Critical Reflection on topic given - New Technology 2

Is there a possibility to reshape the new culture today via new technology, How?

There is a possibility to reshape the new culture via new technology as "Impossible is Nothing" from Adidas... ... Well actually is "Nothing is Impossible" XD Anyway, we can take an example like cellphones.

At olden days, people used home telephone. You can't call at anywhere except at home. But now, majority of the people use cellphones, almost 80% above of the people. And why is that so? Firstly, cellphones is portable and good mobility, you can bring it at anywhere, anytime, just to keep it in your pocket. Secondly is it becomes something private, you can keep your notes, favourite musics and video clips, and messages. Besides, it has multi-function, you can listen to music, watch videos, play games, photo-shooting, video- recording, surfing internet, and most significantly, a social tool. With all these factors, cellphones wipe out the home-used telephone, become an era of cellphones. You can see all over the places selling cellphones, cellphone network with better services, people holding cellphones at ANYWHERE, ANYTIME!! It becomes a CULTURE!!

Critical Reflection on topic given - New Technology 1

What kind of culture influences through technology can you see from today's world?

The most significant and obvious culture is Japanese Anime and Manga. As you can see, because of the high-speed internet connection and can be easily installed in your home, people around the world started to stay in the house or become a home-sick. What do they do? They watch the most popular culture, Anime (animation) and reading Manga (comic).

Anime and Manga has a great influence in the world. People started to speak Japanese, dress and be like Japanese, day-dreaming, watch anime and manga at all time, drawing manga, be an animator or manga-ka (comic artist), listen and sing Japanese songs, become an Otaku, and etc etc etc... ...

These 4 examples are taken from website which are Manga, Cosplay, Otaku's room, Otaku and a normal person difference, and Anime respectively.

Critical Reflection on topic given - Media Imperialism 2

What are others example of Media Imperialism?

Take our country, Malaysia, as an example. Our newspaper control are quite strict because of local rules and regulations. We can't post any racism news or article in newspaper because it may cause some chaotic situation in Malaysia. The government controls the news flow and put certain rules on it.

Another example is... when there is a huge celebration or event like National Day, all TV broadcasting are not allow to broadcast any other program except for the live National Day broadcast.

It is true that media industries gain lots of profits for the country, but the monopoly rules over the industry and also the media information have been limited.

Critical Reflection on topic given - Media Imperialism 1

This week class is talk about Media Imperialism.

What is Media Imperialism anyway? Well... it is a phenomena of a big and wealthy media industry or company control or monopoly over the media industries.

This phenomena we can see at Canada, Italy, and even Britain. Take Britain for an example, British Broadcasting Channel (BBC) operates media-imperialism-ly. Before you bought a TV, you must own an license from BBC that need to be bought annually, even you don't wanna watch BBC. It shows that such huge media company have too much power to control the country and people.

Besides, the Third World receives media information from West country because they too rely on them. The West media destroys the local media and they even selling their own products by advertising simply because of the local's fewer regulatory control in media.

Critical Reflection on topic given - Tetrad of Media 2

The technology or media I gonna choose is Facebook.

It enhances of the meeting of people around the world, they can chat or know each other without traveling around the places, we can just do it at home. By surfing the internet Facebook, you can know the people around the world by just clicking.

What does it make obsolete? Well... Facebook contains chatbox and email functions, we need not call over or sending letters.

Facebook retrieves the sense of community and socializing. Now we can see almost everyone using Facebook in order to keep in contact with others.

What will it become if it is over-extended? Erm... there will be less privacy and become a waste of time because people started to sit in front of the computer whole day by just clicking Facebook only. Seriously...

Critical Reflection on topic given - Tetrad of Media 1

Tetrad of Media is to ask 4 questions and what will the effect be of the media, which are ENHANCES (what does it extend?), OBSOLESCES (what does it make obsolete?), RETRIEVE (what is retrieved?), and lastly, REVERSE (what does the technology reverse into if it is over-extended?).

With these 4 questions, we can analyze and understand the effects, the function of the technology or the media.

Personal Reflection on media culture class week 9 - Medium is the Message

This week class we learn about Marshall McLuhan's concept of media.

He came out a book call "Media is the Massage", he used "massage" instead of the word "message" it is because he discovered that the word "massage" is more suitable, more creative and more precise to represent his concept of media, "Mass-Age", as the mass media develops rapidly. Moreover, he said that technology is the extension of human body, for example fork and spoon is the extension of human's hands to grab something to eat.

The extension of technology causes amputation, which eliminate the olden or inconvenient technology, e.g. automobile amputates bicycles, and it results the place develops in different manner.

Everything is media to us, even a small bulb of light. Why? It is because when a place with no light, no one would stay at that place, BUT if there is a light, there is a possible for people to stay or gather there, the message of the media "light" tells us people gathered there, there is the existence of people.

McLuhan also summarized his ideas of media by using "tetrad of media effects". It explains the effects of media by dividing into 4 different categories which are enhances, reverses, retrieves, and obsolesces.

Hot Media and Cold Media, previously known in Trimester 1 Media Appreciation class, but now is more briefly explained. Hot Media is a media which is low participation but easy to received the message within, while Cold Media is high in participation, we need to pay more attention, analyze it as it is not easy to receive and the message is more impact. "The harder we work to receive the message, the more we remember".

Critical Reflection on topic given - The Differences between Obscenity, Pornography, and Indecency 2

What's the differences between Obscenity, Pornography and Indecency anyway?

Well from what I know... Obscenity is something that is improper to show like a people being murdered, some gross scene, car crash etc etc... and the scene is being blocked or edited by the scene editor.

Pornography is media like magazines, novels, videos etc showing sexual and erotic acts. It may also be obscene as it is not suitable for underage.

Indecency is a law or rule to control the obscenity. Different country with different culture and rules and regulations, their indecency level will be not the same. Some country can accept certain obscenity, some are not, it is depends on the culture there and decide.

Critical Reflection on topic given - The Differences between Obscenity, Pornography, and Indecency 1

The definition of obscenity is something such as words, scene, act and etc are offensive, not suitable for certain group of people, gross to the senses and mind.

Pornography is a media that contains erotic behavior to cause sexual excitement.

Indecency is a state or quality of being unseemly and immodest.