Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Internet regulation
Regulation and New Media
The difficulty with regulation of new media is that it is changing so fast. Regulation of the internet, for example, tends to be via a variety of different bodies, depending on the nature of the issue. To date, one or a combination of the following are being used to prevent internet publication or remove internet content: the legal framework, including rules of copyright and libel; self-policing by website-owners; policing and action by Internet Service Providers.Blogs and Internet Chat Rooms: The Media Debate
- Are blogs and internet chat-rooms just like having private conversations?
- Should there be any control over the content of what people post?
- Should anyone have responsibility for what is posted?
- If so, who?
Blogs Example
Google runs a blog site, Blogger.com. A blogger referred to model and Vogue cover-girl Liskula Cohen a “Skank” on line. The blogger also said of Cohen:“How old is this skank? 40 something?” She’s a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her age, skank. Desperation seeps from her soul, if she even has one.”As with many contributors to blogs and chat-rooms, this person chose to use an anonymous name.
In August 2009 Cohen went to court in Manhattan, in order to force Google to hand over the information on who this blogger was.
The defence for the blogger claimed that blogs “serve as a modern-day forum for conveying personal opinions, including invective and ranting”. Google said that they take great care to respect the privacy of their users. However, they also said they “sympathise with anyone who may be the victim of cyberbullying.
Media Debate
- Should Internet Service Providers give the personal details of their users to third parties?
- Was this cyberbullying?
- Was Cohen’s action trying to curtail bloggers’ freedom of speech?
- Do you agree with the defence when they claimed that internet chat rooms “serve as a modern-day forum for conveying personal opinions”? Does this make them similar to private conversations and therefore not to be censored?
- But a “private” conversation is shared by very few, whereas the size of the audience who can access a chat-room is potentially vast. Does this make a difference?
- What do you think?
Who would you find in favour of; the Blogger or Cohen?
The Adjudication
The Supreme Court judge ruled that Cohen was entitled to know who this person was Google were forced to hand over the information on the blogger to Cohen.Internet and Censorship Worldwide
The problem with policing the internet is that it doesn’t have borders. Information can be shared electronically across the world. Different countries have attempted, with some success, to censor material, as can be seen from the map below.
For example, China has blocked all access to the BBCs Chinese-language website. For further research and more details:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ifs_news/hi/newsid_7785000/7785248.stm
For more detailed, interactive map of web-site censorship:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jun/30/internet-freedom-of-information
Internet and Regulation: UK
Internet Watch Foundation - Funded by Internet Service ProvidersIWF was established in 1996 by the UK internet industry to provide the UK internet ‘Hotline’ for the public and IT professionals to report potentially illegal online content within our remit and to be the ‘notice and take-down’ body for this content.
We work in partnership with the online industry, law enforcement, government, the education sector, charities, international partners and the public to minimise the availability of this content, specifically, child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world and criminally obscene and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK. (from http://www.iwf.org.uk)
Internet Regulation, Control and Censorship UK
So, currently no one single body takes responsibility for regulation, control and censorship of new media in the UK.Is this an acceptable way of regulating new media?
Can you think of a way to ensure that freedom of speech is balanced by rights to privacy, the prevention of unsuitable content etc?
Regulation: homework
I provide the prezi. You provide the words.
Hand-write your own voiceover to the following presentation.
I will pick a name out of a hat on Tuesday, and they will use their voiceover script to present this prezi:
http://prezi.com/qya1beeoui8b/contemporary-media-regulation-revision/
Good luck
Hand-write your own voiceover to the following presentation.
I will pick a name out of a hat on Tuesday, and they will use their voiceover script to present this prezi:
http://prezi.com/qya1beeoui8b/contemporary-media-regulation-revision/
Good luck
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Evvaluation: what to do
You are being marked on how well you are demonstrating the following criteria in your evaluation.
• understanding of the forms and conventions used in the productions.
• understanding of the role and use of new media in various stages of the production.
• understanding of the combination of main product and ancillary texts.
• understanding of the significance of audience feedback.
• skill in choice of form in which to present the evaluation.
• ability to communicate.
• use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.
There are four levels: minimal, basic, proficient and excellent.
The following tasks will help you structure your answers and provide appropriate ICT, communication and presentation variables to aid you in reaching the top grade.
Set up each evaluation question as a separate blog post.
Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• Task 1: Select 16 frames/screen grabs from your finished film and arrange in a grid 4x4 to illustrate your points above. Number them and then write a brief explanation about each using the headings above to help you.
• Task 2: Insert a shot of your poster with annotations (you've already done this)
• Task 3: Insert an image that goes with your radio ad, and lay the track of your radio ad on top. You can post your brief analysis as a paragraph underneath this - remember to refer to the conventions of a radio ad (again, you've done this).
Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Your outcome to this may vary depending on your skills and the equipment available to you. Here are a few suggestions on how you might present the required information.
1. Create a short video (effectively a DVD extra) discussing, pausing, at appropriate points in your short film to highlight how your ancillary tasks work with your short film.
2. Use a series of screen grabs from your short film alongside the ancillary tasks to illustrate how you have combined the effect of the 3 products and accompany these images with a write statement.
3. Produce an audio recording or flipvideo of your explanations. (See question 3 for advice on how to upload it to your blog.
If you have any other suggestions please discuss them with your teacher first to ensure that they meet the marking criteria and that you are able to complete the tasks by the required deadline.
Additional task – Ask your audience for feedback on the “effectiveness” of the products and quote them in your write up / ICT presentation.
Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?
• Planning: You will need to ask your target audience as well as classmates and teachers for their feedback on all three of your products. Prepare a few questions to help you direct the conversation to enable you to get useful answers from them.
• Task 1: Record your audience feedback using an audio device or flipvideo and upload onto your blog. (Audio tracks will need to go via www.soundcloud.com and videos via www.Youtube.com)
Note: MAKE sure you do this for your final film as well as a rough cut.
• Task 2: Write your own response / reflections on the feedback you’ve been given directly onto your blog answering the question:
o What have you learned from the feedback?
o You might also consider how did your feedback change the work you were doing?
o What would you change if you could do the project again?
Question 4 - How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
• Planning:
o Research and define the term “new media technologies”.
o Create a list of new media technologies you have used at each stage of production.
• Task 1: Create a montage of images (needs to be a jpeg so either Photoshop or PowerPoint perhaps) to illustrate the new media technologies you have used in the construction of your work. Number each image. Insert final montage onto your blog.
• Task 2: Write a short paragraph on each image saying how you used it and highlighting what you would have needed to do had the technology not been available
• understanding of the forms and conventions used in the productions.
• understanding of the role and use of new media in various stages of the production.
• understanding of the combination of main product and ancillary texts.
• understanding of the significance of audience feedback.
• skill in choice of form in which to present the evaluation.
• ability to communicate.
• use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.
There are four levels: minimal, basic, proficient and excellent.
The following tasks will help you structure your answers and provide appropriate ICT, communication and presentation variables to aid you in reaching the top grade.
Set up each evaluation question as a separate blog post.
Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• Task 1: Select 16 frames/screen grabs from your finished film and arrange in a grid 4x4 to illustrate your points above. Number them and then write a brief explanation about each using the headings above to help you.
• Task 2: Insert a shot of your poster with annotations (you've already done this)
• Task 3: Insert an image that goes with your radio ad, and lay the track of your radio ad on top. You can post your brief analysis as a paragraph underneath this - remember to refer to the conventions of a radio ad (again, you've done this).
Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Your outcome to this may vary depending on your skills and the equipment available to you. Here are a few suggestions on how you might present the required information.
1. Create a short video (effectively a DVD extra) discussing, pausing, at appropriate points in your short film to highlight how your ancillary tasks work with your short film.
2. Use a series of screen grabs from your short film alongside the ancillary tasks to illustrate how you have combined the effect of the 3 products and accompany these images with a write statement.
3. Produce an audio recording or flipvideo of your explanations. (See question 3 for advice on how to upload it to your blog.
If you have any other suggestions please discuss them with your teacher first to ensure that they meet the marking criteria and that you are able to complete the tasks by the required deadline.
Additional task – Ask your audience for feedback on the “effectiveness” of the products and quote them in your write up / ICT presentation.
Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?
• Planning: You will need to ask your target audience as well as classmates and teachers for their feedback on all three of your products. Prepare a few questions to help you direct the conversation to enable you to get useful answers from them.
• Task 1: Record your audience feedback using an audio device or flipvideo and upload onto your blog. (Audio tracks will need to go via www.soundcloud.com and videos via www.Youtube.com)
Note: MAKE sure you do this for your final film as well as a rough cut.
• Task 2: Write your own response / reflections on the feedback you’ve been given directly onto your blog answering the question:
o What have you learned from the feedback?
o You might also consider how did your feedback change the work you were doing?
o What would you change if you could do the project again?
Question 4 - How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
• Planning:
o Research and define the term “new media technologies”.
o Create a list of new media technologies you have used at each stage of production.
• Task 1: Create a montage of images (needs to be a jpeg so either Photoshop or PowerPoint perhaps) to illustrate the new media technologies you have used in the construction of your work. Number each image. Insert final montage onto your blog.
• Task 2: Write a short paragraph on each image saying how you used it and highlighting what you would have needed to do had the technology not been available
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Some scary things
Mean world syndrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylhqasb1chI&safe=active
Cultivation theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9DsOA1Y-w&safe=active
Cultivation theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9DsOA1Y-w&safe=active
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