Week 5

Who owns the newspapers and TV stations in your country? Do you think this has an effect on the news that you hear?

The media of Malaysia include television, radio, newspapers, and web-based media such as bloggers. Many media outlets are either owned directly by the government of Malaysia (e.g. Bernama) or owned by component parties of the Barisan Nasional coalition government (e.g. the Media Prima group, which is owned by the United Malays National Organisation).

Since conventional media is so tightly controlled by the government, Malaysia has a lively alternative media scene, chracterised by such news portals as Malaysiakini and The Malaysian Insider which take advantage of the government's pledge not to censor the Internet despite its stranglehold on most mass media outlets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Malaysia

Do you think this has an effect on the news that you hear?

Yes, because the government had control every media in Malaysia. The news and information are all had been filter by the government. The news from the internet is totally different from the newspaper and TV news. 

week 4 Task

How often do you read the paper or watch the news on TV? How important is it for you to keep up with current events?

News is very important in our daily life, without it we will not know what happening in our world.

Nowadays have many media form can send out the information, such as TV, radio, new paper, internet and so on.

My parent read newspaper everyday they brought 2 language of newspaper as my dad in English and my mum in Chinese. So I have the opportunity to read 2 language of newspaper. In this condition, reading newspaper raise into a habit and it is a must-do activity for me every day.

Newspapers have too many information, I miss out important message sometimes. So that, every night 11pm I will turn on Astro AEC to watch Chinese TV news. They will summarize all important point on every newspaper such as ‘xing chew’, ‘nan yang’, ‘guang ming’ and others newspaper.

Newspaper provides much information such as sport, entertainment, politics, economy etc. Reading newspaper can know the latest news from the others such as latest event or any promotion from which shopping mall, so that I will never out of dates.

As a student of designer, I always look through on the advertisement. The color, info, copy, position and design of the advertisement give me idea on my assignment and widen my horizon on this area.

I am studying at Multimedia University, I didn’t buy any newspaper while I am studying here and there is no television here. Nowadays technology developed, we can watch latest news on internet, latest promotion on social media and others.

In conclusion, news is very important to us, just imagine without any newspaper or TV news how will it become?

Week 3

What is theatre? How do you think theatre, as a media form, communicates messages to its audience?

From the web, theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience.

In my point of view, theatre is a live show. It cannot captured in the film, live actor always bring surprise to the audients. They give different feeling from the film and theatre. We can feel the real emotion from the live actors.

Theatre today includes performances of plays and musicals. Although it can be defined broadly to include opera and ballet, those art forms are outside the scope of this article. They play musical instrument in live.

In theatre or performance arts, the stage is a designated space for the performance of productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience. As an architectural feature, the stage may consist of a platform or series of platforms. In some cases, these may be temporary or adjustable but in theaters and other buildings devoted to such productions, the stage is often a permanent feature.

Week 2 task

Get pictures of 10 different types of media forms and describe them.

1.Social Media

Source:Google image

Social media people online using to communicate with friends. Updating or sharing information to others.

2.TV

Source: Goole image

TV is a strong broadcasting tool, moving image and sound attract audience. Instead of just reading or listening to what happened in a story,

3.Newspaper

Source: Google image, newspaper 2.jpg

Newspaper is a printed media, it consisting news, promotion, advertisement, education and others.

4.Magazine

Source: google image, magazine

Magazine is a publication containing information of beauty, finance, education and others.

It also a printed media.

5.Radio

Source: google image, radio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio

Radio is the wireless transmission of signals through free space by electromagnetic radiation of a frequency significantly below that of visible light, in the radio frequency range.

Audient listen radio while working, driving car……

6.Mobile

Source: google image, mobile

We can use mobile to communicate with others.

Nowadays smart phone can use internet to connect with others and also can download apps to chat with friends or other usage.

7.Electronic Media

Source: google image, electronic media

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/electronic-media.html

Electronic media is a broadcast or storage media that take advantage of electronic technology. They may include television, radio, Internet, fax, CD-ROMs, DVD, and any other medium that requires electricity or digital encoding of information. The term 'electronic media' is often used in contrast with print media.

8. Print ads

Source: google image, print ads

Print ads is a printed media it published at magazine, newspaper or poster.

9. Internet

Source: google image, internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Internet provides information. Many browsers can use to search information.

The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email.

10. Outdoor media

Source: google image. Outdoor media

Outdoor media is usually a sign on the highway, is may be a billboard, lorry billboard and others

Week 2 Entry

Identify at least 4 social/cultural groups and what media you think they use.

http://www.ehow.com/about_5061311_definition-social-groups.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_group

In social science, a social group is defined as two or more people who are joined together by some shared bond or affinity. Different types of groups may overlap with one another. Also, a given individual may belong to more than one group, although he may identify with one group more deeply than another. Group status can be acquired or lost instantly or assigned to an individual by outside observers.

Peer group

A peer group is a group with members of the same age, social status, and interests. Generally, people are relatively equal in terms of power when they interact with peers. In my opinion, peer group mostly stay together they always play Facebook chat together, using the same media like bloggers, youtube, mobile and others.

Clique

A group of people that have many of the same interests & commonly found in a High School/College setting; most of the time they have a name & rules for themselves.

Club

A club is a group, which usually requires one to apply to become a member. Such clubs may be dedicated to particular activities: sporting clubs, for example.

They will share their own opinion or experience in a sporting game and others.

Gang

A gang is usually an urban group that gathers in a particular area. It is a group of people that often hang around each other. They can be like some clubs, but much less formal.They are usually known in many countries to cause social unrest and also have negative influence on the members and may be a target for the law enforcers in case of any social vices

JOURNAL ENTRY: Thoughts on media use

Nowadays Technology developing, we can meet everyone in the world, knowing everything in the world by using media. Media play a very important role in our society. We use we saw it every day, from smart phone, TV, Internet, radio and etc.

Broadcasting Media

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio or visual mass communications medium, but usually one using electromagnetic radiation

For example, television and radio

TV program send information to audience people can see it view the visual with music and movement.

Radio broadcasting gives information, people listen only sound. People can listen while driving and doing house work, etc….

Digital media

Digital media is a form of electronic media where data are stored in digital form.

In my point of view, digital media is so useful for us. We can stored data in digital form( hard disk or computer networking)

Digital art is any art in which computers played a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, videogame, web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation.  

Printed Media

Printed Media we have newsletter, magazine, flyers, broche, newspaper, etc……

All this are sending information to audience. People promoting, advertise, news all are printed. I believe that this is the cheapest way to promo or giving information out.

Media is very important in our daily life. There have more media is getting invent.   

Week 1 Task

Cross-disciplinary 

- Involving two or more academic disciplines; interdisciplinary: cross-disciplinary studies in Biblical archaeology.

-Cross-disciplinary refers to knowledge that explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another. Common examples of cross-disciplinary approaches are studies of the physics of music or thepolitics of literature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cross-disciplinary

Interdisciplinary

-Combining or involving two or more academic disciplines orfields of study:

The economics and history departments areoffering an interdisciplinary seminar on Asia.

-Combining or involving two or more professions, technologies,departments, or the like, as in business or

industry.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interdisciplinary

Trans disciplinary

-It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such
as research on effective information systems for biomedical research, and can refer to concepts or methods
that were originally developed by one discipline, but are now used by several others, such as ethnography,
field research method originally developed in anthropology but now widely used by other disciplines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinarity

Qualitative research

-Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such behavior. The qualitative method investigates the why and how of decision making, not just what, where, when. Hence, smaller but focused samples are more often needed than large samples.

-Research generated outside the framework of a quantitative approach. Collected data is not subjected to formulaic analysis for the purpose of generating projections.

 http://www.investorwords.com/3993/qualitative_research.html

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research

Ethnographic studies/research

- Ethnography is a qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group. Anethnography is a means to represent graphically and in writing, the culture of a people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography