Using McLuhan's "Tetrad of Media" choose a medium or media application or tool (e.g. newspaper, books, radio, tv, film, internet, computer games, handphone, instant messaging, blogging, online advertising, youtube, facebook etc.) and explain its media effects? Please refer to Week 9's lecture notes plus your own research to discuss this topic.
Internet is global computer network, a network that links computer networks all over the world by satellite and telephone, connecting users with service networks such as e-mail and the World Wide Web.
In enhances of the tetrad of media, internet was not only for searching information. We also can use internet of chatting, sending mail and using video call to communicate with each other. For example, MSN and Yahoo Messenger. We also can get entertainment from the website like Youtube, and download game, movie, song and so on.
Nowadays, internet was retrieved more popular and functional in our life. In previous, when we search some information we need to wait very long time, it very late and slow, and make people be fidgety. But now, we only need to wait a few second to get the information. It is fast, and we also can get the clear information.
For reverse of internet, although it is very useful in our lives, but some time internet also very trouble in our life especially for virus threat. It was bring many of negative effect for our computer, and sometime it also will damage our computer system. Besides, when we search the information from internet, sometime it will link us to another webpage like the “yellow page” so it will provide wrong information and show the pornography to let people have negative thinking or make people confuse
For obsolesce internet it makes news paper, dictionary, telegram, fax obsolesce. People only search from MSN, Yahoo, Google and any other website then they will get the news that happen beside us. For dictionary, we no need turn off the thick dictionary to find out the mean of the word, we can use Wikipedia to search, and it fast can clear. Next, people no need get the expensive fax machine or go out from home to make telegram to deliver message to their family and friends. It is waste money and waste time. They can deliver the message immediately by use MSN, Yahoo Messenger or e- buddy as free.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Critical reflection 1 (WEEK9)
Using McLuhan's "Tetrad of Media"choose a medium or media application or tool (e.g. newspaper, books, radio, tv, film, internet, computer games, handphone, instant messaging, blogging, online advertising, youtube, facebook etc.) and explain its media effects? Please refer to Week 9's lecture notes plus your own research to discuss this topic.
Handphone is a tool let us communicate and deliver message to each other as easily. People they are using handphone, they no need to use the public telephone to contact to other people. It is very waste time and trouble.
In enhances of handphone sure not only for making call and receive call. It also can be using in sms(short message service), mms(message-enhancement system)a system that enables sounds, images, or animations to be incorporated into text message.3G(3 rd Generation) it can video calling, high-speed video streaming, and mobile Internet six times faster than the current GSM and so on.
Nowadays, handphone was retrieved more functional. In previous, we can saw people make call with the cellular phone and now it become the small and easy to bring it out. From black and white screen retrieved to color screen. Previously handphone only can let us make call only but now it also have the function to have wireless online, take picture, MP3 and so on more.
For reverse of handphone. Nowadays, handphone seem like our necessaries. so we need to pay a lot when we making call. And sometime some "company" will call us want us join in to their group and many people was been cheated. Especially for the business man, teenage, housewife and so on. The over-extension of phone culture engenders a need for solitude.
What is obsolesce? Obsolesce mean if some aspect was enhanced and the old condition will been displaced. For obsolesce handphone makes public phone and normal telephone obsolesce. People was already think public phone and normal telephone is useless in their life so they will prefer to use handphone because it is more functional and convenient.
Handphone is a tool let us communicate and deliver message to each other as easily. People they are using handphone, they no need to use the public telephone to contact to other people. It is very waste time and trouble.
In enhances of handphone sure not only for making call and receive call. It also can be using in sms(short message service), mms(message-enhancement system)a system that enables sounds, images, or animations to be incorporated into text message.3G(3 rd Generation) it can video calling, high-speed video streaming, and mobile Internet six times faster than the current GSM and so on.
Nowadays, handphone was retrieved more functional. In previous, we can saw people make call with the cellular phone and now it become the small and easy to bring it out. From black and white screen retrieved to color screen. Previously handphone only can let us make call only but now it also have the function to have wireless online, take picture, MP3 and so on more.
For reverse of handphone. Nowadays, handphone seem like our necessaries. so we need to pay a lot when we making call. And sometime some "company" will call us want us join in to their group and many people was been cheated. Especially for the business man, teenage, housewife and so on. The over-extension of phone culture engenders a need for solitude.
What is obsolesce? Obsolesce mean if some aspect was enhanced and the old condition will been displaced. For obsolesce handphone makes public phone and normal telephone obsolesce. People was already think public phone and normal telephone is useless in their life so they will prefer to use handphone because it is more functional and convenient.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Personal reflection (WEEK 8)
Topic of assignment 2 was been given. Need to write in 800 word. A bit hard, i have no idea now. I think many of MLC students facing the same problem with me!!
Critical reflection 1 (WEEK 8)
Different Between Pornography and Obscenity
Pornography is not the same thing as obscenity although people often use the terms interchangeably. Obscenity is a legal concept that applies to those forms of pornography that society considers the most harmful to sexual morality, and that it punishes under criminal law. In the United States, for example, the Supereme Court limits the definition of obscenity to “hard core” pornographic depictions, meaning extremely explicit portrayals of sex. Thus, pornography is illegal only if judged to be obscene. Many feminist thinkers, such as Americans Gloria Steinem, Catharine MacKinnon, and Andrea Dworkin, have proposed another definition of pornography, distinguishing it from erotica. Such thinkers define pornography as the “sexually explicit subordination of women” and view it as a form of discrimination against women, not simply a violation of traditional moral norms. Erotica, on the other hand, is sexually explicit material that portrays men and women in postures of equality and mutual respect. Although little is known about the origins of pornography, it is as old as written records. The ancient Greeks used pornographic themes in songs in Dionysian festivals, and ancient Romans painted pornographic pictures on walls in the ancient city of Pompeii. Pornography was also prevalent in some ancient Eastern cultures, such as those of India, Japan, and China. In medieval Europe, authors used bawdy ballads and verses to ridicule the church, and Il decamerone (1353; The Decameron) by Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio was licentious in nature. It was not until the 1800s, however, that pornography began to become a social problem, primarily because the spread of technology—such as printing, photography, and motor vehicles—made it more readily available and because of the growth of democracy and individual freedom.
Different Between Indecent and Obscenity
The differentiation between indecent and obscenity material is a particularly difficult one, and a contentious First Amendment issue that has not fully been settled. Similarly, the level of offense (if any) generated by a profane word or phrase depends on region, context, and audience.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568395/Pornography.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Pornography is not the same thing as obscenity although people often use the terms interchangeably. Obscenity is a legal concept that applies to those forms of pornography that society considers the most harmful to sexual morality, and that it punishes under criminal law. In the United States, for example, the Supereme Court limits the definition of obscenity to “hard core” pornographic depictions, meaning extremely explicit portrayals of sex. Thus, pornography is illegal only if judged to be obscene. Many feminist thinkers, such as Americans Gloria Steinem, Catharine MacKinnon, and Andrea Dworkin, have proposed another definition of pornography, distinguishing it from erotica. Such thinkers define pornography as the “sexually explicit subordination of women” and view it as a form of discrimination against women, not simply a violation of traditional moral norms. Erotica, on the other hand, is sexually explicit material that portrays men and women in postures of equality and mutual respect. Although little is known about the origins of pornography, it is as old as written records. The ancient Greeks used pornographic themes in songs in Dionysian festivals, and ancient Romans painted pornographic pictures on walls in the ancient city of Pompeii. Pornography was also prevalent in some ancient Eastern cultures, such as those of India, Japan, and China. In medieval Europe, authors used bawdy ballads and verses to ridicule the church, and Il decamerone (1353; The Decameron) by Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio was licentious in nature. It was not until the 1800s, however, that pornography began to become a social problem, primarily because the spread of technology—such as printing, photography, and motor vehicles—made it more readily available and because of the growth of democracy and individual freedom.
Different Between Indecent and Obscenity
The differentiation between indecent and obscenity material is a particularly difficult one, and a contentious First Amendment issue that has not fully been settled. Similarly, the level of offense (if any) generated by a profane word or phrase depends on region, context, and audience.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568395/Pornography.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Critical reflection 1 (WEEK 8)
Obscenity
Obscenity mean such word, statement, or behavior that offensive, disgusting and morally offensive.
Pornography
Pornography is the explicit depiction in films, magazines, photographs, and more. All of this material will intended to cause sexual arousal
Indecency
Indecency means Standards of decency vary greatly depending on the cultural context. Most nations have laws against indecency which regulate certain sexual acts, and restrict one's ability to display certain parts of the body in public.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Obscenity mean such word, statement, or behavior that offensive, disgusting and morally offensive.
Pornography
Pornography is the explicit depiction in films, magazines, photographs, and more. All of this material will intended to cause sexual arousal
Indecency
Indecency means Standards of decency vary greatly depending on the cultural context. Most nations have laws against indecency which regulate certain sexual acts, and restrict one's ability to display certain parts of the body in public.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Friday, March 20, 2009
Personal reflection (WEEK 7)
This week MLC class very intersting compare with last week. Lecturer use a very intersting way to choose the students give their opinion. haha...
Critical reflection 2 (WEEK 7)
According to the John Naisbitt, Megatrends’s srticle. He show 10 benefit of Media Literacy Education
1. Meets the needs of FCM students to be wise consumers of media, managers of information and responsible producers of their ideas using the powerful multimedia tools of a global media culture.
2. Engages students. . . bringing the world of media into the classroom connects learning with "real life" and validates their media culture as a rich environment for learning.
3. Gives students and lecturers alike a common approach to critical thinking that, when internalized, becomes second nature for life.
4. Provides an opportunity for integrating all subject areas and creating a common vocabulary that applies across all disciplines.
5. Helps meet state standards while, at the same time using fresh contemporary media content which FCM students love.
6. Increases the ability and proficiency of FCM students to communicate (express) and disseminate their thoughts and ideas in a wide (and growing) range of print and electronic media forms - and even international venues.
7. Media literacy's "inquiry process" transforms teaching and frees the lecturers to learn along with students -- becoming a "guide on the side" rather than a "sage on the stage."
8. By focusing on process skills rather than content knowledge, FCM students gain the ability to analyze any message in any media and thus are empowered for living all their lives in a media-saturated culture.
9. By using a replicable model for implementation, such as Five Key Questions, media literacy avoids becoming a "fad" and, instead, becomes sustainable over time because students FCM are able to build a platform with a consistent framework that goes with them from school to school, grade to grade, teacher to teacher and class to class. With repetition and reinforcement over time, students are able to internalize a checklist of skills for effectively negotiating the global media culture in which they will live all of their lives.
10. Not only benefits individual students but benefits society by providing tools and methods that encourage respectful discourse that leads to mutual understanding and builds the citizenship skills needed to participate in and contribute to the public debate.
http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article667.html
1. Meets the needs of FCM students to be wise consumers of media, managers of information and responsible producers of their ideas using the powerful multimedia tools of a global media culture.
2. Engages students. . . bringing the world of media into the classroom connects learning with "real life" and validates their media culture as a rich environment for learning.
3. Gives students and lecturers alike a common approach to critical thinking that, when internalized, becomes second nature for life.
4. Provides an opportunity for integrating all subject areas and creating a common vocabulary that applies across all disciplines.
5. Helps meet state standards while, at the same time using fresh contemporary media content which FCM students love.
6. Increases the ability and proficiency of FCM students to communicate (express) and disseminate their thoughts and ideas in a wide (and growing) range of print and electronic media forms - and even international venues.
7. Media literacy's "inquiry process" transforms teaching and frees the lecturers to learn along with students -- becoming a "guide on the side" rather than a "sage on the stage."
8. By focusing on process skills rather than content knowledge, FCM students gain the ability to analyze any message in any media and thus are empowered for living all their lives in a media-saturated culture.
9. By using a replicable model for implementation, such as Five Key Questions, media literacy avoids becoming a "fad" and, instead, becomes sustainable over time because students FCM are able to build a platform with a consistent framework that goes with them from school to school, grade to grade, teacher to teacher and class to class. With repetition and reinforcement over time, students are able to internalize a checklist of skills for effectively negotiating the global media culture in which they will live all of their lives.
10. Not only benefits individual students but benefits society by providing tools and methods that encourage respectful discourse that leads to mutual understanding and builds the citizenship skills needed to participate in and contribute to the public debate.
http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article667.html
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