Here is a shortened version; it contains slides which we did not have time to cover but would be useful for you in terms of planning your research and thinking about the impact of media representations on women (i.e. how they might affect their sense of identity). Find the research task towards the end.
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Monday, 14 February 2011
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Teenage Media Consumption Habits
Find the results of different national surveys and draw some conclusions after comparing these results to your own habits.
Conclusions of the report - Go here to Teens, media and why you shouldn't believe the hype and here to Media consumption habits change as teens age
Report:
How teens use media
Conclusions of the report - Go here to Teens, media and why you shouldn't believe the hype and here to Media consumption habits change as teens age
Report:
How teens use media
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Online Age: social media revolution
Watch this! Great basic facts that you should know! Social media is definitely not a fad...
Democracy: TV Leaders' debates during election campaign
TV leaders' debates did get young engaged with election
Study reveals that televised face-offs successfully attracted first-time voters and got them talking about politics
Read full article here.
Study reveals that televised face-offs successfully attracted first-time voters and got them talking about politics
Read full article here.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Online Age / We Media / Democracy
From Paris to Cairo, these protests are expanding the power of the individual
Twitter is only part of the story of the empowering of a generation failed by the evaporated promises of the labour market
Read full story here.
Extract:
[...]
At the heart of the movement is a new sociological type – the graduate with no future. They have access to social media that allow them to express themselves in defiance of corporately owned media and censorship. With Facebook, Twitter, and Yfrog truth travels faster than lies, and propaganda becomes flammable.
[...]
But the sociology of the movements is only part of the story. Probably the key factor is "horizontalism" which has become the default method of organising. Technology makes non-hierarchical organising easy: it kills vertical hierarchies spontaneously, whereas the quintessential experience of the 20th century was that movements became hierarchised, killing dissent within, channelling the energies in destructive directions.
In addition, the speed of doing things compensates for their relative lack of organization: in this the protesters have stumbled upon the principle of asymmetry – a swarm of disorganized people can effect change against a slow-moving hierarchical body.
[...]
On top of that there is the network. It's become axiomatic that the network is more powerful than the hierarchy.
Twitter is only part of the story of the empowering of a generation failed by the evaporated promises of the labour market
Read full story here.
Extract:
[...]
At the heart of the movement is a new sociological type – the graduate with no future. They have access to social media that allow them to express themselves in defiance of corporately owned media and censorship. With Facebook, Twitter, and Yfrog truth travels faster than lies, and propaganda becomes flammable.
[...]
But the sociology of the movements is only part of the story. Probably the key factor is "horizontalism" which has become the default method of organising. Technology makes non-hierarchical organising easy: it kills vertical hierarchies spontaneously, whereas the quintessential experience of the 20th century was that movements became hierarchised, killing dissent within, channelling the energies in destructive directions.
In addition, the speed of doing things compensates for their relative lack of organization: in this the protesters have stumbled upon the principle of asymmetry – a swarm of disorganized people can effect change against a slow-moving hierarchical body.
[...]
On top of that there is the network. It's become axiomatic that the network is more powerful than the hierarchy.
Changing Behaviour of Marketing Communications (Online Age)
You might want to start with reading the conclusion.
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Online Age - How Twitter engineers outwitted Mubarak in one weekend
How Twitter engineers outwitted Mubarak in one weekend
The way Twitter managed to get past Egypt's internet shutdown was the perfect example of a crisis breeding innovation.
Read the article here (Guardian online)
Extracts:
When they first came to office, the Obama team had a mantra: "Never waste a good crisis". They then spent the next two years doing exactly the opposite. In the past few months we've seen a couple of decent crises – the first involving WikiLeaks, the second involving the political upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt. Both involve the internet in one way or another. So, in the spirit of Obama Mk I, let us ponder what might be learned from them.
[...]
The moral of the story: if governments want to keep information secure, then they have to think architecturally about system design. [...]
The WikiLeaks story has lessons for the rest of us too. The speed with which Amazon and PayPal dropped WikiLeaks should be a wake-up call to anyone who thinks that Cloud Computing services can be trusted to protect the interests of their customers when the government cuts up rough. The idealistic kids who signed up to participate in denial-of-service attacks on PayPal and the credit-card companies as retribution for cutting off WikiLeaks's funding need to learn how to conceal their IP addresses before they engage in "hacktivism" – as many of them discovered this week when the police came knocking.
For hardcore geeks, the WikiLeaks saga should serve as a stimulant to a new wave of innovation which will lead to a new generation of distributed, secure technologies (like the TOR networking system used by WikiLeaks) which will enable people to support movements and campaigns that are deemed subversive by authoritarian powers. A really good example of this kind of technological innovation was provided last week by Google engineers, who in a few days built a system that enabled protesters in Egypt to send tweets even though the internet in their country had been shut down. "Like many people", they blogged, "we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we can do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service – the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection."
They worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter and SayNow (a company Google recently acquired) to build the system. It provides three international phone numbers and anyone can tweet by leaving a voicemail. The tweets appear on twitter.com/speak2tweet.
The way Twitter managed to get past Egypt's internet shutdown was the perfect example of a crisis breeding innovation.
Read the article here (Guardian online)
Extracts:
When they first came to office, the Obama team had a mantra: "Never waste a good crisis". They then spent the next two years doing exactly the opposite. In the past few months we've seen a couple of decent crises – the first involving WikiLeaks, the second involving the political upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt. Both involve the internet in one way or another. So, in the spirit of Obama Mk I, let us ponder what might be learned from them.
[...]
The moral of the story: if governments want to keep information secure, then they have to think architecturally about system design. [...]
The WikiLeaks story has lessons for the rest of us too. The speed with which Amazon and PayPal dropped WikiLeaks should be a wake-up call to anyone who thinks that Cloud Computing services can be trusted to protect the interests of their customers when the government cuts up rough. The idealistic kids who signed up to participate in denial-of-service attacks on PayPal and the credit-card companies as retribution for cutting off WikiLeaks's funding need to learn how to conceal their IP addresses before they engage in "hacktivism" – as many of them discovered this week when the police came knocking.
For hardcore geeks, the WikiLeaks saga should serve as a stimulant to a new wave of innovation which will lead to a new generation of distributed, secure technologies (like the TOR networking system used by WikiLeaks) which will enable people to support movements and campaigns that are deemed subversive by authoritarian powers. A really good example of this kind of technological innovation was provided last week by Google engineers, who in a few days built a system that enabled protesters in Egypt to send tweets even though the internet in their country had been shut down. "Like many people", they blogged, "we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we can do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service – the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection."
They worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter and SayNow (a company Google recently acquired) to build the system. It provides three international phone numbers and anyone can tweet by leaving a voicemail. The tweets appear on twitter.com/speak2tweet.
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