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.

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

"my summer of love" analysis

Clip 1 - The two girls meet and immediately you can tell there is a difference in class between them due to the way they talk and the way they are dressed, also the different means of travel between them, one on a big white horse and the other on a motorbike with no motor. Mona is smoking at the beginning of the clip which could indicate that she wants to be older than she is. There are close ups of Mona and the horses eyes, this could signify that she is the same level as the horse and not worthy of making eye contact with the girl on the horse.

Clip 3 - shows a lot about how strong the local religious group if for the place that they live. It shows a good sense of traditional community however it is not a contemporary way to meet. The youth are situated on the outskirts of the community. this shows they're sceptical about the believers.

Clip 4 - Mona having to give her top back shows that she was once on par with the other girl but has again been degraded to how they were when they first met. 1

How does contemporary representation compare to different time periods ? (planning the esaay)

To answer this question we had to look at modern films and films that were made in the past. We looked at contemporary material : 'An Education' (2009) and 'My Summer of love' (2004) and for the film from another time period was 'St. Trinnians' (1950's)

The Introduction :
In this introduction we decided to write about

Analysis of Misfits and Minder.

Minder

The different ethnicitys are represented differently in this clip. The Black people are seen to be villans and the white people are seen to be vunerable. 

The black people are using their culture to represent them as their focus. The use of the gun implements violence which reflects what the white people have been in the past towards these minorties because of their differences.

Misfits

In misfits they all wear the same costume which represents how they are a collective identity of a convict. However, there is also diversity in the way they dress: the girl promotes her sexuality; and the athlete 'shows off' his physique. The hat that the boy wears makes him look like a 'bad boy'

Research into the social and politcal ares in the uk for 1970 and 2009

1970's

In the 1970's the conservative party were in power. Their immigration policy was to allow people with work permits and relatives already in the UK, to move into the country. At this point in time there was a high unemployment in the public, in 1972 the figure of unemployment was 1,023,583. This suggests that people looked for an easy way to get money which inevitability resulted in the increase in crime.

2009

In 2009 the labour party was in government and their immigration policy allowed free roaming for people in countries that were part of the European union. The population did increase greatly and this allowed more people to work in the UK, however the unemployment figure in the UK did increase to 2,350,000. Also the crime rate fell by 7%  from the following year

An Education

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

• Upper class Britain, shows a better society, more sophisticated outlook on life. 
• Old fashioned England 1950's, where as Pimlico was more of a relaxed lifestyle.

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?

• She is a typical middle class student, but has inspirations if upper class people, i.e wants to go to Oxford. She shows signs of a typical teenager as she tries to rebel against her parents.

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.

• Women are represented as inferior to men and the inequality between men and women.  

4. What representation of British women do they give and can you think of any contemporary examples of similar women in film?

• They represent women as being suppressed compared to men, for example in the mother and father's relationship he makes all the decisions and she will follow. Also when looking at the 

5. Conduct some research into the film, who made it, how was it funded, who directed it? 

• An Education is a 2009 British drama film based on British journalist Lynn Barbers memoir of the same name. It was directed by Lone Scherfig. The budget was $7.5 million.

Collective Identitiy

1. Collective Identity is where a group takes on the same values.

2.  Britishness be defined as 'patriotism and nationalism', Stereotypical Britishness appeals to us by values, food, community, humanity and morals.

3. Britishness is represented in these three clips. For example in the first scene where by everyone in the court seems in chaos and confusion due to finding out who they actually were. They feel they have to treat the Burgandy people different after finding out they are not the same as them.
In the second clip, britishness is represented by the women shouting out of the window, shows her will power and self esteem to being British.
In third clip we see the children throwing the Burgandy people food which represents our Britishness to help out people and to stand in what they believe in. in the final clip we see how as soon as they go back to being British, it starts to rain representing the general expected weather from Britian.