Blog Assignment #8 :

How technology influences culture?

What kind of culture influences through technology can you see from today’s world?
Is there a possibility to reshape the (new) culture today via new technology, How?

The role of media is very important in globalization, as it is one of the easiest means of enforcing new ideas and cultures through different mediums of media. Such as TV programs, movies, and Internet as one of the main forms of media communication. In my opinion, one of the culture influences through technology that I can see from our society is Internet. The Internet has changed the social patterns, life style, and human interaction. In other words, relationships have become commercial. For example in business, the internet acts as new breed of ‘wired’ consumers- they demand detailed information about a company’s products & services. Consumers are now able to criticize a business via newsgroups, chat sites and mailing lists. This leads to customization-businesses using feedback to individualize their services for each online customer. Consumers have realized that their opinions or perceptions can either cause thrive or melt down of a business. Businesses with online websites allow consumers to give feedback. Consumers have the power to challenge or refute any aspects that they find fishy about an organization. This feedback benefits both the consumer and producer because the producer is able to satisfy the consumers and vice versa.
In my notion Internet is controlling many of human interactions. In our society people are addicted to the usage of Internet. To people the advantages of Internet are too much to resist it. People should try to focus on their power and skills more often, rather than depending too much on the Internet. They should think about the time that Internet wasn’t around. Humans should not take their own knowledge and skill for granted.
Reflection on Media Culture Class
Personally I am interested more with the videos that lectures show in class. I think they are very interesting to watch. I gain a lot of information about different topics associated with media. Also videos make it more convenient to learn the topics in class.
Sources:
http://www.uni.edu/palczews/cybermovements.htmhttp://www.iicoc.com/http://www.iicoc.com/warrior_august_06

Blog Assignment #7 :

The documentary entitled "The Power of Nightmares (Part 3 - Shadow in the Cave)" by Adam Curtis was shown in class on Monday. How do you relate the information given to you in the documentary to the theory of Media Imperialism that we talked about in lecture?

Two Critical Reflection
Media imperialism can be defines as a practice when developing countries began to criticize the control developed countries through media industries. Another definition for media imperialism is when smaller countries lose their identity and dignity to the power (feeding decoy) of media from lager and powerful nations. The power and authority came through people from a positive and optimistic perspective. They lured people into believing these ideologies. Those ideologies were bogus. People cannot believe in these words and ideologies. The video talks about two groups of people, the American non-conservatives and the radical Islamists. They war between these two groups had caused many wars. These wars had killed many people over period of time. For instance, around the American embassy in Kenya and Tanzania two massive suicide bombs were plotted. This attack killed more than 200 people. This example states how media imperialism has a negative impact on the society.

The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. The Documentary deals with the rise the neo-conservatives in the united states and the movement of radical Islamism. The film points to the origins and the similarities between both groups. It states that threat from radical Islamism (al-qaeda) is evil and sinister. It shows American Neo-Conservatives in a attempt to unite and inspire their people.
Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_imperialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

The documentary entitled "The Power of Nightmares (Part 3 - Shadow in the Cave)" by Adam Curtis was shown in class on Monday. How do you relate the information given to you in the documentary to the theory of Media Imperialism that we talked about in lecture?

Blog Assignment #6

Two Critical Reflections:

In our society there are many media tools or application. I choose hand phone as the media application. In my notion hand phone is powerful media tool for mass communication. The hand phone was invented in the 20th century. It has many other capabilities that the normal phone didn’t have in hand. The hand phone enhances the usage in communication, and also other features such as SMS, Bluetooth, and Internet access, GPRS, access to computer files, and etc. The hand phone is a very resourceful tool among media application tools. It obsolesces the normal telephone that we use in everyday life. It comes in handy and easy to carry, Where as the normal telephone doesn’t have these factors.

However, I believe that ongoing usage of the hand phone retrieves the common factor of the telephone, which is communication. It is a very reliable tool that manages to fill our time. Since these hand phones are upgrading very quickly, too many people are becoming obsessed with this media tool. It has an impact on our daily lives; people are spending too much money and profit to get the new upgraded hand phone. I think that people can invest their money in many other resources.

Reflection on Media Culture Class
During this week, the lecturer talked about different topics such as “the extensions of Man”, McLuhans’s theory, and hot and cold media. Some of this topic is somewhat confusing, but throughout time and research it will be easier to understand its message.

Obscenity, pornography and indecency: What are the differences between these terms?

What i know is these three is related to each other but they have a lot diffrent,because Obscenity is something and pornography is something else,when we say pornography what is coming in our mind is nudity and something which we can't accept it in any religion,but the Obscenity is something may be sometimes all of us has it we use it someplaces.
in my opinion pornography is some kind of Obscenity but very bad and it is the worse one.

Media literacy

Media literacy is the practice of admission, exploring, assessing, and producing messages in a diversity of different media forms. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy). Another definition of media literacy is the critical knowledge of the nature of the media, the methods used by them and the influence of these methods. (www.mediaawareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teaching_backgrounders/media_literacy/glossary_media_literacy.cfm).In my opinion it’s very important for a FCM student to have the knowledge of media literacy. Creative multimedia is a major that people get the chance to create and produce art; art in different forms such as movies, music, design, and etc. We learn what to expect from media and the viewers of media. Throughout the course we learn to evaluate, analyze, communicate, and produce messages using different sources of media. As a FCM student my self, this knowledge will help me to be a successful designer in the upcoming future.

Topic 3 : Give a very short basic explanation of what media stereotype is? (Keep it short please!) From your personal experience, what other media ste

The stereotype in the media is a kind of copying the main subject and story from another media.For example if we take a look at the cartoon which we seen them before in our child hood we can see most of the story of the cartoons and the main subjects is same. We can see them also in the movies for example the old movies such as sandbad series from Arab stories, 007, batman, superman, spiderman and etc, they are all with the same story, one here can save the entire world.