Promt Question 2

What has been the impact of the internet in media production?

MOOSIC

Through the internet music has been revolutionized as you can join fan pages and blogs on your favourite artists and through this you can establish connections with other fans. This then links with Benedict Anderson"s theory on 'Imagined Community' as it enables the fans to feel part of a community to which they can identity with. These people will never meet physically however will feel a part of the 'imaginary community'. 

Prompt Question 2

What has been the impact of the internet on media production?

The access to films used to be limited to just going to the cinema. The range of films that were on in that cinema would be vast. Recently you can access and purchase films all over the internet and

Catfish questions

Catfish (2010) 
An American documentary involving a man being filmed by his brother and friend as he develops a relationship with a family on Facebook. The film received an 82% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Time magazine did a full page article in September 2010 saying "as you watch Catfish, squirming in anticipation of the trouble that must lie ahead―why else would this be a movie?―you're likely to think this is the real face of social networking." At the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Alison Willmore of IFC described it as a "sad, unusual love story." At the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Alison Willmore of IFC described it as a "sad, unusual love story."
 The Metro described Cat Fish as a film entirely based on facebok and were very positive towards the film, calling it an "ultimately compassionate exploration of how social media has warped our sense of identity and ability to form human relationships".


The theory of performativity relates to this through Angela assuming the the persona of someone she aspires to be: a flirty, young, attractive woman. The internet enables her to 'become' this person and live out her fantasy role as it lets you pretend to be anyone you wish. The internet facilitates and encourages performativity  

1. How has the Online Age revolutionised the film industry?

Web 2.0 - The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies.

Participatory Culture - a culture in which private persons (the public) do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producer. The term is most often applied to the production or creation of some type of published media.

Peering - is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other for the exchanged traffic; instead, each derives revenue from its own customers.

Digital Natives - A digital native is a young person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technology, and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts.

Democratisation -

We-Think - We Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.

Interactivity -

The Long Tail -

Wikinomics - how some companies in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration (also called peer production) and open-source technology, such as wikis, to be successful.

Media and the online age - Definitions

Web 2.0 - The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of web 2.0 sites include social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, blogging sites like blogger.com, and hosting services.

Participatory Culture - Participatory culture is a neologism in reference of, but opposite to a Consumer culture — in other words a culture in which the public do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers. The term is most often applied to the production or creation of some type of published media.

Peering - Peering is the arrangement of traffic exchange between internet service providers (ISP's). Larger ISPs with their own backbone networks agree to allow traffic from other large ISPs in exchange for traffic on their backbones.

Digital Natives - A digital native is a young person who was born in or during the general introduction of digital technology, and by interacting with this technology at an early age, they stand a greater chance of understanding its concepts.

Democratisation - The action taken by a person or group of people to make something Democratic.


We - Think - Explores how the web is changing are world creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and colaborate, ideas and information.

Interactivity - In computers, interactivity is the dialog that occurs between a human being (or possibly another live creature) and a computer program. On the World Wide Web, you not only interact with the browser (the Web application program) but also with the pages that the browser brings to you.


The Long Tail - This refers to the statistcal property than a larger share of population rests within the tail of the probability distribution than observed under a 'normal' distribution.

Wikinomics - Explores how some companys in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration and open source techonology to be successful.

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?
The collective identity of the future will be likely to be represented in a similar way of today, because there has been a trend followed for many years by adults of the past and today, however it could change due to the fact that in the future youth of today could be the adults and see the youth culture from their prospective.

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds)
Facebook

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
Adults control the way young people are shown in the public eye for TV, newspapers and film.

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...
This theory says that parents control the way children are represented and are hidden from the real world and being oppressed.



What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?
BBC switch, showing what young people are really like.



What are the implications of this?
The implications are that people get to see the youth of today in a true light rather than one made up in the media that is used to stereotype young people and make adults be fearful of the youth.


What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?
The control of how people are represented will be the same as today because there will be no way of younger people taking over all media areas and representing themselves in a good light.

Future Representations

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?





If representations of youth are not decoded as being seective representation, then it could result in creating or perpetuating stereotypes. this could then lead to creating distances between social groups. so adults will become afraid of todays youth, and also reluctant to engage with young people and demonise them instead. it can also create tension within social groups with young people becoming afraid of others.


Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds)









Facebook is a big part of the adolescence, today. We express and socialise using this media interface. The issue is, it makes it difficult to socialise outside the world of the internet. youth also use videos and blogs to express creativity, opinion and intelligence.

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented

There's plenty been written on how the media portrays politics. But what about the media representation of young people and their involvement in politics. Stovin Hayter is the editor of Children Now magazine. Here he talks about the damage the press is capable of when it comes public perceptions of young people.You could pick up a local newspaper in almost any part of Britain and see articles that use headlines and terms like: "Like a plague, the city seems to be in the grip of lawlessness among the young."- Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...

Buckingham express child innocence as being broken by being exposed to adult realms in the media.

What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?


"Youtube" is a main source



What are the implications of this?


What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?

The Future of Representation

1. Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?


In the future teenage youth will go on to be represented as demoralized, ill mannered  "louts", as they have been portrayed for the last few years. this counts for both male and female youths, women are increasingly shown to be drunken "ladettes" and as such, seem to be as violent as males. this media portrayal is causing division between social groups and even casting unnecessary fear amongst adults. There is however a growing portion of the media that aims to show youths to be the opposite of this stereotype and are breaking it by showing the good rather than the bad. Hopefully at least the future will become brighter for British youth.


2. Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, Youtube, online worlds)

Facebook and social networking sites have become a diary in the cloud for most teenagers, other sites such as myspace, twitter, and tumblr are increasingly popular and youths are expressing themselves more freely and further afield then before possible. community ranges beyond your neighborhood to the other side of the world and is able to do so at staggering rates. Youtube now has members world wide, and is easily as frequently used as TV due to the ability to tailor what you watch. Music videos, tutorials, rants, advertising and much more media types all under one website and its free....



3. Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?

Adults are mostly in control of the production of different media types, however new TV programs are including teenagers into the creation and representation of youths in their programs. For example Skins is a good example of how the producers have incorporated adults and youths to influence a more 'realistic' representation of teenagers. The oldest writer is 46 and the youngest is 18, and so this a gives a wide range of ideas. Also meaning that the average age of writers was 21.

4. What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find? What are the implications of this?
     
There are many examples of how young people are in control of how their collective identity is constructed

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?

the media is currently generalizing British youth into a bad stereotype that people should fear and because of this do.we feel feel that because of this, people will go on to fear the British youth and keep associating them with the bad press they are given by the media. even people within the youth culture who are of the same age have begun to fear the generalized version on British youth but certain texts, like Misfits tries to tackle this by showing a friendlier side to a stereotypical youth. however, as this type of program that shows an understanding of the youth has a target audience of the people of the age that is being generalized, the older generations will continue to fear the youth as there is nothing to contradict their generalized views.

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds)

the representations of us as a youth are only really shown in television and film which as we have seen are clearly not true representations of ourselves and are are usually from an adults perspective. other than this, we as a youth don't have any easy way of expressing our selves or challenging this stereotypical view that we have been labeled with.

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?

 as we have seen, it is mostly adult views that are exressed through the media of the British youth. adult views on television of the british youth constantly try and teach the youth a 'lesson' in how to behave or act. they are massivley focused on bringing youth culture back to how it was when they were young as they feel that a stricter up bringing leads to a more acceptable and civilized way of living.

What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?
certain sites like youtube and facebook, where people, especially the youth, can represent themselves how they feel the want to be represented are becoming more prominent and wide spread. having said this, we do believe that the main audience for sites like these are the youth themselves so they don't really impact the stereotypes of british youth as much as they probably should. so the implications of this are not very significant at all as it doesn't effect the stereotypical and judgmental view of British youth.

What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?

we are beginning to see a slow and slight change in the way that the British youth is represented in the form of Misfits and similar programmes. if this continues and if a similar representation is shown to a wider, more adult audience then it could be that the adult view and the stereotype's could change to a more understanding view of the British youth. this could come with the wider interest within young people to be more involved within the media.

Questions

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?
Young people Nowadays have the stereotype of being rather rebellious and destructive. This bad reputation will probably continue to be exaggerated. Old people have said that they have become scared of young people due to the way they are represented in the media.       


Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds) 
Young people are able to express themselves nowadays in numerous ways, through talking, Art, Music, Social life, facebook, dance, sports, hobbies, personality, by posting youtube videos and blogs etc. Facebook pages tell your friends information that you might not have known otherwise like your relationship status, music tastes, film tastes, interests and hobbies. Teenagers can also express themselves visually by wearing different clothes. For example, by wearing a top that features one of their favourate bands, gigs etc. This is then taken away when teens have to wear uniform, they wear uniform because authority feel that by wearing their own clothes they will live up to the stereotypical teen in the media.


Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
It's the producers who are in control of how the youth of today are portrayed in the media. This therefore means that its adults who make the programs according to how they view childhood. Their representations may not be accurate to the time period as they grew up with different views on young people.  
David Buckingham for example argues that childhood is a social construction is not given or fixed, it is always changing.


What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?
The popular, youth aimed drama 'Skins' was, in a few episodes, written by young people. This laid back, realistic form of production, caused a lot of controversy due to the content of drugs, violence, sex and swearing.  
What are the implications of this?




What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?
Through the internet and sites like Youtube and sites like Facebook, or whatever the next social networking site will be!

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, Youtube, online worlds)
The representations of youth are seen in most media forms, e.g. T.V, Newspapers, Film and the internet. The news represents youth as being violent, hoodie wearing people who would sooner stab you or mug you rather than acknowledge you. Most of today's youth uses the internet as a way of expressing themselves, this happens in a variety of ways from Facebook to Youtube.

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
The media is the one who are in control of how most people view young people.

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...
Buckingham's theory helps this by showing that children's personality and opinions can be warped by viewing things within the "Adult realm" earlier than they would be able to understand properly. An example of this could be the watching of films that are age certificated much higher than the child's age.


What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find? What are the implications of this?
Youth on the internet use sites like Youtube to host their own video blogs, in this they can get their views on current situations, or what they found funny this week. This allows youth to do this without adult intrusion giving an uncensored or modified version of what they are really like. (usually, as some people have an online persona)


What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?
Adults will always be in charge of the media, therefore the views of youth culture will always be seen throughthe eyes of people who have a "Rose tinted" view of their own youth and will see younger generations as being more violent/troublesome than their own.

The future of representation

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?

As the media expands and develops this creates a ball of power which the media has control of. This is evident in today's current issue of youths being anti-social and feral. As the media develops it gives them the opportunity to change public opinion and influence our collective identity. However as the media expands there are likely to be more views expressed which are contradicting, this may cause civil war.

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds) 

There are many representations through out the media and the society. This is from TV, radio and film. One of the main representations that we give ourselves comes from the internet. This is mainly from social networking sites such as facebook, myspace and bebo. Also from othersites such as youtube we also create representations.

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
 
Adults.

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...
 
Buckingham said that because the adults have control over the media and how young people are represented the views they portray are not always true.


What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?

Skins series 3-5 was written by young writers. Young people also control what they put on their facebook and youtube accounts.

What are the implications of this?

The implications of this is good and bad, it gives the chance for the youths to say what they are actually like, but it can also be bad as youths could over exagurate what it is actually like, for example skins.


What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?

Questions task

Question 1:  In the future collective identity will change as past tv programs have shown us that they have changed significantly and are likely to follow a similar trend.  Recently the tv shows have become more frequently written or influenced more heavily by young people of the age group of which the show is targeting. This is a more true representation however will never be true as the shows will always be made more dramatic and over exaggerated in order to appeal to a wider audience.

Question 2 Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds) I personally choose to represent myself on facebook and twitter. i feel these are the best places to represent myself as they are considered the most viewed for people my age. This is the best place to represent yourself as many people are on facebook and twitter so a mass audience will be able to see how you choose to represent yourself.


question 3 :Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...

Questions- Collective Identity 09/03/11

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?
The representation of teenage youth will go on to demonise this collective identity through the use of negative and unrealistic interpretations of their behaviours. This in turn will continue to have the same effect on the audiences, intimidating both older and even youth of the same age presented, making them "afraid" of teenage youth, through the misleading representations provided by the mass media.

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds) 
We represent ourselves through social networking internet sites, such as facebook, and youtube. Facebook is limited in the way that the site is formatted, as you can only display certain information about yourself and create status'. This is safer. Youtube is a little more dangerous as you can upload videos of yourself for anyone to watch and comment on, depending on your security level on the site, which can restrict who sees them. The videos can be used to share your experiences with family from the other side of the world. Media synergy is created through sharing youtube videos on facebook.
Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?

It is adults who create these programmes in which teenagers are represented badly and bias as the adults are over exaggerating the situations that the teenagers are put in ,and their reactions and behaviour to these situations creating the overall unruly attitude of teenagers, and as a result has teenagers acting up to these scenarios, generating fear across both adult, and further teen audiences. 

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further... 
David Buckingham's the death of childhood With teens viewing these representations and acting up to the bad behaviours to that of the characters, we can see the theory of David Buckingham coming into play. Teenagers acting up to these "dehumanised" characters is ruining their innocence, and adding to the death of childhood, with adults allowing younger and younger children to watch such programmes of over exaggerated representations. 

What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?
What are the implications of this?Young people are in control of the way their collective identity is represented through social networking sites as they are in control of what they write on the internet, making vulgar comments on status' and "liking" derogatory facebook groups. Arguments are blown out of all proportion on facebook, with comments being read with the wrong context, making an ordinary comment, sound nasty through a misinterpretation.

What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?
Teenagers now, who are misinterpreted and dehumanised will later on be the ones in charge of representations of teenagers in the future. It is up to them how they will represent teens later on, however the unruly teen makes for big  viewing numbers, and they may feel that they as teenagers were misconstrued badly, so why not the next generation? 

The future of representation

http://collectiveidentity.posterous.com/what-are-the-social-implications-of-different

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds)

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...



What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?

What are the implications of this?


What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?

Judith Butler and Performativity

This is an excellent resource to further understand Judith Butler's work.
http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-butl.htm
An interview with Judith Butler where she discusses her book 'Gender Trouble'.
http://www.theory.org.uk/but-int1.htm

Althusser and Interprellation

Althusser and Interpellation
http://changingminds.org/explanations/critical_theory/concepts/interpellation.htm
This link contains the year that the theory was first written about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpellation_(philosophy)

Stuart Hall, Reception Theory and Representation

This is a link to an excellent resource that discusses the effect model and the many associated theories, including the reception theory
http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/alevkeyconcepts/alevelkeycon.php?pageID=audience

Below is an excellent lecture from Stuart Hall himself on representation. Well worth a look.

David Gauntlett and the Construction of Identity

These links give additional information and readings about David Gauntlett's theories on the construction of identity.
http://www.theoryhead.com/gender/extract.htm
This is David Gauntlett's own website
http://www.theory.org.uk/
This link takes you to an article where David Gauntlett picks apart the 'Effects Model' theory. Well worth reading.
http://www.theory.org.uk/david/effects.htm

Video about David Gauntlett's theory on how identity is represented.

David Buckingham - After the Death of Childhood

This link is to some additional reading on David Buckingham
http://www.slideshare.net/spingwoodmedia/david-buckingham

Emile Durkheim and Collective Consciousness

Follow these links for some additional reading on Durkheim's theory.
The wikipedia link has the year in which the theory was first published.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness
http://www.sociologyguide.com/thinkers/Durkheim.php
http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/collectiveconsciousness.htm

Theory link

http://p1criticalperspectives.blogspot.com/2011/01/lesson-10-tasks.html

This link will take you to the powerpoint on collective identity theory.

Collective Identity Essay Plans

Please also find below the link to Pete's Media Blog.

http://petesmediablog.blogspot.com/2010/03/media-and-collective-identity.html

Here is a link to some theory relevant to Collective Identity

http://p1criticalperspectives.blogspot.com/2011/01/lesson-10-tasks.html 

"Media representations are complex, not simple and straightforward" How far do you agree with this statement in relation to the collective group that you have studied?

The representation of British people has changed throughout the years, making the stereotype of British people constantly changing meaning and representation  making it much more complex.

i feel that the medias representation of certain things can be complex but usualy have a simple underlying meaning or idea. when it comes down to it, the youth in St Trinians are all represented as a collective group and are represented as such. having said this though, it deals with complex themes or rebelion while at the same time equaly exploring team work and a sense of coming together to overcome a wider problem.

representations, however, can also be very simple and can change over time along with the ideas and views of certain periods in time. this is best seen in the contrasts and similarities between St Trinians and Misfits. both groups of people are represented in a way that is seen fittin gof the time and from looking atr both we can see a clear difference between the two.

With reference to any one group of people that you have studied, discuss how their identity has been mediated.

One area of british identity that we have studied is british youth. We have researched into various examples in films to enforce our opinions of how this collective identity is mediated. These include examples in, An education, Fish tank, St. trinians and Misfits. However we have also looked at theorists that relate the impacts of media on different identities. some of these theorists back up our idea of how British youth has been mediated. For example, Althhusse  believes the the power of the mass media resides in their abilities to place a subject in a way that their representations are taken to be reality. Also another theorist Marcuse, believe

"The media do not construct collective identity; they merely reflect" Discuss

I do not agree with this statement as a collective identity is a sense of belonging to a group  as they all have a certain aspect of their life which links them all together. The media is often responsible for the way in which people outside the group portray these people and are often not very accurate to the true life of these collective group. The media also helps to create each group and shape the ways in which they behave.  The media helps create collective identity although it is naturally occurring because of age and gender.

Essay question practice

What is collective identity and how is it mediated?

By definition, collective identity is an individuals sense of belonging to a group (part of a personal identity). These representations can dramatically alter peoples views on specific groups in society. Althusser spoke about the power of mass media and how that changes our own views on youth culture. In the film St Trinians, the writers represent youth as an unruley bunch of rebellious teens who set fire to their school. This disrespectful bahaviour reflects badly on how youths were viewed in that time. A more contomporary example of this is seen in Channel 4s series 'Misfits' where 5 young characters are taking part in community service which instantly reveals the troubled nature of the younger generation. From these examples we see that views on young people have stayed relitavely the same, both portraying.... Although in St Trinians, the younger characters are shown as heros in saving the school but in Misfits they are seen as


http://petesmediablog.blogspot.com/2010/03/media-and-collective-identity.html  

Analyse the ways in which the media represent one group of people that you have studied?

Analyse the ways in which the media represent one group of people that you have studied?

Intro - The term groups of people is also known as collective identity. This is a a section of people who relate in some way so they can be recognised as a group. These features include: gender, age, social class and political views. The group we have studied in detail is teenagers in Britain. We have examples of this throughout time including St Trinians, Passport to Pimlico, An Education, A Summer of Love, Fish Tank, Coronation Street, Misfits, Ashes to Ashes and Minder.

What is collective identity and how is it mediated?

what is collective identity and how is it mediated?

Collective identity is the individuals sense of belonging to a group. Collective identity is used within media to stereotype these groups, making them relatable and easily identifiable to the viewing public. An example of this stereotyping can be seen in misfits, whereby the use of mise en scene is used in costuming where they are all seen in the same community uniform, however all have changed theirs slightly to highlight their  individual personalities, and therefore their collective group and clique. Eg one of the girls wears her uniform unbuttoned to display her cleavage and pulls up the bottom of her uniform to show off her legs, whereas the other girl can be seen in trainers, scraping her hair back. These changes show the girls are in two different cliques, one being in a promiscuous group, and the other belonging to a "chavy" clique.
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