, indecency could be bad gestures. For example saying something that insults a person or his/her religion. Obscenity is something like insulting or rude gestures to someone, sexually. It carries the meaning of inspiring disgust. And for pornography it’s a complete different story, pornography is movies, magazines that has nudity, sex or so on. Its made for earning money, more to business. Obscenity and indecency has something in common but not with pornography.

Personal Reflections on Media Culture

This week, we had a more lively class through my observations, students are actually keen to think and answer what the lecturer was asking, unlike the normal times, lectures was abit more interesting this week.

Media literacy

There are 3 processes involving media literacy accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages. Basically its all about the understanding of media, for an example, after watching a movie, its about your understanding of the movie, how you look at it, how your mind sees it. Identifying things such as censorship or bias can be analyzed through media literacy. Media literacy aims to enable people to be skillful creators and producers of media messages, both to facilitate an understanding as to the strengths and limitations of each medium, as well as to create independent media. The reason media literacy is important to FCM, is that students will know how to understand the context in media, and preventing the influence of manipulated information.

What is media stereotype

Media stereotype is something that is like something that is put into peoples minds, make people think like for example a hero, should be good looking, strong etc Mr Bean....Funny. Once someone says, wow my friend is like Jim Carrey, you will autmatically know the person he is talking about most probabaly be a funny guy.

We should not fully trust the internet

I don’t often take what is on the Internet as truth because, first of all it might just only be someone’s opinion about something that doesn’t necessary be the right information ones getting. Sometimes even Wikipedia doesn’t quite give the exact or perfect answer about things you are seeking. Some might completely even give the wrong idea about things, therefore it is good that we ask around , read about the thing we want to know rather then just giving your full trust on the internet. It’s not that the internet gives you the wrong info , it is the place where you get most of your knowledge but its not necessary to be perfectly correct. Therefore after finding it from the internet you should think and find out more about the thing you are looking for through other sources in order to get a better and more perfect answer.

My personal reflection on the media culture class

There are many new things we actually can learn in the class, but frankly speaking its not that fun. Into the topic social media, lecturers actually discuss about the importance of sharing and communicating through social networking.

How is social media affecting our lives

Social media plays an important role in our generation by the circulation of information. It allows us to share and contribute our thoughts and opinions creating or improving an existing item or product. People around the world can work together through technologies such as teleconferencing. This enables a wider range of interactions between people with different ethnics.