Broadcast:
Inside Im Dancing
Nick Vujicic:
Nick Vujicic - never give up:
E. media:
The UKs favourite magazine - http://ablemagazine.co.uk/
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Day 3
Sunday 28 November 2010
Broadcast:
BBC One: Love Me, Love My Face: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00w4gkv/Love_Me_Love_My_Face/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/w4gkv/
The Ringer Movie :
Channel 5 extraodinary people series: http://www.five.tv/shows/extraordinary-people
Jono Lancaster born with genetic condition (TCS): http://thismorning.itv.com/thismorning/life/love-me-love-my-face
E. media:
Increasing and improving portrayal of people
with disabilities in the media: http://www.mediaanddisability.org/presentacion.htm
Jono Lancaster facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Jono-Lancaster/1317832465
Print: 
Case Study: Day 1
Represenation of disablity in the media
Platforms: Broadcast, Emedia, Print
Text types: Newspaper, Magazine (Real Life stories) film (The Ringer) Documentary (channel 5 - Extraordinary People series and BBC One Love Me, Love My Face)
Wider context:
- Human Rights
- Social Understanding
- Exclusion
Time frames: Contempary, in the past 5 years.
Theoretical findings:
- Marxism
- Postmodernism
- Human Rights
- Equality
- Popular culture; is it because we dont want to see?
- Token character?
- Do we always feel sorry for them?
Tuesday 16 November 2010
4321 GO! (promotion and marketing research)
Links:
OFFICIAL 4321 FACEBOOK PAGE
click to visit
OFFICIAL 4321 TWITTER PAGE
click to visit
4321 SCREEN PLAY ON AMAZON
click to visit
NOEL CLARKS TWITTER PAGE
click to visit
BASHY'S TWITTER PAGE
click to visit
ADAM DEACON'S TWITTER PAGE
click to visit
EMMA ROBERT'S TWITTER PAGE
click to visit
JACOB ANDERSON'S TWITTER PAGE
click to visit
PUMA
click to visit
OFFICE
click to visit
LEE
click to visit
PENFIELD USA
click to visit
INSIGHT51
click to visit
KING APPAREL
click to visit
55DSL
click to visit
BOLONGO TREVOR
click to visit
DISGRUNTLED YOUTH
click to visit
CAT APPAREL
click to visit
LUKE
click to visit
ABUZE LONDON
click to visit
ALPHA INDUSTRIES
click to visit
FERRAGAMO
click to visit
emedia:
Official Youtube page
http://www.youtube.com/user/4321TheMovie
Official website:
http://4321movie.com/
Interview with Tamsin Egerton:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-interviews/2010/06/02/4-3-2-1-star-tamsin-egerton-reveals-how-school-bullies-toughened-her-up-for-hollywood-86908-22303149/
4girls 3days 2cities 1chance Trailer:
Theme tune of 4 3 2 1
Print:
Appearances:
ASHLEY 'BASHY' THOMAS - British Rapper
BEN DREW- British Musician
PLAN B - Rapper/singer, actor and film director
BEN SHEPARD - English Television Presenter on GMTV
EVE - Singer/Songwriter, actress
Tuesday 9 November 2010
CLAUDE LEVI STRAUSS
assumes that the human mind always and everywhere works in the same ways. For Levi-Strauss, the leading idea is that the human mind operates in terms of binary oppositions and that such oppositions structure all the phenomena of human culture.
All represenattions therefore have ideologies behind them.Certain paradigms are encoded into texts and others are elft out in order to give a preffered representation.
His books include The Raw and the Cooked, The Savage Mind, Structural Anthropology and Totemism (Encyclopedia of World Biography).
"The world began without the human race and will certainly end without it,” he said in his 1955 autobiographical book- Tristes Tropiques.
Article in The Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/6496558/Claude-Levi-Strauss.html
VIDEO:
COUNTER ARGUMENT:
Joseph Campbell proposed the idea that myths from all over the world seem to be built from the same "elementary ideas."
http://moongadget.com/origins/myth.html
JOHN BERGER
“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.”
“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”
notes on 'The Gaze' from 'Ways Of Seeing' (a book by John Berger) on the web:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze08.html
VIDEO:
assumes that the human mind always and everywhere works in the same ways. For Levi-Strauss, the leading idea is that the human mind operates in terms of binary oppositions and that such oppositions structure all the phenomena of human culture.
All represenattions therefore have ideologies behind them.Certain paradigms are encoded into texts and others are elft out in order to give a preffered representation.
His books include The Raw and the Cooked, The Savage Mind, Structural Anthropology and Totemism (Encyclopedia of World Biography).
"The world began without the human race and will certainly end without it,” he said in his 1955 autobiographical book- Tristes Tropiques.
Article in The Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/6496558/Claude-Levi-Strauss.html
VIDEO:
COUNTER ARGUMENT:
Joseph Campbell proposed the idea that myths from all over the world seem to be built from the same "elementary ideas."
http://moongadget.com/origins/myth.html
JOHN BERGER
“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.”
“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”
notes on 'The Gaze' from 'Ways Of Seeing' (a book by John Berger) on the web:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze08.html
VIDEO:
COUNTER ARGUMENT:
Sunday 7 November 2010
DOMINIC STRINATI
"Postmodernism tries to come to terms with and understand a media-saturated society. The mass media, for example, were once thought of as holding up a mirror to, and thereby reflecting, a wider social reality. Now that reality is only definable in terms of surface reflection of the mirror" (1992)
It is hard to distinguish between reality and media, the mirror was once our reality but now the mirror makes our reality.
"Media images encourage superficiality rather than substance, cynicism rather than belief, the thirst for constant change rather than security of stable traditions, the desires of the moment rather than the truths of history" (1992)
Media simulates reality? We do what we see, postmodernism is a collection of new thoughts.
"Postmodernism is sceptical of any absolute, universal and all-embracing claim to knowledge and argues that theories or doctrines which make such claims are increasingly open to criticism, contestation and doubt" (1992)
Challenge everything.
What is postmodernism?
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
"Postmodernism tries to come to terms with and understand a media-saturated society. The mass media, for example, were once thought of as holding up a mirror to, and thereby reflecting, a wider social reality. Now that reality is only definable in terms of surface reflection of the mirror" (1992)
It is hard to distinguish between reality and media, the mirror was once our reality but now the mirror makes our reality.
"Media images encourage superficiality rather than substance, cynicism rather than belief, the thirst for constant change rather than security of stable traditions, the desires of the moment rather than the truths of history" (1992)
Media simulates reality? We do what we see, postmodernism is a collection of new thoughts.
"Postmodernism is sceptical of any absolute, universal and all-embracing claim to knowledge and argues that theories or doctrines which make such claims are increasingly open to criticism, contestation and doubt" (1992)
Challenge everything.
Counter argument:
Gramsci suggested that there is a dialectic between the process of production and the activities of consumption.
'that the dominant culture produces and limits its own forms of counter-culture.'
What is postmodernism?
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD
Lyotard opened the discussion for postmodernism in social theory with his groundbreaking publication ‘La Condition Postmoderne’ (The Condition Postmodern). His works stress the decline of meta-narratives or grand-narratives. Meta-Narratives are sets of ideas governing what is right and wrong. For example, religion defines how to live a good life. By doing so, people who do not appeal to the characteristics of good man as defined by religion will be considered unfaithful, as bad people. Lyotard argues that this way of legitimating declines in a postmodern society. What is considered good can no longer be clearly separated from what is considered bad.
In a postmodern society, where more information and knowledge are easily accessed
by society, a new form of evolution emerged. Meta-narratives suggested society to be homogenized (to blend). It means that all members of society should appeal to values, beliefs and norms as governed by meta-narratives if they wanted to be considered a good member of society. But, a postmodern society is characterized differently. Heterogeneity (Cultural, social, biological, or other differences within a group.) is more emphasized because people see things differently. They no longer see things from one point of view; instead they now see things within multiple points of view. Thus, a postmodern society is marked with the blurred concept of right and wrong. To see thing from only one side is so naïve. A postmodern society will recognize the plurality over homogeneity (similarities within a group).
The postmodern condition: A report on Knowledge:
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Another French philosopher, and may be called as the most important posmodernist thinker is Jean Baudrillard. Inspired by Roland Barthes, Baudrillard develops an enhanced theory of signs.
Signs as argued by Barthes serve as the medium in which myth is preserved. Signs then function as the source of legitimation. It is in align with Lyotard’s idea that suggests meta-narratives loose their function as the source of legitimation. Postmodern society then, as called by Baudrillard, lives in ‘sign culture’. This leads to what he terms as ‘simulacrum’.
(‘Simulacrum’ is a copy of an image without original.)
It is now difficult to distinct what is reality and imaginary.
Jean Baudrillard. Image and Represenattion. 2004
Signs as argued by Barthes serve as the medium in which myth is preserved. Signs then function as the source of legitimation. It is in align with Lyotard’s idea that suggests meta-narratives loose their function as the source of legitimation. Postmodern society then, as called by Baudrillard, lives in ‘sign culture’. This leads to what he terms as ‘simulacrum’.
(‘Simulacrum’ is a copy of an image without original.)
It is now difficult to distinct what is reality and imaginary.
Jean Baudrillard. Image and Represenattion. 2004
WILLIAM MERRIN
argues that 'the media do not reflect and repreent reality but instaed produce it, employing this simulation to justify their own continuing existence'.
link to his blog:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/09127640658084479636
Thursday 4 November 2010
Representation Theories
RICHARD DYER
' How we are seen determines how we are treated, how we treat others is based on how we see them. How we see them come from represenation' Richard Dyer believes that how something is represented is how we are determined to look at it. the media mould a figure and we we go by what it proclaims.
http://www.slideshare.net/fleckneymike/representation-theory-2458490 -The matter of Images
'This is what everyone- you , me and us- think members of such-and-such a social group are like ' - The role of stereotypes essay.
http://www.english-e-corner.com/comparativeCulture/core/deconstruction/frameset/stereotype.htm
counter argument:
DAVID GAUNTLETT
aregues that through making things, online or offline we make connections with others and increase our engagement with the world. He points to a shift from 'sit down and be told' culture to a more creative 'making and doing' culture.
http://www.theory.org.uk/david/effects.htm
Participitation culture, creativity, and social change:
counter argument:
LAURA MULVEY
She argues that plaesure needs to be destroyed, in particular she is not acceptant of how the unconscious structures our ways of seeing and understanding the world.
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaelwalford/entry/laura_mulvey_and/
Books:
Death tweenty four times a second: Stillness and the movign image
(London Reaktions books, 2006)
Counter argument:
Tuesday 2 November 2010
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