Feminism and New/Digital Media

Ched Evans - Petition to prevent convicted rapist playing

Article link - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11324994/Ched-Evans-Who-is-Jean-Hatchet-leading-petitions-against-his-return-to-football.html

1) Summarise this example for the rest of the class in one paragraph


In this article, Jean Hatched who is the person behind a petition of getting Ched Evans a convicted rapist to be stopped from returning to professional football. The petition from Jean Hatched have received more than 160,000 signatures. Also another petition was created by Jean Hatchet from stopping Ched Evans to be signed by Oldham Athletic and received 21000 sugnatures. 

2) What was the initial incident or situation that sparked this example?

The initial incident was that Ched Evans was a convicted rapist in which as Jean Hatched took to online to make sure and ruin the chances for a convicted rapist to play for professional football again
3) In your opinion, is this an example of a valid campaign or something of a witchhunt against people who are not doing any serious harm?

In my opinion I believe this example is of a valid campaign in which Jean Hatched is making an impact as big news organisations such as The Telegraph are reporting this. However a big enough impact has not been created as the football representatives for Oldham Athletic have not reporting anything in favour of Jean Hatchet.

Feminism - Beyonce

1) How might this video contribute to Butler’s idea that gender roles are a ‘performance’?

This video might contribute to Butler's idea that gender roles are a 'performance' as beyonce is dressed up in traditional house wife clothing and seems upset/ empowering through out the video so this may be a performance by beyonce.

2) Would McRobbie view Beyonce as an empowering role model for women?

McRobbie would view Beyonce as an empowering role model for women as there were elements within the video which showed the audience that she is powerful. For example there was a scene where Beyonce was cleaning her grammys which shows that she is powerful and more than just a housewife. Also the contrasting look from beyonce shows audiences the women have progressed a lot from house wife to working class women.

3) What are your OWN views on this debate – does Beyonce empower women or reinforce the traditional ‘male gaze’ (Mulvey)?

I believe that Beyonce empowers women as there are elements within the video which could show beyonce to be empowering. However the male gaze can be argued as well as beyonce looked wore stocking and showing her legs a lot.

Post Colonialism - Edward Said ORIENTALISM

Summarise the three theorists we have looked at: Alvarado, Fanon and Said.

Fanon said that ethnic minorities contained elements listed below within media represented the media in the UK

Fanon also said that black people are seen as acting white in which he stated 'putting on the white mask'

Alvarado
PITIED
HUMOUROUS
EXOTIC
DANGEROUS

Fanon
Primitivize -
Essentialize -
Decivilized -
Institutionalized  -

Edward Said - Orientalism
This theorist said that the western stereotyped the east as inferior and the west is seen as superior


2) The Yasmin clip showed or portrayed British muslims to be less superior to the white British characters in the clip. This is because the white characters were seen as more confident than the British muslim character Yasmin. However one positive stereotype of British muslims is that they are seen as religious which portrays a good stereotype. One more negative stereotype is that the muslim main character had to change into western clothing to hang out with the white main characters which again shows the British muslims to be less powerful


3)   Alvarado

Dangerous -

Humorous -

Exotic -

Fanon
Decivilized -  

Primitivize -

new/digital stories

Daily Mail website's ad revenues surge as paper announces price hike

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/28/daily-mail-websites-ad-revenues-surge-as-paper-prepares-for-price-hike

- Owner of Daily Mail said that MilOnline revenue boosted its ad revenue by 27%

- This boost happened in the final quarter 

- website saw digital ad revenues grow by 17% in UK and 66% in the US in the three months to the end of december

- Advertising across the Mail business as a whole, including print and digital, was down by 3%.

The article shows that MailOnline is surviving as a business because of New/Digital media however the impact does not impact the business overall as they are still facing a loss of 3% in which is because of newspapers declining.

BuzzFeed faces $11m defamation lawsuit from viral news agency

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/27/buzzfeed-lawsuit-central-european-news-michael-leidig

- Buzzfeed is being sued for $11 million (7.7 million) by its news agency and its founder because of an article posted by buzzfeed which was called "The King of Bullshit News"

- Central European News which was founded and run by British journalist Michael Leidig has launched a US legal action against buzzfeed over an article which is claimed to defame the neews agency

- They are seeking $5m each, as well as a further $1.04m for lost business opportunities, and further punitive damages

In my opinion companies such as buzzfeed are allowed to publish they would like however news companies limit themselves because there are firms out their who are looking to sue news organisations. Also I do not believe the news agency will win the law suit resulting in a loss as they need to pay lawyers and other people.

Destiny Ekaragha

Tight Jeans

2)
Films -Attack the block, Anuvahood, Kidulthood, Adulthood, Bullet Boy, Rollin with the Nines,

TV SHOWS - Top Boy, Luther, 55 Degrees North, Line of Duty, The Real McCoy

Online - All about the Mckenzies, Brother with no games, Meet the Adebanjos, The Crouches, Venus vs Mars

3) FANON THEORY
Pitied - One challenged stereotype is that, they were not presented as being pitied, in fact 

Exotic - In tight jeans , the theee black characters are presented as exotic as they were wearing colourful clothing.

Dangerous - In this short film, normally black people would be represented as dangerous however they have not represtned in this way, one representation may be of mob mentality in which the white people walked straight past
Humorous - Also these black characters have been seen as humorous as they reactions, conversation is seen as funny for anyone who watches this

Learner Response

- I would need to reference authors more in my essay
- Also more articles should be listed to relate articles with democracy and social media
- More quotes were needed to support my views on democracy and new/digital media.
- More on the news and the institution
- More on citizen journalism - e.g Eric Garner
- I need to cover institution more
-  Present both sides of the democracy -  
                                                                  E.g 1/3 of world population do not have internet access which means , people do not have much access.

EBI - Lacks specific reference of the news case study
            More needed on Murdoch/ News corporate + gatekeeper/ News values

New/digital stories

Yahoo is to 'cut off 10 per cent of staff'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/12086195/Yahoo-is-to-cut-off-10-per-cent-of-staff.html

- Yahoo is facing shareholder pressure to pursue other alternatives besides spin off its internet operations will see a lay of its staff

- The company is getting rid of 10 percent of their staff due to its cost cutting in order to get out of financial down turn

- This percentage would reduce the number of staff by 1000 and could start from this month

- These cuts will affect all parts of the company such as their technology group, media businesses and their European operations could be hit more

The Sun's Jeremy Corbyn apology provokes further outrage with 'tiny' front page mention

The Sun had been ordered to print its apology to Jeremy Corbyn on its front page but some readers were struggling to find it when it was published. The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) found the newspaper had been “significantly misleading” in a September story that wrongly alleged the Labour leader joined the Privy Council to gain millions of pounds for his party. After months of wrangling over an accuracy complaint, The Sun agreed to put a correction on its cover, but buried it with four lines at the bottom left corner of the page.

• The headline, directing readers to page two, read “Ipso complaint on Labour short money upheld”, making no reference to Mr Corbyn or the fact it was the subject of the complaint.
• The Sun said that the article “could have been clearer, but was based on accurate information”

The sun was misleading before and yet still failed to openly rectify their mistake, instead they just put it in small font as an unimportant message which i believe was wrong.