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.

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.

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.

My Summer of Love

Representation of young British women

Clip 1 - The representaion of women is very contrasting within the first scene. We see two different women within the first scene and it is obvious that they are from very different social class. This is obvious firstly through the camera. When we meet Tamsin we are shown her through a low angle shot, and when we see Mona we see her through a high angle shot. This makes us look up to Tamsin and down on Mona. It is also obvious through mise-en-scene. Tamsin owns a horse and Mona has a old Honda motorbike, that does not have an engine. You can also see it through the costumes. Tasmin is wearing respectable clothes where as Mona is wearing quite childish clothes. There is one thing that links the two characters together and this comes through sound. As we watch the film through it becomes apparent that them feel alone, this is represented through the sound as it is diagetic sound of the countryside which is often used to represent being alone. When we first see Tamsin the camera is upside down, this connotes that she maybe in a "different reality" and that there is something fictional about her.

Clip 3 - Within this scene the two girls seem to be represented fairly equaly.

The social and political contexts of Minder (1970) and Misfits (2009)

Minder 1970's - The UK was under a conservative government from 1970. This had come as a shock to the Labour Party, however people were more interested in the world cup.  Heath was the prime minister. In the 1970's immigration was highly restricted, but it had not stopped. In 1972 the UK admitted 28,000 immigrants from Uganda. Unemployment rate were at 1.02 million in 1972, and crime rates were at 1.6 million, dispite the increase of the police since the 1950's.

Misfits 2009 - The Labour party was now in power, with the prime minister Gordon Brown. There were 196,000 immigrants. 2.03 million people were unemployed which was almost double the amount in the 1970's. There was about 1,445,000 crimes in 2009.


Scene Analysis

Within minder there are two different views on diversity. One is that there is a significant difference between the two groups of people in the room. The white people within the room are all on the floor and take up half of the frame, where as there are 3 black people two of them are standing up and they take up most of the frame. This shows us that they have the power within the siutation. There is one black person on the floor and when we are show his face it is from a high angle shot. This could show us that there is a certain element of diversity about the situation. Through sound we are shown a certain racist element. The words "Spades" and "Whitey's" are used. This tells us that there is not diversity.

Within misfits all of the characters are equal. There is no "Good" or "bad", we believe this could cause tension within the group. To help show that there is equality between them, they are all given equal camera time. The majority of the shots within the sequence are close ups of each of the characters. All of the characters do not get along and that is due to different things. You can see this through the dialogue. One of the characters never speaks, one of them claims that he should not be there, and another makes fun of another due too the way she speaks. The teenagers are all stood next to each other at one point in their orange jumpsuits which unifies them by their appearance but then the close ups of each characters face shows they are unique and choose to appear in different ways.

We believe that representations have changed over time. It is less obvious who has the power in situations. Within Minder, it is obvious, whereas in misfits it is not. Within the two shows there is a difference within the opinion who commits the crime. Within Minder there is no select age group, where as in Misfits, they all appear too be teenagers, and within Minder there seems to be a racial comment on who commits crime but in misfits, there is not. Therefore the divide in the groups has changed from ethnic to age.

Misfits and Fish Tank.

Misfits:

Produced by -  Kate Crowe
Directed by - Howard Overman
Wrote by - Howard Overman
Critical Reception - Very Good; Times - 4/5 calling it "a new union — salty British street humour with whizz-bang special effects"
Does it prove or disprove Buckinghams theory? -We believe that Misfits does prove Buckinghams theory to some extent for instance he exaggerates stereotypes  and therefore portrays a slightly unrealistic view of teenagers in britain. However the views and humour that the characters have seem to be very true of real teenagers and therefore disproves Buckinghams theory.

Fish Tank:

Produced by - Nick Laws, Kees Kasander, Christine Langan, David Thompson
Directed by - Andrea Arnold
Wrote by - Andrea Arnold
Critical Reception -Rotten Tomatoes 90%,
Does it prove or disprove Buckingham's theory? - We believe that the story line of the film proves Buckingham's theory. The narrative towards the end of the film turns very strange and unrealistic. However, we do believe that the locations, characters, mise-en-scene and themes and more true too life.

Questions on 'An Education'

1. What kind of Britain is represented? How does it compare to the Britain represented in Passport to Pimlico?

The Britain that is represented in An Education is different to the one in Passport of Pimlico as all of the characters are upper or middle class, where as in Passport to Pimplico they are all working class. Also there is a difference in the area in which they live such as in 'An Education' they live in a simple middle class estate whereas in Pimlico it is lower class London settlement.

2. Describe the character of Jenny? How far do you think she is a typical British teenager? What might be different about her, if anything?

 Jenny does not know what she wants because she has been in her own world in her education, and the moment there is a change to her life she decides to go with it and forget her education. A way that she is similar to British is that she wants to go out and enjoy life before she doesn't have enough time too.

3. What impression does the film give of Britain if you are a woman? Describe Helen, Jenny's Mother, Jenny's teacher and Jenny in terms of representations of women.

We gain very different impressions of women within the film. Helen for instance is a friendly and slow person who is treated like an idiot. Jenny's mother is a house wife, who doesnt have much say. Jenny's teacher is an academic independent woman. Jenny is different stands up for herself which is different to Helen and her mother.

4. What representation of British women do they give and can you think of any contemporary examples of similar women in film?
 The women in the film are shown as smart women although they cannot become more successful than men in their lives. This is portrayed through Jennys mother and fathers relationship where although her mother is seen as just a housewife with no real ambitions to amount to anything she is easily able to persuade Jennys father, like when Jenny asks to go to France with David. Jennys teacher is clearly an intelligent person but is described as 'dead' by Jenny who is breaking boundaries and wanting a better life than women have in this time period.

collective identity - The identity of a larger group.  For example the cliques like 'Jocks' and 'Goths" who all wear similar clothing a behave in certain ways which they believe defines them as a group.  It refers to an individuals sense of belonging to a group.

britishness - the state or quality of being british or of embodying british characteristics
eg. Fish and chips, policemen, London, red double decker buses, phone boxes, big ben and her majesty the Queen. and the awesome Beatles!

clip 1 - being shocked that the land and treasure didn't belong to "the crown". They reacted as a group with cheering and laughter but still reacting as a group as no-one speaks out that they own the treasure.
clip 2 - woman that says "im english im staying here". It suggests that that she is proud to be what she is and where she is whether its in England or Burgundy.
clip 3- people throwing food over the fence. shows the support given by the London community towards the small community as they do not like to see other Londoners suffer.
clip 4 - someone declaring that they are now in england again and them all cheering showing just how proud they are to be british