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.

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?

"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

Plan for contemporary representation question.

How does contemporary representation compare to different time periods?



Intro: List common representations of youth, for both time periods.

Para 1: My summer of love, contemporary, list micro elements, and how they relate to the representations of youth. Use 1 ideaolgy.

Para 2: An education, Contemporary representation of an previous representation. list micro elements, and how they relate to the representations of youth. Use 1 different or the same idealogy.

Para 3: St. Trinians, older generation, list micro elements, and how they relate to the representations of youth. use 1 different or the same idealogy.

Para 4: Comparing and contrasting the above representations, ideology's and summarise.

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

Monday Morning Tasks

Do some web research on Misfits and Fish Tank.

1. Who produced them?
fish tank- Nick Laws, Kees Kasander, Christine Langan, David M Thomspson

Misfits-  Petra fried, Murray ferguson, Kate Crowe 

2. Who directed them?
Fish tank- - Andrea Arnold     Misfits -
3. Who wrote them?
Fish Tank - Andrea Arnold
Misfits- Arthur Miller
4. What was the critical reception for them?

5. How far do they prove/disprove David Buckingham's theory?

Media and Collective Identity.

1. Are there any cultural or fashion movements taking place in britain now, that you think would be strong enough to form a 'Collective Identity' 

Multiculturalism - everyone from every culture uniting against racism.


Students-  recent political actions have resulted in riots from students and they have acted as one big collective identity to try and influence the government.


Lady GaGa- dressing very radically she tries to bring in new trends in fashion that will eventually catch on.

2. Argue ways that you could relate each theorist to one of our case study texts..

Ting-Toomey - 'An Education' The main character girl conforms to the lifestyle of David and his friends as they influence her to do so.

Emile Durkheim - 'Passport to Pimlico' When they are classed as burgundians they stick together and work together to try an d make their community work because they have their shared beliefs.

Althusser - 'Fish Tank' the way that youths are represented in this film can influence the way that elder people think youths are and how they act now.

Marcuse -  'Ashes to Ashes' All the men in this tv show conform to a stereotypical idea of what a male police officer would be like. e.g driving the car fast and being discriminative and sexist towards Alex Drake.

Judith Butler - 'An Education' Her personality changes around her school mates, teachers and at home to when she is with David and his friends


David Gauntlett -  'Fish Tank'  people should be able to realise that whilst there are people like the ones represented in the films however not all youths are like that.

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.