Topic 5 - Obscenity, Pornography and Indecency

Critical Reflection 1 & 2

Obscenity, pornography and indecency are the terms that related to sexual issue or sexual morality. These terms can put into a same categories but there are some differences in between these terms. Obscenity mostly use to descibe the content that refer to sexual expressions but it not always limited to sexual materials. It can simply used to mean or any similar with dislike. There are only slightly different between obscenity and indecency. Most nations have laws against indecency which regulate certain sexual acts, and restrict one's ability to display certain parts of the body in public, which is call as indecent exposure or also call as public indecency. Similarly, the level offense generated by a profane word or phrase depends on region, context and audiences.

Pornography is refer to sexual subject matter that can exiciting the viewer which may use variety of media. The legal status of pornography varies widely from country to country. Most countries allow at least some form of pornography but there are also ages limited to males and females under age of 18 are not allowed to appear in any forms of media because child pornography is illegal. Other than that, most countries also have restrictions on pornography involving violence and animals. Pornography have it own efficacy, it have the good and also the bad effect to the society. Some people are oppose pornography because for them pornography is not good and it influence the mind of young generation and may lead to the wrong path way. But, there are also an argued that pornography is vital to freedom and that a free and civilized society should be judge by its willingness to accept pornography.

Personal Reflection On Media Culture Class

From the lecturer, media stereotypes is like create a certain characteristics to one character or a group of people. It also easily can influences the audiences because media stereotypes is all around us. We surrounded by media stereotypes or can say we influence by it all the time. So, it is a new knowledge for me in class but it is not so interesting because the surrounding feeling on class was bored.

Topic 4 - Media Literacy

Critical Reflection 1 & 2

Media literacy is a teaching method to give us an understanding about media. We can understand media through media literacy when we try to analyze the messages of the media that sending to us. Media literacy encourage us to answer the question on what the audiences can know through the messages of the media or in others form of media. Through the process of media literacy, we can actually understand the basic needed of the media. We can also improve our skills and the knowledge about media messages so we can produced a more effective and a better media messages that can give impact to the audiences. Media literacy is a process where it make us a better understanding about any media forms through a critical anylize the media. Without media literacy, we hardly get improve because we leak of skills when we try to produced a media messages. So, it is important for FCM students to have it.

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 news and public affairs programming (and the reasons for such), and to understand how structural features -- such as media ownership, or its funding model -- 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 techniques), and understand the role of mass media and participatory media in constructing views of reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy

Personal Reflection On Media Culture Class

No class.

Topic 3 - Media Stereotypes

Explanation:

Media stereotypes, it often represent somethings that give audiences a quick understanding or explaining the attitudes, appearances, or certain characteristics of the character.

1. A Conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

2. A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stereotype

Critical Reflection 1 & 2

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype#Effects.2C_accuracy.2C_terminology

Media stereotypes can have a positive and negative impact on individuals. Most parts they are negative. Many media stereotypes always in cartoons character, and this may influence the young generation through the TV. It may causes the the children or teenagers having an impact on how they view the world because most of the audiences is the children and the teenagers. Other than that, the influence of the stereotypes in cartoons becomes more pronounced in cultures where the society is homogeneous and undiversified. When children and adults have exposure to a range of personalities and cultures, they are less likely to be affected by the stereotypes than in contexts where there were no people of a different social or ethnic class. Media stereotypes can be seen in articles, movies, TV and manymore. Media stereotypes can easily influence all the audiences at anywhere. So, the point of view is up to the audiences.

Personal Reflection On Media Culture Class

The lecturer is good. He explained the meaning of media that make me understand about it. MLC class for me is like understanding the media things and also the way of communication between media information and people.

Topic 2 - Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it?

Critical Reflection 1 & 2

No. It is because what on the internet is not always truth. Some of the information or news on the internet is not actually the truth things or it might be fake. So, i will think first before believe what on the internet. Everyone are using internet to communicate with each others or searching information because internet is worldwide and full of information. Internet is useful but it also causing many problems. For example, people might post somethings that is not real or wrong information on the internet. So, we must be a clever user when using the internet to ensure we get the right information.

Other than that, people also might create some news or rumor that actually did not happen and others people believe on it just because it on the websites. Internet is the fastest way of communication with others people and news can be spread very fast through internet. Any fake news or rumor that posted on the websites will easily make people believe on it. There are too many internet users on this world and got too many information inside the internet. What we can do when using the internet is to think and ratiocinate it before conclude the information or news on the internet whether it is truth or not.