media literacy
Monday, March 16, 2009
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What is Media Literacy?

Based on what i've read from the internet. Media literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. It uses an inquiry-based instructional model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, see, and read. Media literacy education provides tools to help people critically analyze messages to detect propaganda, censorship, and bias in news and public affairs programming (and the reasons for such), and to understand how structural features -- such as media ownership, or its funding mode techniques) and understand the role of mass media and participatory media in constructing views of reality. Affect the information presented. Media literacy aims to enable people to be skillful creators and producers of media messages, both to facilitate an understanding as to the strengths and limitations of each medium, as well as to create independent media. Media literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy. By transforming the process of media consumption into an active and critical process, people gain greater awareness of the potential for misrepresentation and manipulation (especially through commercials and public relations...

Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and produce a variety of media texts. Media education refers to the process of teaching media literacy. In the United States alone, there exists many different perspectives on how to media educate youth, but not all of them agree on what extent youth audiences are active participants. PLAY moves beyond a passive approach to media and youth.

Why Media Literacy is important for FCM students?
  • It's important for making media skills.
  • Experience all the arts as no other age has ever done.
  • The media are carefully planned, designed and constructed products.
  • Help us to understand the workings or our immediate world, and our individual places in it.
  • The media help us to learn technology by adopting the leading edge of modern technological innovation.
  • The media interpret our world, it gives values and ideas.
  • It's explain to us how things work.
Lastly, check this out: Theory and Practice of Media Literacy.

"Theory and Practice of Media Literacy Education" which was taught by Professor Renee Hobbs in the Fall of 2006 at Temple University's School of Communication and Theater. Students enrolled in the course in the Fall of 2007 continue to develop, modify and expand the site, contributing their own understanding of the course readings and critical analysis.

Personal reflection on media culture class:

Overall, i enjoy the class when the lecturer show the movies. Sometimes i feel sleepy because i don't get enough sleep. The class also happening while the lecturer discussing on the topics. Basically, lots of students pay attention in class and i'm happy when there's no class for tutorial media culture. So that, i have much time to finish the assignment.:D
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stereotype?
Sunday, March 15, 2009
what is media stereotype?

based on what i've read on the internet..stereotype mean:

A stereotype is a preconceived idea that attributes certain characteristics (in general) to all the members of class or set. The term is often used with a negative connotation when referring to an oversimplified, exaggerated, or demeaning assumption that a particular individual possesses the characteristics associated with the class due to his or her membership in it. Stereotypes can be used to deny individuals respect or legitimacy based on their membership in that group.

Stereotypes often form the basis of prejudice and are usually employed to explain real or imaginary differences due to race, gender, religion, ethnicity, socio-economic class, disability, occupation, etc. A stereotype can be a conventional and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image based on the belief that there are attitudes, appearances, or behaviors shared by all members of a group. Stereotypes are forms of social consensus rather than individual judgments. Stereotypes are sometimes formed by a previous illusory correlation, a false association between two variables that are loosely correlated if correlated at all. Stereotypes may be occasionally positive.

My opinion:

ermm..i think stereotype is just what people think around them..Stereotypes can be either positive or negative, but they are all unfair and misleading. In general, stereotypes reduce individuals to a rigid, inflexible image; they do not account for the fact that human beings are complex and multidimensional, with unique attributes. Stereotypes suggest that people or groups of people are the same, when, in fact, they are quite different. Stereotypes about human beings tend to dehumanize people, placing all members of a group into one, simple category.Then, i've read this from internet, it's quite interesting i guess.

Story By Marc Elrich Washington Post

"Everybody knows Black people are bad. That's the way we are." One black student began Of twenty-nine black students present, and twenty-four agreed with the speaker that they were inferior, and most of all they believed that there inferiority was inherited. No matter what happened during their upbringing, it would not change that fact. And education was absolutely useless in their world, They believed.

The students had such an unfavorable opinion of themselves that they accepted the stereotyped image.

This article outlined the tragic results of negative self image and stereotypes among the black students.

In general they believed that:

  • Blacks were poor and stay poor because they are have less of a chance of success, than Whites and Asians.
  • The only way to success is to be a Rapper, Ball Player or a Hustler i.e (Drug Dealer).
  • Black kids that do their schoolwork and behave, want to be White. White kids who do poorly or dress cool want to be black. Hispanic kids want to be black because they are not as smart as Whites and Asians.
  • Black people don't need to work hard because it won't matter in the end.
In their striking rejection of their own culture, these young men were not defining themselves. They were defining their environment- including the racists, rappers, politicians, celebrities, entertainers, the so-called race leaders, and most of all their parents are most to blame for not breaking down the walls that hold their kids back..

so, it's just what we see and dont easily judge people like that..

Personal reflection in class :

There's no class for this week...i guess students can have their own time in their room doing the assignment...hoho..much happier i think...LOL...ermm the class also as usual...student is listening and some students playing with their phone...but all is focusing right!! overall, i enjoy the media culture class...

Example of the stereotype:

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task 2
Saturday, March 7, 2009

Q,
Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why? Discuss this in your own words.

A,
No, because the source in the internet is not all true, some of it is wrong by other people who can edited it by them itself. Let take an easy example, Wikipedia. This web has known for all, and this web can easily be edited by any people weather it is wrong or right. We can't easily trust this web because the source could be from people who gave their own thought as a source for all. Own thought is not probably wright because it should state a source of something that is fact.

Q,
Personal reflection on media culture class.

A,
The class is getting much more happier yet funny, the lecturers are something make funny jokes so that this class wont seem like nothing interesting bout the subject.
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