Media Imperialism (week 8)

Can you think of some examples of media imperialism(local,your own country,overseas)?

Media imperialism is a phenomenon of a big and wealthy media industry or company or monopoly over the media industries. When an owner is actually controlling the media, the media output can be biased. The owner can decide on what information to be shown as well as what to be censor.

The same thing happens in our country, Malaysia. As example, our newspaper is control by the government under the act of PPPA1984 Malaysia's Printing Presses and Publications Act. The PPPA provided the Minister of Home Affairs with discretionary powers concerning the granting, suspension and revocation of printing licences within Malaysia and the import and distribution of foreign publications. Licensing offences under the Act and punishable by up to 3 years' imprisonment or fines of up to RM 20,000 or both. Accordingly to Press Freedom Index by Reporters without Borders,Malaysia is ranked 131 out of 175 nations.

A famous example of media imperialism is the BERSIH Protest on 10 November 2007. The event organizers intended to have a peaceful, non-violet rally, advising participants in the days and weeks beforehand how to keep the rally peaceful.However, the rally was marred by the government sanctioned police violence. After the incident, foreign media such as Al-Jazeera covered the event with detailed videos and ground and satellite images. BBC and CNN featured the news in their online papers as well.
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The example of imperialism that happened in Malaysia was a BERSIH gathering and a gathering called a red shirt. The head of this gathering was only to remind, consciousness of society about what we should stand in our country but when all this was misinterpreted, the two rallies, this has been lost and the fight between the two sides. Things like this have gained media attention and spread in many media such as newspapers, magazines, or television.

Through television, has been widely featured in the news, not just within our country but has continued to the outside world. After this incident, the media from outside the country have published this news through newspaper or news in their country. This shows how powerful the power of the media is. It can spread things quickly and the media from two countries also disseminate it without checking.

References:

http://pekchekmlc0014.blogspot.my/2010/04/chapter-3-media-imperialism.html
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"How does Mass Media Affect Socialization in Children and in Young Adults? (Week 7)

"How does Mass Media Affect Socialization in Children and in Young Adults?
Talks about how the mass media affects socialization in children and in young adults.
Discuss how there are negative and positive factors of how mass media can influences
a child's or young adult's life. "

In my opinion the positive factor of mass media influence on children is good for their mental development. There we can see that smartphones and the internet and even television can develop children's minds because there are elements of learning elements. Parents should also monitor children not to fall into different directions other than learning elements.If we see today a lot of videos, a show that shows the right learning for a child. The negative factor for a child is that if they are accustomed to social media and gadjets, it will affect them to do so as often as possible. The danger is also for the eyes of children as it sees the phone screen for too long. So the parents have to focus on all this.

The outsourcing of mass media to the adult life of a positive factor is that they can be short and fast to do a sale they are developing. In fact, mass media for adult life is a lot of positive because adults are able to think mature. In terms of its negative factors, the mass media would be worse in adults if they abuse their existing power by exacerbating others, dropping and defaming others for the sake of their own social content which is now a frenzy of users everywhere.They should think well but they only think of their own feelings.

In conclusion, the mass media will be positive and negative depending on the individual itself by the way they are practicing it.

References:

https://storify.com/_Mama_Cita_/how-does-mass-media-affect-socialization-in-young

Media and Society: Video in Culture, Community and Art (Week 6)

“Films can teach, they can explain and they can move people to great depths. Having done all these things, is it possible for films to move people to action? There is no question for most social scientists that carefully constructed communications, films for instance, can produce changes in attitudes, in those who adequately receive the communication. The use of adequately is of course a conscious one in that we know that people tend to misperceive that which they hear and see, and go through fairly complicated strategies of selective attention and selective perception.” 

 Question:Based on the statement above, share your thoughts on the issue, of how community video can make changes in people, and the community that they belonged to. You can give some examples to explain. 

Answer:

"Movie can teach, they can explain and they can move people to great depth. After doing all these things, is it possible that the film moves people to act? For me yes, movies can move people to act depending on the type of movie they make. My opinion of today's society is quick to judge with what he sees without knowing the real thing, when they believe in what they see and hear they start spreading it o others and will arise the issues that are being said. A lot of stories, issues raised through social media that are now the craziness of our community using it like "YouTube', 'Facebook', Twitter' through social media like this can easily spread any issue over now. In addition, the use of the internet is so widespread among our society and it makes you the only issue that should not be spread, not just the use of the internet and social media, through television can also covey false information if it not processed. This is because television is a focus for adults and teenagers and kids. With the incomplete understanding of what they see from the video, films and so on can cause many negative factors, especially to cause fights between our societies today. It will aggravate the situation. They way to prevent it is to refer to the individual to be responsible in spreading film, video and attitude of the ruling party also can play an important role in preventing negative things from occurring and spreading.

"The Truman Show"

Discuss a scene you find the most profound  in the movie.

The most intense scenes in this movie that is when Truman really want to go to the Fiji but there are many obstacles ahead. The first when he wanted to book a plane ticket but nothing was empty. After all, he tried to get on the bus, but suddenly the bus broke down. Which in turn he was determined to go to the Fiji on his car with his wife but many obstacles had happened along the way.Finally, the intention of Truman to be Fiji forced to be forgotten due to the many allegations coming. There we can see how sad and disappointed that the desire to go to Fiji is to be canceled. There my heart was touched by the seriousness of the Truman in achieving what he wanted.

The next scene was when he disappeared from the general view and finally got to know the location of Truman that he was sailing to meet her beloved girl since college. There he got various assumptions that for me was very dangerous as it involved lives. There looks like he is very determined to keep himself safe from the catastrophe.But he was very surprised and there was a little disappointed as he learned that he had been watching the public for so long. He was not aware that all this was planned only. But in the end, he can accept the fact of what has happened so far.

In my story, this is very interesting because I can see such high self-esteem as well as to be honest in every way to get what he wants.